News 02/04/2013
DGA Lifetime Achievement Award
Miloš Forman was honored with the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award yesterday evening.
MoreNews 12/11/2012
Director Milos Forman to Receive Guild’s Highest TributeAt 65th Annual DGA Awards
Forman Becomes 34th Director Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award For Distinguished Achievement in Motion Picture Direction.
Los Angeles – Directors Guild of America President Taylor Hackford today announced that Milos Forman will receive the Guild’s top honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Achievement in Motion Picture Direction, at the 65th Annual DGA Awards on February 2, 2013.
MoreTrivia 02/19/2012
Goya’s Ghosts
The 13th Count of Salvatierra, Cayetano Martínez de Irujo y Fitz-James Stuart acted in the movie. He is the youngest son of the Duchess of Alba who is one of the richest women in the world (and whose ancestor was allegedly Goya's lover).
MoreTrivia 02/18/2012
Man on the Moon
While shooting “Man on the Moon” Carrey allegedly requested two trailers on set – one for „Andy Kaufman“, and one for Kaufman's obnoxious lounge singer persona „Tony Clifton“.
MoreInteresting Facts 02/16/2012
Milos Forman on Google.com
If you type “Milos Forman” into Google you will get approximately about 2,510,000 links. Not a bad result!
MoreInteresting Facts 12/20/2011
Queuing up for Hair
If you wanted to see Forman’s “Hair” in his homeland of Czechoslovakia (which in those days was still a communist country) when it was first released, you had to queue up for the tickets all night.
MoreNews 12/18/2011
Vaclav Havel, the playwright and former President of the Czech Republic, dies aged 75
“There were not many people in my life whom I had known for more
than sixty years. Vaclav was one of them. He is gone forever, but nothing is
lost from my memories of the things we shared and experienced together. This sad
moment is too personal for me and I find it difficult to express
more.”
Milos Forman, Warren, Connecticut, USA
Trivia 12/12/2011
The Audition
“Audition” was shot with Forman’s private 16 mm Pentaflex movie camera, and the sound was recorded on a Grundig tape recorder. There was no post synchronization sound. Editor Miroslav Hajek managed to edit the movie successfully even though some frames were destroyed.
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