Word: forman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bank on this: Milos Forman will never make a movie called The Milos Forman Story. Though the plot is dramatic enough -- early renown in his native Czechoslovakia, exile in cultural limbo, the struggle of starting over in a new land with a new language -- the climax does not ring true. It is too improbable: a smash hit and Oscars galore for his second American film, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), more profits and honors with last year's Amadeus. Sorry, pal. Send the script to Sly Stallone...
...national identities. More than half the prizes handed out by jury President Milos Forman went to films with multiple passports. The jury prizes (first and second runners-up) were awarded to Birdy, an American film directed and produced by Englishmen, and Colonel Redl, a period political drama made under German, Austrian and Hungarian aegis. The choice for best actor was American Star William Hurt, playing an imprisoned homosexual in the Brazilian film Kiss of the Spider Woman, based on a novel by the Argentine Manuel Puig. Insignificance, which took the technical prize, was the official British entry, but its setting...
...most part, the evening belonged to Amadeus, the fictionalized account of the last years of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It won eight awards in all, including those for Best Picture, Best Director (Milos Forman), Best Actor (F. Murray Abraham for his role as Salieri, Mozart's nemesis) and Best Screenplay Adaptation (to Peter Shaffer, who rewrote his hit play). Tom Hulce, 31, also received a Best Actor nomination for his all-American, Huckleberry Finn interpretation of Mozart. Though he was not honored, Jeffrey Jones, 38, deserves a crown of his own for his portrayal of the blandly arrogant Emperor Joseph...
...eight Oscars were not a record; 1959's Ben-Hur set the mark with eleven little gold-plated statues. But it was a triumphant rebound for Forman, 53, the Czechoslovak director whose five awards in 1976 for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest were followed by two commercial disappointments, Hair and Ragtime. "The Academy members are fans of people like Milos who take chances and succeed," says Director Ivan Passer, one of Forman's best friends. "They like Cinderella stories, and they like to make them come true. That was in their power this year, and they...
What is the explanation? Forman has the best answer. "If people like it, they like it for the same reason the play excited me. It was a very entertaining evening in the theater, and yet I learned a lot I had never known before. I believe that people also identify with the characters. There is a little of Mozart in each of us, and perhaps a great deal of Salieri." For Forman and Shaffer the challenge was to transform Shaffer's stage play, where much is left to the imagination, into a sumptuous movie that includes fully staged operas, grand...