Milos Forman, born in Caslav, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) in 1932, is one of a few foreign filmmakers to enjoy Hollywood success. He attended the prestigious Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in Prague, and his early films made him a leader of the Czech New Wave. His first feature film, Black Peter (1963), won an award at the Locarno International Film Festival. After emigrating to the United States in 1968, he did not return to his country until the 1980s to film Amadeus (1984). His body of work includes The Firemen's Ball (1967), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Hair (1979), Valmont (1989), The People vs. Larry Flint (1996), and Man on the Moon (1999).
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