RIP Milos Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon, Hair, The Firemen's Ball, Ragtime. All Classics But for me, Amadeus will always be his greatest achievement, and (especially in one of it's worst decades) the rare instance of the Academy giving Best Picture to the actual best picture of that year.
I disagree. Schindlers List was well deserving of its Oscar for Best Picture. By far the most important Oscar winner ever. Amadeus a second in my opinion.
David Lean - a titan! A long career with some great titles that are landmarks in film history. One of those directors that took a long time to prepare and then to shoot and complete, but monumental films when they came out.
jwelch5742 you ALWAYS agree totally? I mean of course, nobody (except the movie crash, if you ask me) wins for nothing, but don't you sometimes think "I would have given it to .... except .... "?
Andres Rodriguez well, I know what you mean and I know that. I used the word musical as adjective to describe the film and not to refer to the subject of the film. if I say musical genius, do i mean the person was a genius in the musical film only? I hope you get it.
Milos Forman was always one of my favorite film directors, and I think he totally deserved those Oscars for directing One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest and Amadeus
This was not even close. Amadeus is such a stunner to just stare at. It is objectively a beautiful film that must have been the hardest film of the year to create
Wow this was one of Spielberg's early appearances as a presenter for Best Director or Best Picture way before he won the Oscar and now he's been a presenter in either category multiple times since.
Ragtime (1981) is an underrated film based on the E.L. Doctorow novel. Milos Forman should have received a Best Director nomination and Best Picture for the film. (it was still nominated for 8 Oscars) it won 0. Great director R.I.P.
"Ragtime" is incredible and deserves to be rediscovered, and Forman is somehow an underrated director despite winning two Oscars. He's an absolute master of the craft.
I'll bet spielberg was hoping that David lean would win. Cause he had the highest respect for him...and presenting him with an oscar would have meant the world to him
The Injustice here is that Sergio Leone wasn't even nominated. He clearly deserved the oscar and was totally snubbed by the academy. Once upon a time in America should have swept, and it was totally snubbed.
@@osmanyousif7849 Sad but true. I remember Siskel and Ebert talking about the U.S. cut of Once Upon a Time in America as being a total travesty. That cut of the film was one of the worst of the year. The version we all know today was the version that they put on their best film list.
Kinda crazy that Steven Spielberg was already being introduced with such high praise, and this was before Schindlers List, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan and so much more but it is fitting that one legend should present the Oscar to another
Amadeus con el tiempo y muy merecidamente se ha convertido en una de las mejores peliculas de todos los tiempos y no solo por magnificar la pasion sono q el merito enorme de Milos Forman ha sido de hacer conocer al mundo el genio musical de Mozart de permitir que muchas personas enciendan su espiritu con el fuego que solo la musica puede hacer..despues de la pelicula por ejemplo escuchar el Kirie de la Misa 427 con tanta conmocion fue posible y para muchas generaciones....
Miloš Forman,what a finest filmmaker he is. There's only three movie in oscar history won big five major academic awards and one of his own movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".. Amadeus won already big four academic awards even though there’s nothing much to show female performances in it if that so he won the second time big five categories..
the guy François Truffaut that Spielberg respects in his opening speech was a pure cinephile, also a director and one of the few that had an extensive interview with Alfred Hitchcock...he was also in Close encounters of the third kind as a scientist when the ship arrives....just my 2 bit
He really had a tough time in former Czechoslovakia, his parents died in Nazi camps ( step father, but he didn't know ). He was 11 years old. He survived , did brilliant movies in Czechoslovakia, nominated for OSCAR... Best Foreign Language Movie.... The Firemen's Ball. Then he emigrated to USA ( after Russia invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 ). Long story short....poor, no money, but good CV :-)) His first movie in USA was not a success .. TAKING OFF. Anyway....after that... Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas happened with RIGHTS to ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST book and they choosed Milos to direct it. 5 BIG OSCARS. Movie, director, screenplay, actor, actress. Funny thing is people think Michael Douglas won only one Oscar....for WALL STREET, best actor. He won 2....Producer of ONE FLEW OVER CUCKOO'S NEST.
Spielberg would duplicate Forman's success later by scoring Best Director Academy Award wins for both "Schindler's List" (1993) and "Saving Private Ryan" (1998), respectively.
Spielberg would never have directed Amadeus. Why? Because it has a sad ending and he'd be too worried that it would hurt the film's performance at the box-office.
Agreed snot nosed privileged little 8mm br@t. His arrogance just jumps off of him. You probably aren't saying that ... But I sure am. Forman, at least comes across as humble n gr8ful whereas "Mr gr8test director ever" comes across always as entitled. Go figure.
@@thetruthisthelight0910 as to the CP, which should have NEVER been a story HE got to tell, The chez y t industry doesn't regard the film... ya know with it being "b lk Life" / "bl k story" thing. Those don't matter much. Unless there's a '🌙Light' agenda-thing attached. Even dude doesn't ever really talk about the film 🎥 as anything he really cares about. It was a continued stepping stone to all the agenda'd flicks he'd go on to be praised for 🙄
The story of him returning to Czechoslovaki to film Amadeus on the condition he wouldn't visit former friends he grew up with as they were considered to be dissidents is increadible. The communist government even had the secret police tail him and the crew during the 6 months they were filming there.
Roland J-aw-fee? It's pronounced Ho-phé. Anyway, well deserved award. Sergio Leone should have been nominated in this category for ''Once Upon a Time in America''.
hmmm, let's see...how about Gone with The Wind, Godfather (the original is 2 hours 56 minutes) and Part 2, The Deer Hunter, Ben Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, Schindler's List, Lord of the Rings, Titanic, The Great Ziegfield, Sound of Music (2 hours 55 minutes), Patton (2 hours 53 minutes), The Best Years of Our Lives, Around the World in 80 days, Gandhi, Dances with Wolves, Braveheart - all won Best Picture Oscars. That's 17 reasons you're wrong
Winduct Also, don’t forget that Once Upon a Time in America was recut for the American release from 3 h 49 min (the European version) to 2 h 19 min, and they also changed the structure of the film. And that version was panned and flopped. If Leone was to be nominated, it should be for the original cut.
the only thing better than hearing the legendary William Wyler say: Robert Altman for 'Nashville' would have been to hear him say; "The winner is....Robert Altman for Nashville." Forman's direction doesn't even come close.
