Oscar-winning Director, Milos Forman, Passes Away

Director Milos Forman at the "After" film premiere, Rome International Film Festival, 17 Oct 2009. Photo by IPA/REX/Shutterstock (1017258f)

The last one has flown over the cuckoo’s next.

Milos Forman, who directed One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, has passed away.

Forman was born in then-Czechoslovakia in 1932 and raised by two of his uncles and family friends after both his parents perished in Nazi concentration camps.

During his 48 year directing career, Forman won two Academy Awards for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1975 and Amadeus in 1984.

His wife of 19 years, Martina Zbořilová, confirmed that her husband passed away in the United States on Friday at age 86 following a brief illness.

“His departure was calm, and he was surrounded the whole time by his family and his closest friends,” she said.

Forman has been remembered by fellow directors such as Baby Driver’s Edgar Wright, who claims to have watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest “enough times to mouth along silently.”

Trainwreck director Judd Apatow said Forman’s death was “a big loss to the world.”

Ava DuVernay, who directed A Wrinkle in Time, said she would be watching Ragtime in his honor.

Genius star Antonio Banderas called Forman a “master in the portrayal of the human condition.”

While Josh Gad from Murder on the Orient Express stated that the late filmmaker’s resume deserved to be alongside the greats.

Bravo indeed.