7. Milos Forman

Milos Forman was a film director with a serious eye for talent and a reputation for quality. He was the main the chair for the Jack Nicholson classic "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", and also for "Amadeus", winning Oscars for both. However, no movie he was ever involved in was more incredible than the real-life story of he and his family.

Forman grew up in Czechoslovakia and led a nomadic youth. He stayed with both of his uncles at some points, and also with friends of his parents, after both parents were taken by the Nazis and murdered in concentration camps during the Second World War. He finally fled his home country for the United States after the imposition of Communism in the 1960s and became a US Citizen in 1975. He was 86 when he passed away in April of this year.

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