« on: November 28, 2012, 02:57:31 PM »
About time!!!
DGA taps Milos Forman for lifetime award
Helmer to receive kudo at Guild awards Feb. 2
By: DAVE MCNARY
The Directors Guild of America has selected Milos Forman as the recipient of its lifetime achievement award for distinguished achievement in motion picture direction.
The kudo will be presented at the 65th Annual DGA Awards on Feb. 2 at Hollywood & Highland.
Forman's credits include "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Hair," "Ragtime," "Amadeus," "Valmont," "The People vs. Larry Flynt," "Man in the Moon" and "Goya's Ghosts."
"It is a tremendous privilege to present the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award for feature film to one of the greatest filmmakers of our time, Milos Forman," said DGA president Taylor Hackford. "No matter what subject or genre he tackles, Milos finds the universality of the human experience in every story, allowing us - his rapt audience - to recognize ourselves within the struggle for free expression and self-determination that Milos so aptly portrays on the silver screen."
Forman is the 34th reciepient of the DGA's lifetime achievement award. Norman Jewison was the most recent winner; other recipients inclide Cecil B. DeMille (1953), Frank Capra (1959), Alfred Hitchcock (1968), Orson Welles (1984), Billy Wilder (1985), Akira Kurosawa (1992), Stanley Kubrick (1997), Francis Ford Coppola (1998), Steven Spielberg (2000), Martin Scorsese (2003) and Clint Eastwood (2006).
Forman, 80, was born in Czechoslovakia and directed his first feature, "Black Peter," in 1963. His next two films, "Loves of a Blonde" and "Fireman's Ball," were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, after which Forman moved to New York to make his first American feature, "Taking Off."
Forman won the Oscar and DGA Award for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus."
He joined the DGA in 1970 and served two terms on the national board. Forman was awarded the John Huston Award for Artists Rights in 1997 and the DGA Honor in 2008.
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