Milos Forman, the Czech-born movie director who became famous with the Oscar-winning classics “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus,” has passed away at the age of 86, as reported by Czech news agency on Saturday.

Forman’s wife told a leading tabloid that he died on Friday 13th April in the US after a short illness.

She was quoted saying, “His departure was calm and he was surrounded the whole time by his family and his closest friends,”

The director was born on Feb. 18, 1932 in the town of Caslav in Czech, but later moved to the United States after the Communist crackdown on the “Prague Spring” uprising in 1968. He became a U.S. citizen in the 1970s.

Forman won the Best Director Oscar Award for ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ in which a psychiatric institution becomes a microcosm of the contemporary world, and ‘Amadeus,’ where the life of 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is portrayed through the eyes of his rival Antonio Salieri. Apart from the Best Director Award, both the films earned 13 Oscars.

His other notable work included the rock musical “Hair” in 1979, “Ragtime” in 1981 and “The People vs Larry Flint” in 1996, which was nominated for an Academy Award that year.

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