Czech-American director Miloš Forman has died following a brief illness, Reuters reports. His wife Martina told the Czech news agency ČTK that “his departure was calm, and he was surrounded the whole time by his family and his closest friends.” He was 86.

Miloš Forman was born in 1932 in Čáslav, Czechoslovakia. He released his first feature film, Black Peter, in 1964. Forman moved to the United States in 1968, and, in 1971, released his first American movie, Taking Off. He gained popular and critical acclaim with his 1975 adaption of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Jack Nicholson), and Best Actress (Louise Fletcher) at the 48th Academy Awards. A few years later, in 1978, he became the co-director of theColumbia University School of the Arts film program.

Forman won Best Director at the Oscars again in 1984 for the Mozart-inspired Amadeus, which also took home Best Picture and Best Actor, among other accolades. In 1999, he made the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon. Last year, Netflix released a documentary about the making of Man on the Moon, featuring behind-the-scenes footage of Miloš Forman, Jim Carrey, and others. Forman’s final directorial feature was 2006’s Goya’s Ghost.