01/18/2025
genius!
David Lynch, the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind ‘Blue Velvet,’ ‘Mulholland Drive,’ ‘Eraserhead,’ ‘Wild at Heart,’ ‘The Elephant Man’ and others who also created the Showtime drama ‘Twin Peaks,’ has died at 78.
An eccentric, visionary outsider, he earned Oscar noms for writing and directing 1980’s ‘The Elephant Man’ and for directing ‘Mulholland Drive’ and ‘Blue Velvet.’
In 2000, he received an Honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement. He also took the Palme d’Or at Cannes for ‘Wild at Heart’ in 1990 and was nominated for the prize three other times. He won Best Director at the fest for ‘Mulholland Drive’ in 2001.
Lynch’s long list of writing and/or directing feature credits also includes ‘Lost Highway’ (1997), ‘The Straight Story’ (1999) and ‘Inland Empire’ (2006).
Read more on his life and legacy here: https://tinyurl.com/3wyjyxxu
