David Lynch

American · 1946–2025

American filmmaker born January 20, 1946 in Missoula, Montana, who died January 16, 2025. Best known for Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, and the television series Twin Peaks, he won the Best Director prize at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival (shared with Joel Coen) for Mulholland Drive, a film he declined to explain.

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