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Happy Birthday, David Lynch!
David Lynch - Director, visual artist, musician, actor, and author who is known for his surrealist films. He has developed a unique cinematic style. The surreal and, in many cases, violent elements contained within his films have been known to disturb, offend or mystify audiences. His films include the surrealist horror film Eraserhead, the biographical film about Joseph Merrick, a deformed man, The Elephant Man, the science-fiction epic Dune, the neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet, the road movie Wild at Heart, and the family film The Straight Story. He also created the the popular murder mystery TV series "Twin Peaks", and the cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
Over his career, he has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director and a nomination for best screenplay. He won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the country's top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007, while that same year, The Guardian described him as "the most important director of this era". Allmovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking", while the success of his films has led to him being labelled "the first popular Surrealist".
David Lynch - Director, visual artist, musician, actor, and author who is known for his surrealist films. He has developed a unique cinematic style. The surreal and, in many cases, violent elements contained within his films have been known to disturb, offend or mystify audiences. His films include the surrealist horror film Eraserhead, the biographical film about Joseph Merrick, a deformed man, The Elephant Man, the science-fiction epic Dune, the neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet, the road movie Wild at Heart, and the family film The Straight Story. He also created the the popular murder mystery TV series "Twin Peaks", and the cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
Over his career, he has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director and a nomination for best screenplay. He won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the country's top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007, while that same year, The Guardian described him as "the most important director of this era". Allmovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking", while the success of his films has led to him being labelled "the first popular Surrealist".
