David Lynch

Died in 2025

David Lynch was born in Missoula, Montana, in 1946, the son of a forest service researcher whose work moved the family around. He studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, then in 1970 entered the Center for Advanced Film Studies of the American Film Institute, where he made his first feature film. He practised transcendental meditation from 1973 and painted all his life. Nominated three times for the Oscar for directing, he received an Honorary Oscar in 2019 and died in January 2025.

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CinemaBlue VelvetDavid Lynch · 1986Cinema