biography
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| lived:
| (1946– )
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| biography:
| Film director, born in Missoula, Montana, USA. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, took up painting in Boston and Philadelphia, then studied at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. His first film, Eraserhead (1977), gained him recognition and a reputation for the bizarre. This was followed by The Elephant Man (1980, BAFTA best film) and Blue Velvet (1986), one of the seminal films of the 1980s, for which he won an Oscar nomination for best director. He is probably best known for the cult television series Twin Peaks (1990–1), which he co-wrote; shown on US and British prime-time television, it successfully challenged traditional mainstream programming. Wild at Heart (1990) won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Later films include Lost Highway (1997), The Straight Story (1999), and Mulholland Drive (2000). His autobiography Lynch on Lynch appeared in 1997. |
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