David Lynch

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1946 age 0

   Born

2. 1977 age 31

   CreditEraserheadproduction designer

   CreditEraserheaddirector

   CreditEraserheadfilm editor

   CreditEraserheadscreenwriter

3. 1980 age 34

   CreditThe Elephant Mandirector

   CreditThe Elephant Manscreenwriter

4. 1984 age 38

   CreditDune

   CreditDunedirector

   CreditDunescreenwriter

5. 1986 age 40

   CreditBlue Velvetdirector

   CreditBlue Velvetscreenwriter

6. 1990 age 44

   CreditWild at Heartdirector

   CreditWild at Heartscreenwriter

7. 1992 age 46

   CreditTwin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

   CreditTwin Peaks: Fire Walk with Medirector

   CreditTwin Peaks: Fire Walk with Meexecutive producer

   CreditTwin Peaks: Fire Walk with Mescreenwriter

8. 1997 age 51

   CreditLost Highway

   CreditLost Highwaydirector

   CreditLost Highwayscreenwriter

9. 1999 age 53

   CreditThe Straight Storydirector

10. 2001 age 55

    CreditMulholland Drivedirector

    CreditMulholland Drivescreenwriter

11. 2006 age 60

    CreditInland Empirecinematographer

    CreditInland Empire

    CreditInland Empiredirector

    CreditInland Empirefilm editor

    CreditInland Empireproducer

    CreditInland Empirecomposer

    CreditInland Empirescreenwriter

12. 2022 age 76

    CreditThe Fabelmans

13. 2025 age 78

    Died

• ABAngelo Badalamenti8 titles
• JNJack Nance8 titles
• HSHarry Dean Stanton6 titles
• PNPatricia Norris6 titles
• SCScott Coffey6 titles
• LDLaura Dern5 titles
• KMKyle MacLachlan5 titles
• MSMary Sweeney5 titles
• EMEverett McGill5 titles
• GZGrace Zabriskie5 titles

• Spouse

  • MSMary Sweeney

• Partner

  • IRIsabella Rossellini

• Children

  • JLJennifer Lynch

Nothing recorded for: Parents, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• All the movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.

  David Lynch, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.

  David Lynch, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead.

  David Lynch, CC BY-SA 4.0

• When you're an artist, you pick up on certain things that are in the air. You just feel it. It's not like you're sitting down, thinking, "What can I do to really mess things up?" You're getting ideas, and then the ideas feed into a story, and the story takes shape. And if you're honest about it and you're thinking about characters and what they do, you now see that your ideas are about trouble. You're feeling more depth, and you're describing something that is going on in some way.

  David Lynch, CC BY-SA 4.0

• In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.

  David Lynch, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The beginning dictates the direction and you never know where you're going to go ... the mood is what you're looking for, and somehow we always find it.

  David Lynch, CC BY-SA 4.0