Directing
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (January 20, 1946 – January 16, 2025) was an American filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor. Lynch received critical acclaim for his films, which are often distinguished by their surrealist, dreamlike qualities. In his 58-year career, he was awarded numerous accolades, including the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2006 and an Honorary Academy Award in 2019. In 2007, a panel of critics convened by The Guardian announced that "after all the discussion, no one could fault the conclusion that David Lynch is the most important filmmaker of the current era." Lynch studied painting before he began making short films in the late 1960s. His first feature-length film was the independent surrealist film Eraserhead (1977), which saw success as a midnight movie. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for the biographical drama The Elephant Man (1980) and the mystery films Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Drive (2001). His romantic crime drama Wild at Heart (1990) won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He also directed the space opera adaptation Dune (1984), the surrealist neo-noir Lost Highway (1997), the biographical drama The Straight Story (1999), and the experimental film Inland Empire (2006). Lynch and Mark Frost created the ABC series Twin Peaks (1990–91), for which Lynch was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. Lynch co-wrote and directed its film prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), and its limited series revival (2017). He has also worked as an actor, including his portrayals of FBI agent Gordon Cole in Twin Peaks and director John Ford in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans (2022), as well as guest roles in TV series such as The Cleveland Show (2010–13), Louie (2012), and Robot Chicken (2020, 2022). Lynch's other artistic endeavours included his work as a musician, encompassing the studio albums BlueBOB (2001), Crazy Clown Time (2011), and The Big Dream (2013), as well as painting and photography. He has written the books Images (1994), Catching the Big Fish (2006), and Room to Dream (2018). He has directed several music videos for artists such as Chris Isaak, X Japan, Moby, Interpol, Nine Inch Nails, and Donovan, and commercials for Calvin Klein, Dior, L'Oreal, Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, and the New York City Department of Sanitation. A practitioner of Transcendental Meditation (TM), he founded the David Lynch Foundation, which seeks to fund the teaching of TM in schools and has since widened its scope to other at-risk populations, including the homeless, veterans, and refugees.
Filmography
I Know Catherine, the Log Lady
Film · 2026
What Would David Lynch Do?
Film · 2026
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
Series · 2026
David Lynch: A Remembrance Both Wonderful and Strange
Film · 2025
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
Film · 2025
Beatles '64
Film · 2024
Lynch/Oz
Film · 2023
The Fabelmans
Film · 2022
This Is Sparklehorse
Film · 2022
Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House
Film · 2021
Moby Doc
Film · 2021
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
Film · 2021
Morceaux de Cannes
Film · 2021
This Is Pop
Series · 2021
Meeting the Beatles in India
Film · 2020
David Lynch: The Virtual Life
Film · 2020
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Film · 2019
The Original Image - David Lynch
Film · 2019
David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film
Film · 2019
Curtains Up
Film · 2018
Why Are We Creative?
Film · 2018
Lucky
Film · 2017
David Lynch: The Art Life
Film · 2017
The Black Ghiandola
Film · 2017
Rocksteppy
Film · 2017
WHAT DID JACK DO?
Film · 2017
Girlfriend's Day
Film · 2017
The Polish Accountant
Film · 2017
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
Film · 2017
The Number of Completion
Film · 2017
See You on the Other Side Dear Friend
Film · 2017
Tell It Martin
Film · 2017
I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun
Film · 2017
A Pot of Boiling Oil
Film · 2017
Two Blue Balls
Film · 2017
Behind the Red Curtain
Film · 2017
Bad Binoculars
Film · 2017
A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth
Film · 2017
The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair
Film · 2017
A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks
Film · 2017
Plankton Salesmen
Film · 2017
David Lynch: Insight
Film · 2017
The Nineties
Series · 2017
Night Flight: Born Again
Film · 2016
Blue Velvet Revisited
Film · 2016
Shadows of Paradise
Film · 2016
On Meditation
Film · 2016
The Music of David Lynch
Film · 2016
Along for the Ride
Film · 2016
The Reality of Truth
Film · 2016
Brand: A Second Coming
Film · 2015
Rammstein in Amerika
Film · 2015
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Film · 2014
It's a Beautiful World
Film · 2014
My Beautiful Broken Brain
Film · 2014
The 8th Floor
Film · 2014
Between Two Worlds
Film · 2014
Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and Love
Film · 2014
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Film · 2013
What Is Cinema?
Film · 2013
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Film · 2013
Professor Goudet's Lessons
Film · 2013
Side by Side
Film · 2012
Meditation, Creativity, Peace
Film · 2012
Memory Film
Film · 2012
Change Begins Within
Film · 2012
Ångesthunden och Malmö under vatten
Film · 2011
2012: Time for Change
Film · 2010
David Wants to Fly
Film · 2010
When Lynch Met Lucas
Film · 2010
Brunes et Blondes
Film · 2010
David Lynch in Oslo
Film · 2010
Louie
Series · 2010
The Way of Samodelkin
Film · 2009
The Soul Detective
Film · 2009
Great Directors
Film · 2009
La Traversée du désir
Film · 2009
Red Fish
Film · 2009
The Cleveland Show
Series · 2009
The Cleveland Show
Series · 2009
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008
Film · 2008
Early Experiments
Film · 2008
Hollyshorts Greeting
Film · 2008
Elvis | Viva Las Vegas
Film · 2008
Critic
Film · 2008
Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A.
Film · 2007
Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com
Film · 2007
A Slice of Lynch
Film · 2007
The Sound of Lynch
Film · 2007
Lynch (one)
Film · 2007
Lynch 2
Film · 2007
Out Yonder — Chicken
Film · 2007
Inland Empire
Film · 2006
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Film · 2006
Legends
Series · 2006
David Lynch: 1985
Film · 2005
Robot Chicken
Series · 2005
The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’
Film · 2004
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
Film · 2004
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
Film · 2004
Leçon de Cinéma
Series · 2004
Boat
Film · 2003
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Film · 2003
Lamp
Film · 2003
Out Yonder — Teeth
Film · 2003
Does That Hurt You?
Film · 2003
Return to Mulholland Drive
Film · 2003
Un film et son époque
Series · 2003
I Don't Know Jack
Film · 2002
Mysteries of Love
Film · 2002
BlueBob Egg
Film · 2002
Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy
Film · 2002
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed
Film · 2002
The Short Films of David Lynch
Film · 2002
Heart of the Festival
Film · 2002
Eraserhead Stories
Film · 2001
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
Film · 2001
DumbLand
Series · 2001
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
Film · 1999
Family Guy
Series · 1999
Family Guy
Series · 1999
Independent Focus
Series · 1998
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Film · 1997
Scene by Scene
Series · 1997
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
Film · 1996
Nadja
Film · 1995
Lumière & Company
Film · 1995
Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff
Film · 1994
Made in the USA
Film · 1993
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Film · 1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Series · 1992
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
Film · 1991
Message to the Allied Forces
Film · 1991
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
Film · 1990
Hollywood Mavericks
Film · 1990
Twin Peaks
Series · 1990
David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
Film · 1989
Cinéma, de notre temps
Series · 1989
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Film · 1988
Zelly & Me
Film · 1988
No Frank in Lumberton
Film · 1988
Ruth, Roses, and Revolver
Film · 1987
Dune
Film · 1984
Destination Dune
Film · 1983
The Elephant Man
Film · 1980
Heart Beat
Film · 1980
The Amputee
Film · 1974
Film '72
Series · 1971
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler
Film · 1967
The Oscars
Series · 1953
I Have a Radio
Film