Mulholland Drive

David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, visual artist and actor. A recipient of an Academy Honorary Award in 2019, Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, as well as the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion. 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 film-maker of the current era”, while AllMovie called him “the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking” His work led to him being labeled “the first populist surrealist” by film critic Pauline Kael.