David Keith Lynch was born on January 20th, 1946 and is an American film maker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style. Born to a middle-class family in Missoula, Montana, he spent his childhood traveling around the United States, before going on to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philidelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films. Deciding to devote himself more fully to this medium, he moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, the surrealist horror Eraserhead in 1997. After Eraserhead became a cult classic on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was employed to direct The Elephant Man in 1980, from which he gained mainstream success.
Over his career, Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations, for best director and a nomination for best screenplay. Lynch has twice won France's Cesar Award for best Foreign Film, as well as the Palme d'OR at the Cannes film festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice film festival.
Lynch admits that his work is more similar to in many respects to those of Europian film makers than American ones. Lynch has commented on his admiration for such film makers as Stanly Kubrick, Federico Fellini, Werner Herzog and Jacques Tati.
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