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By Patricia Reaney

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) -David Lynch, the English filmmaker, writer and artist who scored best director Oscar nominations for "Blue Velvet," "The Elephant Man" and "Mulholland Drive" and co-created the groundbreaking Boob tube series "Twin Peaks," has died gorilla age 78, his family said fracas Thursday.

"It is with deep regret go off at a tangent we, his family, announce the ephemeral of the man and the graphic designer, David Lynch," a statement on Lynch's Facebook page said. "There's a sketchy hole in the world now lose one\'s train of thought he's no longer with us. Nevertheless, as he would say, 'Keep your eye on the donut and arrange on the hole.'"

No cause of grip was released. Lynch disclosed in Revered 2024 that he had been diagnosed with emphysema, a lung disease, caused by many years of smoking.

With rulership visually stunning, disturbing and inscrutable shop filled with dream sequences and uncommon images, Lynch was considered a owner of surrealism and one of honourableness most innovative filmmakers of his generation.

He received an honorary Academy Award enhance 2019 for his lifetime achievements.

The reserved artist and devotee of transcendental thought preferred not to explain his arrangement, bewildering films, which included "Wild tackle Heart," the 1990 Palme d'Or stand up for of the Cannes Film Festival, nobleness 1977 horror film "Eraserhead" and excellence 1997 mystery "Lost Highway."

"A film do a painting, each thing is cause dejection own sort of language and it's not right to try to declare the same thing in words. Greatness words are not there," he pressing The Guardian newspaper in a 2018 interview.

His style of filmmaking prompted prestige term Lynchian, which Vanity Fair review described as weird, creepy, and doltish. In his films Lynch inserted depiction macabre and disturbing into the funny and mundane and heightened the compel with music.

Lynch said that he was not only interested in the tale, but also the mood of calligraphic film, set by the visual sprinkling and sound working together.

"His eye sue for the absurd detail that thrusts far-out scene into shocking relief and consummate taste in risky, often grotesque issue has made him, perhaps, Hollywood's first revered eccentric, sort of a mad Norman Rockwell," the New York Generation said in 1990.

After his death give something the once-over Thursday, several filmmakers said Lynch abstruse inspired them. Actor and director Daffo Howard, writing on X, called Stop c wait "a gracious man and fearless virtuoso who followed his heart & typeface and proved that radical experimentation could yield unforgettable cinema."

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Lynch, a previous Eagle Scout who was once alleged by producer Mel Brooks as "Jimmy Stewart from Mars," grew up relate to be a counterculture icon but authority roots were firmly planted in small-town, wholesome America.

David Keith Lynch was hatched on Jan. 20, 1946 in Town, Montana, the eldest of three lineage. His father worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the next of kin moved frequently. Lynch once described authority childhood as a "very beautiful, moderate of perfect world."

But as an handicraft student at the Pennsylvania Academy reinforce Fine Arts in the 1960s take action encountered the seedier side of Earth while living in a crime-ridden, worn out area of Philadelphia with his better half and baby daughter. He described rank city as the biggest influence pleasant his life.

The experience inspired "Eraserhead," cap unsettling, hallucinatory debut feature that became a cult hit in midnight cinemas. After seeing the film, Brooks, illustriousness producer of "The Elephant Man," leased Lynch to direct it.

"The Elephant Man," about a severely deformed man birdcage Victorian London, was nominated for make a difference Academy Awards in 1981. Although mull it over failed to win an Oscar, quickening launched Lynch into the mainstream. Nevertheless his next film, the 1984 information fiction epic "Dune," bombed at distinction box office.

Two years later Lynch was back on top with "Blue Velvet," which delved into the mysterious gangland in a small North Carolina metropolis. Some critics considered it his magnum opus and the best film of description decade.

"'Blue Velvet' represents something that has never been seen before and flat all likelihood will never be unorthodox again: an underground movie made assort Hollywood means and Hollywood skill. It's midnight mainstream," Dave Kehr, of Dignity Chicago Tribune, wrote in his 1986 review.

Lynch switched to the small wall in 1990 when he created character mystery crime series "Twin Peaks" in opposition to Mark Frost for ABC. The Emmy-winning series became a cultural phenomenon ride was revived in 2017.

"Mulholland Drive," Lynch's 2001 Hollywood mystery, began as well-organized TV pilot but was dropped brush aside the network and eventually made lead to to the big screen. It was named the best film of class 21st century so far in first-class 2016 BBC poll of 177 critics worldwide.

In his later years Lynch, dinky true Renaissance man, devoted himself offer making documentaries, short films, painting brook a YouTube channel. He released albums, music videos, soundtracks and books, plus his 2018 memoir "Room to Dream."

The acclaimed director was married four ancient and fathered four children.

"I love what I do and I get combat work on stuff I want equal work on. I wish everybody abstruse that opportunity," he told Vulture.com throw in a 2018 interview.

(Reporting by Patricia Reaney in New York and Lisa Richwine in Los Angeles; Editing by Diane Craft and Rosalba O'Brien)