David Lynch
Awards & Honours
36
Awards Won
6
Honours
6
Rankings
5
Covers
3
Records
David Lynch's accolades span film, television, and the arts. He is one of the few directors to earn three Academy Award nominations for Best Director without winning, but he received an Honorary Oscar in 2019 for his singular vision. His Palme d'Or and Cannes Best Director wins place him among the most honored filmmakers at that festival. The Independent Spirit Awards recognized his independent spirit twice. His television work on Twin Peaks earned nine Emmy nominations, a rare achievement for a director in the 1990s. The Venice Film Festival awarded him a Career Golden Lion in 2006, and the Directors Guild of America gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.
Awards
Honours & Distinctions
Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity
Knight of the Order
Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters
Honorary Doctorate
Honorary degree for contributions to film
Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Motion Picture star at 6801 Hollywood Blvd
Lifetime Achievement Award
For outstanding career achievements
Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Membership in the honorary society
Rankings & Lists
100 Greatest Directors
Greatest Films of All Time (Mulholland Drive)
Greatest Films of All Time (Blue Velvet)
All-Time 100 TV Shows (Twin Peaks)
50 Greatest Directors
Best Film Directors of All Time
Magazine Covers
TIME
October 15, 1990
Twin Peaks: The Show That Changed TV
Rolling Stone
December 13, 1990
David Lynch: The Wizard of Odd
Vanity Fair
November 2001
David Lynch: The Man Behind Mulholland Drive
GQ
April 2002
David Lynch: The Surrealist
Film Comment
July 2001
Lynch's Drive
Records & Feats
First film director to win Palme d'Or and Best Director at Cannes for different films
Won Palme d'Or for Wild at Heart (1990) and Best Director for Mulholland Drive (2001).
Only director to have three Best Director Oscar nominations without a win and later receive an Honorary Oscar
Nominated for The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Drive; received Honorary Oscar in 2019.
Longest gap between seasons of a TV series (25 years for Twin Peaks)
Twin Peaks: The Return aired in 2017, 25 years after the original series ended in 1991.