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His family announced the death in a Facebook post on Thursday. The cause of death and location was not immediately available, but Lynch had been public about his emphysema.
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Lynch never won a competitive Academy Award. He received nominations for directing B次元官网网址淭he Elephant Man,B次元官网网址� B次元官网网址淏lue VelvetB次元官网网址� and B次元官网网址淢ulholland DriveB次元官网网址� and, in 2019, was presented an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement.
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Lynch was a Missoula, Montana, native who moved around often with his family as a child and would long feel most at home away from the classroom, free to explore his fascination with the world. He had an early gift for visual arts and a passion for travel and discovery that led to his enrollment in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the beginning of a decade-long apprenticeship as a maker of short movies.
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