Award-winning director David Lynch died Wednesday at the age of 78. His movies include Eraserhead (1977), The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), and Mulholland Drive (2001). He also co-created the TV show Twin Peaks, which was hugely popular and received widespread acclaim from critics and audiences alike. His other artistic endeavors included music as well as painting and photography. Lynch was also a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation and even founded the David Lynch Foundation to fund meditation lessons for students, veterans, and other “at-risk” populations. Over his more than 50-year career, Lynch was nominated for nearly 30 Oscar, BAFTA, Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, Independent Spirit, and Cannes Film Festival awards, but he only won 4 times. In an interview last August, Lynch said he was suffering from emphysema due to years of smoking and had become housebound. Last week, he had to evacuate his Los Angeles home because of the Southern California wildfires, which Deadline Hollywood reported preceded a terminal decline in his health. Learn more in the audio below.