Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost is paying tribute to his friend and longtime collaborator David Lynch, whose death was announced today. He was 78.

David Lynch has a knack for creating surrealist art. Many of his other projects, like “Mulholland Drive” and “Blue Velvet,” are similar to “Twin Peaks” in the sense that Lynch tries to paint a dark portrait of a place that looks seemingly innocent.

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“Twin Peaks” was his ultimate portrait of a land of terror and beauty.

He was my north star. He watched me grow up. He watched me become a mother. He cheered me on when I stepped into the director’s chair,” Madchen Amick said about David Lynch.

David Lynch, who co-created “Twin Peaks” and directed films such as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive,” has died. He was 78. Lynch’s family revealed his passing via social media on Thursday.

Before rising to CEO of Disney, Bob Iger was president of ABC Entertainment from 1989–1992. When he joined in spring 1989, pilots ordered by his predecessor, including David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks,

Lynch, who was born in Montana in 1946, was a writer, director and painter who studied at the American Film Institute. He first broke into the movie scene in 1977 when he turned his thesis project into his first feature film "Eraserhead," a black-and-white surrealist indie film that quickly gained notoriety as a midnight movie.

I loved him, and I will hold our laughter and shared love for the medium he mastered as few have ever done forever in my heart and soul,” said Frost in a statement to Deadline. More from Deadline David Lynch Dies: ‘Twin Peaks’, ‘Blue Velvet ...

Though the officially presentation will happen in February, the 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Blue Velvet' writer-director was able to accept the prize in late 2024, before his death on Jan. 16.

Screenwriter and Director David Lynch, who passed away on January 16, 2025, has been named the recipient of the Writers Guild of America West’s 2025 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement. The Guild states he was aware of the honor and accepted several weeks before his death on January 15.