David Lean 1955, Lean began to make internationally co-produced films financed by the big Hollywood studios; in 1970, however, the critical failure of his film "Ryan's Daughter" led him to take a fourteen-year break from filmmaking, during which he planned a number of film projects which never came to fruition. In 1984 he had a career revival with "A Passage to India", adapted from E. M. Forster's novel; it was an instant hit with critics but proved to be the last film Lean would direct. Lean's affinity for striking visuals and inventive editing techniques has led him to be lauded by directors
Judy Davis nominations. She won her first Emmy for portraying the woman who gently coaxes rigid militarywoman Glenn Close out of the closet in "", with subsequent nominations for her repressed Australian outback mother in "The Echo of Thunder" (1998), her portrayal of Lillian Hellman in "Dash and Lilly" (1999) and her frigid society matron in "A Cooler Climate" (1999). Davis earned a second Emmy for her portrayal of Judy Garland in the 2001 television biographical film "". In 2003, she earned another Emmy nomination for her interpretation of Nancy Reagan in the controversial biopic "The Reagans". In July 2006, she received