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 (2011), "To Rome with Love" (2012), "The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet" (2013) and "The Dressmaker" (2015). For her television work, Davis won Emmy Awards for "" (1995), Judy Garland in "" (2001) and "The Starter Wife" (2007) and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows" and "One Against the Wind" (1991). Other television roles include "Water Under the Bridge" (1980), "A Woman Called Golda" (1982), "A Cooler Climate" (1999), Nancy Reagan in "The Reagans" (2003), "Coast to Coast" (2003), Sante Kimes in "A Little Thing