Todd Haynes

Todd Haynes

Todd Haynes (/heɪnz/; born January 2, 1961; Los Angeles) is an American filmmaker. His films span four decades with themes examining the personalities of well-known musicians, dysfunctional and dystopian societies, and blurred gender roles. Haynes first gained public attention with his controversial short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987), which chronicles singer Karen Carpenter's life and death, using Barbie dolls as actors. Superstar became a cult classic. Haynes's feature directorial debut, Poison (1991), a provocative exploration of AIDS-era queer perceptions and subversions, established him as a figure of a new transgressive cinema. Poison won the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize and is regarded as a seminal work of New Queer Cinema. Haynes received further acclaim for his second feature film, Safe (1995), a symbolic portrait of a housewife who develops multiple chemical sensitivity. Safe was later voted the best film of the 1990s by The Village Voice Film Poll. His next feature, Velvet Goldmine (1998), is a tribute to the 1970s glam rock era. The film received the Special Jury Prize for Best Artistic Contribution at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Haynes gained acclaim and a measure of mainstream success with Far from Heaven (2002) earning his first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He continued to direct critically lauded films such as I'm Not There (2007), Carol (2015), Wonderstruck (2017) and Dark Waters (2019). He directed his first feature-length documentary, The Velvet Underground (2021). Haynes directed and co-wrote the HBO mini-series Mildred Pierce (2011) for which he was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards.
    Known for
    Directing
    Place of birth
    Los Angeles, California, USA
    Birthday
    1/2/1961
Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair
Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair
8
Notes on the Death of Kodachrome
0
Eine Zärtlichkeit wie bei Sirk - Todd Haynes über Fassbinder und das Melodram
Eine Zärtlichkeit wie bei Sirk - Todd Haynes über Fassbinder und das Melodram
0
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
6
At the Video Store
At the Video Store
10
He Was Once
7
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
7.1
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
5.7
Great Directors
Great Directors
5.9
Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud
Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud
0
At Sundance
At Sundance
5.5
Swoon
Swoon
5.8
Infinite Pleasure: Todd Haynes on Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir
Infinite Pleasure: Todd Haynes on Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir
0
Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero
7.6
Natural History
0
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