Todd Haynes
Directing
Born 1961-01-02
Los Angeles, California, USA
62 credits
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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.
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Filmography
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May December
Dark Waters
Still Alice
Marcians
Mildred Pierce
Carol
SexTV
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Enlightened
I'm Not There
Certain Women
Far from Heaven
Safe
Velvet Goldmine
Barbara Forever
Meek's Cutoff
Night Moves
Wonderstruck
Poison
Wendy and Lucy
Six by Sondheim
Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero
All We Do Is Watch Movies
Earthquake Bird
The Velvet Underground
Office Killer
Old Joy
Maternal Overdrive
Totally F***ed Up
Madame Satã
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
Quinceañera
Muddy Hands
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Swoon
Natural History
Dottie Gets Spanked
De Noche
American Lunch
At Sundance
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost (The Videos: 1990-2002)
Tommy's
At the Video Store
Image Book
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud
Anemone Me
Cal State Long Beach, CA, January 2020
Cause and Effect
Earthlings
Great Directors
Goo
La Divina
The Suicide
Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair
He Was Once
A Man in Your Room
Buoy
Notes on the Death of Kodachrome
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