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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.

Personal information

Birthday

1961-01-02

Birth Place

Los Angeles, California, USA

Movies and TV shows :

Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud

Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud

1985

0.0

Movie
At Sundance

At Sundance

1995

5.5

Movie
At the Video Store

At the Video Store

2019

10.0

Movie
Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero

Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero

2019

7.6

Movie
Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair

Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair

2022

8.0

Movie
Eine Zärtlichkeit wie bei Sirk - Todd Haynes über Fassbinder und das Melodram

Eine Zärtlichkeit wie bei Sirk - Todd Haynes über Fassbinder und das Melodram

2006

0.0

Movie
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

2006

5.7

Movie
Great Directors

Great Directors

2009

5.9

Movie
He Was Once

He Was Once

1989

7.0

Movie
Infinite Pleasure: Todd Haynes on Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir

Infinite Pleasure: Todd Haynes on Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir

2006

0.0

Movie
poster

Marcians

2017

0.0

TV
Natural History

Natural History

1989

0.0

Movie
Notes on the Death of Kodachrome

Notes on the Death of Kodachrome

2006

0.0

Movie
poster

Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter

2023

7.0

TV
poster

SexTV

1998

2.0

TV
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

1987

7.1

Movie
Swoon

Swoon

1992

5.8

Movie
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible

Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible

2016

6.0

Movie