Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 02, 1961
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Credits
62 titles
Todd Haynes
Biography
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
Filmography
Barbara Forever
Self (archive footage)
All We Do Is Watch Movies
Self
Earthlings
Executive Producer
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
May December
Director
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
Self
Image Book
Director
Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair
Self
Cal State Long Beach, CA, January 2020
Thanks
The Velvet Underground
Writer
Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero
Self
Dark Waters
Director
Earthquake Bird
Thanks
At the Video Store
Self
Marcians
Self - Interviewee
Wonderstruck
Director
Certain Women
Executive Producer
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
Self
Carol
Director
Still Alice
Thanks
Night Moves
Executive Producer
Six by Sondheim
Director
Buoy
Executive Producer
Enlightened
Director
Meek's Cutoff
Executive Producer
Mildred Pierce
Director
Great Directors
Self
Wendy and Lucy
Executive Producer
I'm Not There
Director
Notes on the Death of Kodachrome
Self
Maternal Overdrive
Self
Infinite Pleasure: Todd Haynes on Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir
Interviewee
Quinceañera
Executive Producer
Old Joy
Executive Producer
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Self
Eine Zärtlichkeit wie bei Sirk - Todd Haynes über Fassbinder und das Melodram
Self
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost (The Videos: 1990-2002)
Director
Far from Heaven
Director
Madame Satã
Thanks
SexTV
Velvet Goldmine
Director
Office Killer
Co-Writer
Safe
Writer
At Sundance
Self
Totally F***ed Up
Thanks
Dottie Gets Spanked
Director
Swoon
Phrenology Head
Goo
Director
Poison
Director
Anemone Me
Producer