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.
Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair
(Self)
Notes on the Death of Kodachrome
(Self)
Eine Zärtlichkeit wie bei Sirk - Todd Haynes über Fassbinder und das Melodram
(Self)
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
(Self)
At the Video Store
(Self)
He Was Once
(Randy)
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
(Todd Donovan)
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
(Self)
Great Directors
(Self)
Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud
At Sundance
(Self)
Swoon
(Phrenology Head)
Infinite Pleasure: Todd Haynes on Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir
(Interviewee)
Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero
(Self)
Natural History
(Child)
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
(Self)
SexTV
Marcians
(Self - Interviewee)
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
(Director)
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
(Screenplay)
Velvet Goldmine
(Director)
I'm Not There
(Director)
I'm Not There
(Screenplay)
Far from Heaven
(Director)
Safe
(Writer)
Safe
(Director)
Wendy and Lucy
(Executive Producer)
Poison
(Director)
Poison
(Writer)
May December
(Director)
Dottie Gets Spanked
(Writer)
Dottie Gets Spanked
(Director)
Totally F***ed Up
(Thanks)
Carol
(Director)
Six by Sondheim
(Director)
He Was Once
(Producer)
He Was Once
(Production Manager)
The Suicide
(Director)
The Suicide
(Screenplay)
The Velvet Underground
(Writer)
The Suicide
(Producer)
Buoy
(Executive Producer)
Night Moves
(Executive Producer)
Quinceañera
(Executive Producer)
Meek's Cutoff
(Executive Producer)
Cal State Long Beach, CA, January 2020
(Thanks)
Image Book
(Director)
Velvet Goldmine
(Screenplay)
Velvet Goldmine
(Story)
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
(Producer)
Certain Women
(Executive Producer)
Wonderstruck
(Director)
Tommy's
(Producer)
Madame Satã
(Thanks)
Goo
(Director)
La Divina
(Co-Producer)
La Divina
(Assistant Director)
Still Alice
(Thanks)
Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud
(Director)
Earthlings
(Executive Producer)
Cause and Effect
(Producer)
Anemone Me
(Producer)
Office Killer
(Co-Writer)
Poison
(Editor)
The Velvet Underground
(Director)
The Velvet Underground
(Producer)
Dark Waters
(Director)
Earthquake Bird
(Thanks)
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
(Editor)
Old Joy
(Executive Producer)
Days Are Numbered
(Producer)
Far from Heaven
(Writer)
Mildred Pierce
(Director)
Mildred Pierce
(Executive Producer)
Mildred Pierce
(Teleplay)
Enlightened
(Director)
Mildred Pierce
(Writer)
Trust
(Director)