Todd Haynes
Directing
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.
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
as Todd Donovan
Age 26 (now 65)
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
as Self
Age 62 (now 65)
Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair
as Self
Age 61 (now 65)
Cal State Long Beach, CA, January 2020
Thanks
Age 60 (now 65)
Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero
as Self
Age 58 (now 65)
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
as Self
Age 55 (now 65)
Infinite Pleasure: Todd Haynes on Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir
as Interviewee
Age 45 (now 65)
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
as Self
Age 45 (now 65)
Eine Zärtlichkeit wie bei Sirk - Todd Haynes über Fassbinder und das Melodram
as Self
Age 44 (now 65)
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Screenplay
Age 26 (now 65) Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
as Todd Donovan
Age 26 (now 65) Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Producer
Age 26 (now 65) Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Editor
Age 26 (now 65) Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Director
Age 26 (now 65)
Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud
Director
Age 23 (now 65)
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
Age 62 (now 65)
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Also Known As
托德·海因斯
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