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Todd Haynes
Todd Haynes (/heɪnz/; born January 2, 1961; Los Angeles) is an American filmmaker.
Born January 2, 1961 Los Angeles, California, USA1 movie on MoviHero
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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. …
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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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- 2026Barbara ForeverSelf (archive footage)
- 2026All We Do Is Watch MoviesSelf
- 2025EarthlingsProducer
- 2023May DecemberDirector
- 2023Art-House America: Austin Film SocietySelf
- 2023Image BookDirector
- 2022Douglas Sirk – Hope as in DespairSelf
- 2021The Velvet UndergroundWriter · Director · Producer
- 2019Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a HeroSelf
- 2019Dark WatersDirector
- 2019At the Video StoreSelf
- 2017WonderstruckDirector
- 2016Certain WomenProducer
- 2016Xavier Dolan: Bound to ImpossibleSelf
- 2014Night MovesProducer
- 2013Six by SondheimDirector
- 2013BuoyProducer
- 2011Meek's CutoffProducer
- 2009Great DirectorsSelf
- 2008Wendy and LucyProducer
- 2007I'm Not ThereDirector · Writer
- 2007Notes on the Death of KodachromeSelf
- 2006Infinite Pleasure: Todd Haynes on Max Ophuls' Le PlaisirInterviewee
- 2006Maternal OverdriveSelf
- 2006QuinceañeraProducer
- 2006Old JoyProducer
- 2006Fabulous! The Story of Queer CinemaSelf
- 2006Eine Zärtlichkeit wie bei Sirk - Todd Haynes über Fassbinder und das MelodramSelf
- 2003Far from Heaven: "Making of"Actor
- 2002Far from HeavenDirector · Writer
- 1998Velvet GoldmineDirector · Writer
- 1997Office KillerWriter
- 1995SafeDirector · Writer
- 1995At SundanceSelf
- 1993Dottie Gets SpankedWriter · Director
- 1992SwoonPhrenology Head
- 1991GooDirector
- 1991PoisonDirector · Writer
- 1990Anemone MeProducer
- 1989La DivinaProducer · Director
- 1989He Was OnceProducer · Randy
- 1989Natural HistoryProducer · Child
- 1988Muddy HandsProducer
- 1988Cause and EffectProducer · Director
- 1988American LunchProducer
- 1987Superstar: The Karen Carpenter StoryDirector · Writer · Producer · Todd Donovan
- 1985Tommy'sProducer
- 1985Assassins: A Film Concerning RimbaudActor · Director
- 1984A Man in Your RoomProducer
- 1978The SuicideDirector · Writer · Producer
- De NocheDirector · Writer
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