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Todd Haynes

Todd Haynes

Director · Born 1961-01-02 · Los Angeles, California, USA

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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. Ha…

Directed

  1. Carol (2015) — Director
  2. Dark Waters (2019) — Director
  3. May December (2023) — Director
  4. I'm Not There (2007) — Director
  5. Far from Heaven (2002) — Director
  6. Velvet Goldmine (1998) — Director
  7. Wonderstruck (2017) — Director
  8. Safe (1995) — Director
  9. Mildred Pierce (2011) — Director
  10. The Velvet Underground (2021) — Director
  11. Enlightened (2011) — Director
  12. Poison (1991) — Director
  13. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987) — Director
  14. Six by Sondheim (2013) — Director
  15. Dottie Gets Spanked (1993) — Director
  16. Goo (1991) — Director
  17. The Suicide (1978) — Director
  18. Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud (1985) — Director
  19. Image Book (2023) — Director
  20. De Noche — Director
  21. Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost (The Videos: 1990-2002) (2004) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987) — Todd Donovan
  2. Swoon (1992) — Phrenology Head
  3. Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006) — Self
  4. Great Directors (2009) — Self
  5. Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero (2019) — Self
  6. Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter (2023) — Self
  7. He Was Once (1989) — Randy
  8. At Sundance (1995) — Self
  9. SexTV (1998)
  10. Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud (1985)
  11. Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair (2022) — Self
  12. Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible (2016) — Self
  13. At the Video Store (2019) — Self
  14. Notes on the Death of Kodachrome (2007) — Self
  15. Eine Zärtlichkeit wie bei Sirk - Todd Haynes über Fassbinder und das Melodram (2006) — Self
  16. Infinite Pleasure: Todd Haynes on Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir (2006) — Interviewee
  17. Natural History (1989) — Child
  18. Art-House America: Austin Film Society (2023) — Self
  19. Maternal Overdrive (2006) — Self
  20. Barbara Forever (2026) — Self (archive footage)
  21. All We Do Is Watch Movies (2026) — Self
  22. Marcians (2017) — Self - Interviewee