About
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...
Known for
May DecemberMovie • 2023
Mildred PierceSeries • 2011
Dark WatersMovie • 2019
Still AliceMovie • 2014
EnlightenedSeries • 2011
CarolMovie • 2015
I'm Not ThereMovie • 2007
Far from HeavenMovie • 2002
Certain WomenMovie • 2016
WonderstruckMovie • 2017
SafeMovie • 1995
Earthquake BirdMovie • 2019
PoisonMovie • 1991
Velvet GoldmineMovie • 1998
Night MovesMovie • 2014
Meek's CutoffMovie • 2011
Totally F***ed UpMovie • 1994
Wendy and LucyMovie • 2008
The Velvet UndergroundMovie • 2021
Six by SondheimMovie • 2013
Old JoyMovie • 2006
Office KillerMovie • 1997
Madame SatãMovie • 2002
Dottie Gets SpankedMovie • 1993