
Todd Haynes
Directing
Born: 1961-01-02 · Los Angeles, California, USA
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 dire
🎬 Movies (30)

Barbara Forever
2026
Self (archive footage)

Earthlings
2025
Executive Producer

Art-House America: Austin Film Society
2023
Self

May December
2023
Director

Image Book
2023
Director

Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair
2022
Self

The Velvet Underground
2021
Director

Cal State Long Beach, CA, January 2020
2021
Thanks

At the Video Store
2019
Self
Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero
2019
Self

Dark Waters
2019
Director

Earthquake Bird
2019
Thanks

Wonderstruck
2017
Director

Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
2016
Self

Certain Women
2016
Executive Producer

Carol
2015
Director

Night Moves
2014
Executive Producer

Still Alice
2014
Thanks

Six by Sondheim
2013
Director

Buoy
2013
Executive Producer

Meek's Cutoff
2011
Executive Producer

Great Directors
2009
Self

Wendy and Lucy
2008
Executive Producer
Notes on the Death of Kodachrome
2007
Self

I'm Not There
2007
Director

Eine Zärtlichkeit wie bei Sirk - Todd Haynes über Fassbinder und das Melodram
2006
Self

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
2006
Self

Infinite Pleasure: Todd Haynes on Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir
2006
Interviewee
Maternal Overdrive
2006
Self

Quinceañera
2006
Executive Producer



