Cannes 2025: Todd Haynes set to receive prestigious honour
Acclaimed director Todd Haynes is set to receive a prestigious honour at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The director will be awarded the coveted lifetime achievement ‘Carrosse d’Or’ prize from the French Film Directors’ Guild on May 14th at the opening ceremony for the Director’s Fortnight, which runs parallel to the festival.
Highlighting Haynes’ seismic impact on cinema and LGBTQ+ representation in the industry, the guild said in a statement: “From Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story to Safe, Velvet Goldmine, Carol and May December, your films have been inhabited by a great faith in cinema’s experimental and narrative possibilities.”
They continued in their address to the filmmaker: “Your films are a haven for anyone who knows the price they have paid for their feelings and their difference. You have been relentlessly shaking up the norms and structures of cinematic representation in order to better question our social, racial and gender representations; as if all the love and violence in the world came together in your cinema to carry us away in a flood of emotion.”
Previous recipients of the ‘Carrosse d’Or’ include Martin Scorsese, David Cronenberg, and Andrea Arnold.
Haynes is no stranger to film festivals worldwide, having already served as the President of the International Jury at the Berlin Film Festival this year.
As a filmmaker, his next steps are currently unknown as he was already in pre-production for a gay historical romance set in the 1930s when lead actor and Joker star Joaquin Phoenix suddenly pulled out for unknown reasons.
The Cannes Film Festival takes place between May 13th and May 25th, 2025, with French actor Juliette Binoche having already been announced as this year’s Jury President back in February.
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