Cannes 2025 / carrosse d'or award to TODD HAYNES
In 2025, the SRF – the French Film Directors’ Guild – is proud to honor TODD HAYNES. A filmmaker born in the heart of the American counterculture, he carries his legacy of challenging norms, whether social, sexual or artistic, with pride.
TODD HAYNES will be awarded the Carrosse d’Or on May 14th, 2025 in Cannes, during the Directors’ Fortnight opening ceremony.
«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. Your genius is to move and mesmerize us in a single move, combining formal virtuoso with infinite empathy and tenderness.
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.»
From the letter written by the SRF Board:Steve Achiepo, Fleur Albert, Julie Bertuccelli, Malik Chibane, Romain Cogitore, Christophe Cognet, Didier D’Abreu, Stéphane Demoustier, Caroline Deruas Peano, Sylvain Desclous, Marine Francen, Jean-Raymond Garcia, Myriam Gharbi, Judith Godrèche, Caroline Hallier, Rachid Hami, Ted Hardy-Carnac, Cédric Klapisch, Agnès Patron, Thomas Salvador, Axelle Vinassac, Denis Walgenwitz, Zoé Wittock.
Since 2002, the filmmakers of the SRF have been celebrating one of their peers every year by presenting them with an award, the Carrosse d’Or, during the opening ceremony of the Directors’ Fortnight, organized by the SRF. This award distinguishes a filmmaker for the innovative qualities of their films and an uncompromising, bold spirit in directing and production.
Previous recipients:
2024 Andrea ARNOLD
2023 SOULEYMANE CISSÉ
2022 Kelly REICHARDT
2021 Frederick WISEMAN
2019 John CARPENTER
2018 Martin SCORSESE
2017 Werner HERZOG
2016 Aki KAURISMÄKI
2015 JIA ZHANGKE
2014 Alain RESNAIS
2013 Jane CAMPION
2012 Nuri Bilge CEYLAN
2011 Jafar PANAHI
2010 Agnès VARDA
2009 Naomi KAWASE
2008 Jim JARMUSCH
2007 Alain CAVALIER
2006 David CRONENBERG
2005 Ousmane SEMBENE
2004 Nanni MORETTI
2003 Clint EASTWOOD
2002 Jacques ROZIER
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