Todd Haynes To Be Honored By Cannes Directors’ Fortnight With Golden Carriage Award​on April 1, 2025 at 6:03 pm

The French Directors’ Guild (SRF) will fete UK director Todd Haynes with its honorary Carrosse d’Or (Golden Carriage) award at the upcoming edition of its Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

Haynes will receive the prize at the opening ceremony of the parallel section, running alongside the main Cannes Film Festival from May 14 to 22.

The honor follows Haynes’ recent stint as president of the jury at the Berlinale in February.

The SRF highlighted Haynes place heart at the American counterculture and his legacy of challenging social, sexual or artistic norms.

“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,” the SRF board wrote in a letter explaining their motivation for the award.

“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.”

Haynes was last in Cannes with Palme d’Or contender May December in 2023 and has also played in the main competition with Velvet Goldmine in 1998, followed by Carol in 2015 and Wonderstruck in 2017. His documentary The Velvet Underground also played Out of Competition in 2021.

Previous recipients of the Carrosse d’Or include Jacques Rozier Clint Eastwood, Nanni Moretti, Ousmane Sembene, David Cronenberg, Alain Cavalier, Jim Jarmusch, Naomi Kawase, Agnès Varda, Jafar Panahi, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Jane Campion, Alain Resnais, Jia Zhang-ke Aki Kaurismäki, Werner Herzog, Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter,Frederick Wiseman,  Souleymane Cissé, Kelly Reichardt and Andrea Arnold.