Todd Haynes will obtain the Golden Coach Award at this yr’s Cannes Movie Competition‘s Administrators Fortnight.
The honorary award is handed out by the governing physique of the Cannes sidebar, the Society of French Administrators (SFR). The ceremony paying tribute to Haynes will happen on Could 14 in Cannes.
“From ‘Celebrity: The Karen Carpenter Story to Secure,’ ‘Velvet Goldmine,’ ‘Carol’ and ‘Could December,’ your movies have been inhabited by an excellent religion in cinema’s experimental and narrative potentialities,” stated the SRF in a letter signed by its members, together with Julie Bertuccelli, Romain Cogitore, Cédric Klapisch and Zoé Wittock. The org praised Haynes for its “genius to maneuver and mesmerize us in a single transfer, combining formal virtuoso with infinite empathy and tenderness.”
Haynes has been “relentlessly shaking up the norms and buildings of cinematic illustration with the intention to higher query our social, racial and gender representations; as if all of the love and violence on this planet got here collectively in your cinema to hold us away in a flood of emotion,” reads the letter.
Earlier recipients of the Golden Coach Award embody Andrea Arnold, Souleymane Cissé, Kelly Reichardt, Frederick Wiseman, Martin Scorsese and Werner Herzog.
Earlier this yr, Haynes presided over the jury of the Berlin Movie Competition whose Golden Bear Award went to “Desires (Intercourse Love)” by Dag Johan Haugerud.
Now spearheaded by Julien Rejl, Cannes’ Administrators Fortnight launched its first viewers award final yr in partnership with the Chantal Akerman Basis.
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