Cannes’ Directors Fortnight to Honor Todd Haynes With Golden Coach Award

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This year’s Directors Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival is set to honor Todd Haynes with the prestigious Golden Coach Award.

The Society of French Directors (SFR), who oversee events at the Cannes sidebar, will bestow an honorary award upon director Haynes. This recognition will be presented during a ceremony honoring him, scheduled for May 14 in Cannes.

In a letter penned by the SRF, signed by members such as Julie Bertuccelli, Romain Cogitore, Cédric Klapisch, and Zoé Wittock, they commended Todd Haynes for his films that demonstrate an impressive belief in cinema’s capacity to experiment and tell compelling stories. They admired how Haynes can captivate and move the audience with a single stroke, seamlessly blending technical mastery with profound empathy and sensitivity.

The letter states that Haynes has been “persistently challenging and reshaping cinematic conventions with the aim of stimulating reflection on societal, racial, and gender portrayals; it’s as if every ounce of love and brutality in existence converges within your cinema to sweep us away in a torrent of feelings.

Notably, Andrea Arnold, Souleymane Cissé, Kelly Reichardt, Frederick Wiseman, Martin Scorsese, and Werner Herzog are among the esteemed past laureates of the Golden Coach Award.

Previously this year, Haynes was the chair of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival. It was “Dreams (Sex Love)” by Dag Johan Haugerud that took home the Golden Bear Award during this festival.

This past year, under the leadership of Julien Rejl, the Directors Fortnight event in Cannes introduced its inaugural audience award, in collaboration with the Chantal Akerman Foundation.

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2025-04-01 17:16