Todd Haynes, renowned American Independent Filmmaker and screenwriter has been selected receive the Director Tribute at the 25th Annual IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards. The Award ceremony will be conducted in New York on November 30, 2015.

As per the film festival norms, the Director Tribute award is usually given out to a veteran filmmaker with unique vision who has made a significant contribution to the motion picture industry.

The career of Todd Haynes is bit cinematic in nature, and it has some ups and downs which are quite common in the life of all legendary personalities. During 1987, he made his first noted short film, ‘Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story’. This short film showcased the life of American Pop Singer Karen Carpenter, and Todd narrated the story with the help of Barbie dolls.

His debut feature film ‘Poison’ was released in 1991. The movie won the grand jury prize at the highly competitive Sundance Film Festival. Some of his other movies includes, ‘Safe’, ‘Velvet Goldmine’, ‘Far From Heaven’ and ‘I am not there’.

Todd Hayne’s latest film is ‘Carol’. The movie had its world premiere at the Cannes on May 17, 2015. The film will have a theatrical release in United States of America on November 20, 2015.

‘Carol’ will showcase the story in the backdrop of early 1950 where young women of 20 years fall flat for an older married woman. The movie stars Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler and Jake Lacy.

With the addition of Best Script award, this year’s Gotham Independent Film awards will give out awards in eight categories which includes, best feature, best actress, best actor, best documentary, Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director, breakthrough actor and audience award.