2023 Moving Image Awards Honoring Todd Haynes

Museum of the Moving Image is pleased to present the 2023 Winter Moving Image Awards honoring Todd Haynes.

One of the most boundlessly creative and surprising filmmakers of the past forty years, Todd Haynes is a singular American artist. In movies such as Safe, Velvet Goldmine, Far from Heaven, I’m Not There, Carol, Wonderstruck, and Dark Waters, and his remarkable, Emmy-winning television series Mildred Pierce, Haynes creates films that are richly emotional and intellectually ambitious in equal measure. His latest film, May December, presented by Netflix, pushes his artistry into new realms, transforming ripped-from-the-headlines scandal into a brilliant meditation on human identity. 

In addition to the Moving Image Award for Career Achievement, MoMI will celebrate Haynes’s remarkable work through a new book, Todd Haynes: Rapturous Process; a full-career screening retrospective; and an exhibit comprising material drawn from Haynes’s production archive, part of MoMI’s permanent collection. 

Haynes will be celebrated by friends and collaborators with a special program in the Sumner M. Redstone Theater and a cocktail reception in the Hearst Lobby. 

Featuring Julianne Moore

and other special guests!

Museum of the Moving Image 
36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, New York 

7:00 p.m. Doors open for guests; Cocktail reception
8:30–9:30 p.m. Program in the Redstone Theater
9:30–10:30 p.m. Post-program reception 

Festive attire 

Presenting Sponsor: 
Netflix  

All funds raised at the Moving Image Awards help support MoMI’s exhibitions, screenings, and education and community engagement programs, which serve youth, adults, and their families across all of New York and beyond. 

Tickets available at one of the following levels: 

$125: Artist/Guild member/Student single ticket 

$250: Single ticket (general) 

$400: VIP ticket (reserved seating and a signed copy of the new Museum publication Todd Haynes: Rapturous Process; also supports an Artist ticket)

$2500: Sponsor level (reserved seating for two, a signed copy of the new Museum publication Todd Haynes: Rapturous Process; annual membership, invitation to pre-program cocktail hour with Todd Haynes and members of the May December creative team, also supports an Artist ticket) 

$5000: Co-host level (reserved seating for two, a signed copy of the new Museum publication Todd Haynes: Rapturous Process; annual membership, invitation to pre-program cocktail hour with Todd Haynes and members of the May December creative team, private viewing of the exhibit; also supports an Artist ticket) 

$10,000: Supporting Sponsor (reserved seating for five, a signed copy of the new Museum publication Todd Haynes: Rapturous Process, a MoMI Corporate Supporter membership, invitation to pre-program cocktail hour with Todd Haynes and members of the May December creative team, private viewing of the exhibit, sponsor listing on all event materials, recognition on event webpage, half-page digital journal ad; also supports an Artist ticket)  

$20,000: Leadership Sponsor (reserved seating for ten, a signed copy of the new Museum publication Todd Haynes: Rapturous Process, a MoMI Corporate Supporter annual membership, invitation to pre-program cocktail hour with Todd Haynes and members of the May December creative team, private viewing of the exhibit, recognition as a Leadership Sponsor on all event materials, prominent visibility on event webpage, full-page digital journal ad; also supports an Artist ticket)  

About Todd Haynes: 

Todd Haynes was passionate about the visual arts since childhood, and went on to study art and semiotics at Brown University. In 1987, he created the short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story with Barbie dolls. Since then, he has tirelessly continued to address questions of gender and identity. His first feature film Poison, inspired by Jean Genet, was released in 1991 and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. This was followed by Safe (1995), which starred Julianne Moore, and would be named the best movie of the decade in a poll of critics conducted by The Village Voice. He then evoked David Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust period in the musical fantasia Velvet Goldmine (1998); paid homage to Douglas Sirk in Far from Heaven (2002), starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Haysbert, and Dennis Quaid; and in 2007, he cast six actors play versions of Bob Dylan in I’m Not There. He went on to direct the Emmy-winning miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011), starring Kate Winslet, before returning to feature films with Carol (2015), Wonderstruck (2017), Dark Waters (2019), and the documentary The Velvet Underground (2021). His latest film, May December (2023) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was the opening night selection of the New York Film Festival.  

For sponsorship opportunities, please contact Ilana Solomon at [email protected].