Darren Aronofsky
From his emergence with the breakout indie feature "Pi" (1998) - a sci-fi meditation on life, death and the cruelty of fate - writer-director Darren Aronofsky became something of an indie wunderkind who made the leap to directing big-budget Hollywood features. Although detractors would claim that some of his films -- particularly time travel fable "The Fountain" (2006) and philosophical meditation "Mother!" (2017) -- fell prey to artistic hubris and creative excess, the writer/director consistently managed to turn grim subject matter into exciting cinema. By drawing upon his hip-hop influences, Aronofsky created a hyperkinetic filmmaking style that encompassed high-speed editing and rapid-fire images. But beyond the surface of his filmmaking technique was an obsessive drive to artistically answer the Big Questions of why we are here and what comes after death. In the process, Aronofsky created a legion of adherents who flocked to every movie, while receiving a fair share of criticism for what were seen as overreaching pretensions. Nonetheless, Aronofsky remained a dedicated artist, steadfastly refusing to succumb to studio pressures on his way to making visually flamboyant, metaphysically probing and emotionally engaging films like "The Wrestler" (2008) and "Black Swan" (2010).
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Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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39% | No Score Yet | Little Death | Producer | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Viktor | Producer | - | 2024 |
64% |
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The Whale | Director | $17.2M | 2022 |
74% |
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The Good Nurse | Producer | - | 2022 |
97% |
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The Territory | Producer | $26.2K | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Michael Cimino: God Bless America | Self | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet |
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Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America | Self | - | 2022 |
93% |
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Catch the Fair One | Executive Producer | $34.4K | 2021 |
100% | No Score Yet | Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist | Self | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Vandal | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
93% |
|
Some Kind of Heaven | Producer | $43.5K | 2020 |
83% | No Score Yet | Serendipity | Executive Producer | $2.2K | 2019 |
78% | No Score Yet | Pacified | Producer | - | 2019 |
56% |
|
White Boy Rick | Producer | $24.0M | 2018 |
68% |
|
mother! |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$17.8M | 2017 |
40% |
|
Aftermath | Producer | - | 2017 |
88% |
|
Jackie | Producer | $14.0M | 2016 |
20% |
|
Zipper | Executive Producer | - | 2015 |
75% |
|
Noah |
Director, Screenwriter |
$101.2M | 2014 |
85% |
|
Black Swan | Director | $107.0M | 2010 |
91% |
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The Fighter | Executive Producer | $93.6M | 2010 |
99% |
|
The Wrestler |
Director, Producer |
$26.2M | 2008 |
52% |
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The Fountain |
Director, Writer |
$10.1M | 2006 |
65% |
|
Below |
Writer, Producer, Executive Producer |
$589.4K | 2002 |
78% |
|
Requiem for a Dream |
Director, Writer, Writer |
$3.6M | 2000 |
88% |
|
Pi |
Director, Writer, Writer |
$3.2M | 1998 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2023 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2023 |
61% | 88% | Kindred | Executive Producer | 2022 |
88% | 88% | Limitless With Chris Hemsworth | Executive Producer | 2022 |
100% | 86% | Welcome to Earth | Executive Producer | 2021 |
No Score Yet | 64% | StarTalk | Guest | 2019 |
No Score Yet | 99% | Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown |
Guest, Self |
2015 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Colbert Report | Guest | 2014 |