Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969) is an American filmmaker. His films are noted for their surreal, melodramatic, and often disturbing elements, frequently in the form of psychological fiction. Over his career, he has received a Primetime Emmy Award. He has been nominated for several awards including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. Aronofsky studied film and social anthropology at Harvard University before studying directing at the AFI Conservatory. After completing his senior thesis film, Supermarket Sweep, he won several film awards, becoming a National Student Academy Award finalist. In 1997, he founded the film and TV production company Protozoa Pictures. His feature film debut, the surrealist psychological thriller Pi (1998), earned him the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival and an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Aronofsky then directed the psychological drama Requiem for a Dream (2000), the romantic fantasy sci-fi drama The Fountain (2006), and the sports drama The Wrestler (2008), the latter of which earned the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. He directed the psychological drama Black Swan(2010), earning him the Best Director. His later films include the biblical epic Noah (2014), the psychological horror film Mother! (2017) and the drama The Whale (2022). Aronofsky's film Postcard from Earth (2023) was produced and filmed exclusively for the Sphere in the Las Vegas Valley on its 16K resolution screen. Description above from the Wikipedia article Darren Aronofsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Requiem for a Dream

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

Release Date2000-10-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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Vote Count10364

Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Darren Aronofsky's ‘The Fountain’.

Release Date2007-05-15

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Vote Count4

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in Los Angeles the program was brought back to New York.

Release Date2014-02-17

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Episode Count1

Vote Count342

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as host of NBC’s "Late Night" — home to A-list celebrity guests, memorable comedy and the best in musical talent. As the Emmy Award-winning head writer for "SNL," Meyers has established a reputation for sharp wit and perfectly timed comedy, and has gained fame for his spot-on jokes and satire. Meyers takes his departure from "SNL" to his new post at "Late Night," as Jimmy Fallon moves to "The Tonight Show".

Release Date2014-02-25

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Episode Count1

Vote Count109

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.

Release Date2015-08-02

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Episode Count2

Vote Count18

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson brings together celebrities, scientists and comedians to explore a variety of cosmic topics and collide pop culture with science in a way that late-night television has never seen before. Weekly topics range from popular science fiction, space travel, extraterrestrial life, the Big Bang, to the future of Earth and the environment. Tyson is an astrophysicist with a gifted ability to connect with everyone, inspiring us all to to "keep looking up."

Release Date2015-04-20

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Episode Count1

Vote Count21

HypaSpace

HypaSpace was a weekly entertainment news program about the world of science fiction and fantasy, created by and shown on Space, a Canadian cable television station. It had daily and weekly segments. The television show covers movies, television, books, comics and community events. The show has HypaSpace daily shows and HypaSpace weekly shows which sums up the week of news. The series was casual and irreverent. HypaSpace was produced by Simon Evans and Michelle Dudas. There were 260 episodes per year, excluding the first year, which started in May, and the sixth year, as the daily shows were pulled around mid-December with only the weekend edition airing. The daily segments stopped being produced in mid-December 2007, which meant that in its last year, the show had only 26 episodes. There were approximately 1480 episodes of the show. In May 2005, Kim Poirier took over hosting the show, joining original host Jonathan Llyr, now a reporter for the program. Poirier left the show in July 2007. Segments of HypaSpace aired interstitially between Space programs. Llyr hosted the show whenever Poirier was on a break or was ill. He also hosted the HypaSpace podcast, which started on October 7, 2006. Mark Askwith then took over as the host of the podcast.

Release Date2002-05-13

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Episode Count1

Vote Count2

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.

Release Date2006-01-26

Charactersd Self - Director of 'Requiem for a Dream'

Vote Count357

Edge of Outside

An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and film clips are blended together to form a chronological approach to the subject matter.

Release Date2006-06-11

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Vote Count4

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay tribute to one of the great legends of world cinema. The singular artistic vision of Sergio Leone has transcended national borders, creating the Spaghetti Western genre and transforming the international cinematic panorama forever with his innovative stylistic and narrative solutions, which have now become part of the language of the movies. The film, which is enriched with precious archive footage from the Cineteca di Bologna, including rare audio recordings and film clips shot behind the scenes, sees for the first time the direct participation of the Leone family and has interviews both with Leone’s longtime collaborators and with icons of Hollywood who have been profoundly influenced by his work.

Release Date2022-10-20

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Vote Count55

Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow

An exploration into the life and art of the renowned author of "Last Exit To Brooklyn" and "Requiem For A Dream." Hubert Selby Jr., a self-described "scream looking for a mouth," against all odds, reached international acclaim with his controversial novels. His is a classic story of the great American novelist, overcoming tuberculosis, drug addiction and financial ruin, Selby eventually triumphed in his life and penned seven of the most remarkable and distinctly American books ever written.

Release Date2006-06-22

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Vote Count7

The Making of Requiem for a Dream

A dive into the production of Darren Aronofsky's psychological drama.

Release Date2001-05-22

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Vote Count8

Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist

A subtle portrait of Japanese director Satoshi Kon by the specialist of Japanese cinema Pascal-Alex Vincent and a dive into a rich work. With interviews of the greatest Japanese, French and American directors inspired by his work.

Release Date2021-07-08

Charactersd Self

Vote Count13

Black Swan: Metamorphosis

Documentary chronicling the making of Darren Aronofsky's Academy Award-winning film 'Black Swan (2010)'.

Release Date2011-03-29

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

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Vote Count22

mother! The Downward Spiral

A behind-the-scenes account that explores the film's production in detail, including intriguing footage from the lengthy rehearsal process. Appropriately enough, the documentary opens with Aronofsky and others explaining why the film can't be described.

Release Date2017-12-19

Charactersd Self

Vote Count9

Within the Ring

The making of The Wrester (2008).

Release Date2009-04-21

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From Jackie to Camelot

An intimate documentary charting the production of Jackie, from ideation through execution.

Release Date2017-03-07

Charactersd Self

Vote Count7

Limitless with Chris Hemsworth

Chris is on a mission to live better for longer. With the help of top scientists, he takes on six epic challenges to test mind and body to the max.

Release Date2022-11-16

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count42

One Strange Rock

A mind-bending, thrilling journey exploring the fragility and wonder of planet Earth, one of the most peculiar, unique places in the entire universe, brought to life by the only people to have left it behind – the world’s most well known and leading astronauts.

Release Date2018-03-26

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count10

Vote Count80

Kindred

A young aspiring writer discovers secrets about her family's past when she finds herself mysteriously being pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation.

Release Date2022-12-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count38

Black Swan

The story of Nina, a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired ballerina mother Erica who zealously supports her daughter's professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice.

Release Date2010-12-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count14878

Welcome to Earth

Will Smith whose curiosity and wonder is positively infectious—is guided by National Geographic Explorers traveling to different corners of the world to get up close and personal with the weirdest, most unusual, dangerous and thrilling spectacles of the planet.

Release Date2021-12-08

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count421

The Whale

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

Release Date2022-12-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4216

mother!

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

Release Date2017-09-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6811

Noah

A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.

Release Date2014-03-07

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6327

Caught Stealing

Hank Thompson, a burned-out former baseball player, is unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of '90s New York City.

Release Date2025-08-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Fighter

Boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.

Release Date2010-12-10

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count4465

The Fountain

Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

Release Date2006-11-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2896

White Boy Rick

The story of Richard Wershe Jr., a teenager who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s, and was ultimately arrested for drug trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

Release Date2018-09-14

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1125

Pi

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

Release Date1998-07-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2318

The Good Nurse

Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.

Release Date2022-10-19

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1312

Black Gold

The story of the coverup of the century: of the boss atop a trillion dollar industry who discovered a shocking truth 40 years ago, created a black ops campaign to hide the evidence, and stopped at nothing to keep the money flowing, as the world burned.

Release Date2022-05-17

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count3

Vote Count2

The Wrestler

Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.

Release Date2008-09-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3765

Aftermath

A fatal plane crash changes the lives of Roman and Jake forever. Roman loses his wife and daughter in the accident, while Jake loses his mind—as he happens to be the air traffic controller who failed to avert the nightmare. Rage and revenge engulfs Roman and Jake finds himself swamped with guilt and regret.

Release Date2017-02-28

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count919

Below

In the dark silence of the sea during World War II, the submarine USS Tiger Shark prowls on what should be a routine rescue mission. But for the shell-shocked crew, trapped together in the sub's narrow corridors and constricted spaces, this is about to become a journey into the sensory delusions, mental deceptions and runaway fears that lurk just below the surface of the ocean.

Release Date2002-08-11

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count471

Jackie

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

Release Date2016-12-02

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2334

Zipper

Sam Ellis is a man on the rise — a hot-shot federal prosecutor on the cusp of a bright political future. But what was meant to be a one-time experience with an escort turns into a growing addiction — a new demon threatening to destroy his life, family, and career.

Release Date2015-08-28

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count164

Catch the Fair One

A Native American boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.

Release Date2022-02-11

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count86

Another Happy Day

A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.

Release Date2011-11-18

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count115

Last and First Men

As the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future, send a message to the humanity of the present that is both a plea for help and a warning, but also an epic tale of evolution, decline and hope.

Release Date2020-02-25

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count121

Pole to Pole

Pole to Pole

A series that will see the King Richard star cover 26,000 miles from the South Pole to the North Pole. It comes from Smith’s Westbrook Studios, Jane Root’s Nutopia and Aronofsky’s Protoza.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count1

Phat Beach

A hefty homeboy borrows his dad's Mercedes and goes to the beach with his friends for wild sun & fun.

Release Date1996-08-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobSecond Unit Director

Vote Count27

The Vandal

Set in a world not unlike mid-20th century America, The Vandal centers on Harold, whose tormented search for peace from traumatic loss results in an unexpectedly destructive awakening after he undergoes a lobotomy. When the procedure “turns his mind inside out” and his great love is suddenly gone, Harold’s desperate search intensifies.

Release Date2021-07-15

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count6

The House of Yes

Jackie-O is anxiously awaiting the visit of her brother home for Thanksgiving, but isn't expecting him to bring a friend — and she's even more shocked to learn that this friend is his fiance. It soon becomes clear that her obsession with Jackie Kennedy is nothing compared to her obsession with her brother, and she isn't the only member of the family with problems.

Release Date1997-10-10

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count110

The Territory

The Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people have seen their population dwindle and their culture threatened since coming into contact with non-Native Brazilians. Though promised dominion over their own rainforest territory, they have faced illegal incursions from environmentally destructive logging and mining, and, most recently, land-grabbing invasions spurred on by right-wing politicians like President Jair Bolsonaro. With deforestation escalating as a result, the stakes have become global.

Release Date2022-08-19

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count23

Soldier Boyz

A group of prisoners are going to Vietnam to rescue the daughter of a V-I.P. The Ones who survive get their freedom back...but hell awaits them.

Release Date1995-11-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobSecond Assistant Director

Vote Count39

Little Death

A middle-aged filmmaker on the verge of a breakthrough. Two kids in search of a lost backpack. A small dog a long way from home.

Release Date2024-01-19

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

Pendulum

Young couple Patrick and Abigail journey to a new-age retreat in New Mexico, drawn by the possibility of healing after a traumatic event. Patrick is willing to do anything to help his wife but becomes distrustful of the retreat’s enigmatic leader even as Abigail falls under her spell. As paranoia builds, the couple must determine if the group’s unconventional spiritual practices offer genuine healing or mask a terrifying truth that threatens to consume them both.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Some Kind of Heaven

Behind the gates of a palm-tree-lined fantasyland, three residents and one interloper at America’s largest retirement community strive to find happiness.

Release Date2021-02-19

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count31

Breakthrough

An alienated young man comes under the influence of a motivational guru, whose intoxicating charm masks his morally questionable methods of manipulation and his own concealed darkness.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Tiger

Set in snowy far east Russia in the late 90s, a group of men — referred to as the Tiger Team — work to protect endangered tigers from poachers and logging operations. The Team’s leader's sense of duty is tested when he’s charged with hunting down and exterminating a tiger that killed a poacher in self-defense.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Fortune Cookie

A struggling door-to-door salesman becomes addicted to collecting the paper messages of good fortune found inside fortune cookies served as dessert at Chinese restaurants in the United States.

Release Date1991-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count11

Spheres

An immersive journey through the cosmos, its origins and its songs.

Release Date2018-01-17

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Pacified

Tati, an introspective 13 year old girl struggles to connect with her estranged father, Jaca, after he is released from prison in the turbulent wake of the Rio Olympics. As Brazilian Pacification Police battle to maintain a tenuous occupation of the surrounding Rio favelas, Tati and Jaca must navigate the clashing forces threatening to derail their hope for the future.

Release Date2022-08-11

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count7

Underland

Based on Robert Macfarlane’s bestseller, UNDERLAND is a cinematic voyage beneath the surface of the earth.

Release Date2025-06-05

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

Sabbath Queen

Sabbath Queen is a remarkable 20 year journey in the life of Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, a 39th generation Orthodox rabbi — and drag queen.

Release Date2024-06-09

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

No Time

Darren Aronofsky's student film.

Release Date1994-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count14

Serendipity

French artist Prune Nourry has spent her working life exploring issues around the human body. At the age of 31, Prune is diagnosed with breast cancer. She starts documenting her treatment and its effect on her own body, turning her medical odyssey into an intimate artistic undertaking that leads her to find new meaning in her work and its serendipitous relationship to her own survival.

Release Date2019-10-23

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count4

Solidarity

A cross-cultural look at the immigrant experience in Los Angeles, through the parallel lives of a Mexican seamstress and a Lithuanian butcher.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

One Strange Rock

A mind-bending, thrilling journey exploring the fragility and wonder of planet Earth, one of the most peculiar, unique places in the entire universe, brought to life by the only people to have left it behind – the world’s most well known and leading astronauts. This edit combined episodes one and ten to create a new movie.

Release Date2018-03-26

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count3

Protozoa

Darren Aronofsky’s AFI short opens with angry slacker Dave sitting in a dreary, empty junkyard. Dave stares into space, sips beer, and beats the hell out of a cracked guitar. We quickly realize the emptiness of the dump parallels the emptiness of Dave’s life which consists of smoking weed, staring at television screens and watching school children. Dave’s friend Pete is shortly introduced, along with their friend, Ari, who despite calling her pals losers, doesn’t seem to accomplishing much herself. These three are going nowhere fast. They’re the amoebas of life… protozoa….

Release Date1993-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

Holding Liat

Liat is one of the hostages taken on October 7th. The film follows her relatives from right up close, with a focus on her father, as he tries to stay on the path of pacifism and humanity amidst war, trauma and diplomacy.

Release Date2025-02-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Undeniable

Sebastian Schipper is adapting Jessica Stern's bestselling memoir "Denial: A Memoir of Terror". The project will be Schipper's English-language debut. It is a deeply personal memoir of her and her sisters's rape, when they were teenagers, by an unknown assailant and of Stern's attempt, decades later, to investigate the unsolved crime and address her own trauma surrounding it.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Ancestra

When childbirth spirals into crisis, a mother's love becomes a cosmic force to save her daughter's life.

Release Date2025-06-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Viktor

Viktor, who was born deaf, worships the figure of the samurai warrior. When bombs start falling on his countryside home in Kharkiv, his quasi-romantic obsession with war is put to the test.

Release Date2024-09-08

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Esther's Choice

Esther, a film composer going through a dry spell, moves in with her boyfriend Michael only to find out that he still keeps his Ex-girlfriend's belongings in his closet. What follows is an emotional roller coaster of a film exploring the great lengths an artist chooses to go to for the sake of inspiration.

Release Date2020-10-15

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

XOXO

An engaged professional man meets a captivating woman on Facebook, though their virtual relationship soon turns into a dark, deadly reality.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Supermarket Sweep

Release Date1991-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Emperor

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Untitled Elon Musk Biopic

Based on Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of the controversial tech mogul.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Lowland Kids

As climate change erases the Louisiana coast, the last two teenagers on Isle de Jean Charles fight to stay on an island that's been in their family home for generations. Feature film continuation of a short of the same name.

Release Date2025-11-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

A Different Beyond

“A Different Beyond” is a short sci-fi thriller action movie that showcases the cinematic abilities of the FUJIFILM X-T3 mirrorless camera, which is capable of DCI 4K 10bit 4:2:2 uncompressed output at up to 60 FPS.

Release Date2018-12-10

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Nothing, Except Everything

A graduating high schooler navigates a world of seemingly inevitable chaos by finding order in the number 7. Planned feature film based on the short with the same name.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

Bourdain travels across the globe to uncover little-known areas of the world and celebrate diverse cultures by exploring food and dining rituals. Known for his curiosity, candor, and acerbic wit, Bourdain takes viewers off the beaten path of tourist destinations – including some war-torn parts of the world – and meets with a variety of local citizens to offer a window into their lifestyles, and occasionally communes with an internationally lauded chef on his journeys.

Release Date2013-04-14

Episode Count1

Vote Count80

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