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Darren Aronofsky
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Darren Aronofsky is a male film producer, director, and screenwriter born in Brooklyn in 1969. He holds citizenship in the United States and Poland. Aronofsky studied at Harvard University and the AFI Conservatory. His career began in 1996, and he has created works held in the Museum of Modern Art collection.
He is known for notable films including Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, The Whale, and The Wrestler. Aronofsky has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director and a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director. He has been unmarried partners with Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Lawrence, and Aglaya Tarasova. He speaks English and Nahuatl.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 23
Top works
- Whale Screenplay Book
- Requiem for a dream (2000)
- Pi (1998)
- Pi : The Guerilla Diaries
- Monster Club
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Film & TV
Directing · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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…
Known for
- People Are Amazing: Making 'The Whale' — Self2023
- Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America — Self2022
- Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist — Self2021
- mother! The Downward Spiral — Self2017
- From Jackie to Camelot — Self2017
- StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson — Self2015
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self2015
- Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest2014
- Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown2013
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,410
- Total plays
- 8,364
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,612x
- Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer
· 2002 · cited 8,635x
- UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023
· 2022 · cited 6,747x
- UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021
· 2020 · cited 6,031x
- Dapagliflozin and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes
· 2019 · cited 5,532x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Darren
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Poland
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- Nahuatl
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Notable work
- Caught Stealing
- Official website
- www.darrenaronofsky.com
- Image
- OIFF 2015-07-17 193547 - Darren Aronofsky.jpg
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- Darren Aronofsky
- date of birth
- 1969-02-12
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- unmarried partner
- Aglaya Tarasova
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- Darren Aronofsky
- nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
- name in native language
- Darren Aronofsky
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
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- Category:Films with screenplays by Darren Aronofsky
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Encyclopedic overview
Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969) is an Polish-American filmmaker. His films are noted for their surreal, dramatic, and often disturbing elements, frequently in the form of psychological realism. His accolades include a Golden Lion and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and the British Academy Film Award. Aronofsky studied film and social anthropology at Harvard University before studying directing at the AFI Conservatory. He won several film awards after completing his senior thesis film, Supermarket Sweep, which became 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 award for Best Director 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. For his critically acclaimed psychological horror Black Swan (2010), he was nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards and Golden Globe Awards. He earned acclaim and controversy for his next films, the Biblical epic Noah (2014), the psychological horror film Mother! (2017) and the psychological drama The Whale (2022). He then directed the dark comedy crime film Caught Stealing (2025).
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