Born in Brooklyn in 1969, Darren Aronofsky studied at Harvard and the American Film Institute. His first feature, Pi (1998), shot in black and white for $60,000, won the director's prize at Sundance. His films are intense psychological studies of obsession, addiction and self-destruction: Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Wrestler (2008), which won the Golden Lion, and Black Swan (2010), which won Natalie Portman the Oscar. He has also made the biblical epic Noah (2014), mother! (2017) and The Whale (2022).
Filmography
- Pi (1998)
- Requiem for a Dream (2000)
- The Wrestler (2008)
- Black Swan (2010)
- The Whale (2022)