1. Darren Aronofsky was born on February 12,1969 and is an American filmmaker.
56 Facts About Darren Aronofsky
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Darren Aronofsky's films are noted for their surreal, dramatic, and often disturbing elements, frequently in the form of psychological realism.
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Darren Aronofsky's accolades include a Golden Lion and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for the Academy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards and the British Academy Film Awards.
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Darren Aronofsky won several film awards after completing his senior thesis film, Supermarket Sweep, which became a National Student Academy Award finalist.
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Darren Aronofsky then directed the psychological drama Requiem for a Dream, the romantic fantasy sci-fi drama The Fountain, and the sports drama The Wrestler, the latter of which earned the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
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Darren Aronofsky's acclaimed drama The Whale won the Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Makeup and Hairstyling and a Best Supporting Actress nomination as well as four nominations for the 76th British Academy Film Awards.
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Darren Aronofsky was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York, United States, on February 12,1969, the son of teachers Charlotte and Abraham Darren Aronofsky, both of Polish-Jewish descent.
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Darren Aronofsky has one sister, Patti, who attended a professional ballet school through high school.
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Darren Aronofsky attended school in Kenya to pursue an interest in learning about ungulates.
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Darren Aronofsky later said that the School for Field Studies "changed the way [he] perceived the world".
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Darren Aronofsky became seriously interested in film while attending Harvard after befriending Dan Schrecker, an aspiring animator, and Sean Gullette, who would go on to star in Aronofsky's first film, Pi.
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Darren Aronofsky's senior thesis film, Supermarket Sweep, was a finalist in the 1991 Student Academy Awards.
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In 1992, Darren Aronofsky received his MFA degree in directing from the AFI Conservatory, where his classmates included Todd Field, Doug Ellin, Scott Silver, and Mark Waters.
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Darren Aronofsky won the institute's Franklin J Schaffner Alumni Medal.
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Darren Aronofsky followed his debut with Requiem for a Dream, a film based on Hubert Selby Jr.
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Darren Aronofsky was paid $50,000, and worked for three years with nearly the same production team as his previous film.
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Darren Aronofsky received acclaim for his stylish direction, and was nominated for another Independent Spirit Award, this time for Best Director.
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Darren Aronofsky was awarded the PRISM Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with the National Institute on Drug Abuse for the film's depiction of drug abuse.
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In May 2000, Darren Aronofsky was briefly attached to make an adaptation of David Wiesner's 1999 children's book Sector 7 for Nickelodeon Movies, the project remains unmade.
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Darren Aronofsky, who collaborated with Frank Miller on an unproduced script for Ronin, brought Miller in to co-write Year One with him, intending to reboot the series.
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In June 2001, actress Cate Blanchett entered talks to join the film, which Darren Aronofsky, wanting the title to remain secret, had given the working title of The Last Man.
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In 2007, Darren Aronofsky hired writer Scott Silver to develop The Fighter with him.
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Darren Aronofsky approached Bale to star in the film, but Darren Aronofsky dropped out because of its similarities to The Wrestler and to work on MGM's RoboCop remake.
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In July 2010, Darren Aronofsky had left the project due to uncertainty over the financially distressed studio's future.
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Later during 2007, Darren Aronofsky said he was planning to film a movie about Noah's Ark.
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Darren Aronofsky had the idea for The Wrestler for over a decade.
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Darren Aronofsky hired Robert Siegel to turn his idea into a script.
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The film starred actress Natalie Portman, whom Darren Aronofsky had known since 2000.
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Darren Aronofsky introduced Aronofsky to Mila Kunis, who joined the cast in 2009.
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Darren Aronofsky served as an executive producer on The Fighter, which was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars and won two for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress for Christian Bale and Melissa Leo.
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Darren Aronofsky was attached to The Wolverine, which was scheduled to begin production in March 2011, but he left the project due to scheduling issues.
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In December 2011, Darren Aronofsky directed the music video for Lou Reed and Metallica's "The View" from their album Lulu.
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Darren Aronofsky was set to direct an HBO series pilot called Hobgoblin.
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Darren Aronofsky was set to work on the project with Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon and his wife Ayelet Waldman.
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In June 2013, it was announced that HBO had dropped the show and Darren Aronofsky had pulled out, as well.
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In 2011, Darren Aronofsky tried to launch production on Noah, a retelling of the Bible story of Noah's Ark, projected for a $115 million budget.
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Darren Aronofsky announced the start of filming on Noah on Twitter in the same month, tweeting shots of the filming in Iceland.
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Darren Aronofsky did not use live animals for the film, saying in a PETA video that "there's really no reason to do it anymore because the technology has arrived".
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In 2018, Darren Aronofsky executive produced the 10-part documentary series One Strange Rock for National Geographic.
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Darren Aronofsky executive produced another National Geographic docuseries showcasing the planet's wonders, Welcome to Earth.
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In 2020, Darren Aronofsky produced director Lance Oppenheim's debut feature documentary, Some Kind of Heaven.
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In 2022, Darren Aronofsky produced director Alex Pritz's documentary The Territory, about the Indigenous Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau people's struggle against advancing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, caused by farmers and unauthorized settlers.
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Darren Aronofsky created and executive produced Limitless for National Geographic, released in November 2022.
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Darren Aronofsky filmed both works with a muted palette and a grainy style.
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But, Darren Aronofsky placed his movie in a wider context, saying:.
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In 1999, Darren Aronofsky thought that The Matrix redefined the science fiction genre in film.
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Darren Aronofsky sought to make a science fiction film that explored new territory, as did The Matrix and its predecessors Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Darren Aronofsky wanted to go beyond science fiction films with plots driven by technology and science.
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Darren Aronofsky called Black Swan a companion piece to The Wrestler, recalling one of his early projects about a love affair between a wrestler and a ballerina.
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Darren Aronofsky eventually separated the wrestling and the ballet worlds, considering them as "too much for one movie".
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Darren Aronofsky has mentioned that he "learned a lot" from Jean-Luc Godard's film Breathless.
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Darren Aronofsky appealed the rating, claiming that cutting any portion of the film would dilute its message.
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Darren Aronofsky coproduced the 2022 documentary The Territory about a Brazilian rainforest tribe's fight to protect its existence from encroaching land grabbers.
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Darren Aronofsky is a board member of the Sierra Club Foundation and The School for Field Studies.
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Darren Aronofsky began dating English actress Rachel Weisz in 2001, and they were engaged in 2005.
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Since 2018, Darren Aronofsky has been in a relationship with Russian actress of Jewish descent, Aglaya Tarasova, daughter of actress Kseniya Rappoport.