Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Darren Aronofsky was born and raised in Brooklyn. Aronofsky heads Protozoa Pictures based in Chinatown NYC.
His upcoming film “The Whale” for A24 stars Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, and Samantha Morton.
Aronofsky wrote and directed 2017’s “mother!” starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem. Before that, Aronofsky made the 2014 box office hit “Noah” starring Russell Crowe, Anthony Hopkins, and Jennifer Connelly.
In 2010, Aronofsky received a Best Director Academy Award® nomination for his indie box office phenomenon “Black Swan”starring Natalie Portman, who won a Best Actress Academy Award for her performance. 2008’s “The Wrestler” starring Mickey Rourke won the Golden Lion for the best film at the Venice Film Festival. Previous to that were the acclaimed and award-winning films “The Fountain” (2006), “Requiem for a Dream” (2000), and “π” (1998).
As a producer under his Protozoa label, Aronofsky has been responsible for “Jackie” which garnered three Academy Awards, the documentary “Some Kind of Heaven” which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, artist Prune Nourry’s docu-memoir “Serendipity” which made its world premiere at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival, “Pacified” which won the Golden Shell top prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival, “Catch the Fair One”which premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival where it won the Audience Award, and the documentary feature “The Territory” which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and won both the Audience Award and Special Jury Award for Craft in the World Cinema Documentary category. Up next, he serves as producer on the Netflix thriller, “The Good Nurse” starring Noah Emmerich, Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne.
Aronofsky has executive produced the six-part docu-series “Welcome to Earth,” the Emmy-nominated series “One Strange Rock,” and the upcoming “Limitless” starring Chris Hemsworth for National Geographic.