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.
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Biography from TMDB.
- February 12, 1969 (57)
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Producer, director and writer, also actor
- 35 on MovieCove · 63 credits in all
What are Darren Aronofsky's films like?
Across their 33 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Self.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 27
Light 3 · Serious 3 · Dark 21
Grounded 11 · Stylized 11 · Heightened 5
A split, not a type: Gentle 4 · Charged 9 · Intense 14
Steady 10 · Shifting 11 · Whiplash 6
Straight-faced 25 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0
Slow burn 12 · Even-paced 12 · Relentless 3
Casual 6 · Engaged 12 · Full focus 9
Easy watch 5 · Affecting 3 · Heavy 19
A split, not a type: Resolved 12 · Open-ended 9 · Ambiguous 6
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet17
- Tragic2
- Ambiguous11
- Cyclical2
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Darren Aronofsky's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 27 of their 35 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (8).
- Requiem for a Dream (2000) · actor, director, writer · free
- Some Kind of Heaven (2020) · producer · free
- Pi (1998) · director, writer · free
- White Boy Rick (2018) · producer · free
- Catch the Fair One (2021) · producer · free
- Serendipity (2019) · producer · free
- Soldier Boyz (1995) · second assistant director · free
- Phat Beach (1996) · second unit director · free
- Cinemax, show their title on Cinemax
- CNN All Access, show their title on CNN All Access
- Cohen Media Channel, show their title on Cohen Media Channel
- Dox, show their title on Dox
- Film Movement Plus, show their title on Film Movement Plus
- Kino Film Collection, show their title on Kino Film Collection
- Magnolia Selects, show their title on Magnolia Selects
- ScreenPix, show their title on ScreenPix
- Sundance Now, show their title on Sundance Now
Subscription and free streaming for Darren Aronofsky's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
63 credits, 35 with a MovieCove page; 16 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Pendulum (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2027)
Goodnight Lamby (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Underland(2025)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all shows
Lowland Kids(2025)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
Holding Liat (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Caught Stealing(2025)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
Limitless: Live Better Now (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
Viktor(2024)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
Sabbath Queen (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Little Death(2024)
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films
Kindred(2022)
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all shows
The Whale(2022)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
Limitless(2022)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all shows
The Good Nurse(2022)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
The Territory(2022)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
Pacified (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Black Gold (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Catch the Fair One(2021)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
Welcome to Earth(2021)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all shows
The Vandal (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
The Paradise Next Door (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Some Kind of Heaven(2020)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
Esther's Choice (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Last and First Men(2020)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
Serendipity(2019)
Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all films
A Different Beyond (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
White Boy Rick(2018)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
Konbini Vidéo Club (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
One Strange Rock (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
One Strange Rock(2018)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all shows
Spheres (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Mother!(2017)
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
Aftermath(2017)
Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films
Jackie(2016)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
Zipper(2015)
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films
Noah(2014)
Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
Black Swan: Metamorphosis (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
The Fighter(2010)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Black Swan(2010)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
The Wrestler(2008)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
The Fountain(2006)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
Below(2002)
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films
Requiem for a Dream(2000)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
Pi(1998)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
The House of Yes(1997)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
Phat Beach(1996)
Midcredits score: 12th percentile of all films
Soldier Boyz(1995)
Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films
No Time (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)
Protozoa (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
Fortune Cookie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)
Supermarket Sweep (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)
Breakthrough (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Emperor (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Nothing, Except Everything (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Solidarity (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
The Tiger (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Undeniable (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Untitled Darren Aronofsky Erotic Thriller (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Untitled Elon Musk Biopic (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
XOXO (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 62 titles, 52 of them dated from 1991 to 2026.
Biggest box office
Noah (2014)
Highest rated
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Most popular right now
Black Swan (2010)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
a Primetime Emmy and 9 other major awards from 27 major nominations, 1998–2023.
- Primetime Emmy, won · Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking
+1 other major body · 2 nominations
- Producers Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures
- Producers Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
- Venice award, won · 10th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue
- Venice award, won · Best Film in a Foreign Language
- Venice award, won ×2
- Venice award, nominated · Best Film
- Venice award, nominated
- Venice award, nominated · Best Film
- Independent Spirit Award, nominated · Best Feature
- Oscar, nominated · Best Achievement in Directing
- Golden Globe, nominated · Best Director - Motion Picture
- BAFTA Award, nominated · Best Director
+3 other major bodies · 1 win and 2 nominations
- Directors Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
- Critics Choice Award, nominated · Best Director
- Independent Spirit Award, won · Best Director
- Venice award, nominated ×2
- Independent Spirit Award, won · Best Feature
- Venice award, won
- Venice award, nominated
Show 3 earlier yearsShow fewer
- Independent Spirit Award, nominated · Best Director
- Independent Spirit Award, won · Best First Screenplay
- Independent Spirit Award, nominated · Best First Feature
- Sundance award, won · Dramatic
- Sundance award, nominated · Dramatic
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Darren Aronofsky's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 70th percentile, the median of all 29; across their 27 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 75th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up17
- 50th to 74th10
- 25th to 49th6
- Below 25th2
Shape of the crowd
13 of their 35 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved7
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser13
- Broadly Agreed3
- Mixed11
Reviewers score the atmosphere 74/100 and the pacing 46/100 in their films, across 24 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Darren Aronofsky's work okay for kids?
Across up to 16 MovieCove titles with content scores, violence & gore, profanity and frightening / intense run heavier than most films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Darren Aronofsky work with?
People who share at least 2 of Darren Aronofsky's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Ari Handel shares the most, 23.
Directors
- Tom Barbor-MightShared titles: Pole to Pole with Will Smith (2026), Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember (2025), Limitless (2022)See all 3 shared titles with Tom Barbor-Might
- Alice JonesShared titles: Welcome to Earth (2021), One Strange Rock (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Alice Jones
- Nat SharmanShared titles: Welcome to Earth (2021), One Strange Rock (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Nat Sharman
Writers
- Ari HandelShared titles: Pole to Pole with Will Smith (2026), Caught Stealing (2025), Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember (2025), Lowland Kids (2025), Underland (2025), Little Death (2024), Viktor (2024), Kindred (2022), Limitless (2022), The Good Nurse (2022), The Territory (2022), The Whale (2022) and 11 moreSee newest 12 of 23 shared titles with Ari Handel
Actors
- Mark MargolisShared titles: Noah (2014), The Wrestler (2008), Inside 'the Fountain': Death and Rebirth (2007), The Fountain (2006), Pi (1998)See all 5 shared titles with Mark Margolis
- Jennifer ConnellyShared titles: Sergio Leone - L'italiano che inventò l'America (2022), Noah (2014), Requiem for a Dream (2000)See all 3 shared titles with Jennifer Connelly
- Ajay NaiduShared titles: The Good Nurse (2022), Pi (1998)See all 2 shared titles with Ajay Naidu
- Natalie PortmanShared titles: Jackie (2016), Black Swan (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Natalie Portman
Composers, cinematographers and editors
- Matthew LibatiqueShared titles: Caught Stealing (2025), The Whale (2022), Mother! (2017), Noah (2014), Black Swan (2010), Inside 'the Fountain': Death and Rebirth (2007), The Fountain (2006), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Pi (1998)See all 9 shared titles with Matthew Libatique
- Andrew WeisblumShared titles: Caught Stealing (2025), The Whale (2022), Mother! (2017), Noah (2014), Black Swan (2010), The Wrestler (2008)See all 6 shared titles with Andrew Weisblum
- Clint MansellShared titles: Noah (2014), Black Swan (2010), The Wrestler (2008), The Fountain (2006), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Pi (1998)See all 6 shared titles with Clint Mansell
- Felix BlackShared titles: Pole to Pole with Will Smith (2026), Welcome to Earth (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Felix Black
Producers
- Scott FranklinShared titles: The Good Nurse (2022), The Whale (2022), One Strange Rock (2018), White Boy Rick (2018), Aftermath (2017), Mother! (2017), Zipper (2015), Noah (2014), Black Swan (2010), The Wrestler (2008), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Pi (1998)See all 12 shared titles with Scott Franklin
- Brendan NaylorShared titles: Lowland Kids (2025), Little Death (2024), Viktor (2024), The Territory (2022), The Whale (2022), Some Kind of Heaven (2020)See all 6 shared titles with Brendan Naylor
- Dylan GoldenShared titles: Caught Stealing (2025), Little Death (2024), Viktor (2024), The Territory (2022), The Whale (2022), Mother! (2017)See all 6 shared titles with Dylan Golden
- Eric WatsonShared titles: Limitless (2022), Aftermath (2017), The Fountain (2006), Below (2002), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Pi (1998)See all 6 shared titles with Eric Watson
Mixed roles
- Lance OppenheimShared titles: The Whale (2022), Some Kind of Heaven (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Lance Oppenheim
