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Darren Aronofsky Biography Date of Birth: February 12, 1969 Active Years: 1998-2010 Filmography: The Fighter (2010), The Wrestler (2008), The Fountain (2006), This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2005), Black Swan (2010), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Pi (1998) See entire filmography Darren Aronofsky secured a reputation as a brash, intelligent filmmaker at the age of 29, with Pi, his 1998 feature directorial and screenwriting debut. A dizzying black and white odyssey, it tells the story of a brilliant mathematician (Sean Gullette) driven by his conviction that higher mathematics can be used to unlock the secrets of the natural world. Claiming such disparate influences as Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, the visual and editing style of Japan's Shinya Tsukamoto (Tokyo Fist, Tetsuo), Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Rod Serling, Philip K. Dick, the chaos theory, and the Jewish Kabbalah, Pi garnered Aronofsky the 1998 Sundance Festival's Directing Award for Dramatic Competition. A self-d...