List of awards and nominations received by Darren Aronofsky

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Darren Aronofsky awards and nominations
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Totals [a]
Wins37
Nominations43
Note
  1. ↑ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

Darren Aronofsky is an American filmmaker known for directing several psychological thrillers and dramatic works. He has received several awards including a Primetime Emmy Award, three Independent Spirit Awards and the Golden Lion from the Venice International Film Festival as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award and a Golden Globe Award.

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Aronofsky directed his feature film debut, the conceptual psychological thriller Pi (1998) for which he won the Directing Prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Director. He earned acclaim for his psychological drama Requiem for a Dream (2000) earning a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director.

For the sports drama The Wrestler (2008) he earned the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film. For the psychological horror film Black Swan (2010) he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, BAFTA Award for Best Director, Directors Guild of America Award for Best Director, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director and Golden Globe Award for Best Director. The film competed for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.

Aronosfky received positive reviews but controversy with the Biblical epic film Noah (2014). He then directed films which received polarized responses at the Venice International Film Festival, the psychological horror film Mother! (2017) and the psychological drama The Whale (2022) both of which competed for the Golden Lion at the 2017 ceremony and the 2022 ceremony respectively. For his work on television, he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and the Peabody Award for the documentary film The Territory (2022).

Major associations

Academy Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2010 Best Director Black Swan Nominated [1]

BAFTA Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
British Academy Film Awards
2010 Best Direction Black Swan Nominated [2]

Critics' Choice Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
Critics' Choice Movie Award
2010 Best Director Black Swan Nominated [3]

Emmy Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
Primetime Emmy Awards
2023 Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking The Territory Won [4]

Golden Globe Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2010 Best Director Black Swan Nominated [5]

Independent Spirit Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1998 Best First Screenplay Pi Won
Best First Feature Nominated
2000 Best Director Requiem for a Dream Nominated
2008 Best Film The Wrestler Won
2010 Best Director Black Swan Won
2016 Best Film Jackie Nominated

Venice Film Festival

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2006 Golden Lion The Fountain Nominated
2008 The Wrestler Won
2010 Black Swan Nominated [6]
2017 Mother! Nominated
2022 The Whale Nominated

Miscellaneous awards

YearAwardCategoryTitleResultRef.
1998 Gotham Awards Open Palm Award Pi Won [7]
National Board of Review Special Recognition for Excellence in FilmmakingWon [8]
Sundance Film Festival Best Director Won
Grand Jury PrizeNominated
2000 National Board of Review Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking Requiem for a Dream Won [9]
Valladolid International Film Festival Best Picture – Golden Spike AwardWon [10]
2001 Webby Award Movie & Film Webby Award WinnerWon [11]
American Film Institute Franklin J. Schaffner Award RecipientWon [12]
2006 Stockholm International Film Festival Visionary Award The Fountain Won [13]
Chicago International Film Festival Emerging Visionary Award RecipientWon [14]
2008 Golden Tomato Best Drama The Wrestler Won [15]
2009 London Critics Circle Film Awards Best Film Won [16]
Best Director Won
National Board of Review Best Film Nominated [17]
Fantasporto Audience AwardWon [18]
2010 Gotham Awards Best Feature Black Swan Nominated [19]
Chicago Film Critics Association Best Director Nominated [20]
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director Won [21]
Satellite Award Best Director Nominated [22]
Toronto Film Critics Association Best Director Nominated [23]
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Best Director Nominated [24]
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Best Director Nominated [25]
Camerimage Cinematographer – Director Duo AwardWon [26]
2011 Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directing – Feature Film Nominated [27]
Provincetown International Film Festival Filmmaker on the Edge Award RecipientWon [28]
Scream Awards Best Director Won [29]
2012 Japanese Academy Awards Outstanding Foreign Language FilmNominated
2014 Woodstock Film Festival Honorary Maverick Award RecipientWon [30]
2015 Odesa International Film Festival Golden Duke for Lifetime AchievementWon [31]
Motion Picture Sound Editors Filmmaker's Award RecipientWon [32]
2017 Deauville Film Festival Achievement Tribute AwardWon
PETA Oscats PETA Pick Award Mother! Won
2018 Golden Raspberry Awards Worst Director Nominated
Yerevan International Film Festival Parajanov Thaler Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution Into World CinemaWon
Mumbai Film Festival Excellence in Cinema AwardWon [33]
2022 Peabody Award Entertainment The Territory Won [34]

References

  1. ↑ "The 83rd Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Retrieved August 25, 2025.
  2. ↑ "2011 Film Awards Winners and Nominees". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original on January 10, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2011.
  3. ↑ "The 16th Critics' Choice Movie Awards Nominees". Broadcast Film Critics Association. December 19, 2010. Archived from the original on August 30, 2012. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
  4. ↑ "The Territory". Television Academy. Retrieved February 7, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Darren Aronofsky (Person)". Golden Globe Awards . Retrieved August 25, 2025.
  6. ↑ Child, Ben (August 1, 2010). "Venice film festival opens with Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on March 27, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Gotham Awards (1998)". Archived from the original on November 10, 2016. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
  8. ↑ "1998 Award Winners". Archived from the original on September 27, 2015. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  9. ↑ "2000 Award Winners". Archived from the original on September 27, 2015. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  10. ↑ "45th Valladolid International Film Festival – Seminci 2000". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  11. ↑ "2001 Webby Award Winner". Archived from the original on April 6, 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Franklin J. Schaffner Award". Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Stockholm Film Festival Past Winners". Archived from the original on January 15, 2017. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  14. ↑ "Chicago International Film Festival 2006". Archived from the original on November 27, 2016. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
  15. ↑ "10th Annual Golden Tomato Awards". Archived from the original on March 8, 2021. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  16. ↑ Singh, Anita (February 23, 2009). "Oscar winners: Slumdog Millionaire and Kate Winslet lead British film sweep". The Daily Telegraph . Archived from the original on February 26, 2009. Retrieved May 23, 2007.
  17. ↑ Hayes, Dade (December 13, 2008). "NBR names 'Slumdog' best of year – Variety". Variety . Archived from the original on December 12, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  18. ↑ "Fantasporto 2009". Archived from the original on June 17, 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  19. ↑ "Awards Tour: 2011 Gotham Independent Film Awards Nominations". Rotten Tomatoes. November 30, 2010. Archived from the original on December 31, 2010. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
  20. ↑ "Chicago Film Critics Awards 2008–2010". Chicago Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on May 10, 2011. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
  21. ↑ Soares, Andre (December 13, 2010). "The Social Network, Colin Firth, Michelle Williams: San Francisco Film Critics Winners". Alt Film Guide. Alternative Film Guide. Archived from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
  22. ↑ Knegt, Peter (December 20, 2010). ""Social Network," "Scott Pilgrim" Lead Wacky Satellite Awards". indieWIRE. Archived from the original on February 22, 2012. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
  23. ↑ "TFCA Names 'The Social Network' Best Picture of 2010 Winners". Toronto Film Critics Association. December 14, 2010. Archived from the original on February 16, 2011. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  24. ↑ Knegt, Peter (January 11, 2011). "'Social Network,' 'Incendies' Leads Vancouver Critics' Awards". indieWIRE. Archived from the original on October 15, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2011.
  25. ↑ "2010 WAFCA Winners". Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association. December 6, 2010. Archived from the original on October 10, 2011. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
  26. ↑ "Plus Camerimage 2010". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  27. ↑ Kilday, Gregg (January 10, 2011). "Darren Aronofsky, Christopher Nolan Among Directors Guild Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on December 13, 2019. Retrieved February 4, 2014.
  28. ↑ "Provincetown International Film Festival Filmmaker on the Edge Award". Archived from the original on September 10, 2015. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
  29. ↑ Castillo, Michelle (October 17, 2011). "Scream Awards celebrates 2011's fan favorites". CBS News . CBS. Archived from the original on October 19, 2011. Retrieved November 3, 2011.
  30. ↑ "2014 Maverick Awards". Woodstock Film Festival. Archived from the original on October 6, 2018. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
  31. ↑ "AWARD WINNERS 2015". Archived from the original on November 22, 2015.
  32. ↑ "2015 Filmmaker Award". Archived from the original on September 10, 2015.
  33. ↑ Bhushan, Nyay (November 1, 2018). "Mumbai: Thailand's 'Manta Ray,' India's 'Bulbul Can Sing' Win Festival's Top Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on September 23, 2020. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
  34. ↑ Voyles, Blake (September 7, 2023). "83rd Peabody Award Winners" . Retrieved September 7, 2023.
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