Darren Aronofsky Articles

Darren Aronofsky, Vincent Cassel, Black Swan Darren Aronofsky, whose The Wrestler won the Golden Lion in 2008, will head the International Competition Jury at the 2011 Venice Film Festival, Anne Thompson reports. The Wrestler, a boxing drama starring Mickey Rourke, went on to earn Rourke a Best Actor Oscar nomination. Aronofsky's psychological thriller Black Swan, which opened last year's festival, earned Natalie Portman a Best [...]

Natalie Portman in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan Did Natalie Portman do most of the fouettés in Black Swan? Or did Portman's dance double and American Ballet Theatre member Sarah Lane do most of the dance sequences? Lane told the Wall Street Journal that “I should specify the actual percentage of dancing that Natalie did. They are saying that it was 85-90% of the dancing but [...]

Natalie Portman, Black Swan Earlier this week, Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, starring Best Actress Oscar winner Natalie Portman, overtook Michael Apted's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as the top News Corp. 2010 film release at the North American box office. Black Swan was released by Fox Searchlight, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by 20th Century Fox, both part of [...]

Darren Aronofsky, Oscar nominee for Achievement in Directing, arrives at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Aronofsky was a first-time nominee in the Best Direction category for the psychological thriller Black Swan. Starring Natalie Portman, Black Swan also features Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Vincent Cassel, and Benjamin Millepied. Portman was the film's only Oscar winner on Sunday night. [...]