Darren Aronofsky to Receive Director’s Award at Poland’s Camerimage Film Festival
Darren Aronofsky will receive the Award for Director at the 34th Toru?Camerimage International Film Festival in Poland.
The festival, which celebrates the art of cinematography, will take place Nov. 7-14 in Toru?, Poland. Organizers announced the honor Thursday, recognizing the Oscar-winning director’s distinctive approach to filmmaking and his longstanding collaborations with cinematographers, particularly Matthew Libatique, who has shot much of the director’s work.
“Honouring Aronofsky at Toru?Camerimage is a tribute to a director whose work demonstrates the immense power of cinema when form becomes an integral part of the story being told,” festival organizers said in a statement.
Aronofsky made his feature directorial debut with the psychological thriller “Pi” in 1998, which earned him the directing award at Sundance. He followed it with 2000’s “Requiem for a Dream,” starring Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans and Ellen Burstyn, who received an Oscar nomination for her performance.
His 2008 drama “The Wrestler,
