Amid the concrete jungles of New York, a man struggling to endure the buzzing inside his throbbing skull. In the eerie atmosphere created by black-and-white frames, Darren Aronofsky paints a portrait of a genius trapped between the absolute order of mathematics and the fragile limits of the human mind. Pages upon pages of number sequences, complex codes flickering on screens, and that constant headache gnawing at his mind. This mysterious and tense journey conveys, in a resonating state of mental disintegration, how a mathematician striving to decipher the universe’s code slowly severs his connection to reality.

8 wins & 12 nominations total