Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry Documentary Premieres in IMAX

Stephen Curry has spent 15 years turning NBA arenas into galleries. Now his work is headed for the biggest screen in the building.

“Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry,” a feature documentary directed by Religion of Sports co-founder Gotham Chopra and distributed by Disney, will premiere exclusively in IMAX theaters on Oct. 9, 2026.

The film tracks Curry in the buildup to, and through, the night he became the first player in league history to hit 4,000 career 3-pointers.

This isn’t a standard highlight reel. It’s Curry pulling back the curtain on how he got there.

The four-time NBA champion and two-time MVP dives into his upbringing, his mindset, and the obsessive work ethic that pushed him from undersized prospect to the defining shooter of his generation. He talks about the intangibles that numbers don’t quite capture, the habits and instincts that turned a jumper into a signature art form.

He framed it that way himself when he announced the project on Instagram, calling the game “a craft I love deeply” and saying that being compared to an artist is something he accepts “with a lot of humility.” The film, he said, explores the creativity, discipline and mentality behind the shot-making that has reshaped modern basketball.

To document the moment properly, the production team treated March 13, 2025, at Chase Center like a once-in-a-lifetime performance. They rolled out 21 IMAX‑certified cameras, a state-of-the-art setup built to catch every angle of the night Curry crossed a line no one had ever approached.

He entered that home game against the Sacramento Kings needing just two threes to reach 4,000. He got them. The Warriors rolled, 130–104, but the result was almost secondary. When Curry’s milestone jumper dropped in front of a packed San Francisco crowd, history snapped into focus — not just as a number, but as a culmination.

The film leans into that idea of Curry as more than a volume shooter. Chopra and his team surround him with voices from outside basketball, artists who dominate their own arenas and understand what it means to chase mastery. Viola Davis, Rick Rubin, Patti Smith and Jon Batiste all appear, offering their perspectives on Curry’s creativity and control under pressure.

“This film is all about capturing Steph Curry, an athlete and artist who is always chasing a new masterpiece,” Chopra said in a news release, describing the court as Curry’s canvas and the project as a window into the relentless drive behind one of the game’s greats.

The IMAX format, he added, is designed to drop audiences courtside, close enough to feel every release.

For Curry, it’s also another step in a growing off-court portfolio.

“Portrait of an Artist” is the second film from Unanimous Media, the multimedia company he co-founded with Erick Peyton in 2018.

Their first major feature, Sony Pictures Animation’s “Goat,” exploded out of the gate in February 2026, quickly climbing to the top of the U.S. box office and earning strong reviews from critics and audiences.

Unanimous Media now returns with a project that aims to go deeper than a record graphic on a broadcast.

“With ‘Portrait of an Artist,’ we wanted to tell a story that goes beyond breaking a record on the court, while exploring the creativity, discipline and mindset behind the journey,” Curry and Peyton said in a joint statement.

They described the film as an attempt to bottle what it feels like to experience Curry’s performances in real time, especially for fans who may never see him live.

They’ve partnered with Religion of Sports, IMAX and Disney/ESPN to push that experience onto a global stage.

For years, defenders have watched Curry from 30 feet away, hands up, helpless as another shot splashes through. Soon, the rest of the world will get to lean back in an IMAX seat and see what he sees when the ball leaves his fingers — not just the basket, but the body of work behind it.