Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry Documentary
Stephen Curry has spent 15 years turning NBA courts into galleries. Now, that idea becomes literal.
“Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry,” a feature documentary centered on his record-extending 4,000th career 3-pointer, will hit IMAX screens on Oct. 9, 2026, with Disney distributing and Gotham Chopra directing under the Religion of Sports banner.
This isn’t a simple highlight reel stitched around a box-score milestone. The film tracks Curry in the hours and days around that March 13, 2025 game at Chase Center, when he became the first player in league history to hit 4,000 made threes, needing just two that night against the Sacramento Kings and getting them as the Warriors rolled to a 130–104 win.
The cameras were everywhere. Twenty-one IMAX-certified rigs followed him through the buildup and the moment itself, capturing the shot that pushed him into a statistical neighborhood he already owned and then expanded again.
On screen, Curry peels back the layers that rarely make it into postgame scrums: his childhood, the wiring behind his competitive edge, the routines and repetitions that turned a lightly recruited guard into a four-time NBA champion and two-time MVP. He talks about the less tangible pieces too — the feel, the imagination, the instincts that have redefined what’s possible from 30 feet out.
He framed it that way himself when he announced the project on Instagram, calling it “a new documentary that captures the journey to my 4,000th career three-pointer” and emphasizing the “creativity, discipline, and mindset” that sit underneath the numbers. Basketball, he said, is a craft he loves “deeply,” and being compared to an artist is something he accepts “with a lot of humility,” even as creativity has always been at the center of how he plays.
Chopra leans into that idea. The court as canvas. The jumper as brushstroke. The film sets Curry’s work against commentary from artists who have dominated entirely different arenas: Viola Davis, Rick Rubin, Patti Smith and Jon Batiste all appear, offering their own read on his brand of artistry and the way genius in one field echoes another.
“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 a project built to show “the relentless creativity and discipline” driving one of the game’s all-time greats. The IMAX format, he added, is designed to pull audiences as close as possible to the experience.
For Curry, it’s also another step in a fast-growing second act away from the hardwood. “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 No. 1 at the box office and drawing strong reviews from critics and audiences.
Unanimous Media now returns with a story that, on paper, starts with a number — 4,000 — but aims well beyond it. Curry and Peyton, in a joint statement, said they wanted a film that doesn’t just replay a record-breaking shot but digs into the “creativity, discipline and mindset behind the journey,” and tries to bottle what it feels like to watch Curry perform in real time, especially for fans who may never see him live.
They’ve lined up heavyweight partners to do it: Religion of Sports on the storytelling side, IMAX for the visual immersion, Disney and ESPN to push the film onto a global stage.
The shot against Sacramento was just one more three in a career built on them. The film asks a different question: how did a jumper become a signature, a style, and finally a work of art large enough to command its own giant screen?
