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Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

14 films · 1,186 frames · top-billed in 10 · 20062025

Born 13 June 1990 · High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Aaron Perry Taylor-Johnson is a British actor. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two British Academy Film Awards and a British Independent Film Award.

As a child actor, Taylor-Johnson performed in films including Shanghai Knights (2003), The Illusionist (2006), and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008). He had his breakthrough performance as John Lennon in the biopic Nowhere Boy (2009), directed by Sam Taylor-Wood, whom he married in 2012, adding her surname.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 14 films · 1,186 frames · top-billed in 10 · 20062025

  • Golden Globe Awards2016

How their films are shot

Measured across 1,186 frames from the 14 films we hold. This is the look of the work Aaron takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 14 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Aaron takes.

Time of day

Night47%
Day41%
Interior5%
Golden hour5%

Lighting

Low key45%
Natural41%
High key10%
Silhouette4%

Shot size

Medium44%
Wide24%
Closeup19%
Establishing6%

Camera angle

Eye level82%
Low angle9%
High angle7%

Mood

Neutral48%
Tense25%
Ominous9%
Lonely9%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,186 frames from Aaron Taylor-Johnson's 14 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.