FrameThrower · Actors · Angela Bassett
Angela Bassett
13 films · 963 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1991–2022
Born 16 August 1958 · New York City, New York, USA
Angela Evelyn Bassett is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the 1980s, she has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards. In 2023, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and she received an Academy Honorary Award.
Bassett had her breakthrough portraying singer Tina Turner in the biopic What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), which won her a Golden Globe Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 13 films · 963 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1991–2022
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture2023
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy1994
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture2019
- Academy Honorary Award2024
- Disney Legends2024
- Santa Barbara International Film Festival2023
- NAACP Image Award for Entertainer of the Year2023
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series2023
- Time 1002023
- BET Award for Best Actress2023
- Hollywood Creative Alliance2023
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series2022
How their films are shot
Measured across 963 frames from the 13 films we hold. This is the look of the work Angela takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 13 films we hold, 53% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Angela takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Between the World and Me
2020 · Self
Strange Days
1995 · Lornette 'Mace' Mason
Malcolm X
1992 · Betty Shabazz
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022 · Ramonda
Gunpowder Milkshake
2021 · Anna May
Soul
2020 · Dorothea (voice)
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2018 · Erika Sloane
Black Panther
2018 · Ramonda
Chi-raq
2015 · Miss Helen Worthy
White Bird in a Blizzard
2014 · Dr. Thaler
Green Lantern
2011 · Dr. Amanda Waller
Contact
1997 · Rachel Constantine
Boyz In The Hood
1991 · Reva Styles
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 963 frames from Angela Bassett's 13 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.