FrameThrower · Actors · Annette Bening
Annette Bening
12 films · 978 frames · top-billed in 8 · 1996–2022
Born 29 May 1958 · Topeka, Kansas, USA
Annette Carol Bening is an American actress. With a career spanning over four decades, she is known for her versatile work across screen and stage. Bening has received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for five Academy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, making her one of the few artists nominated for the Triple Crown of Acting without winning.
A graduate of San Francisco State University and the American Conservatory Theater, Bening started her career on stage with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival company in 1980, and played Lady Macbeth in 1984 at the American Conservatory…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 12 films · 978 frames · top-billed in 8 · 1996–2022
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
- Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award2024
- Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year2024
- Crystal Award2011
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame2006
- Donostia Award2004
- Theatre World Award1987
How their films are shot
Measured across 978 frames from the 12 films we hold. This is the look of the work Annette takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 12 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day, 46% natural — the look of the work Annette takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Death on the Nile
2022 · Euphemia Bouc
Jerry & Marge Go Large
2022 · Marge Selbee
The Report
2019 · Dianne Feinstein
20th Century Women
2016 · Dorothea
The Kids Are All Right
2010 · Nic
In Dreams
1999 · Claire Cooper
American Beauty
1999 · Carolyn Burnham
Mars Attacks!
1996 · Barbara Land
Captain Marvel
2019 · Supreme Intelligence / Dr. Wendy Lawson
Ginger & Rosa
2012 · Bella
Ruby Sparks
2012 · Gertrude
Open Range
2003 · Sue Barlow
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 978 frames from Annette Bening's 12 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.