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Annie Girardot

Annie Girardot

3 films · 150 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19692005

Born 25 October 1931 · Paris, France · died 28 February 2011

Annie Girardot was a French actress.

She began performing in 1955, making her film debut in Treize à table. Girardot won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 1956, and in 1977 won the César Award for Best Actress portraying the title character in Docteur Françoise Gailland. At the Venice Film Festival she won the Volpi Cup (Best Actress), in 1965 for Trois chambres a Manhattan.

In 1992, she was the Head of the Jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.

In 2002, she was awarded the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Piano Teacher.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 150 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19692005

  • Volpi Cup for Best Actress
  • César Award for Best Supporting Actress2002
  • César Award for Best Supporting Actress1996
  • César Award for Best Actress1977
  • David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress1977
  • Knight of the Legion of Honour1999
  • Molière Award for Best Actress2002

How their films are shot

Measured across 150 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Annie takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 43% of their frames are day, 49% natural — the look of the work Annie takes.

Time of day

Day43%
Night42%
Interior15%

Lighting

Natural49%
Low key30%
High key18%

Shot size

Medium64%
Closeup14%
Wide13%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level92%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral77%
Tense14%
Lonely6%

Films in the library

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

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 150 frames from Annie Girardot's 3 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.