FrameThrower · Actors · Ansel Elgort
Ansel Elgort
4 films · 415 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2013–2021
Born 14 March 1994 · Manhattan, New York, USA
Ansel Elgort is an American actor and singer. He began his acting career with a supporting role in the horror film Carrie (2013) and gained wider recognition for starring as a teenage cancer patient in the romantic drama film The Fault in Our Stars (2014) and for his supporting role in The Divergent Series (2014–2016). In 2017, he played the title character in Edgar Wright's action thriller Baby Driver, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. He is also known for his lead role in The Goldfinch (2019) and his performance in the lead role of Tony in Steven Spielberg's 2021 film version of West Side Story.
How their films are shot
Measured across 415 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ansel takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 57% of their frames are night, 54% low key — the look of the work Ansel takes.
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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 415 frames from Ansel Elgort's 4 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.