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Anton Yelchin

Anton Yelchin

8 films · 439 frames · top-billed in 4 · 20092017

Born 11 March 1989 · Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia) · died 19 June 2016

Anton Viktorovich Yelchin was an American film and television actor, known for portraying Pavel Chekov in the Star Trek reboot series, and for several other prominent roles.

Born to a Russian Jewish family in Leningrad, Yelchin relocated to the United States as an infant. He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles and the Hollywood films Along Came a Spider and Hearts in Atlantis (both 2001).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 439 frames · top-billed in 4 · 20092017

  • Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cast2009
  • Young Artist Awards2002
  • Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young Actor in a Feature Film2002

How their films are shot

Measured across 439 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Anton takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 8 films we hold, 59% of their frames are night, 59% low key — the look of the work Anton takes.

Time of day

Night59%
Day25%
Interior14%

Lighting

Low key59%
Natural26%
High key12%

Shot size

Medium47%
Closeup24%
Wide21%
Establishing5%

Camera angle

Eye level81%
Low angle7%
High angle7%

Mood

Neutral49%
Tense29%
Lonely10%
Ominous8%

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 439 frames from Anton Yelchin's 8 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.