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Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck

17 films · 1,388 frames · top-billed in 14 · 19972024

Born 15 August 1972 · Berkeley, California, USA

Benjamin Géza Affleck is an American actor and filmmaker. His accolades include two Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. He began his career as a child when he starred in the PBS educational series The Voyage of the Mimi (1984, 1988). He later appeared in the independent coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993) and various Kevin Smith films, including Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997) and Dogma (1999). Affleck gained wider recognition when he and childhood friend Matt Damon won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for writing Good Will Hunting (1997), which they also starred in.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 17 films · 1,388 frames · top-billed in 14 · 19972024

  • Academy Award for Best Picture2013
  • Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay1998
  • Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay1998
  • BAFTA Award for Best Direction2013
  • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture1998
  • Volpi Cup for Best Actor2006
  • César Award
  • Saturn Awards
  • Directors Guild of America Award
  • Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor

How their films are shot

Measured across 1,388 frames from the 17 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ben takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 17 films we hold, 44% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Ben takes.

Time of day

Night44%
Day42%
Interior9%

Lighting

Low key45%
Natural39%
High key10%
Silhouette4%

Shot size

Medium48%
Closeup22%
Wide20%
Fullbody7%

Camera angle

Eye level82%
Low angle9%
High angle7%

Mood

Neutral49%
Tense25%
Ominous9%
Lonely6%

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 1,388 frames from Ben Affleck's 17 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.