FrameThrower · Actors · Benicio del Toro
Benicio del Toro
18 films · 1,513 frames · top-billed in 11 · 1989–2025
Born 19 February 1967 · San Germán, Puerto Rico
Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez is a Puerto Rican actor. His accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, a Goya Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and a Silver Bear. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $5.9 billion worldwide.
Del Toro made his film debut in Big Top Pee-wee (1988) before his breakout role playing an unintelligible crook in the crime thriller The Usual Suspects (1995), followed by roles in Basquiat (1996), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), and Snatch (2000).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 18 films · 1,513 frames · top-billed in 11 · 1989–2025
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor2001
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture2001
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role2001
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor2008
- Silver Bear for Best Actor2001
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male1997
- Donostia Award2014
- International Cinephile Society Award for Best Supporting Actor2004
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,513 frames from the 18 films we hold. This is the look of the work Benicio takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 18 films we hold, 51% of their frames are day, 42% natural — the look of the work Benicio takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Phoenician Scheme
2025 · Zsa-zsa Korda
No Sudden Move
2021 · Ronald Russo
The French Dispatch
2021 · Moses Rosenthaler
Sicario
2015 · Alejandro Gillick
Che Part 2 (Guerrilla)
2008 · Ernesto Che Guevara
Che Part 1 (The Argentine)
2008 · Ernesto Che Guevara
The Hunted
2003 · Aaron Hallam
21 Grams
2003 · Jack Jordan
Traffic
2000 · Javier Rodriguez
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
1998 · Dr. Gonzo
The Usual Suspects
· Fenster
One Battle After Another
2025 · Sensei Sergio St. Carlos
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
2019 · Swiper (voice)
Inherent Vice
2014 · Sauncho Smilax, Esq.
Savages
2012 · Lado
Sin City
2005 · Jackie Boy
The Pledge
2001 · Toby Jay Wadenah
Licence to Kill
1989 · Dario
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 1,513 frames from Benicio del Toro's 18 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.