FrameThrower · Actors · Billy Crudup
Billy Crudup
8 films · 472 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2000–2019
Born 8 July 1968 · Manhasset, New York, USA
William Gaither Crudup is an American actor. He is a four-time Tony Award nominee, winning once for his performance in Tom Stoppard's play The Coast of Utopia in 2007. He has been nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead (along with several other awards nominations) for his performance in Jesus' Son. He received two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations as part of an ensemble cast for Almost Famous and Spotlight, winning for the latter - as well as winning the Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award for the same.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 472 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2000–2019
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series2020
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play2007
- Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Drama Supporting Actor2024
- Theatre World Award1995
- Clarence Derwent Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 472 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Billy 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, 47% of their frames are night, 41% natural — the look of the work Billy takes.
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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 472 frames from Billy Crudup'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.