FrameThrower · Actors · Bo Burnham
Bo Burnham
3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2017–2021
Born 21 August 1990 · Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA
Robert Pickering "Bo" Burnham is an American comedian, musician, actor, film director, screenwriter, and poet. He began his career on YouTube in March 2006, with his videos gaining more than 300 million views as of March 2021.
Burnham signed a four-year record deal with Comedy Central Records and released his debut EP, Bo fo Sho, in 2008. His first full-length album, Bo Burnham, was released the following year. At the age of 18, he became the youngest person to record a half-hour comedy special with Comedy Central. In 2010, his second album, Words Words Words, was released along with his first live comedy special of the same name on Comedy Central.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2017–2021
- Emmy Award2021
- Film Independent Spirit Awards2018
- Writers Guild of America Award2019
- Directors Guild of America Award2018
How their films are shot
Measured across 195 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Bo takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 55% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Bo takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
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 195 frames from Bo Burnham's 3 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.