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Brady Corbet

Brady Corbet

8 films · 454 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20042014

Born 17 August 1988 · Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

Brady James Monson Corbet is an American filmmaker and actor. He had roles in films such as Thirteen (2003), Mysterious Skin (2004), Funny Games (2007), Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), Melancholia (2011), and Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), as well as the series 24 (2006) and Olive Kitteridge (2014).

Since he quit acting in 2014 to pursue his filmmaking career with his partner, Mona Fastvold, Corbet made his directorial debut with the psychological drama The Childhood of a Leader (2015). He has since co-written and directed the musical drama Vox Lux (2018) and the period epic The Brutalist (2024).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 454 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20042014

  • Golden Globe Award for Best Director2025
  • BAFTA Award for Best Direction2025
  • Satellite Award for Best Director2025
  • Silver Lion2024

How their films are shot

Measured across 454 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Brady 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, 46% of their frames are night, 45% natural — the look of the work Brady takes.

Time of day

Night46%
Day44%
Interior6%

Lighting

Natural45%
Low key40%
High key11%

Shot size

Medium49%
Wide20%
Closeup19%
Establishing8%

Camera angle

Eye level90%
High angle4%

Mood

Neutral74%
Lonely13%
Tense10%

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 454 frames from Brady Corbet'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.