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Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot

3 films · 183 frames · top-billed in 3 · 19561963

Born 28 September 1934 · Paris, France · died 28 December 2025

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot was a French actress, singer, model and animal rights activist.

In her early life, Bardot was an aspiring ballet dancer. She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim's controversial film And God Created Woman. She later starred in Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 cult film, Contempt. She was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for her role in Louis Malle's 1965 film, Viva Maria!.

She caught the attention of French intellectuals.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 183 frames · top-billed in 3 · 19561963

  • David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress1961
  • Knight of the Legion of Honour
  • Order of the Golden Ark
  • Prix des intellectuels indépendants2003
  • Paul Léautaud Prize1996
  • Bambi Award

How their films are shot

Measured across 183 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Brigitte 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, 68% of their frames are day, 52% natural — the look of the work Brigitte takes.

Time of day

Day68%
Night27%
Interior6%

Lighting

Natural52%
High key25%
Low key20%

Shot size

Medium51%
Wide27%
Closeup11%
Fullbody9%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
Low angle6%
High angle6%

Mood

Neutral86%
Tense7%
Lonely4%

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 183 frames from Brigitte Bardot'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.