FrameThrower · Actors · Catherine Keener
Catherine Keener
11 films · 941 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1998–2024
Born 26 March 1959 · Miami, Florida, USA
Catherine Ann Keener is an American actress. Considered one of the independent film industry's most reliable performers, Keener is known for portraying disgruntled and melancholic yet sympathetic women in independent films, as well as supporting roles in studio films. She has been twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Being John Malkovich (1999) and for her portrayal of author Harper Lee in Capote (2005).
Keener also appeared in the films The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Into the Wild (2007), Synecdoche, New York (2008), and Get Out (2017), which were all well received by critics.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 11 films · 941 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1998–2024
- Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress2006
- Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress2005
- Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress2005
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress2005
- Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress2005
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress2005
How their films are shot
Measured across 941 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Catherine takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 11 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 53% natural — the look of the work Catherine takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Get Out
2017 · Missy Armitage
Where The Wild Things Are
2009 · Mom
Capote
2005 · Harper Lee
Joker: Folie à Deux
2024 · Maryanne Stewart
Incredibles 2
2018 · Evelyn Deavor (voice)
The Croods
2013 · Ugga (voice)
Synecdoche, New York
2008 · Adele Lack
Genova
2008 · Barbara
Into the Wild
2007 · Jan Burres
Being John Malkovich
1999 · Maxine Lund
Out Of Sight
1998 · Adele Delisi
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 941 frames from Catherine Keener's 11 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.