FrameThrower · Actors · Cuba Gooding Jr.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
4 films · 138 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1991–2007
Born 2 January 1968 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. is an American actor. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Emmy nomination.
He was born in Bronx, New York to Shirley, a singer with the Sweethearts, and Cuba Gooding, Sr., a lead vocalist of soul group The Main Ingredient. He has two brothers, musician Tommy Gooding and fellow actor Omar Gooding, and sister, April Gooding. His family moved to Los Angeles after Gooding Sr.'s music group had a hit single with "Everybody Plays the Fool" in 1972 but abandoned his family two years later. Gooding Jr.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 138 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1991–2007
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1997
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
- Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
- American Comedy Awards
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
How their films are shot
Measured across 138 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Cuba takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 52% of their frames are day, 49% natural — the look of the work Cuba takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
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