FrameThrower · Actors · David Byrne
David Byrne
2 films · 123 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1984–1986
Born 14 May 1952 · Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
David Byrne is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads.
Byrne has released solo recordings and worked with various media, including film, photography, opera, fiction, and non-fiction. He has received an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, a Special Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award, and he is an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Talking Heads.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 123 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1984–1986
- Academy Award for Best Original Score1988
- David di Donatello for Best Score
- Webby Lifetime Achievement Award2008
- Bessie Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 123 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work David takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 71% of their frames are night, 63% low key — the look of the work David 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 123 frames from David Byrne's 2 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.