FrameThrower · Actors · David Oyelowo
David Oyelowo
6 films · 528 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2005–2023
Born 1 April 1976 · Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
David Oyetokunbo Oyelowo is a British actor, director and producer. His accolades include a Critics' Choice Award, two NAACP Image Awards, and nominations for three Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a BAFTA Award. In 2016, he was appointed as an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to drama.
Oyelowo rose to prominence for portraying Martin Luther King Jr. in the biographical drama Selma (2014) and Peter Snowden in the HBO film Nightingale (2014), which garnered him critical acclaim.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 528 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2005–2023
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- Ian Charleson Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 528 frames from the 6 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 6 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 50% 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 528 frames from David Oyelowo's 6 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.