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Dianne Wiest

Dianne Wiest

5 films · 314 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19902020

Born 28 March 1948 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Dianne Evelyn Wiest is an American actress. She has won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress for 1986's Hannah and Her Sisters and 1994's Bullets Over Broadway (both directed by Woody Allen), one Golden Globe Award for Bullets Over Broadway, the 1997 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Road to Avonlea, and the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for In Treatment.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 314 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19902020

  • Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1995
  • Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1987
  • Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture1995
  • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
  • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series2008
  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series1997
  • Theatre World Award1980

How their films are shot

Measured across 314 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dianne takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 5 films we hold, 45% of their frames are day, 42% natural — the look of the work Dianne takes.

Time of day

Day45%
Night43%
Interior8%

Lighting

Natural42%
Low key35%
High key19%

Shot size

Medium50%
Wide20%
Closeup18%
Establishing8%

Camera angle

Eye level86%
High angle8%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral73%
Tense12%
Lonely8%
Ominous4%

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 314 frames from Dianne Wiest's 5 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.