FrameThrower · Actors · Donald Glover
Donald Glover
6 films · 317 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2009–2019
Born 25 September 1983 · Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA
Donald McKinley Glover Jr., also known by his musical name Childish Gambino (/ɡæmˈbiːnoʊ/), is an American actor, comedian, musician, and filmmaker. While he studied at New York University and after working in Derrick Comedy, a comedy group, Glover was hired by Tina Fey to write for the NBC sitcom 30 Rock at age 23. He gained fame for portraying college student Troy Barnes on the NBC sitcom Community from 2009 to 2014. From 2016 to 2022, he starred in the FX series Atlanta, which he created and occasionally directed.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 317 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2009–2019
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy2017
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series2017
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series2017
- Grammy Award for Song of the Year2018
- Grammy Award for Best Music Video2018
- Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance2018
- Grammy Award for Best R&B Song2015
- Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance2015
- Writers Guild of America Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 317 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Donald 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, 48% of their frames are day, 42% natural — the look of the work Donald takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
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 317 frames from Donald Glover'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.