FrameThrower · Actors · Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland
15 films · 1,390 frames · top-billed in 11 · 1970–2019
Born 17 July 1935 · Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada · died 20 June 2024
Donald McNichol Sutherland was a Canadian actor whose film career spanned over 6 decades. He was nominated for eight Golden Globe Awards, winning two for his performances in the television films Citizen X (1995) and Path to War (2002); the former also earned him a Primetime Emmy Award. An inductee of the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Canadian Walk of Fame, he also received a Canadian Academy Award for the drama film Threshold (1981). Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited him as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. In 2017, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his contributions to cinema.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 15 films · 1,390 frames · top-billed in 11 · 1970–2019
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film1996
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie1995
- Companion of the Order of Canada2019
- Officer of the Order of Canada1978
- Academy Honorary Award2017
- Teen Choice Award for Best Villain2014
- Governor General's Performing Arts Award2000
- Canada's Walk of Fame2000
- Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
- Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,390 frames from the 15 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 15 films we hold, 45% of their frames are night, 43% low key — the look of the work Donald 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.
Dawn Rider
2012 · Pop
Ask The Dust
2006 · Hellfrick
Path to War
2003 · Clark Clifford
The Art of War
2000 · Douglas Thomas
Citizen X
1995 · Col. Mikhail Fetisov
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992 · Merrick Jamison-Smythe
Fellini’s Casanova
1976 · Giacomo Casanova
The Day of the Locust
1975 · Homer Simpson
Don’t Look Now
1973 · John Baxter
Klute
1971 · John Klute
MASH
1970 · Hawkeye Pierce
Ad Astra
2019 · Thomas Pruitt
The Hunger Games
2012 · President Coriolanus Snow
Pride & Prejudice
2005 · Mr. Bennet
Cold Mountain
2003 · Reverend Monroe
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 1,390 frames from Donald Sutherland's 15 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.