FrameThrower · Actors · Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman
18 films · 1,248 frames · top-billed in 15 · 1967–2024
Born 8 August 1937 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. Actor Robert De Niro described him as "an actor with the everyman's face who embodied the heartbreakingly human". At a young age Hoffman knew he wanted to study in the arts, and entered into the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music; later he decided to go into acting, for which he trained at the Pasadena Playhouse in Los Angeles. His first theatrical performance was 1961's A Cook for Mr. General as Ridzinski. During that time he appeared in several guest roles on television shows like Naked City and The Defenders.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 18 films · 1,248 frames · top-billed in 15 · 1967–2024
- Academy Award for Best Actor1989
- Academy Award for Best Actor1980
- Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award1997
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie1986
- Donostia Award2012
- AFI Life Achievement Award1999
- Theatre World Award1967
- Annie Award
- Kennedy Center Honors
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,248 frames from the 18 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dustin takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 18 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 45% natural — the look of the work Dustin takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2017 · Harold Meyerowitz
Kung Fu Panda 2
2011 · Master Shifu (voice)
Kung Fu Panda
2008 · Master Shifu (voice)
I Heart Huckabees
2004 · Bernard Jaffe
Hook
1991 · Captain Hook
Rain Man
1988 · Raymond Babbitt
Straight Time
1978 · Max Dembo
All the President's Men
1976 · Carl Bernstein
Marathon Man
1976 · Thomas 'Babe' Levy
Lenny
1974 · Lenny Bruce
Papillon
1973 · Louis Dega
Straw Dogs
1971 · David Sumner
Little Big Man
1970 · Jack Crabb
Midnight Cowboy
1969 · Ratso
The Graduate
1967 · Ben Braddock
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024 · Shifu (voice)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006 · Giuseppe Baldini
Dick Tracy
1990 · Mumbles
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 1,248 frames from Dustin Hoffman's 18 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.