FrameThrower · Actors · Edward Burns
Edward Burns
2 films · 222 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1998–2005
Born 29 January 1968 · Woodside, Queens County, New York, USA
Edward Fitzgerald Burns is an American actor, writer, and filmmaker. He first came to attention for The Brothers McMullen (1995), his ultra low-budget independent film that went on to be a worldwide hit. Other film appearances include Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Holiday (2006), Man on a Ledge (2012), Friends with Kids (2012), and Alex Cross (2012). Burns directed movies such as She's the One (1996), Sidewalks of New York (2001), and The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012). On television, he starred as Bugsy Siegel in the TNT crime drama series Mob City and as Terry Muldoon in TNT's Public Morals.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 222 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1998–2005
- Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature1996
- Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award1995
How their films are shot
Measured across 222 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Edward takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 46% natural — the look of the work Edward 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 222 frames from Edward Burns's 2 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.