FrameThrower · Actors · Ellar Coltrane
Ellar Coltrane
3 films · 155 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2014–2018
Born 27 August 1994 · Austin, Texas, USA
Ellar Coltrane is an American actor. They are best known for their role as Mason Evans Jr. in Richard Linklater's film Boyhood, for which they won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer, as well as their roles in Lone Star State of Mind (2002), Fast Food Nation (2006) and Barry (2016).
How their films are shot
Measured across 155 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ellar takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 55% of their frames are day, 50% natural — the look of the work Ellar 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 155 frames from Ellar Coltrane's 3 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.