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Emile Hirsch

Emile Hirsch

11 films · 1,081 frames · top-billed in 9 · 20072025

Born 13 March 1985 · Topanga Canyon, California, USA

Emile Davenport Hirsch is an American actor. He played Chris McCandless in Into the Wild (2007). Other notable film roles include The Girl Next Door (2004), Lords of Dogtown (2005), Alpha Dog (2006), Speed Racer (2008), Milk (2008), Lone Survivor (2013), An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).

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How their films are shot

Measured across 1,081 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Emile takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 11 films we hold, 51% of their frames are day, 48% natural — the look of the work Emile takes.

Time of day

Day51%
Night37%
Interior5%
Golden hour5%

Lighting

Natural48%
Low key40%
High key9%

Shot size

Medium43%
Wide24%
Closeup22%
Establishing6%

Camera angle

Eye level84%
High angle8%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral58%
Tense19%
Lonely13%
Ominous5%

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 1,081 frames from Emile Hirsch's 11 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.