FrameThrower · Actors · Emmanuelle Riva
Emmanuelle Riva
5 films · 318 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1959–2012
Born 24 February 1927 · Cheniménil, Vosges, France · died 27 January 2017
Emmanuelle Riva was a French actress, best known for her roles in the films Hiroshima mon amour and Amour.
In 2013, Riva won the BAFTA Award and the César Award for her lead role in Michael Haneke's Amour as Anne Laurent, and was nominated for the Academy Award for the same role.[2][3] She had previously been nominated for a BAFTA Award in 1960 for Hiroshima mon amour, and had won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1962 for Thérèse Desqueyroux.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 318 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1959–2012
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role2013
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress1962
- César Award for Best Actress2013
- London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year2013
- Lumière Award for Best Actress2013
- National Society of Film Critics2013
- European Film Award for Best Actress2012
- New York Film Critics Online2012
- Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress2012
- Film Fest Gent2012
- Prix Marguerite Duras2012
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress2012
How their films are shot
Measured across 318 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Emmanuelle takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 50% low key — the look of the work Emmanuelle 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 318 frames from Emmanuelle Riva's 5 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.