FrameThrower · Actors · Ethan Hawke
Ethan Hawke
27 films · 1,686 frames · top-billed in 23 · 1985–2023
Born 6 November 1970 · Austin, Texas, USA
Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, writer and director. He made his feature film debut in 1985 with the science fiction movie Explorers, before making a supporting appearance in the 1989 drama Dead Poets Society which is considered his breakthrough role. He then appeared in such films as White Fang (1991), A Midnight Clear (1992), and Alive (1993) before taking a role in the 1994 Generation X drama Reality Bites, for which he gained critical acclaim.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 27 films · 1,686 frames · top-billed in 23 · 1985–2023
- Film Independent Spirit Awards
- Donostia Award2016
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,686 frames from the 27 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ethan takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 27 films we hold, 45% of their frames are day, 44% natural — the look of the work Ethan 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.
Leave The World Behind
2023 · Clay Sandford
The Black Phone
2021 · The Grabber
Tesla
2020 · Nikola Tesla
Stockholm
2019 · Lars Nystrom
First Reformed
2017 · Pastor Ernst Toller
Maggie's Plan
2016 · John Harding
The Magnificent Seven (2016)
2016 · Goodnight Robicheaux
In A Valley of Violence
2016 · Paul
Born To Be Blue
2015 · Chet Baker
Boyhood
2014 · Dad
Predestination
2014 · The Bartender
The Purge
2013 · James Sandin
Before Midnight
2013 · Jesse
Sinister
2012 · Ellison Oswalt
Before Sunset
2004 · Jesse
Training Day
2001 · Jake
Waking Life
2001 · Jesse
Hamlet
2000 · Hamlet
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999 · Ishmael Chambers
Great Expectations
1998 · Finnegan Bell
Gattaca
1997 · Vincent Freeman
Before Sunrise
1995 · Jesse
Explorers
1985 · Ben Crandall
The Northman
2022 · King Aurvandil War-Raven
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017 · Jolly the Pimp
Cymbeline
2014 · Iachimo
Lord of War
2005 · Jack Valentine
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 1,686 frames from Ethan Hawke's 27 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.