FrameThrower · Actors · François Truffaut
François Truffaut
3 films · 189 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1970–1977
Born 6 February 1932 · Paris, France · died 21 October 1984
François Roland Truffaut was an influential film critic and filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry. He was also a screenwriter, producer, and actor working on over twenty-five films. Along with Jean-Luc Godard, Truffaut was one of the most influential figures of the French New Wave, inspiring directors such as Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderson.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 189 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1970–1977
- BAFTA Award for Best Film1974
- BAFTA Award for Best Direction1974
- Cannes Best Director Award1959
- César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation1981
- David di Donatello Luchino Visconti1981
- César Award for Best Director1981
- César Award for Best Film1981
- National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film1975
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director1973
- New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film1973
- New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director1973
- National Board of Review Award for Best Director1970
How their films are shot
Measured across 189 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work François 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, 54% of their frames are day, 48% natural — the look of the work François takes.
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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 189 frames from François Truffaut'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.