FrameThrower · Actors · Gong Li
Gong Li
7 films · 289 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1993–2020
Born 31 December 1965 · Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
Gong Li is a Chinese-born Singaporean film actress. Gong first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States.
She has twice been awarded the Golden Rooster and the Hundred Flowers Awards as well as the Berlinale Camera, Cannes Festival Trophy, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle Award, and Volpi Cup.
She married Singaporean businessman Ooi Hoe Soeng in 1996, and became a Singaporean citizen in 2008.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 289 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1993–2020
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress1992
- Berlinale Camera1993
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres2010
How their films are shot
Measured across 289 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gong takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Gong 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 289 frames from Gong Li's 7 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.