FrameThrower · Actors · Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger
4 films · 268 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2005–2009
Born 4 April 1979 · Perth, Western Australia, Australia · died 22 January 2008
Heath Andrew Ledger was an Australian actor and music video director. After playing roles in several Australian television and film productions during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career further. His work consisted of twenty films, including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), A Knight's Tale (2001), Monster's Ball (2001), Lords of Dogtown (2005), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Candy (2006), I'm Not There (2007), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), the latter two being posthumous releases.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 268 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2005–2009
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor2009
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture2009
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role2009
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
- Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor2009
- MTV Movie Award for Best Villain2009
How their films are shot
Measured across 268 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Heath takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 45% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Heath 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.
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 268 frames from Heath Ledger's 4 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.