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Hugh Grant

Hugh Grant

10 films · 850 frames · top-billed in 4 · 19882023

Born 9 September 1960 · London, England, UK

Hugh John Mungo Grant is an English actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His movies have also earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in Richard Curtis's sleeper hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). He used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s to deliver comic performances in mainstream films like Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) and Notting Hill (1999). By the turn of the century, he had established himself as a leading man skilled with a satirical comic talent.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 850 frames · top-billed in 4 · 19882023

  • Golden Globe Awards1995
  • BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role1995
  • Volpi Cup for Best Actor1987
  • Empire Awards

How their films are shot

Measured across 850 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Hugh takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 10 films we hold, 53% of their frames are day, 49% natural — the look of the work Hugh takes.

Time of day

Day53%
Night38%
Interior7%

Lighting

Natural49%
Low key30%
High key20%

Shot size

Medium53%
Wide19%
Closeup16%
Fullbody7%

Camera angle

Eye level86%
High angle7%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral71%
Tense14%
Ominous5%

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 850 frames from Hugh Grant's 10 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.