FrameThrower · Actors · Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Adjani
9 films · 634 frames · top-billed in 9 · 1975–2022
Born 27 June 1955 · Paris, France
Isabelle Yasmine Adjani is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Award for Best Actress with five, for Possession (1981), One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988), Queen Margot (1994) and Skirt Day (2009). She was also given a double Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award in 1981. She also received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She performs in French, English, and German.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 634 frames · top-billed in 9 · 1975–2022
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress2010
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress1981
- Silver Bear for Best Actress1989
- César Award for Best Actress2010
- César Award for Best Actress1995
- César Award for Best Actress1989
- César Award for Best Actress1984
- César Award for Best Actress1982
- David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress1976
- Knight of the Legion of Honour2010
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres2014
- Prix de la laïcité2010
How their films are shot
Measured across 634 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Isabelle takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 55% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Isabelle 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.
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 634 frames from Isabelle Adjani's 9 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.