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Jacki Weaver

Jacki Weaver

11 films · 722 frames · top-billed in 3 · 19752024

Born 25 May 1947 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Jacqueline Ruth Weaver AO is an Australian theatre, film, and television actress. Her accolades include five AACTA Awards(including the Longford Lyell Award), a National Board of Review Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.

Weaver emerged in the 1970s during the Australian New Wave through her work in Ozploitation films such as Stork (1971), Alvin Purple (1973), and Petersen (1974). She later starred in Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Caddie (1976), Squizzy Taylor (1982), and several television films and miniseries.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 11 films · 722 frames · top-billed in 3 · 19752024

  • Officer of the Order of Australia2014

How their films are shot

Measured across 722 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jacki takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 11 films we hold, 46% of their frames are night, 42% natural — the look of the work Jacki takes.

Time of day

Night46%
Day45%
Interior6%

Lighting

Natural42%
Low key41%
High key14%

Shot size

Medium50%
Closeup22%
Wide18%
Establishing5%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
Low angle7%
High angle4%

Mood

Neutral67%
Tense17%
Lonely8%

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 722 frames from Jacki Weaver's 11 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.