FrameThrower · Actors · Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal
17 films · 1,262 frames · top-billed in 16 · 2002–2024
Born 19 December 1980 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Jake Gyllenhaal is an American actor and producer. Born into the Gyllenhaal family, he is the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner; his older sister is actress Maggie Gyllenhaal.
He began acting as a child, making his acting debut in City Slickers (1991), followed by roles in his father's films A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1998). His breakthrough roles were as Homer Hickam in October Sky (1999) and as a psychologically troubled teenager in Donnie Darko (2001). In 2004, Gyllenhaal starred in the science fiction disaster film The Day After Tomorrow.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 17 films · 1,262 frames · top-billed in 16 · 2002–2024
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role2005
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,262 frames from the 17 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jake takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 17 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 44% low key — the look of the work Jake 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.
Road House
2024 · Dalton
Ambulance
2022 · Danny Sharp
Spider-Man: Far From Home
2019 · Quentin Beck / Mysterio
Velvet Buzzsaw
2019 · Morf Vandewalt
Wildlife
2018 · Jerry Brinson
The Sisters Brothers
2018 · John Morris
Stronger
2017 · Jeff Bauman
Nocturnal Animals
2016 · Tony Hastings / Edward Sheffield
Nightcrawler
2014 · Louis Bloom
Prisoners
2013 · Detective Loki
Source Code
2011 · Colter Stevens
Zodiac
2007 · Robert Graysmith
Brokeback Mountain
2005 · Jack Twist
The Good Girl
2002 · Holden Worther
Donnie Darko
· Donnie Darko
Jarhead
· Anthony Swofford
Okja
2017 · Johnny Wilcox
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 1,262 frames from Jake Gyllenhaal's 17 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.