FrameThrower · Actors · James Spader
James Spader
8 films · 612 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1987–2015
Born 7 February 1960 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
James Todd Spader is an American actor. He is known for often portraying eccentric and morally ambiguous characters. He began his career in critically acclaimed independent films before transitioning into television, where he has received acclaim and many awards, including three Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations for three Golden Globe Awards, and ten Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Spader began acting in youth-oriented films such as Tuff Turf, The New Kids (both 1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), and Mannequin (1987). His breakthrough role came with the Steven Soderbergh drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), for which he received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 612 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1987–2015
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series2007
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series2005
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series2004
How their films are shot
Measured across 612 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work James takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 43% low key — the look of the work James 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 612 frames from James Spader's 8 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.