FrameThrower · Actors · James Woods
James Woods
9 films · 668 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1983–2005
Born 18 April 1947 · Vernal, Utah, USA
James Howard Woods is an American actor. He is known for starring in films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Salvador, Nixon, Ghosts of Mississippi, Casino, and Hercules, as well as in the television legal drama Shark. He has won two Emmy Awards, and earned two Academy Award nominations.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 668 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1983–2005
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie1989
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie1987
- Daytime Emmy Award2000
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame1998
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award1996
- Theatre World Award1972
- Clarence Derwent Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 668 frames from the 9 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 9 films we hold, 42% of their frames are night, 48% natural — the look of the work James 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.
John Q
2002 · Dr. Raymond Turner
The Virgin Suicides
1999 · Mr. Lisbon
Contact
1997 · Michael Kitz
Salvador
1986 · Richard Boyle
Once Upon A Time In America
1984 · Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz
Videodrome
1983 · Max Renn
Pretty Persuasion
2005 · Hank Joyce
Scary Movie 2
2001 · Father McFeely
Casino
1995 · Lester Diamond
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 668 frames from James Woods'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.