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Jared Leto

Jared Leto

10 films · 541 frames · top-billed in 5 · 19992021

Born 26 December 1971 · Bossier City, Louisiana, USA

Jared Joseph Leto is an American actor and musician. After starting his career with television appearances in the early 1990s, he achieved recognition for his role as Jordan Catalano on the television series My So-Called Life (1994). He made his film debut in How to Make an American Quilt (1995) and received critical praise for his performance in Prefontaine (1997).

After supporting roles in The Thin Red Line (1998), Fight Club (1999), Girl, Interrupted (1999) and American Psycho (2000), and the lead role in Urban Legend (1998), he earned critical acclaim for portraying heroin addict Harry Goldfarb in Requiem for a Dream (2000).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 541 frames · top-billed in 5 · 19992021

  • Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor2014
  • Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
  • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
  • Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male
  • MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Transformation2014
  • Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
  • AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Supporting Actor
  • Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
  • Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
  • Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
  • Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor

How their films are shot

Measured across 541 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jared takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 10 films we hold, 56% of their frames are night, 55% low key — the look of the work Jared takes.

Time of day

Night56%
Day37%
Interior6%

Lighting

Low key55%
Natural26%
High key12%
Silhouette6%

Shot size

Medium37%
Wide29%
Closeup27%
Establishing4%

Camera angle

Eye level78%
High angle9%
Low angle8%
Top down4%

Mood

Neutral46%
Tense29%
Lonely10%
Ominous6%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 541 frames from Jared Leto's 10 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.