FrameThrower · Actors · Jason Bateman
Jason Bateman
4 films · 307 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2007–2015
Born 14 January 1969 · Rye, New York, USA
Jason Kent Bateman is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Michael Bluth in the Fox / Netflix sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2019) and Marty Byrde in the Netflix crime drama series Ozark (2017–2022), as well as for his work in numerous comedy films. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Bateman began his career as a child actor, appearing on television in the early 1980s on shows such as the NBC drama series Little House on the Prairie from 1981 to 1982 and The Hogan Family from 1986 to 1991. Bateman's early film roles include Teen Wolf Too (1987) and Necessary Roughness (1991) before taking supporting roles in The Break-Up (2006), Juno…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 307 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2007–2015
- Golden Globe Awards2005
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series2019
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series2019
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 307 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jason takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day, 48% natural — the look of the work Jason takes.
Time of day
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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 307 frames from Jason Bateman's 4 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.