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Joel Edgerton

Joel Edgerton

12 films · 678 frames · top-billed in 7 · 20102022

Born 23 June 1974 · Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia

Joel Edgerton is an Australian actor, director, writer, and producer. He has appeared in the films Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), Warrior (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), The Great Gatsby (2013), Black Mass (2015), Loving (2016), It Comes at Night (2017), and Red Sparrow (2018) and The King (2019). In 2015, Edgerton received a nomination for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film for The Gift, a psychological horror-thriller film Edgerton wrote, directed, co-produced, and in which he co-starred.

How their films are shot

Measured across 678 frames from the 12 films we hold. This is the look of the work Joel takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 12 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Joel takes.

Time of day

Night48%
Day45%

Lighting

Low key45%
Natural33%
High key15%
Silhouette5%

Shot size

Medium44%
Closeup25%
Wide18%
Establishing9%

Camera angle

Eye level88%
High angle5%
Low angle4%

Mood

Neutral60%
Tense17%
Lonely11%
Ominous5%

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 678 frames from Joel Edgerton's 12 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.