FrameThrower · Actors · Jon Voight
Jon Voight
14 films · 1,274 frames · top-billed in 8 · 1969–2025
Born 29 December 1938 · Yonkers, New York, USA
Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight is an American actor. He has received an Academy Award (out of four nominations) and three Golden Globe Awards (out of nine).
Voight came to prominence in the late 1960s with his performance as a would-be gigolo in Midnight Cowboy (1969). During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance (1972), a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home (1978), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, and a penniless ex-boxing champion in The Champ (1979).
Although his output slowed during the 1980s, Voight received critical acclaim for his performance as a ruthless bank robber in Runaway Train…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 14 films · 1,274 frames · top-billed in 8 · 1969–2025
- Academy Award for Best Actor1979
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama1985
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film1979
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama1978
- Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor1969
- BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles1970
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor1978
- Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor2001
- National Board of Review Award for Best Actor1978
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor1978
- New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor1978
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,274 frames from the 14 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jon takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 14 films we hold, 46% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Jon takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Man with No Past
2025 · Sanborn
Reagan
2024 · Viktor Petrovich
Ali
2001 · Howard Cosell
Anaconda
1997 · Paul Serone
Mission: Impossible
1996 · Jim Phelps
Coming Home
1978 · Luke Martin
Deliverance
1972 · Ed Gentry
Midnight Cowboy
1969 · Joe Buck
Megalopolis
2024 · Hamilton Crassus III
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016 · Henry Shaw Sr.
The Manchurian Candidate
2004 · Senator Thomas Jordan (D-CT)
Pearl Harbor
2001 · Franklin D. Roosevelt
U-Turn
1997 · Blind Man
Heat
1995 · Nate
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 1,274 frames from Jon Voight's 14 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.