FrameThrower · Actors · Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
10 films · 625 frames · top-billed in 7 · 2002–2022
Born 17 February 1981 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received various accolades, including nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his leading performances in 500 Days of Summer (2009) and 50/50 (2011). He is the founder of the online media platform HitRecord whose projects such as HitRecord on TV (2014–15) and Create Together (2020) won him two Primetime Emmy Awards in the category of Outstanding Interactive Program.
Born in Los Angeles to a Jewish family, he began his acting career as a child, appearing in the films A River Runs Through It (1992), Holy Matrimony (1994), and Angels in the Outfield (1994), which earned…
How their films are shot
Measured across 625 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Joseph 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, 46% of their frames are night, 42% low key — the look of the work Joseph takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Pinocchio
2022 · Jiminy Cricket (voice)
Looper
2012 · Joe
Electra Luxx
2010 · Bert Rodriguez
Inception
2010 · Arthur
500 Days of Summer
2009 · Tom
Mysterious Skin
2004 · Neil McCormick
Treasure Planet
2002 · Jim Hawkins (voice)
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014 · Johnny
The Dark Knight Rises
2012 · Blake
Lincoln
2012 · Robert Lincoln
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 625 frames from Joseph Gordon-Levitt'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.