FrameThrower · Actors · Josh Hartnett
Josh Hartnett
11 films · 827 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1999–2025
Born 21 July 1978 · Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Joshua Daniel "Josh" Hartnett is an American actor and producer.
He first came to audiences' attention in 1997 as "Michael Fitzgerald" in the crime television series Cracker. He made his feature film debut in 1998, co-starring with Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later. That same year, he received an MTV Movie Award nomination for Best Breakthrough Male Performance. Hartnett gained fame for his role as Cpt Danny Walker in Pearl Harbor, and has starred since then for a variety of well-known directors such as Ridley Scott, Brian De Palma, Robert Rodriguez, Tran Anh Hung and Michael Bay.
How their films are shot
Measured across 827 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Josh takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 11 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Josh takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Fight or Flight
2025 · Lucas Reyes
Trap
2024 · Cooper
30 Days of Night
2007 · Eben Oleson
The Black Dahlia
2006 · Bucky Bleichert
Black Hawk Down
2001 · SSG Matthew Eversmann
Pearl Harbor
2001 · Danny Walker
The Virgin Suicides
1999 · Trip Fontaine
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
2023 · Danny
Die Hart
2023 · Josh
Oppenheimer
2023 · Ernest Lawrence
Girl Walks Into a Bar
2011 · Sam Salazar
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 827 frames from Josh Hartnett's 11 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.