FrameThrower · Actors · Kathy Bates
Kathy Bates
8 films · 391 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1978–2024
Born 28 June 1948 · Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Kathleen Doyle Bates is an American actress and director. She has been the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, she studied theatre at the Southern Methodist University before moving to New York City to pursue an acting career. She landed minor stage roles before being cast in her first on screen role in Taking Off (1971). Her first Off-Broadway stage performance was in the 1976 production of Vanities.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 391 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1978–2024
- Academy Award for Best Actress1991
- Golden Globe Awards
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie2014
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series2012
- Mary Pickford Award
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 391 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kathy takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 50% of their frames are day, 52% natural — the look of the work Kathy 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.
Summer Camp
2024 · Ginny Moon
Revolutionary Road
2008 · Mrs. Helen Givings
Misery
1990 · Annie Wilkes
About Schmidt
· Roberta Hertzel
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
2018 · Barbara Haggermaker
Titanic
1997 · Molly Brown
Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
1982 · Stella Mae
Straight Time
1978 · Selma Darin
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 391 frames from Kathy Bates's 8 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.