FrameThrower · Actors · Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner
12 films · 1,172 frames · top-billed in 11 · 1987–2014
Born 18 January 1955 · Lynwood, California, USA
Kevin Michael Costner is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Costner starred in Fandango, American Flyers, Silverado and many other films. He rose to prominence with his starring roles in The Untouchables and No Way Out (1987). He then starred in Bull Durham (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), Dances with Wolves (1990), for which he won two Academy Awards, JFK (1991), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), A Perfect World (1993), and Wyatt Earp (1994). In 1995, Costner starred in and co-produced Waterworld.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 12 films · 1,172 frames · top-billed in 11 · 1987–2014
- Academy Award for Best Director1991
- Academy Award for Best Picture1991
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama2023
- Golden Globe Awards1991
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie2013
- Silver Bear1991
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie2012
- Bambi Award2024
- Honorary César2013
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor1992
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director1990
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,172 frames from the 12 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kevin 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, 44% of their frames are night, 47% natural — the look of the work Kevin takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2014 · William Harper
The New Daughter
2009 · John James
Mr. Brooks
2007 · Earl Brooks
Rumor Has It...
2005 · Beau Burroughs
Open Range
2003 · Charley Waite
Message in a Bottle
1999 · Garrett Blake
The Bodyguard
1992 · Frank Farmer
JFK
1991 · Jim Garrison
Dances With Wolves
1990 · Lieutenant Dunbar
The Untouchables
1987 · Eliot Ness
No Way Out
1987 · Lt. Cmdr. Tom Farrell
Man Of Steel
2013 · Jonathan Kent
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,172 frames from Kevin Costner'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.