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Kevin Spacey
7 films · 539 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1997–2017
Born 26 July 1959 · South Orange, New Jersey, USA
Kevin Spacey Fowler KBE is an American actor, producer, and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, obtaining supporting roles in film and television. Spacey's first roles in film were in Mike Nichols' Heartburn (1986), and Working Girl (1988). He gained critical acclaim in the 1990s, with an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the neo-noir crime thriller The Usual Suspects (1995) and an Academy Award for Best Actor for the midlife-crisis-themed drama American Beauty (1999). His other starring roles have included Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), the comedy-drama film Swimming with Sharks (1994), the psychological thriller Seven (1995), the neo-noir crime film L.A.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 539 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1997–2017
- Academy Award for Best Actor2000
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1996
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama2014
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
- British Academy Television Award for Best International Programme
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play1991
- Tony Awards
- Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- MTV Movie Award for Best Villain1996
How their films are shot
Measured across 539 frames from the 7 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 7 films we hold, 57% of their frames are night, 54% low key — 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 539 frames from Kevin Spacey's 7 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.