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Kim Basinger

Kim Basinger

5 films · 513 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19832018

Born 8 December 1953 · Athens, Georgia, USA

Kimila Ann Basinger is an American actress and former fashion model. She has garnered acclaim for her work in film and television, for which she has received various accolades including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Following a brief but successful career modeling in New York, Basinger moved to Los Angeles where she began acting on television in 1976. She appeared in several made-for-TV films, including a remake of From Here to Eternity (1979), before making her feature debut in the drama Hard Country (1981).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 513 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19832018

  • Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1998
  • Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture1997
  • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role1997
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
  • Jupiter Awards

How their films are shot

Measured across 513 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kim takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 5 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Kim takes.

Time of day

Night52%
Day41%
Interior6%

Lighting

Low key49%
Natural35%
High key13%

Shot size

Medium53%
Closeup23%
Wide16%
Establishing4%

Camera angle

Eye level83%
Low angle8%
High angle7%

Mood

Neutral55%
Tense20%
Ominous8%
Lonely5%

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 513 frames from Kim Basinger's 5 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.