FrameThrower · Actors · Kumail Nanjiani
Kumail Nanjiani
3 films · 218 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2017–2023
Born 2 May 1978 · Karachi, Pakistan
Kumail Ali Nanjiani is a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian and actor. He is known for his role as Dinesh in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley (2014–2019) and for co-writing and starring in the romantic comedy film The Big Sick (2017). For co-writing the latter with his wife, Emily V. Gordon, they were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 218 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2017–2023
- Film Independent Spirit Awards
- Time 1002018
How their films are shot
Measured across 218 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kumail takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 51% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Kumail 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 218 frames from Kumail Nanjiani's 3 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.