FrameThrower · Actors · Mahershala Ali
Mahershala Ali
10 films · 931 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2008–2025
Born 16 February 1974 · Oakland, California, USA
Mahershala Ali is an American actor. He has received multiple accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019, and in 2020, The New York Times ranked him among the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century.
After pursuing an MFA degree from New York University, Ali began his career as a regular on television series Crossing Jordan (2001–02) and Threat Matrix (2003–04), before his breakthrough role as Richard Tyler in the science fiction series The 4400 (2004–07).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 931 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2008–2025
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor2019
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor2017
- Golden Globe Awards
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role2019
How their films are shot
Measured across 931 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mahershala takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 10 films we hold, 45% of their frames are day, 44% natural — the look of the work Mahershala takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Jurassic World Rebirth
2025 · Duncan Kincaid
Leave The World Behind
2023 · G.H. Scott
Green Book
2018 · Dr. Don Shirley
Free State of Jones
2016 · Moses Washington
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018 · Uncle Aaron (voice)
Moonlight
2016 · Juan
The Place Beyond The Pines
2012 · Kofi Kancam
Predators
2010 · Mombasa
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
2008 · Tizzy Weathers
Alita: Battle Angel
· Vector
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 931 frames from Mahershala Ali's 10 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.