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Mary J. Blige

Mary J. Blige

3 films · 148 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20172021

Born 11 January 1971 · Yonkers, New York, USA

Mary Jane Blige is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and philanthropist. She started her career as a backing singer on Uptown Records in 1989. She has released 13 studio albums, eight of which have achieved multi-platinum worldwide sales. Blige has sold over 80 million records, has won nine Grammy Awards, four American Music Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards and has also received three Golden Globe Award nominations, including one for her supporting role in the film Mudbound (2017) and another for its second original song "Mighty River" for Mudbound; she also received a nomination for the Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song, becoming the first person

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 148 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20172021

  • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame2024
  • Time 1002022
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame2018

How their films are shot

Measured across 148 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mary 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, 43% of their frames are night, 42% natural — the look of the work Mary takes.

Time of day

Night43%
Day39%
Interior10%
Dusk4%

Lighting

Natural42%
Low key31%
High key22%
Silhouette4%

Shot size

Medium44%
Closeup24%
Wide19%
Fullbody7%

Camera angle

Eye level90%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral71%
Tense7%
Joyful6%
Lonely6%

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 148 frames from Mary J. Blige'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.