FrameThrower · Actors · Matheus Nachtergaele
Matheus Nachtergaele
2 films · 104 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2002–2017
Born 3 January 1968 · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Matheus Nachtergaele OMC is a Brazilian actor, director and author. Nachtergaele has won several awards, including five APCA Awards, three Grande Otelo Awards, two Guarani Awards and three Quality Brasil Awards. He showed his talent in many roles, both in cinema and television. Best known for City of God, Central Station and A Dog's Will.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 104 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2002–2017
- Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)2014
- Cinema Brazil Grand Prize for Best Actor
How their films are shot
Measured across 104 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Matheus takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 59% of their frames are day, 49% natural — the look of the work Matheus takes.
Time of day
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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 104 frames from Matheus Nachtergaele's 2 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.