FrameThrower · Actors · Matt Dillon
Matt Dillon
5 films · 293 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1983–2018
Born 18 February 1964 · New Rochelle, New York, USA
Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon is an American actor and film director. He began his acting career in the late 1970s and quickly rose to fame as a teenage idol in the 1980s. Dillon made his feature film debut in Over the Edge (1979) and gained recognition with roles in My Bodyguard (1980), Little Darlings (1980), and The Outsiders (1983).
As his career progressed, he took on more diverse roles, starring in critically acclaimed films such as Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Singles (1992), There's Something About Mary (1998), and Crash (2004), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Beyond acting, Dillon made his directorial debut with City of Ghosts (2002) and…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 293 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1983–2018
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
- Donostia Award2006
- MTV Movie Award for Best Villain1999
How their films are shot
Measured across 293 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Matt 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, 48% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Matt takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 293 frames from Matt Dillon'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.