FrameThrower · Actors · Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey
15 films · 1,213 frames · top-billed in 12 · 1997–2020
Born 4 November 1969 · Uvalde, Texas, USA
Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor. He achieved his breakthrough with a supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993). After several supporting roles, his first success as a leading man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill (1996). His career progressed with lead roles in the science fiction film Contact (1997), the historical drama Amistad (1997), and the war film U-571 (2000).
In the 2000s, McConaughey became known for starring in romantic comedies, including The Wedding Planner (2001), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Failure to Launch (2006), Fool's Gold (2008), and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), establishing him as a sex symbol.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 15 films · 1,213 frames · top-billed in 12 · 1997–2020
- Academy Award for Best Actor2014
- Golden Globe Awards2014
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
- Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor2013
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Saturn Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,213 frames from the 15 films we hold. This is the look of the work Matthew takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 15 films we hold, 44% of their frames are night, 44% natural — the look of the work Matthew takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Gentlemen
2020 · Michael Pearson
The Beach Bum
2019 · Moondog
Free State of Jones
2016 · Newton Knight
Sing
2016 · Buster Moon (voice)
The Sea of Trees
2015 · Arthur Brennan
Interstellar
2014 · Cooper
Magic Mike
2012 · Dallas
Killer Joe
2011 · Killer Joe Cooper
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
2009 · Connor Mead
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
2003 · Benjamin Barry
The Wedding Planner
2001 · Steve Edison
Contact
1997 · Palmer Joss
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013 · Mark Hanna
Amistad
1997 · Roger Sherman Baldwin
Kubo and the Two Strings
· Beetle (voice)
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 1,213 frames from Matthew McConaughey's 15 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.