FrameThrower · Actors · Matthias Schoenaerts
Matthias Schoenaerts
9 films · 662 frames · top-billed in 6 · 2006–2022
Born 8 December 1977 · Antwerp, Belgium
Matthias Schoenaerts is a Belgian actor. He made his film debut at the age of 14 in Daens (1992), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He is best known for his roles as Filip in Loft (2008), Jacky Vanmarsenille in the Oscar-nominated Bullhead (2011), and Ali in the BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominee Rust and Bone (2012), for which he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 662 frames · top-billed in 6 · 2006–2022
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres2015
How their films are shot
Measured across 662 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Matthias takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 60% of their frames are day, 51% natural — the look of the work Matthias takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Suite Française
2015 · Lieutenant Bruno Von Falk
A Bigger Splash
2015 · Paul De Smedt
The Danish Girl
2015 · Hans
Far from the Madding Crowd
2015 · Gabriel Oak
Rust And Bone
2012 · Alain 'Ali' van Versch
Bullhead
2011 · Jacky Vanmarsenille
Amsterdam
2022 · Detective Lem Getweiler
A Hidden Life
2019 · Captain Herder
Black Book
2006 · Joop
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 662 frames from Matthias Schoenaerts's 9 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.