FrameThrower · Actors · Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas
11 films · 1,094 frames · top-billed in 10 · 1987–2023
Born 25 September 1944 · New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Michael Kirk Douglas is a retired American actor and film producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
The elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas earned his Bachelor of Arts in drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series The Streets of San Francisco, for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 11 films · 1,094 frames · top-billed in 10 · 1987–2023
- Academy Award for Best Actor1988
- Academy Award for Best Picture1976
- Golden Globe Awards
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture2001
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie2013
- New Jersey Hall of Fame2012
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres2011
- AFI Life Achievement Award2009
- Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy2001
- Donostia Award1997
- Theatre World Award1971
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,094 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Michael takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 11 films we hold, 51% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Michael takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023 · Dr. Hank Pym
Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018 · Dr. Hank Pym
Ant-Man
2015 · Dr. Hank Pym
Behind the Candelabra
2013 · Liberace
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
2009 · Mark Hunter
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
2009 · Uncle Wayne
Don't Say a Word
2001 · Dr. Nathan Conrad
Traffic
2000 · Robert Wakefield
Basic Instinct
1992 · Detective Nick Curran
Fatal Attraction
1987 · Dan Gallagher
Haywire
2011 · Alex Coblenz
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 1,094 frames from Michael Douglas's 11 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.