FrameThrower · Actors · Michael Shannon
Michael Shannon
19 films · 1,402 frames · top-billed in 11 · 2003–2023
Born 7 August 1974 · Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Michael Corbett Shannon is an American actor, producer, musician, and theatre director. He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in the Sam Mendes period drama Revolutionary Road (2008) and the Tom Ford psychological thriller Nocturnal Animals (2016). He earned Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for his role in 99 Homes (2014), and a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play for the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (2016).
Shannon made his film debut in 1993 with Groundhog Day and received widespread attention for his performance in 8 Mile (2002).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 19 films · 1,402 frames · top-billed in 11 · 2003–2023
- Jeff Awards2013
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,402 frames from the 19 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 19 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Michael takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
2018 · Captain Beatty
12 Strong
2018 · Hal Spencer
The Shape of Water
2017 · Richard Strickland
Midnight Special
2016 · Roy Tomlin
Nocturnal Animals
2016 · Bobby Andes
Loving
2016 · Grey Villet
Take Shelter
2011 · Curtis LaForche
The Runaways
2010 · Kim Fowley
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
2009 · Brad McCullum
Shotgun Stories
2007 · Son Hayes
Bug
· Peter Evans
The Bikeriders
2023 · Zipco
The Flash
2023 · General Zod
Bullet Train
2022 · White Death
Amsterdam
2022 · Henry Norcross
Knives Out
2019 · Walt Thrombey
Man Of Steel
2013 · General Zod
Revolutionary Road
2008 · John Givings
Bad Boys II
2003 · Floyd Poteet
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 1,402 frames from Michael Shannon's 19 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.