FrameThrower · Actors · Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts
17 films · 1,110 frames · top-billed in 12 · 1998–2022
Born 28 September 1968 · Shoreham, Kent, England, UK
Naomi Ellen Watts is a British actress. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Actress for her performances as a grief-stricken mother in Alejandro González Iñárritu's film 21 Grams (2003), and as Maria Bennett in the disaster film The Impossible (2012).
After her family moved to Australia, she made her film debut there in the drama For Love Alone (1986) and then appeared in three television series, Hey Dad..! (1990), Brides of Christ (1991), and Home and Away (1991), and the film Flirting (1991).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 17 films · 1,110 frames · top-billed in 12 · 1998–2022
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture2014
- Film Independent Spirit Awards2004
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast2014
- Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble2014
- San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble2014
- Medal of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers for the best actress2013
- San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress2012
- Giffoni Film Festival2009
- London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year2005
- Saturn Award for Best Actress2005
- Australian Film Institute Global Achievement Award2004
- Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress2003
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,110 frames from the 17 films we hold. This is the look of the work Naomi takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 17 films we hold, 45% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Naomi 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.
Goodnight Mommy
2022 · Mother
The Sea of Trees
2015 · Joan Brennan
While We’re Young
2014 · Cornelia Schrebnick
The International
2009 · Eleanor Whitman
Eastern Promises
2007 · Anna Ivanovna Khitrova
Funny Games
2007 · Ann
The Ring Two
2005 · Rachel Keller
Stay
2005 · Lila Culpepper
King Kong
2005 · Ann Darrow
21 Grams
2003 · Cristina Peck
The Ring
2002 · Rachel Keller
Mulholland Drive
2001 · Betty Elms / Diane Selwyn
Allegiant
2016 · Evelyn Johnson-Eaton
St. Vincent
2014 · Daka Parimova
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004 · Marie Bicke
I Heart Huckabees
2004 · Dawn Campbell
Dangerous Beauty
1998 · Giulia De Lezze
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 1,110 frames from Naomi Watts's 17 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.