FrameThrower · Actors · Nick Cave
Nick Cave
3 films · 160 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1988–2014
Born 22 September 1957 · Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia
Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and film actor, best known as the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He has appeared in some 15 feature films and video shorts, plus a heap of documentaries. Nick Cave has also composed a large number of scores, some of them with his musical partner Warren Ellis.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 160 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1988–2014
- Officer of the Order of Australia2017
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature2022
- Ivor Novello Awards2014
- ARIA Award for Best Independent Release2013
- ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album2013
- ARIA Award for Best Male Artist2008
- ARIA Award for Best Male Artist2001
- ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album1997
- ARIA Award for Best Pop Release1996
- ARIA Award for Single of the Year1996
- APRA Music Awards1996
- Libera Award for Best Live Act
How their films are shot
Measured across 160 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Nick takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 45% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Nick 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.
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 160 frames from Nick Cave's 3 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.