FrameThrower · Actors · Niels Schneider
Niels Schneider
3 films · 192 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2009–2019
Born 18 June 1987 · Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Niels Schneider is a Franco-Canadian actor. He gained early recognition for his roles in Xavier Dolan's acclaimed films I Killed My Mother (2009) and Heartbeats (2010), which earned him the Trophée Chopard for Male Revelation of the Year at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2013, he starred in Yann Gonzalez's provocative surreal film You and the Night.
Schneider's performance in Dark Inclusion (2016) earned him the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2017.
He also starred in Of Money and Blood (2023) and appeared in Woody Allen's Coup de Chance (2023).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 192 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2009–2019
- César Award for Best Male Revelation2017
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres2019
- Trophée Chopard
How their films are shot
Measured across 192 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Niels 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, 44% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Niels takes.
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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 192 frames from Niels Schneider'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.