FrameThrower · Actors · Octavia Spencer
Octavia Spencer
5 films · 293 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2013–2025
Born 25 May 1970 · Montgomery, Alabama, USA
Octavia Lenora Spencer is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Spencer made her film debut in the 1996 drama A Time to Kill. Following a decade of brief roles in film and television, her breakthrough came in 2011 when she played a maid in 1960s America in the drama film The Help, which won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 293 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2013–2025
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress2012
- Golden Globe Awards2012
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role2012
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
- Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year2017
How their films are shot
Measured across 293 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Octavia takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 55% of their frames are night, 52% low key — the look of the work Octavia takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 293 frames from Octavia Spencer's 5 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.