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Patrick Wilson

Patrick Wilson

14 films · 1,083 frames · top-billed in 10 · 20042023

Born 3 July 1973 · Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Patrick Joseph Wilson is an American actor, director, and singer. He began his career in 1995, starring in Broadway musicals. He is a two-time Tony Award nominee for his roles in The Full Monty (2000–2001) and Oklahoma! (2002). He co-starred in the acclaimed HBO miniseries Angels in America (2003), for which he was nominated for both the Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.

Wilson has also appeared in films such as The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Hard Candy (2005), Little Children (2006), Watchmen (2009), Insidious (2010), The A-Team (2010), Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013), and as demonologist Ed Warren in the Conjuring

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 14 films · 1,083 frames · top-billed in 10 · 20042023

  • Time Machine Award2019

How their films are shot

Measured across 1,083 frames from the 14 films we hold. This is the look of the work Patrick takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 14 films we hold, 64% of their frames are night, 61% low key — the look of the work Patrick takes.

Time of day

Night64%
Day28%
Interior6%

Lighting

Low key61%
Natural27%
High key8%

Shot size

Medium41%
Wide23%
Closeup21%
Establishing9%

Camera angle

Eye level79%
Low angle10%
High angle7%

Mood

Neutral40%
Tense27%
Ominous16%
Lonely6%

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 1,083 frames from Patrick Wilson's 14 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.