FrameThrower · Actors · Paul Dano
Paul Dano
13 films · 1,051 frames · top-billed in 7 · 2007–2022
Born 19 June 1984 · New York City, New York, USA
Paul Franklin Dano is an American actor. He began his career on Broadway before making his film debut in The Newcomers (2000). He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance for his role in L.I.E. (2001) and received accolades for his role as Dwayne Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (2006). For his dual roles as Paul and Eli Sunday in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007), he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Dano has also received accolades for roles such as John Tibeats in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Alex Jones in Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners (2013).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 13 films · 1,051 frames · top-billed in 7 · 2007–2022
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture2007
- Film Independent Spirit Awards
- Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor2008
- Gotham Awards
- Critics' Choice Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,051 frames from the 13 films we hold. This is the look of the work Paul takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 13 films we hold, 55% of their frames are day, 51% natural — the look of the work Paul 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.
The Fabelmans
2022 · Burt Fabelman
Okja
2017 · Jay
Swiss Army Man
2016 · Hank
Love & Mercy
2014 · Brian Wilson 1960s
Ruby Sparks
2012 · Calvin
For Ellen
2012 · Joby Taylor
There Will Be Blood
2007 · Paul Sunday / Eli Sunday
The Batman
2022 · The Riddler
Youth
2015 · Jimmy Tree
Prisoners
2013 · Alex Jones
12 Years a Slave
2013 · John Tibeats
Looper
2012 · Seth
Where The Wild Things Are
2009 · Alexander (voice)
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 1,051 frames from Paul Dano's 13 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.