FrameThrower · Actors · Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
3 films · 198 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1964–2002
Born 18 June 1942 · Liverpool, England, UK
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles (1960–1970) and Wings (1971–1981), McCartney is the most commercially successful songwriter in the history of popular music, according to Guinness World Records.
McCartney gained worldwide fame as a member of The Beatles, alongside John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. McCartney and Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and wrote some of the most popular songs in the history of rock music.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 198 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1964–2002
- Academy Award for Best Original Score1971
- Officer of the Legion of Honour2012
- Member of the Order of the British Empire1965
- Order of the Companions of Honour
- Order of the Sun of Peru
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru
- Order of the British Empire
- Wolf Prize in Arts2018
- Companion of Honour2017
- MusiCares Person of the Year2012
- Grammy Award for Best Historical Album2011
- Gershwin Prize2010
How their films are shot
Measured across 198 frames from the 3 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 3 films we hold, 53% of their frames are day — 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.
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 198 frames from Paul McCartney'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.