FrameThrower · Actors · Paul Newman
Paul Newman
13 films · 860 frames · top-billed in 12 · 1961–2006
Born 26 January 1925 · Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA · died 26 September 2008
Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver, auto racing team owner, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations, three Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy award, and many honorary awards.
He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar racing. Newman was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 13 films · 860 frames · top-billed in 12 · 1961–2006
- Academy Award for Best Actor1987
- Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award1985
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie2005
- Motorsports Hall of Fame of America2024
- Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award1994
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres1994
- Kennedy Center Honors1992
- Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Want1991
- Academy Honorary Award1986
- Theatre World Award1953
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 860 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, 48% of their frames are night, 41% low key — 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.
Cars
2006 · Doc Hudson (voice)
Road To Perdition
2002 · John Rooney
Message in a Bottle
1999 · Dodge Blake
The Verdict
1982 · Frank Galvin
Quintet
1979 · Essex
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson
1976 · The Star (William F. Cody)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 · Butch Cassidy
Cool Hand Luke
1967 · Luke Jackson
What A Way To Go!
1964 · Larry Flint
Hud
1963 · Hud Bannon
Paris Blues
1961 · Ram Bowen
The Hustler
1961 · Eddie Felson
The Hudsucker Proxy
1994 · Sidney J. Mussburger
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 860 frames from Paul Newman'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.