FrameThrower · Actors · Riz Ahmed
Riz Ahmed
9 films · 712 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2010–2025
Born 1 December 1982 · Wembley, London, England, UK
Rizwan Ahmed is a British actor and rapper. He has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. In 2017, he was named by Time as one of the most influential people in the world. He also created the TV series Englistan in 2018 for the BBC, which was also his writing debut.
After studying acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Ahmed began his acting career with independent films such as The Road to Guantanamo (2006), Shifty (2008), Four Lions (2010), Trishna (2011), and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 712 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2010–2025
- Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film2022
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie2017
How their films are shot
Measured across 712 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Riz takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day — the look of the work Riz takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Nimona
2023 · Ballister Boldheart (voice)
Mogul Mowgli
2020 · Zed
Sound of Metal
2019 · Ruben Stone
Venom
2018 · Carlton Drake / Riot
Nightcrawler
2014 · Rick
The Phoenician Scheme
2025 · Prince Farouk
The Sisters Brothers
2018 · Hermann Kermit Warm
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2016 · Bodhi Rook
Centurion
2010 · Tarak
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 712 frames from Riz Ahmed's 9 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.