FrameThrower · Actors · Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski
6 films · 422 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1962–2007
Born 18 August 1933 · Paris, France
Roman Polański is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer and actor. Born in Paris to Polish parents, Polański relocated with his family to Poland in 1937. After surviving the Holocaust, he continued his education in Poland and became a critically acclaimed director of both art house and commercial films. Polański's first feature-length film, Knife in the Water (1962), made in Poland, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has since received five more Oscar nominations, and in 2002 received the Academy Award for Best Director for his film, The Pianist. He has also been the recipient of two Baftas, four Césars, a Golden Globe and the Palme d'Or.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 422 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1962–2007
- Academy Award for Best Director2003
- BAFTA Award for Best Direction2003
- BAFTA Award for Best Direction1975
- Silver Bear for Best Director2010
- César Award for Best Adaptation2020
- César Award for Best Director2020
- César Award for Best Director2014
- César Award for Best Director2011
- César Award for Best Director2003
- César Award for Best Director1980
- Commander of the Legion of Honour
- Honorary Lumière Award2011
How their films are shot
Measured across 422 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Roman takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Roman takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 422 frames from Roman Polanski's 6 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.