FrameThrower · Actors · Russell Crowe
Russell Crowe
17 films · 1,222 frames · top-billed in 14 · 1992–2024
Born 7 April 1964 · Wellington, North Island, New Zealand
Russell Ira Crowe is a New Zealand actor and film director. His work on screen has earned him various accolades, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a British Academy Film Award.
Crowe was born in New Zealand, spending ten years of his childhood in Australia and residing there permanently by age 21. He began acting in Australia and had his break-out role in Romper Stomper (1992). He gained international recognition in the late 1990s for his starring roles in L.A. Confidential (1997) and The Insider (1999). Crowe gained wider stardom for playing the title role of Gladiator (2000), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 17 films · 1,222 frames · top-billed in 14 · 1992–2024
- Academy Award for Best Actor2001
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama2002
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role2002
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
- Centenary Medal2001
- Australian National Living Treasure
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,222 frames from the 17 films we hold. This is the look of the work Russell takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 17 films we hold, 46% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Russell takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Pope’s Exorcist
2023 · Father Gabriele Amorth
Boy Erased
2018 · Marshall Eamons
The Nice Guys
2016 · Jackson Healy
Winter's Tale
2014 · Pearly Soames
Noah
2014 · Noah
Man Of Steel
2013 · Jor-El
Les Misérables
2012 · Javert
American Gangster
2007 · Richie Roberts
A Good Year
2006 · Max Skinner
Gladiator
2000 · Maximus
The Insider
1999 · Jeffrey Wigand
L.A. Confidential
1997 · Wendell 'Bud' White
The Quick and the Dead
1995 · Cort
Romper Stomper
1992 · Hando
Kraven the Hunter
2024 · Nikolai Kravinoff
Thor: Love and Thunder
2022 · Zeus
True History of the Kelly Gang
2019 · Harry Power
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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 1,222 frames from Russell Crowe's 17 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.