FrameThrower · Actors · Sam Rockwell
Sam Rockwell
15 films · 1,017 frames · top-billed in 8 · 1992–2019
Born 5 November 1968 · Daly City, California, USA
Sam Rockwell is an American actor. He is known for playing distressed police officer Jason Dixon in Martin McDonagh's crime drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The following year, he was nominated in the same category for portraying in Adam McKay's political satire Vice (2018).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 15 films · 1,017 frames · top-billed in 8 · 1992–2019
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor2018
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture2018
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role2018
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
- Silver Bear2003
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award2009
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award2007
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award1997
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,017 frames from the 15 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sam takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 15 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night, 43% low key — the look of the work Sam 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.
Laggies
2014 · Craig Hunter
Gentlemen Broncos
2009 · Bronco / Brutus
Moon
2009 · Sam Bell
Choke
2008 · Victor Mancini
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
2007 · Charley Ford
Snow Angels
2007 · Glenn Marchand
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002 · Chuck Barris
Poltergeist
· Eric Bowen
Jojo Rabbit
2019 · Captain Klenzendorf
Mute
2018 · Sam Bell
Iron Man 2
2010 · Justin Hammer
A Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
2005 · Zaphod Beeblebrox
Charlie's Angels
2000 · Eric Knox
The Green Mile
1999 · 'Wild Bill' Wharton
Light Sleeper
1992 · Jealous
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 1,017 frames from Sam Rockwell's 15 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.