FrameThrower · Actors · Sarah Polley
Sarah Polley
9 films · 544 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1988–2009
Born 8 January 1979 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sarah Ellen Polley OC is a Canadian filmmaker, political activist and retired actress. She first garnered attention as a child actress for her role as Ramona Quimby in the television series Ramona, based on Beverly Cleary's books. This subsequently led to her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series Road to Avonlea (1990–1996). She has starred in many feature films, including The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Exotica (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Guinevere (1999), Go (1999), The Weight of Water (2000), No Such Thing (2001), My Life Without Me (2003), Dawn of the Dead (2004), Splice (2009), and Mr.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 544 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1988–2009
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay2023
- Officer of the Order of Canada
- Writers Guild of America Award2023
- Canada's Walk of Fame2010
- Governor General's Performing Arts Award
- Canadian Comedy Award for Best Performance by a Female – Film
- John Dunning Best First Feature Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 544 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sarah 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, 47% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Sarah takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
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 544 frames from Sarah Polley'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.