FrameThrower · Actors · Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters
5 films · 327 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1955–1996
Born 18 August 1920 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA · died 14 January 2006
Shelley Winters was an American actress whose career spanned almost six decades. She appeared in numerous films, and won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Other roles Winters appeared in include A Double Life (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Alfie (1966), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), and Pete's Dragon (1977). In addition to film, Winters appeared in television, including a years-long tenure on the sitcom Roseanne, and also authored three autobiographical books.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 327 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1955–1996
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1966
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1960
- Academy Awards
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie1964
- David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 327 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Shelley takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 60% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Shelley takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Mood
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 327 frames from Shelley Winters's 5 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.