FrameThrower · Actors · Stephan James
Stephan James
3 films · 242 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2014–2019
Born 16 December 1993 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Stephan James is a Canadian actor. After starring in a string of television series as a teenager, he rose to prominence upon winning a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor for his role as track and field sprinter Jesse Owens in the 2016 film Race. In 2018, he starred in Barry Jenkins' acclaimed drama film If Beale Street Could Talk, based on the James Baldwin novel of the same name. Also that year, he portrayed Walter Cruz in the Amazon series Homecoming, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination.
How their films are shot
Measured across 242 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Stephan takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 61% of their frames are night, 66% low key — the look of the work Stephan takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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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 242 frames from Stephan James's 3 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.