FrameThrower · Actors · Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen
3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1968–1973
Born 9 October 1969 · London, England, UK
Sir Steve Rodney McQueen CBE is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter, and video artist. Known for directing films that deal with intense subject matter, he has received several awards, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He was honoured with the BFI Fellowship in 2016 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2020 for services to art and film. In 2014, he was included in Time magazine's annual Time 100 list of the "most influential people in the world".
McQueen began his formal training studying painting at London's Chelsea College of Art and Design. He later pursued film at Goldsmiths College and briefly at New York University.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1968–1973
- Academy Award for Best Picture2014
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Erasmus Prize2026
- Rolf Schock Prizes2024
- European Film Award for Innovative Storytelling2021
- Knight Bachelor2020
- European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award2014
- European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year2008
- Turner Prize1999
How their films are shot
Measured across 195 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Steve 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, 66% of their frames are day, 59% natural — the look of the work Steve 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 195 frames from Steve McQueen'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.