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Sylvia Miles

Sylvia Miles

3 films · 312 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19691989

Born 9 September 1932 · New York City, New York, USA · died 12 June 2019

Sylvia Miles was an American actress. She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Farewell, My Lovely (1975).

Description above from the Wikipedia article Sylvia Miles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

How their films are shot

Measured across 312 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sylvia 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, 48% of their frames are day, 40% natural — the look of the work Sylvia takes.

Time of day

Day48%
Night38%
Interior11%

Lighting

Natural40%
High key33%
Low key25%

Shot size

Medium51%
Closeup26%
Wide13%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level85%
High angle11%
Low angle4%

Mood

Neutral76%
Tense10%
Lonely4%

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 312 frames from Sylvia Miles'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.