FrameThrower · Actors · Tim Blake Nelson
Tim Blake Nelson
10 films · 691 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2000–2022
Born 11 May 1964 · Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Timothy Blake Nelson is an American actor and playwright. Described as a "modern character actor, his roles include Delmar O'Donnell in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Gideon in Minority Report (2002), Doctor Steve Pendanski in Holes (2003), Doctor Jonathan Jacobo in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), Danny Dalton Jr. in Syriana (2005), Samuel Sterns in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Richard Schell in Lincoln (2012), the titular character of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and Henry McCarty in Old Henry (2021).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 691 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2000–2022
- Oppenheimer Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 691 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Tim takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 10 films we hold, 50% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Tim takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs")
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · Delmar O'Donnell
Ghosts of the Ozarks
2022 · Torb
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
2022 · Black Rabbits (voice)
The Report
2019 · Raymond Nathan
Just Mercy
2019 · Ralph Myers
The Homesman
2014 · The Freighter
The Incredible Hulk
2008 · Samuel Sterns
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
2004 · Jacobo
The Good Girl
2002 · Bubba
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 691 frames from Tim Blake Nelson's 10 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.