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Tom Hardy

Tom Hardy

16 films · 1,137 frames · top-billed in 13 · 20012024

Born 15 September 1977 · Hammersmith, London, England, UK

Edward Thomas Hardy CBE is an English actor, producer, writer and former model. After studying acting at the Drama Centre London, he made his film debut in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (2001). He has since been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, two Critics' Choice Movie Awards and two British Academy Film Awards, receiving the 2011 BAFTA Rising Star Award.

Hardy has also appeared in films such as Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), RocknRolla (2008), Bronson (2008), Warrior (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Lawless (2012), This Means War (2012), Locke (2013), The Drop (2014), and The Revenant (2015), for which he received a nomination for an Academy Award.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 16 films · 1,137 frames · top-billed in 13 · 20012024

  • BAFTA Rising Star Award2011
  • Commander of the Order of the British Empire
  • British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film2009

How their films are shot

Measured across 1,137 frames from the 16 films we hold. This is the look of the work Tom takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 16 films we hold, 43% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Tom takes.

Time of day

Night43%
Day40%
Interior12%

Lighting

Low key48%
Natural38%
High key8%
Silhouette4%

Shot size

Medium42%
Wide26%
Closeup20%
Establishing7%

Camera angle

Eye level80%
Low angle10%
High angle7%

Mood

Neutral44%
Tense27%
Ominous9%
Lonely9%

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 1,137 frames from Tom Hardy's 16 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.