FrameThrower · Actors · Wes Studi
Wes Studi
5 films · 426 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1992–2015
Born 17 December 1947 · Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma, USA
Wesley "Wes" Studi is an American Cherokee actor, who has earned notability for his portrayals of Native Americans in film. He has appeared in well-received Academy Award-winning films, such as Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves, Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, the award-winning Geronimo: An American Legend and the Academy Award-nominated film The New World (2005). He portrayed General Linus Abner (an analogue to the biblical Abner) in the NBC series Kings, and Eytukan in James Cameron's box office blockbuster Avatar.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 426 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1992–2015
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences2023
- Academy Honorary Award2019
How their films are shot
Measured across 426 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Wes takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day, 45% low key — the look of the work Wes 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.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 426 frames from Wes Studi's 5 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.