FrameThrower · Actors · Wesley Snipes
Wesley Snipes
6 films · 564 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1990–2015
Born 31 July 1962 · Orlando, Florida, USA
Wesley Trent Snipes is an American actor and martial artist. Snipes has made films in a variety of genres, such as numerous thrillers, dramatic feature films, and comedies, though he is best known for his action films. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his work in The Waterdance (1992) and won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his performance in the film One Night Stand (1997).
Born in Florida, Snipes had notable parts in the comedy film Major League (1989), the drama Mo' Better Blues (1990), and the crime drama King of New York (1990) before gaining prominence by playing a drug lord in the crime drama New Jack City (1991).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 564 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1990–2015
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor1997
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 564 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Wesley takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 63% of their frames are night, 59% low key — the look of the work Wesley takes.
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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 564 frames from Wesley Snipes's 6 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.