FrameThrower · Actors · Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg
5 films · 561 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1985–2001
Born 13 November 1955 · New York City, New York, USA
Whoopi Goldberg is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, and talk show host. Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple (1985) playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her first Golden Globe Award for her role in the film. In 1990, she starred as Oda Mae Brown, a psychic helping a slain man (Patrick Swayze) find his killer in the blockbuster film Ghost. This performance won her a second Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 561 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1985–2001
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1991
- Golden Globe Awards1986
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role1990
- Emmy Award
- Tony Awards
- Disney Legends2017
- Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host2009
- Crystal Award2001
- Mark Twain Prize for American Humor2001
- GLAAD Vanguard Award1999
- Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year1993
- Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress1991
How their films are shot
Measured across 561 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Whoopi 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, 50% of their frames are night, 48% natural — the look of the work Whoopi 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 561 frames from Whoopi Goldberg'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.