FrameThrower · Actors · William Hurt
William Hurt
15 films · 1,803 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1980–2021
Born 20 March 1950 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA · died 13 March 2022
William McChord Hurt was an American stage, film and television actor, trained at the Juilliard School, Manhattan, New York, USA. For his leading role in the feature film "Kiss of the Spider Woman", he received an Academy Award in 1986, followed by 3 more nominations for roles in the movies "Children of a Lesser God", "Broadcast News", and "A History of Violence".
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 15 films · 1,803 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1980–2021
- Academy Award for Best Actor1986
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role1986
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor1985
- David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor1986
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor2005
- London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year1986
- National Board of Review Award for Best Actor1985
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor1985
- Theatre World Award1978
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,803 frames from the 15 films we hold. This is the look of the work William takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 15 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work William 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.
Into the Wild
2007 · Walt McCandless
Dark City
1998 · Inspector Frank Bumstead
Until The End Of The World
1991 · Sam Farber, alias Trevor McPhee
Gorky Park
1983 · Arkady Renko
Body Heat
1981 · Ned Racine
Altered States
1980 · Professor Eddie Jessup
Black Widow
2021 · Secretary Ross
Winter's Tale
2014 · Isaac Penn
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014 · Julian Rigby
The Incredible Hulk
2008 · General 'Thunderbolt' Ross
Mr. Brooks
2007 · Marshall
Syriana
2005 · Stan
A History of Violence
2005 · Richie Cusack
The Village
2004 · Edward Walker
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 · Prof. Hobby
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 1,803 frames from William Hurt's 15 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.