FrameThrower · Actors · Xavier Dolan
Xavier Dolan
7 films · 383 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2008–2019
Born 20 March 1989 · Montréal, Québec, Canada
Xavier Dolan-Tadros CQ CM is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first received international acclaim in 2009 for his feature film directorial debut, I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère), which he also starred in, wrote, and produced, and which premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section and won three awards from the program
Since 2009, he has written and directed eight feature films, all of which have premiered at Cannes, with the exception of Tom at the Farm—which premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in 2013—and his first…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 383 frames · top-billed in 4 · 2008–2019
- Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix2016
- César Award for Best Editing2017
- César Award for Best Director2017
- Member of the Order of Canada2019
- Knight of the National Order of Quebec2008
- René Clair Award2020
- Companion of the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec2015
- Jury Prize2014
- Québec Cinéma Award for Best Film2010
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
- John Dunning Best First Feature Award
- Officer of Arts and Letters
How their films are shot
Measured across 383 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Xavier takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Xavier takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Mood
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 383 frames from Xavier Dolan's 7 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.