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Zach Galifianakis

Zach Galifianakis

10 films · 517 frames · top-billed in 8 · 20082019

Born 1 October 1969 · Wilkesboro, North Carolina, USA

Zachary Knight Galifianakis is an American actor and comedian. He appeared in a Comedy Central Presents special and presented his own talk show, Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, which earned critical acclaim. He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2017.

Galifianakis has starred in films including The Hangover trilogy (2009–2013), Due Date (2010), It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010), The Campaign (2012), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and Masterminds (2016). He has also voiced characters in animated films such as Puss in Boots (2011), The Lego Batman Movie (2017), Missing Link (2019), Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) and The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 517 frames · top-billed in 8 · 20082019

  • MTV Movie & TV Awards

How their films are shot

Measured across 517 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Zach takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 10 films we hold, 54% of their frames are day, 49% natural — the look of the work Zach takes.

Time of day

Day54%
Night34%
Golden hour5%
Interior5%

Lighting

Natural49%
Low key29%
High key20%

Shot size

Medium49%
Wide24%
Closeup16%
Establishing6%

Camera angle

Eye level86%
High angle7%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral75%
Tense14%
Lonely5%

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 517 frames from Zach Galifianakis's 10 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.