FrameThrower · Actors · Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Ziyi
6 films · 365 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2000–2019
Born 9 February 1979 · Beijing, China
Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese actress. Her first major role was in The Road Home (1999). She later achieved fame for her role in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards.
In the West, Zhang is best known for her appearances in Rush Hour 2 (2001), Hero (2002), 2046 (2004) and House of Flying Daggers (2004). Her most critically acclaimed works are Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), which earned her nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role; and The Grandmaster (2013), for which she won 12 different Best Actress awards to become the most awarded actress for a single film.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 365 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2000–2019
- Asian Film Award for Best Actress2014
- Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress2013
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres2013
How their films are shot
Measured across 365 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Zhang 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, 46% of their frames are night, 45% natural — the look of the work Zhang takes.
Time of day
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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 365 frames from Zhang Ziyi'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.