Kevin Macdonald
Film director · 3 films (2014–2025)
Kevin Macdonald is a director whose work here spans Black Sea (2014) to One to One: John & Yoko (2025), across drama and thriller. The work runs close — 30% of frames across the 3 films indexed here, against 21% library-wide. All 204 frames from 3 films are indexed here, searchable by lighting, lens, shot size, colour and mood.
Kevin Macdonald is a Scottish film director. His films include One Day in September (1999), a documentary about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes, which won him the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the climbing documentary Touching the Void (2003), the drama The Last King of Scotland (2006), the political thriller State of Play (2009), the Bob Marley documentary Marley (2012), the post-apocalyptic drama How I Live Now (2013), the thriller Black Sea (2014), the Whitney Houston documentary Whitney (2018), and the legal drama film The Mauritanian (2021).
Born 28 October 1967 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Directing style
Macdonald builds a tense, oppressive, and lonely atmosphere primarily through intimate, shallow-depth-of-field medium shots and closeups framed at eye level, capturing characters trapped within interior spaces. His lighting relies heavily on motivated, naturalistic sources—such as direct sunlight, practical fixtures, window light, and cold fluorescents—to illuminate both day and night scenes. This realist approach is rendered through a desaturated color palette dominated by muted, earthy greens, warm clays, and stark grays, occasionally punctuated by cold teal and orange tones.
Films directed by Kevin Macdonald
About Kevin Macdonald
When was Kevin Macdonald born?
Kevin Macdonald was born on 28 October 1967 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
What films has Kevin Macdonald directed?
FrameThrower holds stills from 3 of them: Black Sea (2014), The Mauritanian (2021) and One to One: John & Yoko (2025).
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All 204 indexed frames from 3 films directed by Kevin Macdonald — searchable by lighting, lens, shot size, mood or plain language.