Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10148
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Ansel Elgort works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Ansel Elgort appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ansel. The Fault in Our Stars is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for documentary, romance, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Steven Spielberg, John Crowley, Edgar Wright and others, Ansel Elgort helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
The Fault in Our Stars (2014) as Augustus Waters · Baby Driver (2017) as Baby · The Stories of West Side Story (2022) as Self
Career snapshot
Ranked #10148 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2013–2022
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
The Fault in Our Stars
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
The Fault in Our Stars
Most frequent director
Robert Schwentke
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Robert Schwentke
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 59m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.3
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2020s
7.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Stories of West Side Story, West Side Story — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.1
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Goldfinch, Billionaire Boys Club, Baby Driver.
Most productive era
2010s
10 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.46 films | 6.91 film |
| Action | 6.74 films | — |
| Thriller | 5.82 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.51 film | — |
| Crime | 6.32 films | 6.91 film |
| Romance | 7.61 film | 6.91 film |
| Horror | 6.11 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013Carrie
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tommy Ross.
Highest rated performance
7.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2017Baby Driver
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2022The Stories of West Side Story
The current state of the argument, as Self.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
12 of 12 films
as Baby
Directed by Edgar Wright
as Theodore Decker
Directed by John Crowley
as Tony
Directed by Steven Spielberg
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The defining work
#1
Baby
Baby Driver (2017)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Baby gives Ansel Elgort a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Augustus Waters
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Performance score7.9
The Fault in Our Stars asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Augustus Waters is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Theodore Decker
The Goldfinch (2019)
Performance score7.7
The Goldfinch asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Theodore Decker is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tony
West Side Story (2021)
Performance score7.5
West Side Story asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tony is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Baby
Start here. Baby Driver is the clearest statement of what Ansel Elgort does — accessible, 113 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ansel at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Baby Driver — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Goldfinch (2019)
Keeps the drama register of The Fault in Our Stars but asks for a colder reading of it.
West Side Story (2021)
Keeps the drama register of The Goldfinch but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Stories of West Side Story (2022)
A deliberate change of key after West Side Story — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Robert Schwentke
Director
2 films together
Notably Insurgent
Kimberly Peirce
Director
1 film together
Notably Carrie
Neil Burger
Director
1 film together
Notably Divergent
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Men, Women & Children
Josh Boone
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fault in Our Stars
Sacha Gervasi
Director
1 film together
Notably November Criminals
Edgar Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Baby Driver
John Crowley
Director
1 film together
Notably The Goldfinch
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably West Side Story
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Robert Schwentke
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
InsurgentJosh Boone
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fault in Our StarsEdgar Wright
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Baby DriverJohn Crowley
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GoldfinchSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
West Side StoryNeil Burger
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DivergentJason Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Men, Women & ChildrenKimberly Peirce
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CarrieSacha Gervasi
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
November CriminalsSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Fault in Our Stars
as Augustus Waters
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Fault in Our Stars
as Augustus Waters
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Fault in Our Stars
as Augustus Waters
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Stories of West Side Story
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Baby Driver
as Baby
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Ansel Elgort has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Fault in Our Stars
as Augustus Waters
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Baby Driver
as Baby
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Fault in Our Stars
as Augustus Waters
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
November Criminals
as Addison
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Baby Driver
as Baby
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Divergent
as Caleb
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Fault in Our Stars
as Augustus Waters
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Carrie
as Tommy Ross
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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