Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#25035
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
August Wittgenstein 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.
August Wittgenstein appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without August. Before We Forget is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, drama, war. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Juan Pablo Di Pace, John Andreas Andersen, Ari Folman and others, August Wittgenstein 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.
Before We Forget (2025) as Alexander · Number 24 (2024) as Siegfried Fehmer · Angels & Demons (2009) as Swiss Guardsman
Career snapshot
Ranked #25035 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
2009–2025
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Before We Forget
Average Nutevio score
7.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Before We Forget
Most frequent director
Juan Pablo Di Pace
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Juan Pablo Di Pace
Most common genre
Drama
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 55m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
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
6.8
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
7.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Before We Forget, Number 24, Hunting Season — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.6
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Angels & Demons.
Most productive era
2020s
3 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.41 film | 8.62 films |
| Thriller | 6.71 film | — | — |
| Comedy | — | — | 5.61 film |
| Romance | — | — | 10.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Angels & Demons
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Swiss Guardsman.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2025Before We Forget
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Alexander.
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.
5 of 5 films
as Alexander
Directed by Juan Pablo Di Pace
as Siegfried Fehmer
Directed by John Andreas Andersen
as Swiss Guardsman
Directed by Ron Howard
as Travis (voice)
Directed by Ari Folman
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Alexander
Before We Forget (2025)
Performance score9.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Alexander gives August Wittgenstein a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Siegfried Fehmer
Number 24 (2024)
Performance score7.1
Number 24 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Siegfried Fehmer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Swiss Guardsman
Angels & Demons (2009)
Performance score6.6
Angels & Demons asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Swiss Guardsman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Peter
Hunting Season (2022)
Performance score6.5
Hunting Season asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Peter 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 Alexander
Start here. Before We Forget is the clearest statement of what August Wittgenstein does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet August 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.
Angels & Demons (2009)
A deliberate change of key after Before We Forget — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Congress (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Angels & Demons — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Hunting Season (2022)
A deliberate change of key after The Congress — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Number 24 (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Hunting Season — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Angels & Demons
Ari Folman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Congress
John Andreas Andersen
Director
1 film together
Notably Number 24
Juan Pablo Di Pace
Director
1 film together
Notably Before We Forget
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Juan Pablo Di Pace
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Before We ForgetJohn Andreas Andersen
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Number 24Ron Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Angels & DemonsAri Folman
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The CongressSix 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
Before We Forget
as Alexander
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Before We Forget
as Alexander
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Before We Forget
as Alexander
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Angels & Demons
as Swiss Guardsman
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Before We Forget
as Alexander
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. August Wittgenstein 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
3 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
Before We Forget
as Alexander
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Before We Forget
as Alexander
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Before We Forget
as Alexander
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Angels & Demons
as Swiss Guardsman
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Before We Forget
as Alexander
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Before We Forget
as Alexander
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Before We Forget
as Alexander
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Number 24
as Siegfried Fehmer
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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