Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4416
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Austin Butler 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.
Austin Butler appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Austin. Dune: Part Two is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 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 crime, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Joseph Kosinski, Ari Aster, Darren Aronofsky and others, Austin Butler 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.
Dune: Part Two (2024) as Feyd-Rautha · Dune: Part Two (2024) as Feyd-Rautha · Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) as 'Tex'
Career snapshot
Ranked #4416 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2009–2028
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Dune: Part Two
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
Dune: Part Two
Most frequent director
Denis Villeneuve
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Denis Villeneuve
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 58m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
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
6.5
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
6.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Miami Vice '85, Eddington, Caught Stealing — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.4
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
2 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Miami Vice '85, Eddington, Caught Stealing.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | — | 6.52 films | 5.84 films |
| Action | — | 4.71 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 7.61 film | 3.42 films |
| Comedy | 5.71 film | 5.93 films | 6.72 films |
| Sci-Fi | — | — | 9.01 film |
| Crime | — | — | 5.04 films |
| Horror | — | 5.12 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jake Pearson.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024Dune: Part Two
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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.
Most recent film
2028Miami Vice '85
The current state of the argument, as Sonny Crockett.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Feyd-Rautha
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Feyd-Rautha
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Elvis Presley
Directed by Baz Luhrmann
as Hank Thompson
Directed by Darren Aronofsky
as Benny
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 17 of 17 titles · 17 total credits · active 2004–2028
Miami Vice '85
2028 · Sonny Crockett
Eddington
2025 · Vernon Jefferson Peak
Caught Stealing
2025 · Hank Thompson
Dune: Part Two
2024 · Feyd-Rautha
The Bikeriders
2024 · Benny
Masters of the Air
2024 · TV · Maj. Gale 'Buck' Cleven
Elvis
2022 · Elvis Presley
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019 · 'Tex'
The Dead Don't Die
2019 · Jack
Yoga Hosers
2016 · Hunter Calloway
The Shannara Chronicles
2016 · TV · Wil Ohmsford
The Carrie Diaries
2013 · TV · Sebastian Kydd
Switched at Birth
2011 · TV · James 'Wilke' Wilkerson III
Aliens in the Attic
2009 · Jake Pearson
Hannah Montana
2006 · TV · Toby
Zoey 101
2005 · TV · James Garrett
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
2004 · TV · Zippy Brewster (uncredited)
The defining work
#1
Feyd-Rautha
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Performance score8.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Feyd-Rautha gives Austin Butler a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Feyd-Rautha
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Performance score8.2
Dune: Part Two asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Feyd-Rautha is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Elvis Presley
Elvis (2022)
Performance score8.1
Elvis asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Elvis Presley is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hank Thompson
Caught Stealing (2025)
Performance score7.4
Caught Stealing asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hank Thompson 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 Feyd-Rautha
Start here. Dune: Part Two is the clearest statement of what Austin Butler does — accessible, 166 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Austin 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.
Elvis (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Dune: Part Two but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dune: Part Two (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Elvis — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Bikeriders (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Dune: Part Two — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Caught Stealing (2025)
Keeps the crime register of The Bikeriders but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
2 films together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Kevin Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Yoga Hosers
Jim Jarmusch
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dead Don't Die
Quentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together
Notably Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Baz Luhrmann
Director
1 film together
Notably Elvis
Darren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Caught Stealing
Ari Aster
Director
1 film together
Notably Eddington
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Miami Vice '85
Timothée Chalamet
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Dave Bautista
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Zendaya
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Rebecca Ferguson
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Javier Bardem
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Josh Brolin
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Florence Pugh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Christopher Walken
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Léa Seydoux
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Stellan Skarsgård
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Charlotte Rampling
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Souheila Yacoub
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
2 films together · 8.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Dune: Part TwoQuentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Once Upon a Time... in HollywoodBaz Luhrmann
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ElvisDarren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Caught StealingAri Aster
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EddingtonJim Jarmusch
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Dead Don't DieKevin Smith
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Yoga HosersJoseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miami Vice '85Six degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Performer
Austin Butler
Where this journey starts
Director
Denis Villeneuve
2 collaborations, averaging 8.6
Film
Dune: Part Two
Their highest-rated film together (2024)
Performer
Christopher Walken
Shares the frame in Dune: Part Two
Film
Pulp Fiction
Where Christopher goes next, and where you can too
Performer
Samuel L. Jackson
Three steps from where you began
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 2025
Dune: Part Two
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Dune: Part Two
as Feyd-Rautha
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Elvis
as Elvis Presley
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Dune: Part Two
as Feyd-Rautha
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Dune: Part Two
as Feyd-Rautha
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Dune: Part Two
as Feyd-Rautha
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. Austin Butler has known it for a long time.”
“Long live the fighters.”
“I will love you as long as I breathe.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.0 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #397 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.0 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Denis Villeneuve | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Drama, Physical performance, Screen presence | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2024–2024 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Feyd-Rautha — Dune: Part Two | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Dune: Part Two | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Adventure Movies, Best Space Movies, Sci-Fi Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Timothée Chalamet · Florence Pugh
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Editor's Icon
Awarded
Named by our desk for a body of work we return to when we need to explain what screen acting is for.
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
6 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
Dune: Part Two
as Feyd-Rautha
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Dune: Part Two
as Feyd-Rautha
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Elvis
as Elvis Presley
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Dune: Part Two
as Feyd-Rautha
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Dune: Part Two
as Feyd-Rautha
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Dune: Part Two
as Feyd-Rautha
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Dune: Part Two
as Feyd-Rautha
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Dune: Part Two
as Feyd-Rautha
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 5 Nutevio collections
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