Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6496
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Caleb Landry Jones 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.
Caleb Landry Jones appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Caleb. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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 drama, romance, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Luc Besson, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Miguel Sapochnik and others, Caleb Landry Jones 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.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) as Red Welby · No Country for Old Men (2007) as Boy on Bike · Finch (2021) as Jeff (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #6496 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2007–2026
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Most frequent director
Luc Besson
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Luc Besson
Most common genre
Drama
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 54m
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
6.3
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
2000s
8.1 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. No Country for Old Men — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
8.1
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
8.0
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. No Country for Old Men.
Most productive era
2010s
9 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 | — | 6.77 films | 5.78 films |
| Action | — | 6.53 films | 7.32 films |
| Thriller | 8.11 film | 6.41 film | 6.91 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.03 films | — |
| Crime | 8.11 film | 7.04 films | 7.32 films |
| Romance | — | — | 5.82 films |
| Horror | — | 5.41 film | 7.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Boy on Bike. 8.1 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2021Finch
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Nick.
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.
19 of 19 films
as Douglas
Directed by Luc Besson
as Jeff (voice)
Directed by Miguel Sapochnik
as Vlad / Dracula
Directed by Luc Besson
as Boy on Bike
Directed by Joel Coen
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
Douglas
Dogman (2023)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Douglas gives Caleb Landry Jones a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jeff (voice)
Finch (2021)
Performance score8.1
Finch asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jeff (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Vlad / Dracula
Dracula (2025)
Performance score7.8
Dracula asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vlad / Dracula is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Red Welby
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Performance score7.8
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Red Welby 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 Douglas
Start here. Dogman is the clearest statement of what Caleb Landry Jones does — accessible, 115 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Caleb 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.
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Keeps the crime register of Dogman but asks for a colder reading of it.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Keeps the crime register of No Country for Old Men but asks for a colder reading of it.
Finch (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dracula (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Finch — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Luc Besson
Director
2 films together
Notably Dogman
Joel Coen
Director
1 film together
Notably No Country for Old Men
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: First Class
Baltasar Kormákur
Director
1 film together
Notably Contraband
Benny Safdie
Director
1 film together
Notably Heaven Knows What
Doug Liman
Director
1 film together
Notably American Made
Martin McDonagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Lone Scherfig
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kindness of Strangers
Jim Jarmusch
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dead Don't Die
Gerardo Naranjo
Director
1 film together
Notably Viena and the Fantomes
Rod Lurie
Director
1 film together
Notably The Outpost
Justin Kurzel
Director
1 film together
Notably Nitram
Miguel Sapochnik
Director
1 film together
Notably Finch
Athina Rachel Tsangari
Director
1 film together
Notably Harvest
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Luc Besson
Director
2 films together · 7.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
DogmanMartin McDonagh
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriJoel Coen
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Country for Old MenMiguel Sapochnik
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FinchMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: First ClassJustin Kurzel
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NitramRod Lurie
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The OutpostDoug Liman
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American MadeBenny Safdie
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Heaven Knows WhatBaltasar Kormákur
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ContrabandLone Scherfig
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Kindness of StrangersAthina Rachel Tsangari
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HarvestJim 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 DieGerardo Naranjo
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Viena and the FantomesSix 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
No Country for Old Men
as Boy on Bike
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Viena and the Fantomes
as Albert
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
No Country for Old Men
as Boy on Bike
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
No Country for Old Men
as Boy on Bike
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Dogman
as Douglas
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. Caleb Landry Jones 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
15 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
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Red Welby
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
No Country for Old Men
as Boy on Bike
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Viena and the Fantomes
as Albert
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
War on Everyone
as Russell Birdwell
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
No Country for Old Men
as Boy on Bike
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
X-Men: First Class
as Cassidy / Banshee
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
American Made
as JB
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
No Country for Old Men
as Boy on Bike
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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