Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#25821
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jason Antoon 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.
Jason Antoon appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jason. Minority Report is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Marc Lawrence, Lee Toland Krieger, James Foley and others, Jason Antoon 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.
Minority Report (2002) as Rufus Riley at Cyber Parlor · Music and Lyrics (2007) as Greg Antonsky · Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012) as Man in Convenience Store
Career snapshot
Ranked #25821 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2002–2014
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Minority Report
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Minority Report
Most frequent director
Marc Lawrence
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Marc Lawrence
Most common genre
Comedy
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 52m
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
6.2
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
2010s
6.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Rewrite, Celeste & Jesse Forever — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.2
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.2
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. Perfect Stranger, The Ten, Music and Lyrics.
Most productive era
2000s
8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 5.82 films | 6.41 film |
| Action | 6.92 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.53 films | — |
| Comedy | 5.85 films | 6.22 films |
| Crime | 5.81 film | — |
| Romance | 6.13 films | 6.22 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2002Minority Report
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Rufus Riley at Cyber Parlor. 7.4 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
2014The Rewrite
The current state of the argument, as Greg Nathan.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Rufus Riley at Cyber Parlor
Directed by Steven Spielberg
as Greg Nathan
Directed by Marc Lawrence
as Man in Convenience Store
Directed by Lee Toland Krieger
as Bill Patel
Directed by James Foley
as Salazar 'Fred' McBairn
Directed by David Wain
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
Rufus Riley at Cyber Parlor
Minority Report (2002)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Rufus Riley at Cyber Parlor gives Jason Antoon a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Greg Nathan
The Rewrite (2014)
Performance score6.5
The Rewrite asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Greg Nathan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Man in Convenience Store
Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)
Performance score6.5
Celeste & Jesse Forever asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Man in Convenience Store is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bill Patel
Perfect Stranger (2007)
Performance score6.5
Perfect Stranger asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bill Patel 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 Rufus Riley at Cyber Parlor
Start here. Minority Report is the clearest statement of what Jason Antoon does — accessible, 145 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jason 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.
Perfect Stranger (2007)
Keeps the thriller register of Minority Report but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Ten (2007)
A deliberate change of key after Perfect Stranger — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)
Keeps the comedy register of The Ten but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Rewrite (2014)
Keeps the romance register of Celeste & Jesse Forever but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Marc Lawrence
Director
3 films together
Notably Music and Lyrics
Phil Alden Robinson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sum of All Fears
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Minority Report
Nick Hurran
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Black Book
Susan Stroman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Producers
David Wain
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ten
James Foley
Director
1 film together
Notably Perfect Stranger
Lee Toland Krieger
Director
1 film together
Notably Celeste & Jesse Forever
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Marc Lawrence
Director
3 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Music and LyricsSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Minority ReportLee Toland Krieger
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Celeste & Jesse ForeverPhil Alden Robinson
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 Sum of All FearsSusan Stroman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ProducersJames Foley
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Perfect StrangerNick Hurran
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little Black BookDavid Wain
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TenSix 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
Minority Report
as Rufus Riley at Cyber Parlor
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Celeste & Jesse Forever
as Man in Convenience Store
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Minority Report
as Rufus Riley at Cyber Parlor
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Sum of All Fears
as AFRAT Specialist Stubbs
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Minority Report
as Rufus Riley at Cyber Parlor
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. Jason Antoon 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Minority Report
as Rufus Riley at Cyber Parlor
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Minority Report
as Rufus Riley at Cyber Parlor
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Celeste & Jesse Forever
as Man in Convenience Store
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Perfect Stranger
as Bill Patel
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Minority Report
as Rufus Riley at Cyber Parlor
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Minority Report
as Rufus Riley at Cyber Parlor
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Celeste & Jesse Forever
as Man in Convenience Store
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Music and Lyrics
as Greg Antonsky
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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