Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11934
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Jason Kravits represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Jason is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jason Kravits appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jason. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 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 fantasy, family, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Marc Webb, Kogonada, Daniel Minahan and others, Jason Kravits 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.
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022) as Cy · Sweet November (2001) as Manny · The Adjustment Bureau (2011) as New Yorker in Courthouse Lobby
Career snapshot
Ranked #11934 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2000–2025
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Most frequent director
Marc Webb
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Marc Webb
Most common genre
Romance
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
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
2010s
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Chinese Puzzle, The Adjustment Bureau, Morning Glory — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. What Just Happened, The Stepford Wives, Sweet November.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 | 6.22 films | 6.52 films | 4.84 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.81 film | — |
| Comedy | 5.33 films | 6.52 films | 7.01 film |
| Romance | 5.82 films | 6.63 films | 4.23 films |
| Horror | 5.71 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2000The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Choreographer.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.0 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
2025On Swift Horses
The current state of the argument, as Wayne.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Manny
Directed by Unknown
as New Yorker in Courthouse Lobby
Directed by George Nolfi
as Lawyer
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.
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The defining work
#1
Cy
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022)
Performance score6.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Cy gives Jason Kravits a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Manny
Sweet November (2001)
Performance score6.8
Sweet November asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Manny is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
New Yorker in Courthouse Lobby
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
Performance score6.7
The Adjustment Bureau asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. New Yorker in Courthouse Lobby is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Plaintiff Lawyer / Gary
Worth (2021)
Performance score6.6
Worth asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Plaintiff Lawyer / Gary is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Cy
Start here. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile is the clearest statement of what Jason Kravits does — accessible, 106 minutes, and rated 7.0 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.
Sweet November (2001)
A deliberate change of key after Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
Keeps the romance register of Sweet November but asks for a colder reading of it.
Chinese Puzzle (2013)
Keeps the romance register of The Adjustment Bureau but asks for a colder reading of it.
Worth (2021)
Same director as Chinese Puzzle, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Brian Levant
Director
1 film together
Notably The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
Frank Oz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Stepford Wives
Barry Levinson
Director
1 film together
Notably What Just Happened
Roger Michell
Director
1 film together
Notably Morning Glory
George Nolfi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Adjustment Bureau
Roger Spottiswoode
Director
1 film together
Notably Either Side of Midnight
Josh Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Daniel Minahan
Director
1 film together
Notably On Swift Horses
Kogonada
Director
1 film together
Notably A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Marc Webb
Director
1 film together
Notably Snow White
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Josh Gordon
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lyle, Lyle, CrocodileGeorge Nolfi
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Adjustment BureauRoger Michell
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Morning GloryDaniel Minahan
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
On Swift HorsesKogonada
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Big Bold Beautiful JourneyFrank Oz
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Stepford WivesBarry Levinson
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What Just HappenedBrian Levant
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 Flintstones in Viva Rock VegasMarc Webb
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Snow WhiteRoger Spottiswoode
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Either Side of MidnightSix 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
Sweet November
as Manny
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Sweet November
as Manny
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Sweet November
as Manny
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Morning Glory
as Television Executive
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
as Cy
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 Kravits 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
25 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Romance Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in romance, 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
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
as Cy
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Adjustment Bureau
as New Yorker in Courthouse Lobby
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
as Mr. Nelson
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Snow White
as Sneezy (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
as Cy
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Chinese Puzzle
as Lawyer
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Morning Glory
as Television Executive
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
as Mr. Nelson
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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