Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8451
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kate Bosworth represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 27 years in, and Kate is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Kate Bosworth appears in 26 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kate. Remember the Titans is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 comedy, horror, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nicolas Harvard, Zach Cregger, Neil LaBute and others, Kate Bosworth 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.
Remember the Titans (2000) as Emma Hoyt · Still Alice (2014) as Anna Howland-Jones · The Enforcer (2022) as Estelle
Career snapshot
Ranked #8451 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
26
1998–2025
Career length
27 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Remember the Titans
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Remember the Titans
Most frequent director
Nicolas Harvard
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Nicolas Harvard
Most common genre
Thriller
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
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
6.4
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
1990s
6.9 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Horse Whisperer — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.9
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Horse Whisperer.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.91 film | 7.32 films | 6.06 films | 6.15 films |
| Action | — | 5.81 film | 6.33 films | 6.05 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.06 films | 5.79 films |
| Comedy | — | — | 5.13 films | 5.22 films |
| Crime | — | 6.81 film | 6.11 film | 6.06 films |
| Romance | 6.91 film | — | 5.41 film | 6.71 film |
| Horror | — | — | 6.11 film | 5.83 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Judith.
Highest rated performance
7.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2014Still Alice
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025Bunker
The current state of the argument, as Trissa.
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.
26 of 26 films
as Anna Howland-Jones
Directed by Wash Westmoreland
as Estelle
Directed by Unknown
as Jill Taylor
Directed by Robert Luketic
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
Anna Howland-Jones
Still Alice (2014)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Anna Howland-Jones gives Kate Bosworth a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Estelle
The Enforcer (2022)
Performance score7.5
The Enforcer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Estelle is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Emma Hoyt
Remember the Titans (2000)
Performance score7.5
Remember the Titans asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Emma Hoyt is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jill Taylor
21 (2008)
Performance score7.2
21 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jill Taylor 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 Anna Howland-Jones
Start here. Still Alice is the clearest statement of what Kate Bosworth does — accessible, 101 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kate 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.
Remember the Titans (2000)
Keeps the drama register of Still Alice but asks for a colder reading of it.
21 (2008)
Keeps the drama register of Remember the Titans but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Enforcer (2022)
Keeps the crime register of 21 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Along for the Ride (2022)
Same director as The Enforcer, 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.
Robert Redford
Director
1 film together
Notably The Horse Whisperer
Boaz Yakin
Director
1 film together
Notably Remember the Titans
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably Superman Returns
Robert Luketic
Director
1 film together
Notably 21
Kat Coiro
Director
1 film together
Notably L!fe Happens
Rod Lurie
Director
1 film together
Notably Straw Dogs
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably Movie 43
Gary Fleder
Director
1 film together
Notably Homefront
Wash Westmoreland
Director
1 film together
Notably Still Alice
Scott Mann
Director
1 film together
Notably Heist
David Hackl
Director
1 film together
Notably Life on the Line
Edward James Olmos
Director
1 film together
Notably The Devil Has a Name
Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.
Director
1 film together
Notably Wild Indian
Neil LaBute
Director
1 film together
Notably House of Darkness
Zach Cregger
Director
1 film together
Notably Barbarian
Nicolas Harvard
Director
1 film together
Notably The Locksmith
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Boaz Yakin
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Remember the TitansWash Westmoreland
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Still AliceGary Fleder
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HomefrontZach Cregger
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BarbarianRobert Redford
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 Horse WhispererRobert Luketic
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
21Scott Mann
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HeistNicolas Harvard
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The LocksmithRod Lurie
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Straw DogsDavid Hackl
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Life on the LineBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superman ReturnsLyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wild IndianKat Coiro
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
L!fe HappensEdward James Olmos
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Devil Has a NameNeil LaBute
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
House of DarknessBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Movie 43Six 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
Remember the Titans
as Emma Hoyt
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Horse Whisperer
as Judith
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Remember the Titans
as Emma Hoyt
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Remember the Titans
as Emma Hoyt
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Still Alice
as Anna Howland-Jones
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. Kate Bosworth 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
27 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
15 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
Remember the Titans
as Emma Hoyt
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Homefront
as Cassie Bodine Klum
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Along for the Ride
as Heidi
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Barbarian
as Melissa (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Enforcer
as Estelle
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Superman Returns
as Lois Lane
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
21
as Jill Taylor
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
21
as Jill Taylor
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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