Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11777
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
LeBron James 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.
LeBron James appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without LeBron. Jordi Fernádez's Coaching Journey: From Badalona to Brooklyn is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 documentary, music, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kai Cenat, Calmatic, Jon Weinbach and others, LeBron James 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.
Jordi Fernádez's Coaching Journey: From Badalona to Brooklyn (2026) as Self · I Quit (2026) as Self (Streamer Awards Archive Footage) · The Redeem Team (2022) as Self - USA 2004
Career snapshot
Ranked #11777 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2015–2026
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Jordi Fernádez's Coaching Journey: From Badalona to Brooklyn
Average Nutevio score
5.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Jordi Fernádez's Coaching Journey: From Badalona to Brooklyn
Most frequent director
Malcolm D. Lee
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Malcolm D. Lee
Most common genre
Documentary
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 11m
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
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Smallfoot, Trainwreck — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Smallfoot, Trainwreck.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.32 films | 5.83 films |
| Crime | — | 5.11 film |
| Romance | 5.81 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2015Trainwreck
Where our catalogue meets this career, as LeBron James.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Jordi Fernádez's Coaching Journey: From Badalona to Brooklyn
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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. The current state of the argument, as Self.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Self - USA 2004
Directed by Jon Weinbach
as LeBron James
Directed by Malcolm D. Lee
as Gwangi (voice)
Directed by Karey Kirkpatrick
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Self
Jordi Fernádez's Coaching Journey: From Badalona to Brooklyn (2026)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives LeBron James a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Self (Streamer Awards Archive Footage)
I Quit (2026)
Performance score7.8
I Quit asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self (Streamer Awards Archive Footage) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
Self - USA 2004
The Redeem Team (2022)
Performance score7.7
The Redeem Team asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self - USA 2004 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
LeBron James
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
Performance score7.3
Space Jam: A New Legacy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. LeBron James 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 Self
Start here. Jordi Fernádez's Coaching Journey: From Badalona to Brooklyn is the clearest statement of what LeBron James does — accessible, 66 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet LeBron 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.
Smallfoot (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Jordi Fernádez's Coaching Journey: From Badalona to Brooklyn — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Smallfoot but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Redeem Team (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Space Jam: A New Legacy — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
I Quit (2026)
Keeps the documentary register of The Redeem Team but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Malcolm D. Lee
Director
2 films together
Notably Space Jam: A New Legacy
Judd Apatow
Director
1 film together
Notably Trainwreck
Karey Kirkpatrick
Director
1 film together
Notably Smallfoot
Matthew Akers
Director
1 film together
Notably David Blaine: The Magic Way
Jon Weinbach
Director
1 film together
Notably The Redeem Team
Calmatic
Director
1 film together
Notably House Party
Kai Cenat
Director
1 film together
Notably I Quit
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Malcolm D. Lee
Director
2 films together · 5.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Space Jam: A New LegacyKai Cenat
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I QuitJon Weinbach
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Redeem TeamKarey Kirkpatrick
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SmallfootMatthew Akers
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
David Blaine: The Magic WayJudd Apatow
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TrainwreckCalmatic
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
House PartySix 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
Jordi Fernádez's Coaching Journey: From Badalona to Brooklyn
as Self
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Smallfoot
as Gwangi (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Jordi Fernádez's Coaching Journey: From Badalona to Brooklyn
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Jordi Fernádez's Coaching Journey: From Badalona to Brooklyn
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Jordi Fernádez's Coaching Journey: From Badalona to Brooklyn
as Self
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. LeBron James 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.
Documentary Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in documentary, 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
Jordi Fernádez's Coaching Journey: From Badalona to Brooklyn
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Jordi Fernádez's Coaching Journey: From Badalona to Brooklyn
as Self
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Smallfoot
as Gwangi (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Smallfoot
as Gwangi (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Jordi Fernádez's Coaching Journey: From Badalona to Brooklyn
as Self
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Smallfoot
as Gwangi (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Smallfoot
as Gwangi (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
30 for 30: The Bunny & the GOAT
as Self
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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