Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10295
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Patrick Fugit 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.
Patrick Fugit appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Patrick. Gone Girl 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 comedy, drama, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Damien Chazelle, David Fincher, Cameron Crowe and others, Patrick Fugit 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.
Gone Girl (2014) as Officer James Gilpin · Babylon (2022) as Officer Elwood · First Man (2018) as Elliot See
Career snapshot
Ranked #10295 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2002–2022
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Gone Girl
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Gone Girl
Most frequent director
Damien Chazelle
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Damien Chazelle
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
2h 2m
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
6.5
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Robert the Bruce, First Man, Gone Girl — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 5 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. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, Saved!, Spun.
Most productive era
2010s
5 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 | 6.82 films | 6.75 films | 6.62 films |
| Action | 5.91 film | — | — |
| Thriller | 5.91 film | 8.11 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.52 films | 6.42 films | 7.31 film |
| Crime | 6.61 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | 5.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2002White Oleander
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Paul Trout.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014Gone Girl
8.1 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
2022Babylon
The current state of the argument, as Officer Elwood.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Officer James Gilpin
Directed by David Fincher
as Officer Elwood
Directed by Damien Chazelle
as Elliot See
Directed by Damien Chazelle
as Paul Trout
Directed by Peter Kosminsky
as Frisbee
Directed by Jonas Åkerlund
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
Officer James Gilpin
Gone Girl (2014)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Officer James Gilpin gives Patrick Fugit a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Officer Elwood
Babylon (2022)
Performance score7.2
Babylon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Officer Elwood is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Elliot See
First Man (2018)
Performance score7.1
First Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Elliot See is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Paul Trout
White Oleander (2002)
Performance score6.9
White Oleander asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Paul Trout 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 Officer James Gilpin
Start here. Gone Girl is the clearest statement of what Patrick Fugit does — accessible, 149 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Patrick 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.
White Oleander (2002)
Keeps the drama register of Gone Girl but asks for a colder reading of it.
Spun (2003)
Keeps the drama register of White Oleander but asks for a colder reading of it.
First Man (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Spun but asks for a colder reading of it.
Babylon (2022)
Same director as First Man, 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.
Damien Chazelle
Director
2 films together
Notably Babylon
Peter Kosminsky
Director
1 film together
Notably White Oleander
Jonas Åkerlund
Director
1 film together
Notably Spun
Brian Dannelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Saved!
Paul Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Cameron Crowe
Director
1 film together
Notably We Bought a Zoo
David Fincher
Director
1 film together
Notably Gone Girl
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Damien Chazelle
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
BabylonDavid Fincher
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gone GirlPeter Kosminsky
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
White OleanderCameron Crowe
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We Bought a ZooJonas Åkerlund
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SpunBrian Dannelly
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Saved!Paul Weitz
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's AssistantSix 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
Gone Girl
as Officer James Gilpin
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
First Man
as Elliot See
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Gone Girl
as Officer James Gilpin
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Babylon
as Officer Elwood
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Gone Girl
as Officer James Gilpin
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. Patrick Fugit 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
20 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
9 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
Gone Girl
as Officer James Gilpin
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Gone Girl
as Officer James Gilpin
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
First Man
as Elliot See
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Gone Girl
as Officer James Gilpin
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Gone Girl
as Officer James Gilpin
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
as Evra the Snake Boy
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Spun
as Frisbee
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Gone Girl
as Officer James Gilpin
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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