Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3915
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Shia LaBeouf 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.
Shia LaBeouf appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Shia. Fury 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 documentary, science fiction, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Mike Figgis, Francis Ford Coppola, Abel Ferrara and others, Shia LaBeouf 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.
Fury (2014) as Boyd 'Bible' Swan · A Man Named Scott (2021) as Self · The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) as Tyler
Career snapshot
Ranked #3915 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
2003–2025
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Fury
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Fury
Most frequent director
Michael Bay
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Michael Bay
Most common genre
Drama
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 57m
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
2010s
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Peanut Butter Falcon, Honey Boy, Man Down — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 8 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. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Eagle Eye, New York, I Love You.
Most productive era
2000s
10 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 | 6.44 films | 6.77 films | 5.74 films |
| Action | 6.66 films | 6.83 films | 5.71 film |
| Thriller | 6.51 film | 6.23 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.13 films | 6.92 films | — |
| Crime | 6.51 film | 6.11 film | 5.71 film |
| Romance | 6.01 film | 6.41 film | — |
| Horror | 7.31 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2003Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Max Petroni.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014Fury
7.7 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
2025Megadoc
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.
24 of 24 films
as Boyd 'Bible' Swan
Directed by David Ayer
as Sam Witwicky
Directed by Michael Bay
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
Tyler
The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Tyler gives Shia LaBeouf a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Boyd 'Bible' Swan
Fury (2014)
Performance score8.0
Fury asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Boyd 'Bible' Swan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
A Man Named Scott (2021)
Performance score7.6
A Man Named Scott asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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James Lort
Honey Boy (2019)
Performance score7.6
Honey Boy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. James Lort 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 Tyler
Start here. The Peanut Butter Falcon is the clearest statement of what Shia LaBeouf does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Shia 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.
Transformers (2007)
Keeps the adventure register of The Peanut Butter Falcon but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fury (2014)
Keeps the action register of Transformers but asks for a colder reading of it.
Honey Boy (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Fury but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Man Named Scott (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Honey Boy — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Michael Bay
Director
3 films together
Notably Transformers
David Ayer
Director
2 films together
Notably Fury
Andrew Davis
Director
1 film together
Notably Holes
McG
Director
1 film together
Notably Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Alex Proyas
Director
1 film together
Notably I, Robot
Francis Lawrence
Director
1 film together
Notably Constantine
Emilio Estevez
Director
1 film together
Notably Bobby
Fatih Akin
Director
1 film together
Notably New York, I Love You
D.J. Caruso
Director
1 film together
Notably Eagle Eye
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together
Notably Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Robert Redford
Director
1 film together
Notably The Company You Keep
Alma Har'el
Director
1 film together
Notably Honey Boy
Kornél Mundruczó
Director
1 film together
Notably Pieces of a Woman
Robert Alexander
Director
1 film together
Notably A Man Named Scott
Abel Ferrara
Director
1 film together
Notably Padre Pio
Francis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably Megalopolis
Mike Figgis
Director
1 film together
Notably Megadoc
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Michael Bay
Director
3 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
TransformersDavid Ayer
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
FuryRobert Alexander
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Man Named ScottFrancis Lawrence
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ConstantineAlex Proyas
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I, RobotKornél Mundruczó
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pieces of a WomanAlma Har'el
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Honey BoyAndrew Davis
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HolesMike Figgis
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MegadocD.J. Caruso
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eagle EyeEmilio Estevez
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BobbyRobert Redford
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 Company You KeepOliver Stone
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wall Street: Money Never SleepsFatih Akin
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
New York, I Love YouMcG
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Charlie's Angels: Full ThrottleFrancis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MegalopolisAbel Ferrara
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Padre PioSix 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
Fury
as Boyd 'Bible' Swan
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Charlie Countryman
as Charlie Countryman
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Fury
as Boyd 'Bible' Swan
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
I, Robot
as Farber
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Peanut Butter Falcon
as Tyler
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. Shia LaBeouf 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
22 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
15 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
Fury
as Boyd 'Bible' Swan
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Constantine
as Chas Kramer
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Charlie Countryman
as Charlie Countryman
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Eagle Eye
as Jerry Shaw
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Fury
as Boyd 'Bible' Swan
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
as Sam Witwicky
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Holes
as Stanley "Caveman" Yelnats IV
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Transformers
as Sam Witwicky
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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Built a career in the same territory: adventure and drama
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Built a career in the same territory: family and comedy
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