Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tom Holland 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.
Tom Holland appears in 30 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tom. The Odyssey is the clearest case: a film rated 8.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for adventure, drama, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Christopher Nolan, Destin Daniel Cretton, Ruben Fleischer and others, Tom Holland 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.
The Odyssey (2026) as Telemachus · Avengers: Endgame (2019) as Peter Parker / Spider-Man · Avengers: Infinity War (2018) as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Career snapshot
Ranked #1 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
30
2012–2026
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.9
The Odyssey
Average Nutevio score
7.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
The Odyssey
Most frequent director
Jon Watts
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Jon Watts
Most common genre
Adventure
19 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
7.0
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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Spider-Man: Far From Home, Avengers: Endgame, Spies in Disguise — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 16 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.1
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. Spider-Man: Far From Home, Avengers: Endgame, Spies in Disguise.
Most productive era
2010s
16 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 | 6.68 films | 7.83 films |
| Action | 7.59 films | 7.55 films |
| Thriller | 6.74 films | 7.21 film |
| Comedy | 7.51 film | 7.12 films |
| Crime | — | 7.32 films |
| Romance | 6.61 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012The Impossible
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lucas Bennett.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026The Odyssey
8.9 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
The current state of the argument, as Peter Parker / Spider-Man.
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.
30 of 30 films
as Telemachus
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Directed by Jon Watts
as Telemachus
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Directed by Jon Watts
as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Directed by Anthony Russo
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 32 titles · 34 total credits · active 2012–2026
Generations: The Evolution of Spider-Man
2026 · Self - "Spider-Man/Peter Parker"
The Odyssey: The Making of an Epic
2026 · Self - "Telemachus"
The Odyssey
2026 · Telemachus
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
2026 · Peter Parker / Spider-Man
The Crowded Room
2023 · TV · Danny Sullivan · Executive Producer
Uncharted
2022 · Nathan Drake · Executive Producer
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022 · Self
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021 · Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Cherry
2021 · Cherry
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021 · Peter Parker / Spider-Man (uncredited)
Chaos Walking
2021 · Todd Hewitt
The Devil All the Time
2020 · Arvin Russell
Dolittle
2020 · Jip (voice)
Onward
2020 · Ian Lightfoot (voice)
Spider-Man: Far From Home
2019 · Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Avengers: Endgame
2019 · Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Spies in Disguise
2019 · Walter Beckett (voice)
Peter's To-Do List
2019 · Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
2019 · Self
Avengers: Infinity War
2018 · Peter Parker / Spider-Man
The Current War
2018 · Samuel Insull
Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017 · Peter Parker / Spider-Man
The Lost City of Z
2017 · Jack Fawcett
Pilgrimage
2017 · The Novice - Brother Diarmuid
The defining work
#1
Telemachus
The Odyssey (2026)
Performance score9.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Telemachus gives Tom Holland a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Performance score8.7
Spider-Man: No Way Home asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Peter Parker / Spider-Man is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Telemachus
The Odyssey (2026)
Performance score8.2
The Odyssey asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Telemachus is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
Performance score8.2
Spider-Man: Far From Home asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Peter Parker / Spider-Man 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 Telemachus
Start here. The Odyssey is the clearest statement of what Tom Holland does — accessible, 165 minutes, and rated 8.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tom 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.
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
Keeps the adventure register of The Odyssey but asks for a colder reading of it.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Keeps the action register of Spider-Man: Far From Home but asks for a colder reading of it.
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Keeps the action register of Avengers: Endgame but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Odyssey (2026)
Keeps the action register of Spider-Man: No Way Home but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Anthony Russo
Director
4 films together
Notably Avengers: Endgame
Jon Watts
Director
4 films together
Notably Spider-Man: No Way Home
Christopher Nolan
Director
2 films together
Notably The Odyssey
J. A. Bayona
Director
1 film together
Notably The Impossible
Kevin Macdonald
Director
1 film together
Notably How I Live Now
Steven Knight
Director
1 film together
Notably Locke
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably In the Heart of the Sea
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Director
1 film together
Notably The Current War
Troy Quane
Director
1 film together
Notably Spies in Disguise
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Dolittle
Antonio Campos
Director
1 film together
Notably The Devil All the Time
Doug Liman
Director
1 film together
Notably Chaos Walking
Andy Serkis
Director
1 film together
Notably Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Ruben Fleischer
Director
1 film together
Notably Uncharted
Destin Daniel Cretton
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Anne Hathaway
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Matt Damon
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Elliot Page
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Jamie Harris
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Robert Pattinson
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Himesh Patel
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
John Leguizamo
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Charlize Theron
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Travis Scott
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Corey Hawkins
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Jarreth J. Merz
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Niko Nicotera
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Anthony Russo
Director
4 films together · 8.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Avengers: EndgameJon Watts
Director
4 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Spider-Man: No Way HomeChristopher Nolan
Director
2 films together · 8.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The OdysseyTroy Quane
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spies in DisguiseDestin Daniel Cretton
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: Brand New DayJ. A. Bayona
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 ImpossibleAntonio Campos
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Devil All the TimeRuben Fleischer
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnchartedSteven Knight
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LockeRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In the Heart of the SeaAndy Serkis
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Venom: Let There Be CarnageAlfonso Gomez-Rejon
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Current WarDoug Liman
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chaos WalkingStephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DolittleKevin Macdonald
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How I Live NowSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
6 wins
1 win · latest 2017
as Actor
1 win
as Actor
1 win · latest 2013
as Actor
1 win · latest 2013
as Actor
1 win · latest 2012
as Actor
1 win · latest 2012
as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Odyssey
as Telemachus
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 Odyssey
as Telemachus
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Odyssey
as Telemachus
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
as Peter Parker / Spider-Man (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Odyssey
as Telemachus
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. Tom Holland has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.9 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #558 of 681 | #2 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.9 | 9.3 |
| Genres | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Emotional range, Drama, Screen presence | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 2026–2026 | 2006–2014 |
| Most iconic role | Telemachus — The Odyssey | Professor Brand — Interstellar |
| Most rewatchable film | The Odyssey | The Dark Knight |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Christopher Nolan
Shared collections
Adventure Movies, Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Christopher Nolan · Anne Hathaway · Matt Damon
Michael Caine edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
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.
Adventure Legend
Awarded
19 catalogue titles in adventure, 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
The Odyssey
as Telemachus
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Avengers: Infinity War
as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Odyssey
as Telemachus
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Uncharted
as Nathan Drake
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Avengers: Endgame
as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Odyssey
as Telemachus
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Onward
as Ian Lightfoot (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Odyssey
as Telemachus
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 4 Nutevio collections
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