Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#29234
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Anthony Shim 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.
Anthony Shim appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Anthony. Riceboy Sleeps is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 drama, romance, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Anthony Shim, Chad Hartigan, Justin Lin and others, Anthony Shim 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.
Riceboy Sleeps (2023) as Simon · Little Fish (2021) as Checkpoint Guard · Star Trek Beyond (2016) as Jin
Career snapshot
Ranked #29234 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
2013–2023
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Riceboy Sleeps
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Riceboy Sleeps
Most frequent director
Anthony Shim
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Anthony Shim
Most common genre
Science Fiction
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
6.3
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
2020s
7.2 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Riceboy Sleeps, Little Fish — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.2
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
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. Zoe, Star Trek Beyond, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.
Most productive era
2010s
3 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 | — | 7.22 films |
| Action | 6.81 film | — |
| Thriller | 5.91 film | — |
| Romance | 5.91 film | 7.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Barista - Hecatonshire.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2023Riceboy Sleeps
7.2 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 Simon.
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.
5 of 5 films
as Checkpoint Guard
Directed by Chad Hartigan
as Jin
Directed by Justin Lin
as Barista - Hecatonshire
Directed by Thor Freudenthal
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
Simon
Riceboy Sleeps (2023)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Simon gives Anthony Shim a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Checkpoint Guard
Little Fish (2021)
Performance score7.0
Little Fish asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Checkpoint Guard is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jin
Star Trek Beyond (2016)
Performance score6.7
Star Trek Beyond asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hideo
Zoe (2018)
Performance score6.5
Zoe asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hideo 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 Simon
Start here. Riceboy Sleeps is the clearest statement of what Anthony Shim does — accessible, 117 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Anthony 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.
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Riceboy Sleeps — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Star Trek Beyond (2016)
Keeps the adventure register of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters but asks for a colder reading of it.
Zoe (2018)
Keeps the science fiction register of Star Trek Beyond but asks for a colder reading of it.
Little Fish (2021)
Keeps the romance register of Zoe but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Thor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together
Notably Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Justin Lin
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Trek Beyond
Chad Hartigan
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Fish
Anthony Shim
Director
1 film together
Notably Riceboy Sleeps
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Anthony Shim
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Riceboy SleepsChad Hartigan
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little FishJustin Lin
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Trek BeyondThor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Percy Jackson: Sea of MonstersSix 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
Riceboy Sleeps
as Simon
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Little Fish
as Checkpoint Guard
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Riceboy Sleeps
as Simon
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Little Fish
as Checkpoint Guard
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Riceboy Sleeps
as Simon
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. Anthony Shim 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.
Science Fiction Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in science fiction, 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
Riceboy Sleeps
as Simon
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Star Trek Beyond
as Jin
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Little Fish
as Checkpoint Guard
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
as Barista - Hecatonshire
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Star Trek Beyond
as Jin
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Star Trek Beyond
as Jin
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Little Fish
as Checkpoint Guard
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Riceboy Sleeps
as Simon
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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