Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2700
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Campbell Scott represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 35 years in, and Campbell is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Campbell Scott appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Campbell. De Gaulle: Résistance is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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, history, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Stephen Chbosky, Edward Burns, Colin Trevorrow and others, Campbell Scott 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.
De Gaulle: Résistance (2026) as Roosevelt · De Gaulle: Liberté (2026) as Roosevelt · Phoebe in Wonderland (2008) as Principal Davis
Career snapshot
Ranked #2700 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
1991–2026
Career length
35 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
De Gaulle: Résistance
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
De Gaulle: Liberté
Most frequent director
Marc Webb
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Marc Webb
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.6
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
1990s
6.7 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Big Night, Dead Again — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.7
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Big Night, Dead Again.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.01 film | 6.72 films | 5.91 film | 7.23 films |
| Action | — | — | 6.92 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.41 film | — | 5.91 film | 6.61 film |
| Comedy | 7.01 film | 6.32 films | — | 6.81 film |
| Romance | 6.72 films | 6.51 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1991Dead Again
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Doug O'Malley.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.8 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 Roosevelt.
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 Richard Parker
Directed by Marc Webb
as Bob
Directed by Stanley Tucci
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
Roosevelt
De Gaulle: Résistance (2026)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Roosevelt gives Campbell Scott a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Roosevelt
De Gaulle: Liberté (2026)
Performance score7.6
De Gaulle: Liberté asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Roosevelt is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Principal Davis
Phoebe in Wonderland (2008)
Performance score7.3
Phoebe in Wonderland asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Principal Davis is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Richard Parker
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Performance score6.9
The Amazing Spider-Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Richard Parker 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 Roosevelt
Start here. De Gaulle: Résistance is the clearest statement of what Campbell Scott does — accessible, 160 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Campbell 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.
Big Night (1996)
Keeps the drama register of De Gaulle: Résistance but asks for a colder reading of it.
Phoebe in Wonderland (2008)
Keeps the drama register of Big Night but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
A deliberate change of key after Phoebe in Wonderland — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
De Gaulle: Liberté (2026)
A deliberate change of key after The Amazing Spider-Man — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Marc Webb
Director
2 films together
Notably The Amazing Spider-Man
Kenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Dead Again
Stanley Tucci
Director
1 film together
Notably Big Night
Marc Lawrence
Director
1 film together
Notably Music and Lyrics
Daniel Barnz
Director
1 film together
Notably Phoebe in Wonderland
Colin Trevorrow
Director
1 film together
Notably Jurassic World Dominion
Edward Burns
Director
1 film together
Notably Millers in Marriage
Stephen Chbosky
Director
1 film together
Notably Nonnas
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Marc Webb
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Amazing Spider-ManDaniel Barnz
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Phoebe in WonderlandStanley Tucci
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big NightStephen Chbosky
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NonnasColin Trevorrow
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jurassic World DominionMarc Lawrence
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Music and LyricsKenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dead AgainEdward Burns
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Millers in MarriageSix 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
De Gaulle: Résistance
as Roosevelt
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
De Gaulle: Résistance
as Roosevelt
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
De Gaulle: Résistance
as Roosevelt
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
De Gaulle: Liberté
as Roosevelt
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
De Gaulle: Résistance
as Roosevelt
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. Campbell Scott 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
35 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
7 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
De Gaulle: Liberté
as Roosevelt
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
De Gaulle: Liberté
as Roosevelt
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
De Gaulle: Résistance
as Roosevelt
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Manhattan Night
as Simon Crowley
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Amazing Spider-Man
as Richard Parker
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
as Richard Parker
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Big Night
as Bob
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Amazing Spider-Man
as Richard Parker
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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