Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#211
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Harrison Ford represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 56 years in, and Harrison is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Harrison Ford appears in 60 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Harrison. Disney 100: Remember That is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 tv movie, documentary, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Julius Onah, James Mangold, Adam Countee and others, Harrison Ford 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.
Disney 100: Remember That (2023) as Self · Blade Runner 2049 (2017) as Rick Deckard · The Empire Strikes Back (1980) as Han Solo
Career snapshot
Ranked #211 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
60
1970–2026
Career length
56 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Disney 100: Remember That
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Disney 100: Remember That
Most frequent director
Steven Spielberg
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Steven Spielberg
Most common genre
Drama
29 titles
Average runtime
1h 52m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.3
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
7.6
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
1980s
7.5 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Frantic, Working Girl — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
7.5
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
7.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
2 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Secret Life of Pets 2, Alan Pakula: Going for Truth, Blade Runner 2049.
Most productive era
2010s
14 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 | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.06 films | 7.05 films | 6.57 films | 6.43 films | 7.27 films | 7.51 film |
| Action | 8.51 film | 8.15 films | 6.75 films | 5.62 films | 6.54 films | 6.42 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.52 films | 6.67 films | 6.04 films | 5.93 films | 6.31 film |
| Comedy | 6.62 films | 6.61 film | 6.22 films | 5.21 film | 6.53 films | 4.31 film |
| Sci-Fi | — | — | — | — | 9.21 film | — |
| Crime | 7.31 film | 6.82 films | 6.63 films | 6.02 films | — | — |
| Romance | — | 6.61 film | 6.14 films | — | 7.02 films | — |
| Horror | — | — | — | 6.41 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1970Zabriskie Point
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Arrested Student (uncredited).
First Nutevio masterpiece
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
10.0 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 Self (archive footage).
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.
60 of 60 films
as Rick Deckard
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Han Solo
Directed by Irvin Kershner
as Han Solo
Directed by George Lucas
as Deckard
Directed by Ridley Scott
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 64 titles · 66 total credits · active 1970–2026
2025: The Year from Space
2026 · Self (archive footage)
Captain America: Brave New World
2025 · President Thaddeus Ross
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
2023 · Indiana Jones
Willow: Behind the Magic
2023 · Indiana Jones / Han Solo (archive footage) (uncredited)
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
2023 · Self
Disney 100: Remember That
2023 · Self
Shrinking
2023 · TV · Dr. Paul Rhodes
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
2023 · TV · Self (archive footage)
Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
2022 · Self - (archive footage)
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
2022 · TV · Self
1923
2022 · TV · Jacob Dutton
Sergio Mendes in the Key of Joy
2021 · Self
Being James Bond
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
2021 · Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Blade Runner Phenomenon
2021 · Self - Actor (Rick Deckard) (archive footage)
The Skywalker Legacy
2020 · Self
The Call of the Wild
2020 · John Thornton
The Secret Life of Pets 2
2019 · Rooster (voice)
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019 · Self
Blade Runner 2049
2017 · Rick Deckard
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015 · Han Solo
The Age of Adaline
2015 · William Jones
The Expendables 3
2014 · Max Drummer
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
2013 · Mack Tannen
The defining work
#1
Self
Disney 100: Remember That (2023)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Harrison Ford a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Rick Deckard
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Performance score9.3
Blade Runner 2049 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rick Deckard is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
Han Solo
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Performance score8.8
The Empire Strikes Back asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Han Solo is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Han Solo
Star Wars (1977)
Performance score8.7
Star Wars asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Han Solo is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Self
Start here. Disney 100: Remember That is the clearest statement of what Harrison Ford does — accessible, 36 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Harrison 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.
Star Wars (1977)
A deliberate change of key after Disney 100: Remember That — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Keeps the action register of Star Wars but asks for a colder reading of it.
Blade Runner (1982)
Keeps the science fiction register of The Empire Strikes Back but asks for a colder reading of it.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Blade Runner but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Steven Spielberg
Director
3 films together
Notably Raiders of the Lost Ark
George Lucas
Director
2 films together
Notably Star Wars
Francis Ford Coppola
Director
2 films together
Notably Apocalypse Now
Peter Weir
Director
2 films together
Notably Witness
Mike Nichols
Director
2 films together
Notably Working Girl
Phillip Noyce
Director
2 films together
Notably Clear and Present Danger
Alan J. Pakula
Director
2 films together
Notably Presumed Innocent
Sydney Pollack
Director
2 films together
Notably Sabrina
Denis Villeneuve
Director
2 films together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Michelangelo Antonioni
Director
1 film together
Notably Zabriskie Point
Guy Hamilton
Director
1 film together
Notably Force 10 from Navarone
Steve Binder
Director
1 film together
Notably The Star Wars Holiday Special
Robert Aldrich
Director
1 film together
Notably The Frisco Kid
Irvin Kershner
Director
1 film together
Notably The Empire Strikes Back
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner
Richard Marquand
Director
1 film together
Notably Return of the Jedi
Roman Polanski
Director
1 film together
Notably Frantic
Andrew Davis
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fugitive
Wolfgang Petersen
Director
1 film together
Notably Air Force One
Ivan Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Six Days Seven Nights
Robert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together
Notably What Lies Beneath
Kathryn Bigelow
Director
1 film together
Notably K-19: The Widowmaker
Ron Shelton
Director
1 film together
Notably Hollywood Homicide
Richard Loncraine
Director
1 film together
Notably Firewall
Wayne Kramer
Director
1 film together
Notably Crossing Over
Tom Vaughan
Director
1 film together
Notably Extraordinary Measures
Roger Michell
Director
1 film together
Notably Morning Glory
Jon Favreau
Director
1 film together
Notably Cowboys & Aliens
Robert Luketic
Director
1 film together
Notably Paranoia
Brian Helgeland
Director
1 film together
Notably 42
Gavin Hood
Director
1 film together
Notably Ender's Game
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Patrick Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably The Expendables 3
Lee Toland Krieger
Director
1 film together
Notably The Age of Adaline
J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Chris Renaud
Director
1 film together
Notably The Secret Life of Pets 2
Chris Sanders
Director
1 film together
Notably The Call of the Wild
Debs Paterson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Skywalker Legacy
Adam Countee
Director
1 film together
Notably Willow: Behind the Magic
James Mangold
Director
1 film together
Notably Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Julius Onah
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain America: Brave New World
Ryan Gosling
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Ana de Armas
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Dave Bautista
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Robin Wright
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Sylvia Hoeks
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Mackenzie Davis
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Jared Leto
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Carla Juri
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Hiam Abbass
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Lennie James
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
David Dastmalchian
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Sean Young
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Steven Spielberg
Director
3 films together · 7.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Raiders of the Lost ArkDenis Villeneuve
Director
2 films together · 8.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Blade Runner 2049Francis Ford Coppola
Director
2 films together · 7.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Apocalypse NowGeorge Lucas
Director
2 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Star WarsPhillip Noyce
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
Clear and Present DangerPeter Weir
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
WitnessAlan J. Pakula
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Presumed InnocentMike Nichols
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Working GirlSydney Pollack
Director
2 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SabrinaIrvin Kershner
Director
1 film together · 8.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Empire Strikes BackRichard Marquand
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Return of the JediRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blade RunnerDebs Paterson
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Skywalker LegacyChris Sanders
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Call of the WildJ.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Wars: The Force AwakensLee Toland Krieger
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Age of AdalineAndrew Davis
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The FugitiveBrian Helgeland
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
42Chris Renaud
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Secret Life of Pets 2Michelangelo Antonioni
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Zabriskie PointRoman Polanski
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FranticGavin Hood
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ender's GameKathryn Bigelow
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
K-19: The WidowmakerJames Mangold
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Indiana Jones and the Dial of DestinyWolfgang Petersen
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Air Force OneRoger Michell
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Morning GloryRobert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What Lies BeneathJulius Onah
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain America: Brave New WorldTom Vaughan
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Extraordinary MeasuresGuy Hamilton
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Force 10 from NavaronePatrick Hughes
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 Expendables 3Robert Aldrich
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 Frisco KidAdam McKay
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Anchorman 2: The Legend ContinuesWayne Kramer
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crossing OverIvan Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Six Days Seven NightsRichard Loncraine
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FirewallRobert Luketic
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ParanoiaJon Favreau
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cowboys & AliensRon Shelton
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hollywood HomicideSteve Binder
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Star Wars Holiday SpecialAdam Countee
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Willow: Behind the MagicSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 2018
Blade Runner 2049
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Blade Runner 2049
as Rick Deckard
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Blade Runner 2049
as Rick Deckard
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Willow: Behind the Magic
as Indiana Jones / Han Solo (archive footage) (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Blade Runner 2049
as Rick Deckard
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. Harrison Ford has known it for a long time.”
“You've never seen a miracle.”
“Dying for the right cause is the most human thing we can do.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.0 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #394 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.2 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Denis Villeneuve | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Drama, Screen presence, Charisma | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2017–2017 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Rick Deckard — Blade Runner 2049 | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Blade Runner 2049 | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Best Space Movies, Best Movies of the 2010s, Sci-Fi Movies, Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
David Dastmalchian
Matt Damon 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
56 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
29 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
Blade Runner 2049
as Rick Deckard
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Blade Runner 2049
as Rick Deckard
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Blade Runner 2049
as Rick Deckard
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
as Indiana Jones
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Frisco Kid
as Tommy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Blade Runner 2049
as Rick Deckard
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 11 Nutevio collections
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