Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#404
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Josh O'Connor 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.
Josh O'Connor appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Josh. Disclosure Day is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, thriller, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Steven Spielberg, Oliver Hermanus, Rian Johnson and others, Josh O'Connor 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.
Disclosure Day (2026) as Daniel Kellner · La Chimera (2023) as Arthur · Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) as Fr. Jud Duplenticy
Career snapshot
Ranked #404 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2014–2026
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Disclosure Day
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Disclosure Day
Most frequent director
Stephen Frears
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Stephen Frears
Most common genre
Drama
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 53m
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
6.3
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
6.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Disclosure Day, The Mastermind, The History of Sound — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.6
Across 12 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.6
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. Only You, Hope Gap, Florence Foster Jenkins.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | 6.56 films | 6.59 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.42 films |
| Comedy | 6.71 film | 7.23 films |
| Crime | — | 5.71 film |
| Romance | 6.72 films | 6.54 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014The Riot Club
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ed Montgomery.
Career peak
2023La Chimera
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance · Most recent film
2026Disclosure Day
7.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. The current state of the argument, as Daniel Kellner.
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.
18 of 18 films
as Daniel Kellner
Directed by Steven Spielberg
as Arthur
Directed by Alice Rohrwacher
as Fr. Jud Duplenticy
Directed by Rian Johnson
as Patrick Zweig
Directed by Luca Guadagnino
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
Daniel Kellner
Disclosure Day (2026)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Daniel Kellner gives Josh O'Connor a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Arthur
La Chimera (2023)
Performance score7.9
La Chimera asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Arthur is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Fr. Jud Duplenticy
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)
Performance score7.6
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fr. Jud Duplenticy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mr. Elton
Emma. (2020)
Performance score7.4
Emma. asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mr. Elton 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 Daniel Kellner
Start here. Disclosure Day is the clearest statement of what Josh O'Connor does — accessible, 146 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Josh 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.
Emma. (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Disclosure Day — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
La Chimera (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Emma. but asks for a colder reading of it.
Challengers (2024)
Keeps the drama register of La Chimera but asks for a colder reading of it.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Challengers — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Stephen Frears
Director
2 films together
Notably Florence Foster Jenkins
Lone Scherfig
Director
1 film together
Notably The Riot Club
Kenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Cinderella
William Nicholson
Director
1 film together
Notably Hope Gap
Harry Wootliff
Director
1 film together
Notably Only You
Eva Husson
Director
1 film together
Notably Mothering Sunday
Alice Rohrwacher
Director
1 film together
Notably La Chimera
Ellen Kuras
Director
1 film together
Notably Lee
Luca Guadagnino
Director
1 film together
Notably Challengers
Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Oliver Hermanus
Director
1 film together
Notably The History of Sound
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Disclosure Day
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Stephen Frears
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Florence Foster JenkinsSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Disclosure DayAlice Rohrwacher
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
La ChimeraRian Johnson
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out MysteryEllen Kuras
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LeeLuca Guadagnino
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ChallengersOliver Hermanus
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The History of SoundKenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CinderellaHarry Wootliff
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Only YouWilliam Nicholson
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hope GapLone Scherfig
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Riot ClubEva Husson
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mothering SundaySix 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
Disclosure Day
as Daniel Kellner
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Challengers
as Patrick Zweig
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Disclosure Day
as Daniel Kellner
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Cinderella
as Ballroom Palace Guard
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Disclosure Day
as Daniel Kellner
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. Josh O'Connor 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.
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
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Fr. Jud Duplenticy
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Fr. Jud Duplenticy
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The History of Sound
as David
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Fr. Jud Duplenticy
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Disclosure Day
as Daniel Kellner
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Disclosure Day
as Daniel Kellner
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Emma.
as Mr. Elton
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Disclosure Day
as Daniel Kellner
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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