Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4355
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Macon Blair 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.
Macon Blair appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Macon. Oppenheimer is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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 comedy, crime, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Macon Blair, Elliott Lester, Christopher Nolan and others, Macon Blair 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.
Oppenheimer (2023) as Lloyd Garrison · The Florida Project (2017) as Tourist John · The Hunt (2020) as Envoy
Career snapshot
Ranked #4355 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2016–2026
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Oppenheimer
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Oppenheimer
Most frequent director
Macon Blair
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Macon Blair
Most common genre
Thriller
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
6.1
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Sister Aimee, Hold the Dark, The Florida Project — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. Sister Aimee, Hold the Dark, The Florida Project.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | 6.65 films | 7.42 films |
| Action | 6.71 film | 6.32 films |
| Thriller | 6.23 films | 6.34 films |
| Comedy | 6.72 films | 4.54 films |
| Crime | 6.33 films | 4.33 films |
| Horror | — | 6.22 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2016Gold
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Connie Wright.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Oppenheimer
8.2 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.
Most recent film
2026Idiots
The current state of the argument, as D.D.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Lloyd Garrison
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Feldstrom
Directed by J Blakeson
as Envoy
Directed by Craig Zobel
as Special Agent Brad Noonan
Directed by Unknown
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
Lloyd Garrison
Oppenheimer (2023)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lloyd Garrison gives Macon Blair a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tourist John
The Florida Project (2017)
Performance score7.2
The Florida Project asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tourist John is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Feldstrom
I Care a Lot (2021)
Performance score6.6
I Care a Lot asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Feldstrom is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Envoy
The Hunt (2020)
Performance score6.6
The Hunt asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Envoy 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 Lloyd Garrison
Start here. Oppenheimer is the clearest statement of what Macon Blair does — accessible, 181 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Macon 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.
The Florida Project (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Oppenheimer but asks for a colder reading of it.
Logan Lucky (2017)
Same director as The Florida Project, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Hunt (2020)
Keeps the action register of Logan Lucky but asks for a colder reading of it.
I Care a Lot (2021)
Keeps the thriller register of The Hunt but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Macon Blair
Director
3 films together
Notably I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Gold
Jeremy Saulnier
Director
1 film together
Notably Hold the Dark
Samantha Buck
Director
1 film together
Notably Sister Aimee
Craig Zobel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunt
J Blakeson
Director
1 film together
Notably I Care a Lot
Christopher Nolan
Director
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Elliott Lester
Director
1 film together
Notably The Thicket
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Macon Blair
Director
3 films together · 4.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
I Don't Feel at Home in This World AnymoreChristopher Nolan
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OppenheimerCraig Zobel
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 HuntJ Blakeson
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Care a LotStephen 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
GoldElliott Lester
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ThicketSamantha Buck
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sister AimeeJeremy Saulnier
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hold the DarkSix 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
Oppenheimer
as Lloyd Garrison
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Oppenheimer
as Lloyd Garrison
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Oppenheimer
as Lloyd Garrison
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Florida Project
as Tourist John
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Oppenheimer
as Lloyd Garrison
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. Macon Blair 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
Oppenheimer
as Lloyd Garrison
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Hunt
as Envoy
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Oppenheimer
as Lloyd Garrison
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Hold the Dark
as Shan
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Oppenheimer
as Lloyd Garrison
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Hunt
as Envoy
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
as Bar Dude
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Oppenheimer
as Lloyd Garrison
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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