Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12227
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Scott Haze 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.
Scott Haze appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Scott. Sound of Freedom 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 western, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kevin Costner, Alejandro Monteverde, Colin Trevorrow and others, Scott Haze 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.
Sound of Freedom (2023) as Chris · Only the Brave (2017) as Clayton Whitted · Minari (2021) as Billy
Career snapshot
Ranked #12227 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2016–2024
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Sound of Freedom
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Sound of Freedom
Most frequent director
Kevin Costner
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Kevin Costner
Most common genre
Drama
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 59m
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. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1, Red Right Hand, Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 — 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. Venom, Future World, Only the Brave.
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 | 6.63 films | 6.88 films |
| Action | 7.01 film | 7.04 films |
| Thriller | 5.51 film | 6.25 films |
| Crime | — | 6.32 films |
| Horror | 5.51 film | 6.13 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Frank.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Sound of Freedom
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
2024The Seeding
The current state of the argument, as Wyndham Stone.
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 Chris
Directed by Alejandro Monteverde
as Curry
Directed by Potsy Ponciroli
as Clayton Whitted
Directed by Joseph Kosinski
as Security Chief Roland Treece
Directed by Ruben Fleischer
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
Chris
Sound of Freedom (2023)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Chris gives Scott Haze a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Curry
Old Henry (2021)
Performance score7.5
Old Henry asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Curry is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Clayton Whitted
Only the Brave (2017)
Performance score7.2
Only the Brave asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Clayton Whitted is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Billy
Minari (2021)
Performance score7.1
Minari asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Billy 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 Chris
Start here. Sound of Freedom is the clearest statement of what Scott Haze does — accessible, 131 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Scott 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.
Only the Brave (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Sound of Freedom but asks for a colder reading of it.
Venom (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Only the Brave — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Old Henry (2021)
Keeps the action register of Venom but asks for a colder reading of it.
Minari (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Old Henry but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
James Franco
Director
2 films together
Notably In Dubious Battle
Kevin Costner
Director
2 films together
Notably Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Only the Brave
Ruben Fleischer
Director
1 film together
Notably Venom
Scott Cooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Antlers
Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.
Director
1 film together
Notably Wild Indian
Lee Isaac Chung
Director
1 film together
Notably Minari
Potsy Ponciroli
Director
1 film together
Notably Old Henry
Colin Trevorrow
Director
1 film together
Notably Jurassic World Dominion
Alejandro Monteverde
Director
1 film together
Notably Sound of Freedom
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kevin Costner
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
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1James Franco
Director
2 films together · 5.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
In Dubious BattleAlejandro Monteverde
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sound of FreedomJoseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Only the BraveLee Isaac Chung
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MinariPotsy Ponciroli
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Old HenryRuben Fleischer
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VenomColin Trevorrow
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jurassic World DominionScott Cooper
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AntlersLyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wild IndianSix 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
Sound of Freedom
as Chris
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Only the Brave
as Clayton Whitted
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Sound of Freedom
as Chris
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
as Elias Janney
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Sound of Freedom
as Chris
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. Scott Haze 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
11 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
Sound of Freedom
as Chris
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Sound of Freedom
as Chris
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Only the Brave
as Clayton Whitted
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Antlers
as Frank Weaver
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Sound of Freedom
as Chris
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Old Henry
as Curry
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Only the Brave
as Clayton Whitted
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Future World
as Gutter
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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