Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7211
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tony Hawk represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 39 years in, and Tony is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Tony Hawk appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tony. Rolling Away 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 documentary, action, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Patty Ivins Specht, Jeff Tremaine, Russell Norman and others, Tony Hawk 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.
Rolling Away (2023) as Self · Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off (2022) as Self · Lords of Dogtown (2005) as Astronaut
Career snapshot
Ranked #7211 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
1987–2026
Career length
39 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Rolling Away
Average Nutevio score
4.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Rolling Away
Most frequent director
Jeff Tremaine
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With Jeff Tremaine
Most common genre
Documentary
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 14m
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
6.5
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
2000s
6.7 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Jackass Number Two, Lords of Dogtown, Jackass: The Movie — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.7
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol.
Most productive era
2020s
15 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 | 1980s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.11 film | — | — |
| Action | — | 6.73 films | 4.71 film | 6.73 films |
| Comedy | 5.81 film | 6.52 films | 5.32 films | 5.04 films |
| Crime | 5.81 film | — | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | 4.71 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1987Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Skateboarder.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Rolling Away
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 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.
22 of 22 films
as Self
Directed by Unknown
as Astronaut
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke
as Self
Directed by Russell Norman
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
Self
Rolling Away (2023)
Performance score9.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Tony Hawk a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self
Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off (2022)
Performance score8.2
Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Astronaut
Lords of Dogtown (2005)
Performance score7.0
Lords of Dogtown asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Astronaut is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic (2023)
Performance score6.9
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self 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 Self
Start here. Rolling Away is the clearest statement of what Tony Hawk does — accessible, 47 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tony 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.
Lords of Dogtown (2005)
A deliberate change of key after Rolling Away — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Lords of Dogtown — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Oski (2022)
Keeps the documentary register of Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic (2023)
Keeps the documentary register of Oski but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jeff Tremaine
Director
5 films together
Notably Jackass: Best and Last
Jim Drake
Director
1 film together
Notably Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Catherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together
Notably Lords of Dogtown
Andy Fickman
Director
1 film together
Notably Parental Guidance
Sam Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off
Russell Norman
Director
1 film together
Notably Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Patty Ivins Specht
Director
1 film together
Notably The Rise: The Gold Medal Girls of the X Games
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jeff Tremaine
Director
5 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Jackass: Best and LastSam Jones
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall OffCatherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lords of DogtownRussell Norman
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of MagicAndy Fickman
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Parental GuidanceJim Drake
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Police Academy 4: Citizens on PatrolPatty Ivins Specht
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Rise: The Gold Medal Girls of the X GamesSix 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
Rolling Away
as Self
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
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
Rolling Away
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Lords of Dogtown
as Astronaut
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Rolling Away
as Self
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. Tony Hawk 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
39 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.
Documentary Legend
Awarded
17 catalogue titles in documentary, 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
Rolling Away
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Rolling Away
as Self
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
as Self
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Rolling Away
as Self
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Rolling Away
as Self
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Jackass Forever
as Self
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
as Self
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
as Skateboarder
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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