Tim Blake Nelson

Tim Blake Nelson

Timothy Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964) is an American actor and playwright. Described as a “modern character actor, his roles include Delmar O’Donnell in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Gideon in Minority Report (2002), Doctor Steve Pendanski in Holes (2003), Doctor Jonathan Jacobo in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), Danny Dalton Jr. in Syriana (2005), Samuel Sterns in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Richard Schell in Lincoln (2012), the titular character of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and Henry McCarty in Old Henry (2021). He portrayed Wade Tillman / Looking Glass in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019), for which he received a Critics’ Choice Television Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2020.

Nelson’s directorial credits include Eye of God (1997), which was nominated for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and an Independent Spirit Award; O (2001), a modern-day adaptation of Othello; and the Holocaust drama The Grey Zone (2001). Eye of God and The Grey Zone were both adapted from Nelson’s own plays. Nelson has also co-directed music videos for Billy Woods and Kenny Segal, including “Babylon by Bus” and “Soft Landing.” He also co-directed the music video for Armand Hammer feat. Pink Siifu’s “Trauma Mic.”

Nelson recently published his debut novel, City of Blows (2023), an epic group portrait of four men grappling for control of a script in a radically changing Hollywood.

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Tim Blake Nelson Movies

Discover the best Tim Blake Nelson movies. Explore the complete filmography, including top-rated classics, newest releases, and highest-grossing films starring Tim Blake Nelson ranked by year and score.

1

The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)

Drama History Music
Born into the squalor of eighteenth-century Manchester, Ann Lee rose to become one of the most radical spiritual voices of her era. She founded the Shakers, a devotional community that...
Score 6.5
2

Atropia (2025)

Comedy Drama
Inside a sprawling Army training base designed to mimic a Middle Eastern city, actors and hired role-players stage elaborate simulations for soldiers preparing to deploy. One woman, hungry for a...
Score 5.7
3

Bang Bang (2025)

Drama
A former boxer emerges from decades of self-imposed exile when his estranged grandson seeks him out. As Bernard Rozyski takes the kid under his wing, old ghosts resurface: a woman...
Score 7.1
4

Captain America: Brave New World (2025)

Action Science Fiction Thriller
Sam Wilson is still finding his footing as Captain America when a routine visit to the newly elected President Thaddeus Ross pulls him into a geopolitical firestorm he never saw...
Score 6.0
5

Ghosted (2023)

Action Comedy Romance
Cole is a down-to-earth farmer who thinks he's found a genuine connection with the mysterious Sadie, only to discover she's been living a double life as a covert operative. Before...
Score 6.9
6

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)

Adventure Animation Drama
Set against the darkening shadow of Mussolini's Italy, del Toro's stop-motion reimagining of the classic fable finds Geppetto grieving, desperate, and carving a son from pine and heartbreak. The wooden...
Score 8.0
7

Just Mercy (2019)

Crime Drama History
Fresh out of Harvard Law, Bryan Stevenson heads to Alabama not for a prestigious firm but for death row, where men with no money and no advocates wait for justice...
Score 7.9
8

The Report (2019)

Drama
Daniel Jones, a Senate investigator, spent years assembling a meticulous 6,000-page study documenting the CIA's systematic torture of detainees. What he uncovered contradicted official narratives and challenged those invested in...
Score 7.0
9

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

Comedy Drama Western
Six separate lives collide across a fractured American frontier, each pursuing their own measure of survival and meaning. A virtuoso gunslinger performs ballads between bloodshed. A hapless criminal schemes beyond...
Score 7.1
10

Snake & Mongoose (2013)

Drama
Before sponsorship deals ruled professional sports, two drag racers from Southern California rewrote the rulebook. Don Prudhomme and Tom McEwen were friends, competitors, and unlikely business visionaries who convinced major...
Score 5.2
11

Lincoln (2012)

Drama History
January 1865. The Civil War grinds toward its bloody conclusion, and Abraham Lincoln knows he has a narrow window to pass the Thirteenth Amendment before peace negotiations complicate everything. Steven...
Score 6.8
12

Detachment (2011)

Drama
Henry Barthes drifts through public schools like a ghost, filling in where teachers have given up or burned out, never planting roots long enough to be hurt by what he...
Score 7.6
13

The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Action Adventure Science Fiction
Bruce Banner has spent years running from himself, chasing a cure for the condition that turns him into a creature of pure, destructive fury. When the military tracks him down,...
Score 6.2
14

Syriana (2005)

Drama Thriller
Few industries concentrate as much power, money, and moral compromise as global oil, and Stephen Gaghan's sprawling 2005 drama maps that corruption across three continents. A Washington lawyer greases a...
Score 6.4
15

The Last Shot (2004)

Action Comedy
Steven Schats has spent years trying to get his passion project off the ground, so when a well-heeled producer finally comes calling, it feels like a dream come true. The...
Score 5.7
16

Minority Report (2002)

Action Science Fiction Thriller
In a near-future Washington D.C., murder has been effectively eliminated by a police unit that arrests killers before they strike, relying on the visions of three psychic humans called precogs....
Score 7.4
17

The Thin Red Line (1998)

Drama History War
Terrence Malick turns the Pacific campaign at Guadalcanal into something closer to a philosophical reckoning than a conventional war film. C-for-Charlie Company arrives expecting resistance and finds something worse: a...
Score 7.4
18

Donnie Brasco (1997)

Crime Drama Thriller
Joe Pistone spent years buried so deep inside the Bonanno crime family that the line between cover and conviction nearly disappeared. Posing as small-time jewel thief Donnie Brasco, he earned...
Score 7.5

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According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Tim Blake Nelson are The Testament of Ann Lee, Atropia, and Bang Bang.
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