Nicholas Hoult Movies: Every Film Credit, 2002–2027

Nicholas Hoult has film credits spanning 25 years, from 2002 to 2027. A filmography that runs that long stops being a list of jobs and starts being a record of how the industry changed around someone: the kinds of film available to a performer in 2002 and in 2027 have little in common, and the 42 titles below cross that shift rather than sitting on one side of it.

Every Nicholas Hoult film credit

In release order, with the character recorded where the source carries it — 15 of 42 here.

1. 01 About a Boy 2002
2. 02 The Weather Man 2005
3. 03 Wah-Wah 2005
4. 04 Kidulthood 2006
5. 05 Coming Down the Mountain 2007
6. 06 A Single Man 2009
7. 07 Clash of the Titans 2010
8. 08 X-Men: First Class as Beast 2011
9. 09 Jack the Giant Slayer as Jack 2013
10. 10 Warm Bodies 2013
11. 11 X-Men: Days of Future Past as Beast 2014
12. 12 Young Ones 2014
13. 13 Mad Max: Fury Road as Nux 2015
14. 14 Dark Places 2015
15. 15 Kill Your Friends 2015
16. 16 Equals 2015
17. 17 X-Men: Apocalypse as Beast 2016
18. 18 Collide 2016
19. 19 Sand Castle 2017
20. 20 Rebel in the Rye as J. D. Salinger 2017
21. 21 The Current War as Nikola Tesla 2017
22. 22 Newness 2017
23. 23 The Favourite as Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer 2018
24. 24 The Death and Life of John F. Donovan 2018
25. 25 Deadpool 2 as Beast 2018
26. 26 Dark Phoenix as Beast 2019
27. 27 Tolkien as J. R. R. Tolkien 2019
28. 28 True History of the Kelly Gang 2019
29. 29 The Banker 2020
30. 30 Those Who Wish Me Dead 2020
31. 31 The Menu 2022
32. 32 Renfield as Renfield 2023
33. 33 Nosferatu as Thomas Hutter 2024
34. 34 The Order 2024
35. 35 Juror #2 2024
36. 36 Superman as Lex Luthor 2025
37. 37 Cry to Heaven 2026
38. 38 The Incomer 2026
39. 39 How to Rob a Bank 2026
40. 40 Man of Tomorrow as Lex Luthor 2027
41. 41 Alpha Gang —
42. 42 The One —

Where the credits fall

One frame per year from 2002 to 2027, filled where a credit lands, empty where none does. The empty frames are the informative part: a filmography is usually described by its total, and the total is the one thing that hides the gaps.

1. 02 1
2. 03
3. 04
4. 05 2
5. 06 1
6. 07 1
7. 08
8. 09 1
9. 10 1
10. 11 1
11. 12
12. 13 2
13. 14 2
14. 15 4
15. 16 2
16. 17 4
17. 18 3
18. 19 3
19. 20 2
20. 21
21. 22 1
22. 23 1
23. 24 3
24. 25 1
25. 26 3
26. 27 1

2000s: 6 · 2010s: 22 · 2020s: 12

The shape of the career

The first credit on record is 2002 and the most recent is 2027, with work in 21 separate years. 2015 was the busiest single year, with 4 credits landing in it, the kind of cluster that usually reflects films shot earlier arriving at once rather than an unusually productive twelve months.

The longest gap runs 3 years, between 2002 and 2005. A gap that size in a screen filmography is worth noticing rather than smoothing over: it is where the record stops describing a run of work and starts describing whatever happened instead, a project that collapsed, a move into other media, or simply nothing being offered.

Reading the list

42 credits across 21 working years averages out at roughly 2.0 per year in the years with any work at all, a figure worth treating carefully, because release dates bunch and a filmography is a record of when films came OUT rather than when they were made. Of the 42 credits, 15 carry a character name, so the rest are placed by film and year alone.

What this page is built from

Structured film records, pulled by the same process that produces the cast pages here, not written from memory, which for credit data is how errors get in. What that source is reliable about is who was credited. What it carries unevenly is character names, and what it almost never carries is billing order, so nothing here calls any of these 42 credits a lead role, because the data cannot support that claim.

Questions about Nicholas Hoult

How many films has Nicholas Hoult been in?

42 credited film roles are on record, running from 2002 to 2027. That counts feature credits only, so television and uncredited appearances are not included.

When was Nicholas Hoult most active in film?

The 2010s, with 22 of the 42 credits. The full spread across decades is listed above.

Why are some roles missing?

Character names are recorded for 15 of the 42 credits. The source is reliable about who was cast and patchy about what they were called, so the rest say the role is not recorded instead of leaving a blank that reads like an oversight.

Where do these details come from?

Structured film records pulled from Wikidata by the same process that builds the cast pages here, cross-checked against each film's own listed cast rather than written from memory. Where the record is thin — a missing character name, an unconfirmed billing order — the page says so, which is more useful than a confident sentence with nothing behind it.