Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2746
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Bill Clinton represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Bill is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Bill Clinton appears in 30 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Bill. 1995 - Hopes and Betrayals 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 war, documentary, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Anthony Russo, Jeffrey Schwarz, Ron Howard and others, Bill Clinton 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.
1995 - Hopes and Betrayals (2026) as Himself (Archival Footage) · Monopoly: Who Owns the World? (2021) as Self (archive footage) · A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote (2020) as Self
Career snapshot
Ranked #2746 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
30
1998–2026
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
1995 - Hopes and Betrayals
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
1995 - Hopes and Betrayals
Most frequent director
Michael Moore
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Michael Moore
Most common genre
Documentary
26 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
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
6.6
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
7.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Korea: The Never-Ending War, The Black Godfather, David Foster: Off the Record — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.2
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Siege.
Most productive era
2020s
18 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.31 film | 6.93 films | — | 7.91 film |
| Action | 6.31 film | 6.31 film | — | 6.51 film |
| Thriller | 6.31 film | — | — | — |
| Comedy | — | 7.11 film | — | — |
| Crime | 6.31 film | — | — | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1998The Siege
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Self (archive footage) (uncredited).
First Nutevio masterpiece
2021Monopoly: Who Owns the World?
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
20261995 - Hopes and Betrayals
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. The current state of the argument, as Himself (Archival 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.
30 of 30 films
as Himself (Archival Footage)
Directed by Unknown
as Self (archive footage)
Directed by Unknown
as Self
Directed by Fisher Stevens
as Self (archive footage)
Directed by John Maggio
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
Himself (Archival Footage)
1995 - Hopes and Betrayals (2026)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Himself (Archival Footage) gives Bill Clinton a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Self (archive footage)
Monopoly: Who Owns the World? (2021)
Performance score8.6
Monopoly: Who Owns the World? asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self (archive footage) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
Self
Before the Flood (2016)
Performance score8.0
Before the Flood 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.
View movie#4
Self
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote (2020)
Performance score7.7
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote 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 Himself (Archival Footage)
Start here. 1995 - Hopes and Betrayals is the clearest statement of what Bill Clinton does — accessible, 85 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Bill 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.
Before the Flood (2016)
Keeps the documentary register of 1995 - Hopes and Betrayals but asks for a colder reading of it.
Korea: The Never-Ending War (2019)
Keeps the documentary register of Before the Flood but asks for a colder reading of it.
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Korea: The Never-Ending War — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Monopoly: Who Owns the World? (2021)
A deliberate change of key after A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Michael Moore
Director
4 films together
Notably Bowling for Columbine
Alex Gibney
Director
2 films together
Notably The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Edward Zwick
Director
1 film together
Notably The Siege
Stuart Townsend
Director
1 film together
Notably Battle in Seattle
Fisher Stevens
Director
1 film together
Notably Before the Flood
Reginald Hudlin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Black Godfather
John Maggio
Director
1 film together
Notably Korea: The Never-Ending War
Thomas Schlamme
Director
1 film together
Notably A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Dawn Porter
Director
1 film together
Notably John Lewis: Good Trouble
Billy Corben
Director
1 film together
Notably 537 Votes
Garret Price
Director
1 film together
Notably Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage
Glenn Weiss
Director
1 film together
Notably Celebrating America
Stanley Nelson
Director
1 film together
Notably Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably We Feed People
Jeffrey Schwarz
Director
1 film together
Notably Commitment to Life
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably The Electric State
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Michael Moore
Director
4 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Bowling for ColumbineAlex Gibney
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon ValleyThomas Schlamme
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All VoteJohn Maggio
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Korea: The Never-Ending WarFisher Stevens
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Before the FloodBilly Corben
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
537 VotesRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We Feed PeopleStanley Nelson
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & ConspiracyGlenn Weiss
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Celebrating AmericaReginald Hudlin
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Black GodfatherAnthony Russo
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Electric StateGarret Price
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and RageStuart Townsend
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Battle in SeattleEdward Zwick
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SiegeDawn Porter
Director
1 film together · 4.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
John Lewis: Good TroubleJeffrey Schwarz
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Commitment to LifeSix 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
1995 - Hopes and Betrayals
as Himself (Archival Footage)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
1995 - Hopes and Betrayals
as Himself (Archival Footage)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
1995 - Hopes and Betrayals
as Himself (Archival Footage)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Electric State
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
1995 - Hopes and Betrayals
as Himself (Archival Footage)
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. Bill Clinton 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
28 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
26 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
1995 - Hopes and Betrayals
as Himself (Archival Footage)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
1995 - Hopes and Betrayals
as Himself (Archival Footage)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bowling for Columbine
as Self
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
1995 - Hopes and Betrayals
as Himself (Archival Footage)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
1995 - Hopes and Betrayals
as Himself (Archival Footage)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Electric State
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Siege
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
We Feed People
as Self (archive footage)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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