Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Billy Bush appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Billy. Big Hero 6 is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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 action, comedy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Chris Williams, Roger Kumble, Nicholas Stoller and others, Billy Bush 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.
Big Hero 6 (2014) as Newscaster (voice) · Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) as Billy Bush (Self) · Get Him to the Greek (2010) as Billy Bush
Career snapshot
A Nutevio catalogue profile for Billy Bush.
Films in Nutevio
5
2004–2014
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Big Hero 6
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Big Hero 6
Most frequent director
Nicholas Stoller
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Nicholas Stoller
Most common genre
Comedy
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
6.2
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Big Hero 6, Furry Vengeance, Get Him to the Greek — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The Stepford Wives.
Most productive era
2010s
3 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 | 2000s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.61 film | — |
| Action | — | 8.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.32 films | 6.53 films |
| Romance | 6.61 film | — |
| Horror | 5.91 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as 'I Can Do Better' Host.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2014Big Hero 6
8.0 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 Newscaster (voice).
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.
5 of 5 films
as Newscaster (voice)
Directed by Chris Williams
as Billy Bush (Self)
Directed by Nicholas Stoller
as Drill Sergeant
Directed by Roger Kumble
as Billy Bush
Directed by Nicholas Stoller
as 'I Can Do Better' Host
Directed by Frank Oz
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
Newscaster (voice)
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Newscaster (voice) gives Billy Bush a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Billy Bush (Self)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Performance score6.6
Forgetting Sarah Marshall asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Billy Bush (Self) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Drill Sergeant
Furry Vengeance (2010)
Performance score6.5
Furry Vengeance asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Drill Sergeant is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Billy Bush
Get Him to the Greek (2010)
Performance score6.5
Get Him to the Greek asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Billy Bush 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 Newscaster (voice)
Start here. Big Hero 6 is the clearest statement of what Billy Bush does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Billy 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.
The Stepford Wives (2004)
Keeps the comedy register of Big Hero 6 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Keeps the comedy register of The Stepford Wives but asks for a colder reading of it.
Furry Vengeance (2010)
Keeps the comedy register of Forgetting Sarah Marshall but asks for a colder reading of it.
Get Him to the Greek (2010)
Keeps the comedy register of Furry Vengeance but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Nicholas Stoller
Director
2 films together
Notably Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Frank Oz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Stepford Wives
Roger Kumble
Director
1 film together
Notably Furry Vengeance
Chris Williams
Director
1 film together
Notably Big Hero 6
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Nicholas Stoller
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Forgetting Sarah MarshallChris Williams
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big Hero 6Frank Oz
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Stepford WivesRoger Kumble
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Furry VengeanceSix 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
Big Hero 6
as Newscaster (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
as Billy Bush (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
Big Hero 6
as Newscaster (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Stepford Wives
as 'I Can Do Better' Host
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Big Hero 6
as Newscaster (voice)
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. Billy Bush 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Big Hero 6
as Newscaster (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Big Hero 6
as Newscaster (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
as Billy Bush (Self)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Big Hero 6
as Newscaster (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Big Hero 6
as Newscaster (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Big Hero 6
as Newscaster (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Big Hero 6
as Newscaster (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Furry Vengeance
as Drill Sergeant
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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