Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10864
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Bono represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Bono is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Bono appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Bono. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for music, documentary, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Baz Luhrmann, Robert Kummer, Andrew Dominik and others, Bono 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.
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2026) as Self (voice) · Sing 2 (2021) as Clay Calloway (voice) · WHAM! (2023) as Self (archive footage)
Career snapshot
Ranked #10864 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2000–2026
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
Most frequent director
Baz Luhrmann
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Baz Luhrmann
Most common genre
Documentary
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 30m
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
6.3
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
7.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Mystify: Michael Hutchence, Pavarotti — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.3
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.3
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. The Million Dollar Hotel.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 5.91 film | — | — |
| Thriller | 5.91 film | — | — |
| Comedy | — | — | 7.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Man in Hotel Lobby (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
8.3 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
2026Guggi
The current state of the argument, as Self.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Self (voice)
Directed by Baz Luhrmann
as Clay Calloway (voice)
Directed by Garth Jennings
as Self
Directed by Ron Howard
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 (voice)
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2026)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self (voice) gives Bono a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Clay Calloway (voice)
Sing 2 (2021)
Performance score7.6
Sing 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Clay Calloway (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Pavarotti (2019)
Performance score7.6
Pavarotti 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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Self
Bono: Stories of Surrender (2025)
Performance score7.4
Bono: Stories of Surrender 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 (voice)
Start here. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is the clearest statement of what Bono does — accessible, 98 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Bono 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.
Pavarotti (2019)
Keeps the music register of EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mystify: Michael Hutchence (2019)
Keeps the music register of Pavarotti but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sing 2 (2021)
Keeps the music register of Mystify: Michael Hutchence but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bono: Stories of Surrender (2025)
Keeps the music register of Sing 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Wim Wenders
Director
1 film together
Notably The Million Dollar Hotel
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Pavarotti
Garth Jennings
Director
1 film together
Notably Sing 2
Mat Whitecross
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sound of 007
Chris Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably WHAM!
Andrew Dominik
Director
1 film together
Notably Bono: Stories of Surrender
Robert Kummer
Director
1 film together
Notably Grönemeyer – Alles bleibt anders
Baz Luhrmann
Director
1 film together
Notably EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Baz Luhrmann
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EPiC: Elvis Presley in ConcertGarth Jennings
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sing 2Chris Smith
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WHAM!Mat Whitecross
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sound of 007Ron Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PavarottiAndrew Dominik
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bono: Stories of SurrenderWim Wenders
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 Million Dollar HotelRobert Kummer
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grönemeyer – Alles bleibt andersSix 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
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
as Self (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
Pavarotti
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
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
as Self (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Sound of 007
as Self (archive footage)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
as Self (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. Bono 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
26 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
11 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
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
as Self (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
as Self (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Pavarotti
as Self
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Million Dollar Hotel
as Man in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
as Self (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
as Self (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Sing 2
as Clay Calloway (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
as Self (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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