Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#56
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Clancy Brown represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 42 years in, and Clancy is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Clancy Brown appears in 59 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Clancy. The Shawshank Redemption is the clearest case: a film rated 9.6 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 comedy, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Derek Drymon, Justine Bateman, Josh Boone and others, Clancy Brown 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.
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) as Captain Byron T. Hadley · The Shawshank Redemption (1994) as Captain Byron T. Hadley · Thor: Ragnarok (2017) as Surtur (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #56 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
59
1983–2025
Career length
42 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.6
The Shawshank Redemption
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.3
The Shawshank Redemption
Most frequent director
Dave Cunningham
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Dave Cunningham
Most common genre
Comedy
23 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
7.1
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
1990s
7.2 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Hurricane, Flubber, Starship Troopers — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.2
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Moonwalker, Extreme Prejudice, Highlander.
Most productive era
2010s
19 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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.72 films | 8.34 films | 6.83 films | 6.57 films | 5.34 films |
| Action | 6.62 films | 7.32 films | 6.54 films | 6.45 films | 6.54 films |
| Thriller | 6.72 films | 6.52 films | — | 5.94 films | 6.93 films |
| Comedy | 6.01 film | 5.91 film | 6.64 films | 6.59 films | 6.48 films |
| Crime | 6.72 films | 9.32 films | 6.21 film | 6.81 film | 6.93 films |
| Romance | 6.01 film | — | — | 6.41 film | 7.11 film |
| Horror | — | 5.51 film | — | 5.83 films | 6.64 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1983Bad Boys
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Viking Lofgren.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.6 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
The current state of the argument, as Mr. Krabs / Pa Plankton (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.
59 of 59 films
as Captain Byron T. Hadley
Directed by Frank Darabont
as Captain Byron T. Hadley
Directed by Frank Darabont
as Surtur (voice)
Directed by Taika Waititi
as Harbinger
Directed by Chad Stahelski
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 118 titles · 118 total credits · active 1983–2026
Mating Season
2026 · TV · Robert (voice)
I Will Find You
2026 · TV · Nicky Fisher
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord
2026 · TV · Savage Opress (voice)
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
2025 · Mr. Krabs / Pirate / Narrator
FEEL
2025 · Sitter 4
Regretting You
2025 · Hank "Gramps" Adams Sr.
Plankton: The Movie
2025 · Mr. Krabs / Pa Plankton (voice)
Good Cop/Bad Cop
2025 · TV · Big Hank Hickman
The Fix
2024 · The Chairman
SpongeBob Squarepants: Kreepaway Kamp
2024 · Mr. Krabs / Anchovies (voice)
Poolman
2024 · Theodore Hollandaise
Scrambled
2024 · Richard
Invincible Fight Girl
2024 · TV · Mega Beefpuncha (voice)
High Potential
2024 · TV · Nick Wagner, Sr.
The Penguin
2024 · TV · Salvatore Maroni
John Wick: Chapter 4
2023 · Harbinger
Dumb Money
2023 · Steve Gill
The Tidal Zone: SpongeBob Universe Special
2023 · Mr. Krabs / RoboKrabs
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
2023 · Red Death / Daisy (voice)
Gen V
2023 · TV · Prof. Rich Brinkerhoff
Ahsoka
2023 · TV · Governor Ryder Azadi
Digman!
2023 · TV · Yedward (voice)
Last Looks
2022 · Big Jim Cuddy
In Search of Tomorrow
2022 · Self - Interviewee
The defining work
#1
Captain Byron T. Hadley
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Performance score9.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Captain Byron T. Hadley gives Clancy Brown a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Captain Byron T. Hadley
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Performance score8.9
The Shawshank Redemption asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Captain Byron T. Hadley is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
In Search of Darkness: Part II (2020)
Performance score7.7
In Search of Darkness: Part II 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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Surtur (voice)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Performance score7.6
Thor: Ragnarok asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Surtur (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Captain Byron T. Hadley
Start here. The Shawshank Redemption is the clearest statement of what Clancy Brown does — accessible, 142 minutes, and rated 9.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Clancy 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 Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Same director as The Shawshank Redemption, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
A deliberate change of key after The Shawshank Redemption — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
In Search of Darkness: Part II (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Thor: Ragnarok — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
A deliberate change of key after In Search of Darkness: Part II — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Frank Darabont
Director
2 films together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Ramin Bahrani
Director
2 films together
Notably 99 Homes
Joel Coen
Director
2 films together
Notably The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
David A. Weiner
Director
2 films together
Notably In Search of Darkness: Part II
Dave Cunningham
Director
2 films together
Notably The Tidal Zone: SpongeBob Universe Special
Rick Rosenthal
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Boys
W.D. Richter
Director
1 film together
Notably The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Russell Mulcahy
Director
1 film together
Notably Highlander
Walter Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably Extreme Prejudice
Jerry Kramer
Director
1 film together
Notably Moonwalker
Kathryn Bigelow
Director
1 film together
Notably Blue Steel
Mary Lambert
Director
1 film together
Notably Pet Sematary II
Tim Robbins
Director
1 film together
Notably Dead Man Walking
Toshihiko Masuda
Director
1 film together
Notably The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest
Paul Verhoeven
Director
1 film together
Notably Starship Troopers
Les Mayfield
Director
1 film together
Notably Flubber
Norman Jewison
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hurricane
Chuck Sheetz
Director
1 film together
Notably Recess: School's Out
Toby Shelton
Director
1 film together
Notably Atlantis: Milo's Return
Stephen Hillenburg
Director
1 film together
Notably The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Andrew Davis
Director
1 film together
Notably The Guardian
Sam Liu
Director
1 film together
Notably Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Martin Campbell
Director
1 film together
Notably Green Lantern
Jon Favreau
Director
1 film together
Notably Cowboys & Aliens
Don Coscarelli
Director
1 film together
Notably John Dies at the End
Gary Fleder
Director
1 film together
Notably Homefront
Karen Moncrieff
Director
1 film together
Notably The Trials of Cate McCall
Thomas Carter
Director
1 film together
Notably When the Game Stands Tall
Mike Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Courteney Cox
Director
1 film together
Notably Just Before I Go
Duncan Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Warcraft
Stephen Sandoval
Director
1 film together
Notably Tangled: Before Ever After
Eli Craig
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Evil
David Gordon Green
Director
1 film together
Notably Stronger
Taika Waititi
Director
1 film together
Notably Thor: Ragnarok
Kevin Peaty
Director
1 film together
Notably The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween
Emerald Fennell
Director
1 film together
Notably Promising Young Woman
Tim Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
Tim Kirkby
Director
1 film together
Notably Last Looks
Christopher McCulloch
Director
1 film together
Notably The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
Craig Gillespie
Director
1 film together
Notably Dumb Money
Chad Stahelski
Director
1 film together
Notably John Wick: Chapter 4
Leah McKendrick
Director
1 film together
Notably Scrambled
Chris Pine
Director
1 film together
Notably Poolman
Kelsey Egan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fix
Josh Boone
Director
1 film together
Notably Regretting You
Justine Bateman
Director
1 film together
Notably FEEL
Derek Drymon
Director
1 film together
Notably The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
Morgan Freeman
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Mark Rolston
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Tim Robbins
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Bob Gunton
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
William Sadler
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Gil Bellows
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
James Whitmore
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Jeffrey DeMunn
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Larry Brandenburg
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Neil Giuntoli
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Brian Libby
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
David Proval
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Frank Darabont
Director
2 films together · 9.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Shawshank RedemptionDavid A. Weiner
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
In Search of Darkness: Part IIDave Cunningham
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Tidal Zone: SpongeBob Universe SpecialJoel Coen
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Ballad of Buster ScruggsRamin Bahrani
Director
2 films together · 6.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
99 HomesTaika Waititi
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thor: RagnarokChad Stahelski
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
John Wick: Chapter 4Tim Hill
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the RunEmerald Fennell
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Promising Young WomanNorman Jewison
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HurricaneToshihiko Masuda
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Batman/Superman Movie: World's FinestChristopher McCulloch
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 Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon HeartTim Robbins
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dead Man WalkingPaul Verhoeven
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Starship TroopersJosh Boone
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Regretting YouSam Liu
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Superman/Batman: Public EnemiesAndrew Davis
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GuardianStephen Hillenburg
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SpongeBob SquarePants MovieDavid Gordon Green
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
StrongerGary Fleder
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HomefrontRick Rosenthal
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad BoysJerry Kramer
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MoonwalkerRussell Mulcahy
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HighlanderDerek Drymon
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePantsStephen Sandoval
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tangled: Before Ever AfterCraig Gillespie
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dumb MoneyThomas Carter
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
When the Game Stands TallKevin Peaty
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 Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-weenChuck Sheetz
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Recess: School's OutDuncan Jones
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WarcraftCourteney Cox
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Just Before I GoKaren Moncrieff
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Trials of Cate McCallDon Coscarelli
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
John Dies at the EndToby Shelton
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Atlantis: Milo's ReturnWalter Hill
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Extreme PrejudiceMike Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of WaterW.D. Richter
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th DimensionLes Mayfield
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FlubberKathryn Bigelow
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blue SteelTim Kirkby
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Last LooksJon Favreau
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cowboys & AliensEli Craig
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little EvilMary Lambert
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pet Sematary IILeah McKendrick
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ScrambledKelsey Egan
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The FixMartin Campbell
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Green LanternChris Pine
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PoolmanJustine Bateman
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FEELSix 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
The Shawshank Redemption
as Captain Byron T. Hadley
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Shawshank Redemption
as Captain Byron T. Hadley
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Shawshank Redemption
as Captain Byron T. Hadley
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Hail, Caesar!
as Gracchus
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Shawshank Redemption
as Captain Byron T. Hadley
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. Clancy Brown has known it for a long time.”
“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.4 | 8.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #61 of 681 | #9 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.6 | 8.6 |
| Genres | Drama, Crime | Animation, Family, Comedy, Drama |
| Directors | Frank Darabont | Andrew Stanton, Frank Darabont |
| Performance DNA | Emotional range, Drama, Quiet performance | Emotional range, Quiet performance, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 1994–1994 | 1999–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Captain Byron T. Hadley — The Shawshank Redemption | Paul Edgecomb — The Green Mile |
| Most rewatchable film | The Shawshank Redemption | The Green Mile |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 2 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
frank-darabont
Shared collections
Best Prison Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Frank Darabont · William Sadler · Jeffrey DeMunn
Our editors cannot separate them on the catalogue as it stands. Clancy Brown and Tom Hanks score within a rounding error of each other.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
42 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
23 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
The Shawshank Redemption
as Captain Byron T. Hadley
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Shawshank Redemption
as Captain Byron T. Hadley
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Regretting You
as Hank "Gramps" Adams Sr.
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
A Nightmare on Elm Street
as Alan Smith
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Shawshank Redemption
as Captain Byron T. Hadley
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
as Red Death / Daisy (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Dumb Money
as Steve Gill
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Shawshank Redemption
as Captain Byron T. Hadley
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 4 Nutevio collections
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Best Prison Movies
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Top 250 Movies of All Time
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