Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#18744
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Craig muMs Grant works on quiet performance rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Craig muMs Grant appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Craig. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for crime, thriller, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Benny Safdie, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Steve Buscemi and others, Craig muMs Grant 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.
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) as Broadway Man on Street · Good Time (2017) as Denny the Access-A-Ride Driver · Side Effects (2013) as Wards Island Orderly
Career snapshot
Ranked #18744 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
1999–2021
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Most frequent director
Benny Safdie
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Benny Safdie
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 45m
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
6.4
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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Good Time, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Side Effects — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.1
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. Bringing Out the Dead.
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.61 film | 6.41 film | 7.13 films | 4.41 film |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.92 films | 5.42 films |
| Comedy | — | — | 7.41 film | — |
| Crime | — | — | 6.92 films | 5.42 films |
| Horror | — | 5.71 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Voice in Crowd.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
7.4 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
2021The Scrapper
The current state of the argument, as Leon.
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.
8 of 8 films
as Broadway Man on Street
Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
as Denny the Access-A-Ride Driver
Directed by Benny Safdie
as Wards Island Orderly
Directed by Unknown
as Jimmy
Directed by Unknown
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The defining work
#1
Broadway Man on Street
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Broadway Man on Street gives Craig muMs Grant a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Denny the Access-A-Ride Driver
Good Time (2017)
Performance score7.1
Good Time asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Denny the Access-A-Ride Driver is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Wards Island Orderly
Side Effects (2013)
Performance score6.6
Side Effects asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Wards Island Orderly is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Voice in Crowd
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Performance score6.6
Bringing Out the Dead asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Voice in Crowd 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 Broadway Man on Street
Start here. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is the clearest statement of what Craig muMs Grant does — accessible, 120 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Craig 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.
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Keeps the drama register of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) but asks for a colder reading of it.
Side Effects (2013)
Keeps the drama register of Bringing Out the Dead but asks for a colder reading of it.
Good Time (2017)
Keeps the crime register of Side Effects but asks for a colder reading of it.
No Sudden Move (2021)
Keeps the crime register of Good Time but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together
Notably Bringing Out the Dead
Walter Salles
Director
1 film together
Notably Dark Water
Steve Buscemi
Director
1 film together
Notably Interview
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Director
1 film together
Notably Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Benny Safdie
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Time
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)Benny Safdie
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good TimeMartin Scorsese
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bringing Out the DeadSteve Buscemi
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
InterviewWalter Salles
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark WaterSix 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
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
as Broadway Man on Street
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Bringing Out the Dead
as Voice in Crowd
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
as Broadway Man on Street
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
as Broadway Man on Street
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
as Broadway Man on Street
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. Craig muMs Grant 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
22 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in drama, 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
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
as Broadway Man on Street
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Good Time
as Denny the Access-A-Ride Driver
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bringing Out the Dead
as Voice in Crowd
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Dark Water
as Platzer's Backseat Client
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
as Broadway Man on Street
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Side Effects
as Wards Island Orderly
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Good Time
as Denny the Access-A-Ride Driver
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Interview
as Cab Driver
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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