Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#23276
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Daniel Auteuil represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 33 years in, and Daniel is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Daniel Auteuil appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Daniel. La Belle Époque 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 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 drama, history, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Olivier Dahan, Daniel Auteuil, Agnès Jaoui and others, Daniel Auteuil 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.
La Belle Époque (2019) as Victor Drumond · Remi, Nobody's Boy (2018) as Signor Vitalis · André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema (2019) as Self - Actor
Career snapshot
Ranked #23276 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
1994–2027
Career length
33 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
La Belle Époque
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Remi, Nobody's Boy
Most frequent director
Daniel Auteuil
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Daniel Auteuil
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 31m
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
1990s
6.9 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Queen Margot — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.9
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
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. Queen Margot.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.91 film | 7.42 films | 4.57 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.22 films | 6.32 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.02 films |
| Romance | 6.91 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1994Queen Margot
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Henri de Navarre.
Highest rated performance
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2019La Belle Époque
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 Alexandre Glasberg.
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 Victor Drumond
Directed by Unknown
as Signor Vitalis
Directed by Antoine Blossier
as Henri de Navarre
Directed by Patrice Chéreau
as Maître Jean Monier
Directed by Daniel Auteuil
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
Victor Drumond
La Belle Époque (2019)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Victor Drumond gives Daniel Auteuil a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Signor Vitalis
Remi, Nobody's Boy (2018)
Performance score7.7
Remi, Nobody's Boy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Signor Vitalis is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Joseph Haffmann
Farewell, Mr. Haffmann (2022)
Performance score7.5
Farewell, Mr. Haffmann asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Joseph Haffmann is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Henri de Navarre
Queen Margot (1994)
Performance score7.3
Queen Margot asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Henri de Navarre 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 Victor Drumond
Start here. La Belle Époque is the clearest statement of what Daniel Auteuil does — accessible, 115 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Daniel 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.
Queen Margot (1994)
Keeps the drama register of La Belle Époque but asks for a colder reading of it.
Remi, Nobody's Boy (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Queen Margot but asks for a colder reading of it.
Farewell, Mr. Haffmann (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Remi, Nobody's Boy but asks for a colder reading of it.
An Ordinary Case (2024)
Keeps the drama register of Farewell, Mr. Haffmann but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Daniel Auteuil
Director
2 films together
Notably An Ordinary Case
Patrice Chéreau
Director
1 film together
Notably Queen Margot
Antoine Blossier
Director
1 film together
Notably Remi, Nobody's Boy
Rebecca Zlotowski
Director
1 film together
Notably A Private Life
Agnès Jaoui
Director
1 film together
Notably Crescendo
Olivier Dahan
Director
1 film together
Notably Nana
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Daniel Auteuil
Director
2 films together · 3.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
An Ordinary CaseAntoine Blossier
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Remi, Nobody's BoyPatrice Chéreau
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Queen MargotAgnès Jaoui
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CrescendoRebecca Zlotowski
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Private LifeOlivier Dahan
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NanaSix 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
La Belle Époque
as Victor Drumond
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Queen Margot
as Henri de Navarre
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Remi, Nobody's Boy
as Signor Vitalis
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
as Self - Actor
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
La Belle Époque
as Victor Drumond
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. Daniel Auteuil 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
33 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
10 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
La Belle Époque
as Victor Drumond
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
An Ordinary Case
as Maître Jean Monier
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Queen Margot
as Henri de Navarre
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
A Private Life
as Gabriel Haddad
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Remi, Nobody's Boy
as Signor Vitalis
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Remi, Nobody's Boy
as Signor Vitalis
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Crescendo
as Igor
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
La Belle Époque
as Victor Drumond
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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