Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1133
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Hannibal Buress works on versatility 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.
Hannibal Buress appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hannibal. Spider-Man: No Way Home 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, 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, science fiction, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jeff Rowe, Jon Watts, Chris Renaud and others, Hannibal Buress 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.
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) as Coach Wilson · Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) as Coach Wilson · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) as Genghis Frog (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1133 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
2013–2023
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Most frequent director
Jon Watts
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Jon Watts
Most common genre
Comedy
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
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
2020s
7.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Hannibal Buress: Miami Nights — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
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
2020s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Secret Life of Pets 2, Tag, Blockers.
Most productive era
2010s
13 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.02 films | — |
| Action | 6.94 films | 7.82 films |
| Comedy | 6.512 films | 6.52 films |
| Crime | 6.62 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Bus Driver.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
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
2023Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
The current state of the argument, as Genghis Frog (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.
16 of 16 films
as Coach Wilson
Directed by Jon Watts
as Coach Wilson
Directed by Jon Watts
as Genghis Frog (voice)
Directed by Jeff Rowe
as Bumble
Directed by Shane Black
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
Coach Wilson
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Coach Wilson gives Hannibal Buress a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Coach Wilson
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Performance score7.4
Spider-Man: Homecoming asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Coach Wilson is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Genghis Frog (voice)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
Performance score7.1
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Genghis Frog (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bill
The Disaster Artist (2017)
Performance score7.0
The Disaster Artist asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bill 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 Coach Wilson
Start here. Spider-Man: No Way Home is the clearest statement of what Hannibal Buress does — accessible, 148 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hannibal 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 Nice Guys (2016)
Keeps the action register of Spider-Man: No Way Home but asks for a colder reading of it.
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Keeps the action register of The Nice Guys but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Disaster Artist (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Spider-Man: Homecoming — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of The Disaster Artist 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 Neighbors
Chris Renaud
Director
2 films together
Notably The Secret Life of Pets 2
Jon Watts
Director
2 films together
Notably Spider-Man: No Way Home
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kings of Summer
Shane Black
Director
1 film together
Notably The Nice Guys
Seth Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Baywatch
James Franco
Director
1 film together
Notably The Disaster Artist
Kay Cannon
Director
1 film together
Notably Blockers
Jeff Tomsic
Director
1 film together
Notably Tag
Jeff Rowe
Director
1 film together
Notably Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jon Watts
Director
2 films together · 8.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Spider-Man: No Way HomeChris Renaud
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Secret Life of Pets 2Nicholas Stoller
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
NeighborsJeff Rowe
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant MayhemJames Franco
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 Disaster ArtistShane Black
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 Nice GuysJordan Vogt-Roberts
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Kings of SummerJeff Tomsic
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TagKay Cannon
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlockersSeth Gordon
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BaywatchSix 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
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Coach Wilson
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 Secret Life of Pets 2
as Buddy (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Coach Wilson
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Nice Guys
as Bumble
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Coach Wilson
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. Hannibal Buress 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.
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
14 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
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Coach Wilson
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Coach Wilson
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Secret Life of Pets
as Buddy (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Coach Wilson
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Coach Wilson
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Coach Wilson
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Secret Life of Pets
as Buddy (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Coach Wilson
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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