Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#736
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jonah Hill 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.
Jonah Hill appears in 45 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jonah. Django Unchained is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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, drama, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jonah Hill, Rob Reiner, Adam McKay and others, Jonah Hill 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.
Django Unchained (2012) as Bag Head #2 · The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) as Donnie Azoff · How to Train Your Dragon (2010) as Snotlout (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #736 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
45
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Django Unchained
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Django Unchained
Most frequent director
Phil Lord
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Phil Lord
Most common genre
Comedy
37 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
7.0
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
6.5
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, The Beach Bum, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 24 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
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. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, The Invention of Lying, Funny People.
Most productive era
2010s
24 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 | 6.35 films | 6.98 films | 6.32 films |
| Action | 6.31 film | 6.88 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.315 films | 6.619 films | 6.03 films |
| Crime | — | 7.15 films | — |
| Romance | 6.35 films | 5.91 film | 5.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004I ♥ Huckabees
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Bret Hooten.
Highest rated performance
2012Django Unchained
8.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Outcome
The current state of the argument, as Ira Slitz.
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.
45 of 45 films
as Donnie Azoff
Directed by Martin Scorsese
as Bag Head #2
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Snotlout (voice)
Directed by Dean DeBlois
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
Donnie Azoff
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Donnie Azoff gives Jonah Hill a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Self
Stutz (2022)
Performance score8.1
Stutz 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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Bag Head #2
Django Unchained (2012)
Performance score8.1
Django Unchained asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bag Head #2 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Snotlout (voice)
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Performance score8.1
How to Train Your Dragon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Snotlout (voice) 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 Donnie Azoff
Start here. The Wolf of Wall Street is the clearest statement of what Jonah Hill does — accessible, 180 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jonah 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.
Superbad (2007)
Keeps the comedy register of The Wolf of Wall Street but asks for a colder reading of it.
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
A deliberate change of key after Superbad — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Django Unchained (2012)
A deliberate change of key after How to Train Your Dragon — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Stutz (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Django Unchained — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Judd Apatow
Director
3 films together
Notably The 40 Year Old Virgin
Phil Lord
Director
3 films together
Notably The Lego Movie
Nicholas Stoller
Director
2 films together
Notably Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Dean DeBlois
Director
2 films together
Notably How to Train Your Dragon
Jonah Hill
Director
2 films together
Notably Stutz
David O. Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably I ♥ Huckabees
Brad Silberling
Director
1 film together
Notably 10 Items or Less
Steve Pink
Director
1 film together
Notably Accepted
Frank Coraci
Director
1 film together
Notably Click
Jake Kasdan
Director
1 film together
Notably Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Tom Shadyac
Director
1 film together
Notably Evan Almighty
Greg Mottola
Director
1 film together
Notably Superbad
Fred Wolf
Director
1 film together
Notably Strange Wilderness
Ricky Gervais
Director
1 film together
Notably The Invention of Lying
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Tom McGrath
Director
1 film together
Notably Megamind
Jay Duplass
Director
1 film together
Notably Cyrus
David Gordon Green
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sitter
Tom Owens
Director
1 film together
Notably Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
Akiva Schaffer
Director
1 film together
Notably The Watch
Quentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together
Notably Django Unchained
Evan Goldberg
Director
1 film together
Notably This Is the End
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wolf of Wall Street
Rupert Goold
Director
1 film together
Notably True Story
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together
Notably War Dogs
Joel Coen
Director
1 film together
Notably Hail, Caesar!
Conrad Vernon
Director
1 film together
Notably Sausage Party
Gus Van Sant
Director
1 film together
Notably Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Harmony Korine
Director
1 film together
Notably The Beach Bum
Mike Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably Don't Look Up
Rob Reiner
Director
1 film together
Notably Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Phil Lord
Director
3 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Lego MovieJudd Apatow
Director
3 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The 40 Year Old VirginDean DeBlois
Director
2 films together · 7.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
How to Train Your DragonJonah Hill
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
StutzNicholas Stoller
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Forgetting Sarah MarshallQuentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Django UnchainedMartin Scorsese
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wolf of Wall StreetGreg Mottola
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SuperbadTom Owens
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dragons: Gift of the Night FuryRob Reiner
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Albert Brooks: Defending My LifeAdam McKay
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Don't Look UpTodd Phillips
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
War DogsTom McGrath
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MegamindMike Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lego Movie 2: The Second PartGus Van Sant
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on FootJake Kasdan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox StoryFrank Coraci
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ClickSteve Pink
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AcceptedRupert Goold
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
True StoryShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Night at the Museum: Battle of the SmithsonianDavid O. Russell
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I ♥ HuckabeesEvan Goldberg
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
This Is the EndRicky Gervais
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Invention of LyingBrad Silberling
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
10 Items or LessJoel Coen
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hail, Caesar!Jay Duplass
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CyrusConrad Vernon
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sausage PartyHarmony Korine
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Beach BumAkiva Schaffer
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The WatchDavid Gordon Green
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SitterTom Shadyac
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Evan AlmightyFred Wolf
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Strange WildernessSix 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
Django Unchained
as Bag Head #2
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
How to Train Your Dragon
as Snotlout (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
Django Unchained
as Bag Head #2
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
as Older Nate (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Donnie Azoff
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. Jonah Hill 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
37 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
How to Train Your Dragon
as Snotlout (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Donnie Azoff
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
How to Train Your Dragon
as Snotlout (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Hail, Caesar!
as Joe Silverman
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Django Unchained
as Bag Head #2
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
How to Train Your Dragon 2
as Snotlout (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Lego Movie
as Green Lantern (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Donnie Azoff
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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