Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Matteo Capelli appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Matteo. The Money Maker is the clearest case: a film rated 6.8 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, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jean-Paul Salomé, Mohamed Hamidi, Matteo Capelli 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 Money Maker (2026) as Auctioneer · Endless Summer Syndrome (2024) as Antoine · New Biz in the Hood (2019) as Lieutenant Costa
Career snapshot
A Nutevio catalogue profile for Matteo Capelli.
Films in Nutevio
5
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
The Money Maker
Average Nutevio score
5.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Endless Summer Syndrome
Most frequent director
Jean-Paul Salomé
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jean-Paul Salomé
Most common genre
Drama
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 4m
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
6.1
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
2020s
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Money Maker, Endless Summer Syndrome — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.3
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. A Real Man, New Biz in the Hood, Back Up!.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 3.02 films | 6.82 films |
| Thriller | 6.01 film | 6.71 film |
| Comedy | 6.01 film | — |
| Crime | — | 6.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019A Real Man
Where our catalogue meets this career.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance · Most recent film
2026The Money Maker
6.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. The current state of the argument, as Auctioneer.
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.
5 of 5 films
as Auctioneer
Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé
as Lieutenant Costa
Directed by Mohamed Hamidi
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
Antoine
Endless Summer Syndrome (2024)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Antoine gives Matteo Capelli a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Auctioneer
The Money Maker (2026)
Performance score6.7
The Money Maker asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Auctioneer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A Real Man
A Real Man (2019)
Performance score6.5
A Real Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lieutenant Costa
New Biz in the Hood (2019)
Performance score6.5
New Biz in the Hood asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lieutenant Costa 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 Antoine
Start here. Endless Summer Syndrome is the clearest statement of what Matteo Capelli does — accessible, 98 minutes, and rated 6.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Matteo 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.
A Real Man (2019)
Same director as Endless Summer Syndrome, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
New Biz in the Hood (2019)
Keeps the drama register of A Real Man but asks for a colder reading of it.
Back Up! (2019)
The turn in the path: a film the public underrates and we do not. By this point you will know why.
The Money Maker (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Back Up! — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jean-Paul Salomé
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 Money MakerMohamed Hamidi
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
New Biz in the HoodSix 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 Money Maker
as Auctioneer
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 Money Maker
as Auctioneer
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 Money Maker
as Auctioneer
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Money Maker
as Auctioneer
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Endless Summer Syndrome
as Antoine
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. Matteo Capelli 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
4 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
The Money Maker
as Auctioneer
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Money Maker
as Auctioneer
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Money Maker
as Auctioneer
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Money Maker
as Auctioneer
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Money Maker
as Auctioneer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Money Maker
as Auctioneer
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Money Maker
as Auctioneer
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Back Up!
as Lawyer
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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