Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#48
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Quentin Tarantino represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 35 years in, and Quentin is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Quentin Tarantino appears in 34 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Quentin. We Are Cinema is the clearest case: a film rated 9.5 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 documentary, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Sam Levinson, Quentin Tarantino, Thom Zimny and others, Quentin Tarantino 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.
We Are Cinema (2021) as Self (archive footage) · Pulp Fiction (1994) as Jimmie Dimmick · Pulp Fiction (1994) as Jimmie Dimmick
Career snapshot
Ranked #48 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
34
1991–2026
Career length
35 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.5
We Are Cinema
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.5
We Are Cinema
Most frequent director
Quentin Tarantino
13 films together
Longest collaboration
13×
With Quentin Tarantino
Most common genre
Documentary
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
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
7.1
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
1990s
7.6 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Jackie Brown, From Dusk Till Dawn, Four Rooms — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.6
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
1 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Jackie Brown, From Dusk Till Dawn, Four Rooms.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 8.03 films | 8.41 film | 8.12 films | 0.02 films |
| Action | 7.02 films | 7.05 films | — | 6.21 film |
| Thriller | 7.84 films | 7.07 films | — | 6.21 film |
| Comedy | 7.32 films | 6.02 films | 5.91 film | — |
| Crime | 7.97 films | 8.11 film | — | 6.21 film |
| Romance | — | — | 5.91 film | — |
| Horror | 7.11 film | 6.43 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1991Reservoir Dogs
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mr. White.
First Nutevio masterpiece
1994Pulp Fiction
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021We Are Cinema
9.5 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
The current state of the argument, as Self (archive footage)(uncredited).
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.
34 of 34 films
as Self (archive footage)
Directed by Unknown
as Jimmie Dimmick
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Jimmie Dimmick
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employee
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as First Scalped Nazi / American Soldier in 'Pride of Nation' (uncredited)
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 57 titles · 98 total credits · active 1991–2026
Robert Richardson: The White Devil
2026 · Self
Only What We Carry
2026 · John Percy
Euphoria: A Look Back
2026 · Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
The Projectionist
2026 · Producer
One Spoon of Chocolate
2026 · Executive Producer
The Adventures of Cliff Booth
2026 · Writer · Producer
The Lost Chapter: Yuki's Revenge
2025 · Bill (voice) (uncredited) · Director · Writer
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025 · TV · Self
Sly
2023 · Self
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022 · Self
Shoot to Live
2022 · Self
Ennio
2022 · Self
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
2022 · Tarantino (voice)
Halftime
2022 · Self
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
2022 · TV · Tarantino's Voice (voice)
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
2022 · TV · Self
We Are Cinema
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
2021 · Self - Filmmaker
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
2020 · Self
QT8: The First Eight
2019 · Self (archive footage)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019 · Self
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019 · Director · Writer · Producer
The Hateful Eight
2015 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · Director · Screenplay
She's Funny That Way
2015 · Quentin Tarantino
The defining work
#1
Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema (2021)
Performance score9.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self (archive footage) gives Quentin Tarantino a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jimmie Dimmick
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Performance score8.8
Pulp Fiction asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jimmie Dimmick is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jimmie Dimmick
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Performance score8.4
Pulp Fiction asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jimmie Dimmick is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employee
Django Unchained (2012)
Performance score8.1
Django Unchained asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employee 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 Self (archive footage)
Start here. We Are Cinema is the clearest statement of what Quentin Tarantino does — accessible, 71 minutes, and rated 9.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Quentin 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.
Pulp Fiction (1994)
A deliberate change of key after We Are Cinema — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Same director as Pulp Fiction, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Same director as Pulp Fiction, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Django Unchained (2012)
Same director as Inglourious Basterds, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Quentin Tarantino
Director
13 films together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Robert Rodriguez
Director
3 films together
Notably From Dusk Till Dawn
Steven Brill
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Nicky
George A. Romero
Director
1 film together
Notably Diary of the Dead
Takashi Miike
Director
1 film together
Notably Sukiyaki Western Django
Peter Bogdanovich
Director
1 film together
Notably She's Funny That Way
Giuseppe Tornatore
Director
1 film together
Notably Ennio
Thom Zimny
Director
1 film together
Notably Sly
Sam Levinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Euphoria: A Look Back
Christopher Walken
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
John Travolta
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Samuel L. Jackson
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Uma Thurman
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Bruce Willis
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Ving Rhames
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Harvey Keitel
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Eric Stoltz
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Tim Roth
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Amanda Plummer
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Maria de Medeiros
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Rosanna Arquette
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Quentin Tarantino
Director
13 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 13 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pulp FictionRobert Rodriguez
Director
3 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
From Dusk Till DawnGiuseppe Tornatore
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EnnioThom Zimny
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SlyTakashi Miike
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sukiyaki Western DjangoPeter Bogdanovich
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She's Funny That WaySteven Brill
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little NickyGeorge A. Romero
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Diary of the DeadSam Levinson
Director
1 film together · 3.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Euphoria: A Look BackSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Performer
Quentin Tarantino
Where this journey starts
Director
Quentin Tarantino
13 collaborations, averaging 7.7
Film
Pulp Fiction
Their highest-rated film together (1994)
Performer
Christopher Walken
Shares the frame in Pulp Fiction
Film
Dune: Part Two
Where Christopher goes next, and where you can too
Performer
Dave Bautista
Three steps from where you began
Recognition
3 wins
3 wins · latest 2013
Django Unchained · as Actor
Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction · as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Pulp Fiction
as Jimmie Dimmick
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Ennio
as Self
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Pulp Fiction
as Jimmie Dimmick
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Inglourious Basterds
as First Scalped Nazi / American Soldier in 'Pride of Nation' (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
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. Quentin Tarantino has known it for a long time.”
“They call it a Royale with cheese.”
“English, motherf—er, do you speak it?”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.2 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #217 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.2 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Quentin Tarantino | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Drama, Quiet performance, Screen presence | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 1994–1994 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Jimmie Dimmick — Pulp Fiction | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Pulp Fiction | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Top 250 Movies of All Time, Crime Movies, Top 100 Crime Movies, Drama Movies
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
35 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.
Documentary Legend
Awarded
13 catalogue titles in documentary, 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
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Pulp Fiction
as Jimmie Dimmick
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Ennio
as Self
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Hateful Eight
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Sukiyaki Western Django
as Ringo
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Pulp Fiction
as Jimmie Dimmick
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pulp Fiction
as Jimmie Dimmick
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 4 Nutevio collections
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