Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#14824
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Nick Gomez 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.
Nick Gomez appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nick. Jumanji: The Next Level is the clearest case: a film rated 6.9 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, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jake Kasdan, Eric Heisserer, Rian Johnson and others, Nick Gomez 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.
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) as Oasis Drunk · Looper (2012) as Dale · Hours (2013) as Lobo
Career snapshot
Ranked #14824 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
1995–2019
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
Jumanji: The Next Level
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.9
Looper
Most frequent director
Jake Kasdan
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jake Kasdan
Most common genre
Thriller
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
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
6.5 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Prophecy — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.5
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.5
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. The Prophecy.
Most productive era
2010s
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.51 film | 6.21 film | 6.62 films |
| Action | 6.51 film | 5.91 film | 6.22 films |
| Thriller | 6.51 film | 5.91 film | 6.44 films |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.91 film |
| Crime | — | 6.12 films | 6.02 films |
| Horror | 6.51 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1995The Prophecy
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jason.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2012Looper
6.9 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 Oasis Drunk.
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.
8 of 8 films
as Oasis Drunk
Directed by Jake Kasdan
as Lobo
Directed by Eric Heisserer
as Dale
Directed by Rian Johnson
as Alvaro
Directed by Unknown
as Middle
Directed by Patrick Lussier
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
Oasis Drunk
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
Performance score6.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Oasis Drunk gives Nick Gomez a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lobo
Hours (2013)
Performance score6.8
Hours asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lobo is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dale
Looper (2012)
Performance score6.8
Looper asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dale is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Alvaro
The Iceman (2012)
Performance score6.6
The Iceman asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alvaro 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 Oasis Drunk
Start here. Jumanji: The Next Level is the clearest statement of what Nick Gomez does — accessible, 123 minutes, and rated 6.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Nick 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.
Drive Angry (2011)
Keeps the fantasy register of Jumanji: The Next Level but asks for a colder reading of it.
Looper (2012)
Keeps the action register of Drive Angry but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Iceman (2012)
Keeps the thriller register of Looper but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hours (2013)
Keeps the drama register of The Iceman but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Gregory Widen
Director
1 film together
Notably The Prophecy
Renny Harlin
Director
1 film together
Notably 12 Rounds
Werner Herzog
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Patrick Lussier
Director
1 film together
Notably Drive Angry
Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Looper
Eric Heisserer
Director
1 film together
Notably Hours
Jake Kasdan
Director
1 film together
Notably Jumanji: The Next Level
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jake Kasdan
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jumanji: The Next LevelRian Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LooperEric Heisserer
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HoursGregory Widen
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ProphecyWerner Herzog
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New OrleansRenny Harlin
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
12 RoundsPatrick Lussier
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Drive AngrySix 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
Jumanji: The Next Level
as Oasis Drunk
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Hours
as Lobo
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Looper
as Dale
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Jumanji: The Next Level
as Oasis Drunk
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Jumanji: The Next Level
as Oasis Drunk
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. Nick Gomez 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
24 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
Jumanji: The Next Level
as Oasis Drunk
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Looper
as Dale
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Hours
as Lobo
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Iceman
as Alvaro
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Looper
as Dale
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Prophecy
as Jason
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Iceman
as Alvaro
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Iceman
as Alvaro
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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