Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#41
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Scarlett Johansson represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 33 years in, and Scarlett is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Scarlett Johansson appears in 64 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Scarlett. The Making of "Marriage Story" is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 mystery, crime, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Matt Reeves, Mike Flanagan, Brad Bird and others, Scarlett Johansson 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 Making of "Marriage Story" (2020) as Self · VOMO: Vote or Miss Out (2020) as Self · The Prestige (2006) as Olivia Wenscombe
Career snapshot
Ranked #41 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
64
1995–2028
Career length
33 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
The Making of "Marriage Story"
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
The Making of "Marriage Story"
Most frequent director
Garth Jennings
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Garth Jennings
Most common genre
Drama
27 titles
Average runtime
1h 45m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
7.3
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
7.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Jojo Rabbit, Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.2
Across 22 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.1
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 Horse Whisperer, Home Alone 3, Just Cause.
Most productive era
2010s
22 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 | 6.62 films | 7.213 films | 6.98 films | 3.24 films |
| Action | 6.31 film | 5.83 films | 7.510 films | 7.02 films |
| Thriller | 6.31 film | 6.75 films | 6.11 film | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | 5.61 film | 6.510 films | 6.97 films | 6.59 films |
| Crime | — | 6.03 films | — | 1.64 films |
| Romance | 6.91 film | 6.79 films | 8.01 film | 6.81 film |
| Horror | — | 5.81 film | — | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1995Just Cause
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kate Armstrong.
First Nutevio masterpiece
2006The Prestige
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
2020The Making of "Marriage Story"
10.0 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 Gilda Dent.
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.
64 of 64 films
as Self
Directed by Unknown
as Olivia Wenscombe
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow
Directed by Anthony Russo
as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow
Directed by Anthony Russo
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 69 titles · 72 total credits · active 1993–2028
The Batman: Part II
2028 · Gilda Dent
The Exorcist: Martyrs
2027 · Actor
Paper Tiger
2026 · Hester Pearl
Ray Gunn
2026 · Venus Nova / Red (voice)
Deepfaking Sam Altman
2026 · Self (archive footage)
Jurassic World Rebirth
2025 · Zora Bennett
My Mother's Wedding
2025 · Katherine
The Phoenician Scheme
2025 · Cousin Hilda
Eleanor the Great
2025 · Director · Producer
Transformers One
2024 · Elita-1 (voice)
Fly Me to the Moon
2024 · Kelly Jones · Producer
Sing: Thriller
2024 · Ash (voice)
Asteroid City
2023 · Midge Campbell
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
2022 · Self (archive footage)
StoryBots: Answer Time
2022 · TV
Sing 2
2021 · Ash (voice)
Black Widow
2021 · Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow · Executive Producer
Come Home
2021 · Ash (voice)
Marvel Studios Legends
2021 · TV · Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hawkeye
2021 · TV · Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Making of "Marriage Story"
2020 · Self
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020 · Self - Actress, "Avengers: Endgame"
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out
2020 · Self
Jojo Rabbit
2019 · Rosie
The defining work
#1
Self
The Making of "Marriage Story" (2020)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Scarlett Johansson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Self
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out (2020)
Performance score9.5
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out 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.
View movie#3
Olivia Wenscombe
The Prestige (2006)
Performance score8.9
The Prestige asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Olivia Wenscombe is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Performance score8.4
Avengers: Endgame asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Self
Start here. The Making of "Marriage Story" is the clearest statement of what Scarlett Johansson does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Scarlett 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 Prestige (2006)
A deliberate change of key after The Making of "Marriage Story" — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
A deliberate change of key after The Prestige — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Same director as Avengers: Infinity War, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Avengers: Endgame — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Anthony Russo
Director
4 films together
Notably Avengers: Endgame
Garth Jennings
Director
4 films together
Notably Sing 2
Woody Allen
Director
3 films together
Notably Match Point
Jon Favreau
Director
3 films together
Notably Chef
Wes Anderson
Director
3 films together
Notably Isle of Dogs
Christopher Nolan
Director
2 films together
Notably The Prestige
Joss Whedon
Director
2 films together
Notably The Avengers
Joel Coen
Director
2 films together
Notably The Man Who Wasn't There
Arne Glimcher
Director
1 film together
Notably Just Cause
Raja Gosnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Home Alone 3
Robert Redford
Director
1 film together
Notably The Horse Whisperer
Terry Zwigoff
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghost World
Peter Webber
Director
1 film together
Notably Girl with a Pearl Earring
Sofia Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably Lost in Translation
Mike Barker
Director
1 film together
Notably A Good Woman
Brian Robbins
Director
1 film together
Notably The Perfect Score
Paul Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably In Good Company
Stephen Hillenburg
Director
1 film together
Notably The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Michael Bay
Director
1 film together
Notably The Island
Shari Springer Berman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Nanny Diaries
Frank Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably The Spirit
Justin Chadwick
Director
1 film together
Notably The Other Boleyn Girl
Ken Kwapis
Director
1 film together
Notably He's Just Not That Into You
Cameron Crowe
Director
1 film together
Notably We Bought a Zoo
Sacha Gervasi
Director
1 film together
Notably Hitchcock
Spike Jonze
Director
1 film together
Notably Her
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together
Notably Lucy
Lucia Aniello
Director
1 film together
Notably Rough Night
Rupert Sanders
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghost in the Shell
Noah Baumbach
Director
1 film together
Notably Marriage Story
Ryan Fleck
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain Marvel
Taika Waititi
Director
1 film together
Notably Jojo Rabbit
Cate Shortland
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Widow
Brad Baruh
Director
1 film together
Notably Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
Greg Berlanti
Director
1 film together
Notably Fly Me to the Moon
Josh Cooley
Director
1 film together
Notably Transformers One
Kristin Scott Thomas
Director
1 film together
Notably My Mother's Wedding
Gareth Edwards
Director
1 film together
Notably Jurassic World Rebirth
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably Ray Gunn
Mike Flanagan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Exorcist: Martyrs
Matt Reeves
Director
1 film together
Notably The Batman: Part II
Michael Caine
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Hugh Jackman
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Christian Bale
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Piper Perabo
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Rebecca Hall
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Samantha Mahurin
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
David Bowie
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Andy Serkis
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Daniel Davis
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Jim Piddock
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Christopher Neame
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Mark Ryan
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Prestige
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Anthony Russo
Director
4 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Avengers: EndgameGarth Jennings
Director
4 films together · 7.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Sing 2Jon Favreau
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
ChefWes Anderson
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
Isle of DogsWoody Allen
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
Match PointChristopher Nolan
Director
2 films together · 8.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The PrestigeJoss Whedon
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
The AvengersJoel Coen
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 Man Who Wasn't ThereTaika Waititi
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jojo RabbitSpike Jonze
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HerJosh Cooley
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Transformers OneNoah Baumbach
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marriage StorySofia Coppola
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lost in TranslationCate Shortland
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black WidowBrad Baruh
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of HawkeyeStephen Hillenburg
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 SpongeBob SquarePants MovieTerry Zwigoff
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ghost WorldRobert Redford
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Horse WhispererGreg Berlanti
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fly Me to the MoonRyan Fleck
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain MarvelCameron Crowe
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We Bought a ZooJustin Chadwick
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 Other Boleyn GirlMichael Bay
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 IslandSacha Gervasi
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HitchcockKen Kwapis
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
He's Just Not That Into YouPeter Webber
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Girl with a Pearl EarringGareth Edwards
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jurassic World RebirthLuc Besson
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LucyShari Springer Berman
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Nanny DiariesKristin Scott Thomas
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Mother's WeddingMike Barker
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Good WomanArne Glimcher
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Just CauseRupert Sanders
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ghost in the ShellPaul Weitz
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In Good CompanyBrian Robbins
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Perfect ScoreLucia Aniello
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rough NightRaja Gosnell
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Home Alone 3Frank Miller
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SpiritMatt Reeves
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Batman: Part IIMike Flanagan
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Exorcist: MartyrsBrad Bird
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ray GunnSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
7 wins · 5 nominations
No wins yet · 2 nominations
as Actor
as Actor
No wins yet · 3 nominations
as Actor
as Actor
as Actor
2 wins · latest 2025
as Actor
as Actor
1 win · latest 2007
as Actor
1 win · latest 2014
as Actor
1 win
as Actor
1 win · latest 2010
as Actor
1 win · latest 2010
as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Making of "Marriage Story"
as Self
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Match Point
as Nola Rice
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 Making of "Marriage Story"
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Captain Marvel
as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Making of "Marriage Story"
as Self
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. Scarlett Johansson has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.0 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #415 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.0 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Quiet performance, Rewatchability, Screen presence | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2006–2006 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Olivia Wenscombe — The Prestige | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | The Prestige | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Christopher Nolan
Shared collections
Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked, Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies, Thriller Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Christopher Nolan · Michael Caine
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
33 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
27 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 Making of "Marriage Story"
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Prestige
as Olivia Wenscombe
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Sing: Thriller
as Ash (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Prestige
as Olivia Wenscombe
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Making of "Marriage Story"
as Self
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Black Widow
as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Jojo Rabbit
as Rosie
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Prestige
as Olivia Wenscombe
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.
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