Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8070
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Andrew Dice Clay represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 39 years in, and Andrew is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Andrew Dice Clay appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Andrew. A Star Is Born is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, comedy, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tim Story, Jay Karas, Bradley Cooper and others, Andrew Dice Clay 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.
A Star Is Born (2018) as Lorenzo Campana · Blue Jasmine (2013) as Augie · Pretty in Pink (1986) as Bouncer - 'Diceman'
Career snapshot
Ranked #8070 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
1986–2025
Career length
39 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
A Star Is Born
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
A Star Is Born
Most frequent director
Tim Story
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Tim Story
Most common genre
Comedy
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 32m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
6.5
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
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. A Star Is Born, Entourage, Blue Jasmine — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Amazon Women on the Moon, Pretty in Pink.
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 | 1980s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.71 film | 6.93 films | — |
| Action | — | — | 6.41 film |
| Comedy | 5.91 film | 6.21 film | 6.12 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.41 film |
| Romance | 6.71 film | 7.51 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1986Pretty in Pink
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Bouncer - 'Diceman'.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018A Star Is Born
7.5 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
2025The Pickup
The current state of the argument, as Clark.
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 Lorenzo Campana
Directed by Bradley Cooper
as Bouncer - 'Diceman'
Directed by Howard Deutch
as Clark
Directed by Tim Story
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
Lorenzo Campana
A Star Is Born (2018)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lorenzo Campana gives Andrew Dice Clay a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Augie
Blue Jasmine (2013)
Performance score7.1
Blue Jasmine asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Augie is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bouncer - 'Diceman'
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Performance score6.6
Pretty in Pink asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bouncer - 'Diceman' is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Clark
The Pickup (2025)
Performance score6.5
The Pickup asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Clark 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 Lorenzo Campana
Start here. A Star Is Born is the clearest statement of what Andrew Dice Clay does — accessible, 136 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Andrew 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.
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Keeps the romance register of A Star Is Born but asks for a colder reading of it.
Blue Jasmine (2013)
Keeps the drama register of Pretty in Pink but asks for a colder reading of it.
Chuck Zito: An American Story (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Blue Jasmine — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Pickup (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Chuck Zito: An American Story — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Howard Deutch
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty in Pink
Robert K. Weiss
Director
1 film together
Notably Amazon Women on the Moon
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Blue Jasmine
Doug Ellin
Director
1 film together
Notably Entourage
Bradley Cooper
Director
1 film together
Notably A Star Is Born
Jay Karas
Director
1 film together
Notably Feeding America Comedy Festival
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably The Pickup
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Bradley Cooper
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Star Is BornWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blue JasmineHoward Deutch
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty in PinkTim Story
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 PickupDoug Ellin
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EntourageRobert K. Weiss
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Amazon Women on the MoonJay Karas
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Feeding America Comedy FestivalSix 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
A Star Is Born
as Lorenzo Campana
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Star Is Born
as Lorenzo Campana
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
A Star Is Born
as Lorenzo Campana
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Amazon Women on the Moon
as Frankie (segment "Video Date")
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
A Star Is Born
as Lorenzo Campana
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. Andrew Dice Clay 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
39 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
4 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
A Star Is Born
as Lorenzo Campana
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
A Star Is Born
as Lorenzo Campana
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Star Is Born
as Lorenzo Campana
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
A Star Is Born
as Lorenzo Campana
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
A Star Is Born
as Lorenzo Campana
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Pickup
as Clark
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
A Star Is Born
as Lorenzo Campana
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Amazon Women on the Moon
as Frankie (segment "Video Date")
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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