Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9922
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Andrew Santino is the performer our scores keep defending against the popular vote — a career of films that get better the further you stand from their release week.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Andrew Santino appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Andrew. GOAT is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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 comedy, family, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tyree Dillihay, Ruben Fleischer, Peter Farrelly and others, Andrew Santino 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.
GOAT (2026) as Chuck (voice) · The Disaster Artist (2017) as Scott Holmes / 'Mike' · Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) as Brett Finnegan
Career snapshot
Ranked #9922 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2017–2026
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
GOAT
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
GOAT
Most frequent director
Tyree Dillihay
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Tyree Dillihay
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
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
6.2
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
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Game Over, Man!, The Disaster Artist — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
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. Game Over, Man!, The Disaster Artist.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 | 7.11 film | — |
| Action | 5.81 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.61 film |
| Comedy | 6.42 films | 6.27 films |
| Crime | — | 6.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Scott Holmes / 'Mike'.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026GOAT
7.8 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. The current state of the argument, as Chuck (voice).
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.
10 of 10 films
as Chuck (voice)
Directed by Tyree Dillihay
as Scott Holmes / 'Mike'
Directed by James Franco
as Brett Finnegan
Directed by Ruben Fleischer
as Jesse Robinson
Directed by Leah McKendrick
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
Chuck (voice)
GOAT (2026)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Chuck (voice) gives Andrew Santino a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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JT
Ricky Stanicky (2024)
Performance score7.0
Ricky Stanicky asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. JT is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Scott Holmes / 'Mike'
The Disaster Artist (2017)
Performance score7.0
The Disaster Artist asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Scott Holmes / 'Mike' is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Brett Finnegan
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025)
Performance score6.6
Now You See Me: Now You Don't asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Brett Finnegan 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 Chuck (voice)
Start here. GOAT is the clearest statement of what Andrew Santino does — accessible, 100 minutes, and rated 7.8 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.
The Disaster Artist (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of GOAT but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ricky Stanicky (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of The Disaster Artist but asks for a colder reading of it.
Scrambled (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Ricky Stanicky but asks for a colder reading of it.
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Scrambled — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
James Franco
Director
1 film together
Notably The Disaster Artist
Kyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together
Notably Game Over, Man!
Nicol Paone
Director
1 film together
Notably Friendsgiving
John Hamburg
Director
1 film together
Notably Me Time
Calmatic
Director
1 film together
Notably House Party
Charlie Day
Director
1 film together
Notably Fool's Paradise
Leah McKendrick
Director
1 film together
Notably Scrambled
Peter Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Ricky Stanicky
Ruben Fleischer
Director
1 film together
Notably Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Tyree Dillihay
Director
1 film together
Notably GOAT
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tyree Dillihay
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GOATJames Franco
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 Disaster ArtistRuben Fleischer
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Now You See Me: Now You Don'tPeter Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ricky StanickyJohn Hamburg
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Me TimeLeah McKendrick
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ScrambledCalmatic
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
House PartyKyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Game Over, Man!Charlie Day
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fool's ParadiseNicol Paone
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FriendsgivingSix 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
GOAT
as Chuck (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
GOAT
as Chuck (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
GOAT
as Chuck (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Fool's Paradise
as Comedian
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
GOAT
as Chuck (voice)
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 Santino 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.
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
9 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
GOAT
as Chuck (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
as Brett Finnegan
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
GOAT
as Chuck (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
as Brett Finnegan
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
GOAT
as Chuck (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Game Over, Man!
as Officer Hank
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Disaster Artist
as Scott Holmes / 'Mike'
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Fool's Paradise
as Comedian
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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