Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2305
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Armie Hammer 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.
Armie Hammer appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Armie. Call Me by Your Name is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 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 action, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Uwe Boll, Travis Mills, Kenneth Branagh and others, Armie Hammer 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.
Call Me by Your Name (2017) as Oliver · Hotel Mumbai (2019) as David · Nocturnal Animals (2016) as Hutton Morrow
Career snapshot
Ranked #2305 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2006–2026
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Call Me by Your Name
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Call Me by Your Name
Most frequent director
Ben Wheatley
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Ben Wheatley
Most common genre
Drama
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
2000s
6.9 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Flicka — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.9
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Flicka.
Most productive era
2010s
16 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.91 film | 7.28 films | 6.03 films |
| Action | — | 6.84 films | 6.61 film |
| Thriller | — | 7.23 films | 6.45 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.35 films | 5.41 film |
| Crime | — | 6.32 films | 6.43 films |
| Romance | — | 7.02 films | 6.31 film |
| Horror | — | 4.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006Flicka
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Male Prefect.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.3 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 Sanders.
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.
23 of 23 films
as David
Directed by Anthony Maras
as Cameron Winklevoss / Tyler Winklevoss
Directed by David Fincher
as Martin D. Ginsburg
Directed by Mimi Leder
as Illya Kuryakin
Directed by Guy Ritchie
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
Oliver
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Oliver gives Armie Hammer a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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David
Hotel Mumbai (2019)
Performance score7.8
Hotel Mumbai asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. David is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cameron Winklevoss / Tyler Winklevoss
The Social Network (2010)
Performance score7.7
The Social Network asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cameron Winklevoss / Tyler Winklevoss is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Martin D. Ginsburg
On the Basis of Sex (2018)
Performance score7.6
On the Basis of Sex asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Martin D. Ginsburg 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 Oliver
Start here. Call Me by Your Name is the clearest statement of what Armie Hammer does — accessible, 132 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Armie 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 Social Network (2010)
Keeps the drama register of Call Me by Your Name but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
A deliberate change of key after The Social Network — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
On the Basis of Sex (2018)
A deliberate change of key after The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Hotel Mumbai (2019)
Keeps the drama register of On the Basis of Sex but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ben Wheatley
Director
2 films together
Notably Rebecca
David Fincher
Director
1 film together
Notably The Social Network
Bobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Hall Pass
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably J. Edgar
Tarsem Singh
Director
1 film together
Notably Mirror Mirror
Gore Verbinski
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lone Ranger
Doug Ellin
Director
1 film together
Notably Entourage
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Tom Ford
Director
1 film together
Notably Nocturnal Animals
Luca Guadagnino
Director
1 film together
Notably Call Me by Your Name
Brian Fee
Director
1 film together
Notably Cars 3
Boots Riley
Director
1 film together
Notably Sorry to Bother You
Mimi Leder
Director
1 film together
Notably On the Basis of Sex
Anthony Maras
Director
1 film together
Notably Hotel Mumbai
Sophie Kargman
Director
1 film together
Notably Query
Kenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Death on the Nile
Travis Mills
Director
1 film together
Notably Frontier Crucible
Uwe Boll
Director
1 film together
Notably Citizen Vigilante
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ben Wheatley
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
RebeccaLuca Guadagnino
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Call Me by Your NameAnthony Maras
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hotel MumbaiTom Ford
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nocturnal AnimalsDavid Fincher
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Social NetworkMimi Leder
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
On the Basis of SexGuy Ritchie
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 Man from U.N.C.L.E.Brian Fee
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cars 3Boots Riley
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sorry to Bother YouTravis Mills
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Frontier CrucibleUwe Boll
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Citizen VigilanteKenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death on the NileDoug 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
EntourageClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
J. EdgarGore Verbinski
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lone RangerTarsem Singh
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mirror MirrorBobby Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hall PassSophie Kargman
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
QuerySix 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
Call Me by Your Name
as Oliver
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Call Me by Your Name
as Oliver
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Call Me by Your Name
as Oliver
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Hall Pass
as Bouncer (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Call Me by Your Name
as Oliver
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. Armie Hammer 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
20 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
12 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
Call Me by Your Name
as Oliver
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Hotel Mumbai
as David
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Cars 3
as Jackson Storm (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Death on the Nile
as Simon Doyle
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Hotel Mumbai
as David
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Illya Kuryakin
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Cars 3
as Jackson Storm (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Citizen Vigilante
as Sanders
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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