Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#351
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Bill Murray represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 44 years in, and Bill is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Bill Murray appears in 56 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Bill. The Grand Budapest Hotel is the clearest case: a film rated 8.8 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 documentary, mystery, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Lawrence Kasdan, Andy Garcia, Wes Anderson and others, Bill Murray 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 Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) as M. Ivan · The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) as M. Ivan · Marty, Life Is Short (2026) as Self (archive footage)
Career snapshot
Ranked #351 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
56
1982–2026
Career length
44 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.8
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Most frequent director
Wes Anderson
11 films together
Longest collaboration
11×
With Wes Anderson
Most common genre
Comedy
44 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.3
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
7.1
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. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Zombieland, Get Smart — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.9
Across 12 catalogue films 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
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Ghostbusters II, Scrooged, She's Having a Baby.
Most productive era
2010s
15 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.32 films | 6.84 films | 7.26 films | 6.77 films | 6.65 films |
| Action | — | — | 6.23 films | 5.31 film | 6.21 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.51 film | 6.21 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.86 films | 6.87 films | 7.011 films | 6.511 films | 6.69 films |
| Crime | — | 6.01 film | — | — | 6.43 films |
| Romance | 6.52 films | 6.92 films | 7.22 films | 6.62 films | 6.11 film |
| Horror | 6.91 film | — | 7.41 film | 5.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1982Tootsie
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jeff Slater.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.8 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.
Most recent film
2026Diamond
The current state of the argument.
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.
56 of 56 films
as M. Ivan
Directed by Wes Anderson
as Phil Connors
Directed by Harold Ramis
as Bob Harris
Directed by Sofia Coppola
as Dr. Peter Venkman
Directed by Ivan Reitman
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 59 titles · 61 total credits · active 1975–2026
Marty, Life Is Short
2026 · Self (archive footage)
Diamond
2026 · Actor
The Friend
2025 · Walter
The Phoenician Scheme
2025 · God
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025 · Self
John Candy: I Like Me
2025 · Self - Mainstage Cast, The Second City
Riff Raff
2025 · Lefty
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
2024 · Peter Venkman
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023 · Lord Krylar
The Greatest Beer Run Ever
2022 · The Colonel
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021 · Peter Venkman
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021 · Arthur Howitzer, Jr.
Belushi
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
2020 · Self (archive footage)
On the Rocks
2020 · Felix
Fantastic Mr. Murray
2019 · Self - Portrait Subject (archive footage)
The Dead Don't Die
2019 · Chief Cliff Robertson
Cola Wars
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Isle of Dogs
2018 · Boss (voice)
The Jungle Book
2016 · Baloo (voice)
Ghostbusters
2016 · Martin Heiss
Vice Principals
2016 · TV · Principal Welles
Aloha
2015 · Carson Welch
A Very Murray Christmas
2015 · Bill Murray · Writer · Executive Producer
The defining work
#1
M. Ivan
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. M. Ivan gives Bill Murray a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Phil Connors
Groundhog Day (1993)
Performance score8.3
Groundhog Day asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Phil Connors is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bob Harris
Lost in Translation (2003)
Performance score8.1
Lost in Translation asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bob Harris is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dr. Peter Venkman
Ghostbusters (1984)
Performance score8.1
Ghostbusters asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dr. Peter Venkman 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 M. Ivan
Start here. The Grand Budapest Hotel is the clearest statement of what Bill Murray does — accessible, 99 minutes, and rated 8.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Bill 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.
Ghostbusters (1984)
Keeps the comedy register of The Grand Budapest Hotel but asks for a colder reading of it.
Groundhog Day (1993)
Keeps the comedy register of Ghostbusters but asks for a colder reading of it.
Lost in Translation (2003)
Keeps the romance register of Groundhog Day but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Keeps the comedy register of Lost in Translation but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Wes Anderson
Director
11 films together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Bobby Farrelly
Director
3 films together
Notably Osmosis Jones
Jim Jarmusch
Director
3 films together
Notably Broken Flowers
Sofia Coppola
Director
3 films together
Notably Lost in Translation
Ivan Reitman
Director
2 films together
Notably Ghostbusters
John McNaughton
Director
2 films together
Notably Wild Things
Sydney Pollack
Director
1 film together
Notably Tootsie
Frank Oz
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Shop of Horrors
John Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably She's Having a Baby
Richard Donner
Director
1 film together
Notably Scrooged
Harold Ramis
Director
1 film together
Notably Groundhog Day
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Ed Wood
Howard Franklin
Director
1 film together
Notably Larger Than Life
Joe Pytka
Director
1 film together
Notably Space Jam
McG
Director
1 film together
Notably Charlie's Angels
Peter Segal
Director
1 film together
Notably Get Smart
Ruben Fleischer
Director
1 film together
Notably Zombieland
Roger Michell
Director
1 film together
Notably Hyde Park on Hudson
Theodore Melfi
Director
1 film together
Notably St. Vincent
George Clooney
Director
1 film together
Notably The Monuments Men
Cameron Crowe
Director
1 film together
Notably Aloha
Paul Feig
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghostbusters
Jon Favreau
Director
1 film together
Notably The Jungle Book
Mark Herzog
Director
1 film together
Notably Cola Wars
Stéphane Benhamou
Director
1 film together
Notably Fantastic Mr. Murray
R.J. Cutler
Director
1 film together
Notably Belushi
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Peter Farrelly
Director
1 film together
Notably The Greatest Beer Run Ever
Peyton Reed
Director
1 film together
Notably Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Colin Hanks
Director
1 film together
Notably John Candy: I Like Me
Beth McCarthy-Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Andy Garcia
Director
1 film together
Notably Diamond
Lawrence Kasdan
Director
1 film together
Notably Marty, Life Is Short
Léa Seydoux
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Edward Norton
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Harvey Keitel
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ralph Fiennes
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
F. Murray Abraham
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mathieu Amalric
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Adrien Brody
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Willem Dafoe
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jeff Goldblum
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jude Law
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Saoirse Ronan
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jason Schwartzman
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Wes Anderson
Director
11 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 11 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Grand Budapest HotelJim Jarmusch
Director
3 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Broken FlowersSofia Coppola
Director
3 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Lost in TranslationBobby Farrelly
Director
3 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Osmosis JonesIvan Reitman
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
GhostbustersJohn McNaughton
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
Wild ThingsLawrence Kasdan
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marty, Life Is ShortColin Hanks
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
John Candy: I Like MeMark Herzog
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cola WarsHarold Ramis
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Groundhog DayPeter Farrelly
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Greatest Beer Run EverRuben Fleischer
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ZombielandTim Burton
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ed WoodJason Reitman
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ghostbusters: AfterlifeTheodore Melfi
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
St. VincentSydney Pollack
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TootsieAndy Garcia
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DiamondR.J. Cutler
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BelushiJon Favreau
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 Jungle BookJoe Pytka
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Space JamFrank Oz
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little Shop of HorrorsRichard Donner
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ScroogedBeth McCarthy-Miller
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SNL50: The Homecoming ConcertStéphane Benhamou
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fantastic Mr. MurrayPeyton Reed
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ant-Man and the Wasp: QuantumaniaPeter Segal
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Get SmartGeorge Clooney
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 Monuments MenMcG
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Charlie's AngelsJohn Hughes
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She's Having a BabyHoward Franklin
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Larger Than LifeCameron Crowe
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AlohaPaul Feig
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GhostbustersRoger Michell
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hyde Park on HudsonSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Performer
Bill Murray
Where this journey starts
Director
Wes Anderson
11 collaborations, averaging 7.5
Film
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Their highest-rated film together (2014)
Performer
Edward Norton
Shares the frame in The Grand Budapest Hotel
Film
Fight Club
Where Edward goes next, and where you can too
Performer
Brad Pitt
Three steps from where you began
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as M. Ivan
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Lost in Translation
as Bob Harris
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 Grand Budapest Hotel
as M. Ivan
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Cola Wars
as Self (archive footage)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as M. Ivan
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. Bill Murray 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 | #467 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.8 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Comedy, Adventure, Drama | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Wes Anderson | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Screen presence, Comedy, Rewatchability | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2014–2014 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | M. Ivan — The Grand Budapest Hotel | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Adventure Movies, Drama Movies
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
44 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
44 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
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as M. Ivan
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as M. Ivan
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Lost in Translation
as Bob Harris
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Wild Things
as Kenneth Bowden
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as M. Ivan
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Osmosis Jones
as Frank Detorre
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Mad Dog and Glory
as Frank Milo
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as M. Ivan
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.
Collection footprint
Appears in 5 Nutevio collections
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Works with the same directors — shared collaborators
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