Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3140
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Dominique Pinon represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 44 years in, and Dominique is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Dominique Pinon appears in 31 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Dominique. Anna 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 tv movie, crime, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Adam Elliot, Kike Maíllo and others, Dominique Pinon 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.
Anna (2019) as Monk Dominic · Amélie (2001) as Joseph · Memoir of a Snail (2024) as Percy Pudel (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3140 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
31
1982–2026
Career length
44 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Anna
Average Nutevio score
5.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Anna
Most frequent director
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
7 films together
Longest collaboration
7×
With Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Most common genre
Drama
20 titles
Average runtime
1h 31m
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
6.6
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
7.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Anna, Spread Your Wings, Cyrano, My Love — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.5
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.5
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. Frantic, The Return of Martin Guerre.
Most productive era
2020s
17 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 | 6.72 films | — | 7.31 film | 8.42 films | 3.215 films |
| Action | — | 6.41 film | — | — | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.01 film | 5.71 film | 6.22 films |
| Comedy | — | — | 7.42 films | 7.51 film | 4.65 films |
| Crime | 6.71 film | — | 6.01 film | — | 0.05 films |
| Romance | — | — | 7.72 films | — | 5.91 film |
| Horror | — | 6.41 film | — | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1982The Return of Martin Guerre
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Antoine.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Anna
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 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
2026Cassandre - Un homme parfait
The current state of the argument, as Jean-Paul Marchand.
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.
31 of 31 films
as Joseph
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
as Percy Pudel (voice)
Directed by Adam Elliot
as Beauty Smith (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Sylvain
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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
Monk Dominic
Anna (2019)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Monk Dominic gives Dominique Pinon a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Joseph
Amélie (2001)
Performance score7.8
Amélie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Joseph is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Percy Pudel (voice)
Memoir of a Snail (2024)
Performance score7.7
Memoir of a Snail asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Percy Pudel (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Beauty Smith (voice)
White Fang (2018)
Performance score7.7
White Fang asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Beauty Smith (voice) 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 Monk Dominic
Start here. Anna is the clearest statement of what Dominique Pinon does — accessible, 15 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Dominique 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.
Amélie (2001)
A deliberate change of key after Anna — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Same director as Amélie, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
White Fang (2018)
A deliberate change of key after A Very Long Engagement — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Memoir of a Snail (2024)
Keeps the animation register of White Fang but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Director
7 films together
Notably Amélie
Roman Polanski
Director
2 films together
Notably Frantic
Daniel Vigne
Director
1 film together
Notably The Return of Martin Guerre
Álex de la Iglesia
Director
1 film together
Notably The Oxford Murders
Alexis Michalik
Director
1 film together
Notably Cyrano, My Love
Clémentine Célarié
Director
1 film together
Notably Pierre & Jeanne
Kike Maíllo
Director
1 film together
Notably A Perfect Enemy
Adam Elliot
Director
1 film together
Notably Memoir of a Snail
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Director
7 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 7 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
AmélieRoman Polanski
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
FranticAdam Elliot
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Memoir of a SnailAlexis Michalik
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cyrano, My LoveDaniel Vigne
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Return of Martin GuerreClémentine Célarié
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pierre & JeanneKike Maíllo
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Perfect EnemyÁlex de la Iglesia
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Oxford MurdersSix 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
Anna
as Monk Dominic
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 Very Long Engagement
as Sylvain
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Anna
as Monk Dominic
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Return of Martin Guerre
as Antoine
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Anna
as Monk Dominic
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. Dominique Pinon 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
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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
20 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
Anna
as Monk Dominic
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Anna
as Monk Dominic
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
as Two Clouds
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
A Perfect Enemy
as Jean Rosen
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Anna
as Monk Dominic
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Alien Resurrection
as Vriess
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Memoir of a Snail
as Percy Pudel (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Alien Resurrection
as Vriess
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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