Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#793
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ike Barinholtz represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Ike is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Ike Barinholtz appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ike. Moxie is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 family, animation, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Sandy Honig, Sean Charmatz, Tom Gormican and others, Ike Barinholtz 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.
Moxie (2021) as Mr. Davies · The Disaster Artist (2017) as Ike Barinholtz · The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) as Martin
Career snapshot
Ranked #793 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
2001–2027
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Moxie
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Moxie
Most frequent director
Nicholas Stoller
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Nicholas Stoller
Most common genre
Comedy
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
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
6.3
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
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Late Night, Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times", The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 13 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
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Down.
Most productive era
2010s
13 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 | — | 6.63 films | 7.21 film |
| Action | — | 6.33 films | 6.82 films |
| Thriller | 5.01 film | 6.22 films | 6.71 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.410 films | 5.64 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.81 film |
| Horror | 5.01 film | — | 6.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2001Down
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Niles Benson.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Moxie
7.2 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 (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.
20 of 20 films
as Mr. Davies
Directed by Amy Poehler
as Staten Island
Directed by Craig Zobel
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
Mr. Davies
Moxie (2021)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mr. Davies gives Ike Barinholtz a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Martin
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
Performance score7.0
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Martin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ike Barinholtz
The Disaster Artist (2017)
Performance score7.0
The Disaster Artist asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ike Barinholtz is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Staten Island
The Hunt (2020)
Performance score6.9
The Hunt asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Staten Island 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 Mr. Davies
Start here. Moxie is the clearest statement of what Ike Barinholtz does — accessible, 110 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ike 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 Moxie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Blockers (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of The Disaster Artist but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Hunt (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Blockers — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
Keeps the action register of The Hunt but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Nicholas Stoller
Director
3 films together
Notably Storks
David Ayer
Director
2 films together
Notably Bright
Jason Moore
Director
1 film together
Notably Sisters
Peter Landesman
Director
1 film together
Notably Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
James Franco
Director
1 film together
Notably The Disaster Artist
Kay Cannon
Director
1 film together
Notably Blockers
Mike Mitchell
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Andy Fisher
Director
1 film together
Notably Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
Nisha Ganatra
Director
1 film together
Notably Late Night
Craig Zobel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunt
Amy Poehler
Director
1 film together
Notably Moxie
Tom Gormican
Director
1 film together
Notably The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Sean Charmatz
Director
1 film together
Notably Orion and the Dark
Sandy Honig
Director
1 film together
Notably Chunks
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Nicholas Stoller
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
StorksDavid Ayer
Director
2 films together · 6.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
BrightAmy Poehler
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MoxieJames 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 ArtistTom Gormican
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Unbearable Weight of Massive TalentCraig Zobel
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HuntMike Mitchell
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lego Movie 2: The Second PartSean Charmatz
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Orion and the DarkNisha Ganatra
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Late NightKay Cannon
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlockersPeter Landesman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White HouseAndy Fisher
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"Jason Moore
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SistersSandy Honig
Director
1 film together · 2.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ChunksSix 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
Moxie
as Mr. Davies
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
as Angelo Lano
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Moxie
as Mr. Davies
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Disaster Artist
as Ike Barinholtz
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Moxie
as Mr. Davies
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. Ike Barinholtz 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
26 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
14 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
Moxie
as Mr. Davies
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Hunt
as Staten Island
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
as Angelo Lano
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Down
as Niles Benson
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
as Lex Luthor (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Suicide Squad
as Griggs
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Moxie
as Mr. Davies
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Hunt
as Staten Island
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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