Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#472
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Michael B. Jordan represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 27 years in, and Michael is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Michael B. Jordan appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Michael. Sinners is the clearest case: a film rated 8.7 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 crime, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Joseph Kosinski, Michael B. Jordan, Nathan Greno and others, Michael B. Jordan 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.
Sinners (2025) as Smoke / Stack · Swapped (2026) as Ollie (voice) · Just Mercy (2019) as Bryan Stevenson
Career snapshot
Ranked #472 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
2001–2028
Career length
27 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Sinners
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.9
Swapped
Most frequent director
Ryan Coogler
6 films together
Longest collaboration
6×
With Ryan Coogler
Most common genre
Drama
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
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
6.8
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Just Mercy, Black Panther, Kin — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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. Hardball.
Most productive era
2010s
11 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 | 6.51 film | 7.06 films | 5.74 films |
| Action | — | 6.55 films | 7.24 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.82 films | 4.65 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.11 film | 6.61 film |
| Crime | — | 7.71 film | 0.02 films |
| Romance | — | 6.11 film | 3.52 films |
| Horror | — | — | 8.12 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2001Hardball
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jamal.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025Sinners
8.7 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
2028Miami Vice '85
The current state of the argument, as Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs.
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.
22 of 22 films
as Smoke / Stack
Directed by Ryan Coogler
as Ollie (voice)
Directed by Nathan Greno
as Bryan Stevenson
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
as Smoke / Stack
Directed by Ryan Coogler
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 31 titles · 42 total credits · active 2001–2028
Miami Vice '85
2028 · Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs
The Thomas Crown Affair
2027 · Thomas Crown · Director · Producer
Swapped
2026 · Ollie (voice)
The Greatest
2026 · TV · Executive Producer
Sinners
2025 · Smoke / Stack
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025 · TV · Self
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025 · TV · Self
Creed III
2023 · Adonis Creed · Director · Producer
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022 · Killmonger
61st Street
2022 · TV · Executive Producer
Space Jam: A New Legacy
2021 · Michael B. Jordan
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
2021 · John Kelly · Producer
A Journal for Jordan
2021 · Charles King · Producer
Marvel Studios Legends
2021 · TV · Erik Killmonger (archive footage) (uncredited)
Just Mercy
2019 · Bryan Stevenson · Producer · Executive Producer
Raising Dion
2019 · TV · Mark
Black Panther
2018 · Erik Killmonger
Kin
2018 · Male Cleaner · Executive Producer
Fahrenheit 451
2018 · Guy Montag · Executive Producer
Creed II
2018 · Adonis Johnson · Executive Producer
Creed
2015 · Adonis Johnson
Fantastic Four
2015 · Johnny Storm
That Awkward Moment
2014 · Mikey
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox
2013 · Cyborg / Victor Stone (voice)
The defining work
#1
Smoke / Stack
Sinners (2025)
Performance score9.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Smoke / Stack gives Michael B. Jordan a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ollie (voice)
Swapped (2026)
Performance score9.0
Swapped asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ollie (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bryan Stevenson
Just Mercy (2019)
Performance score8.2
Just Mercy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bryan Stevenson is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Smoke / Stack
Sinners (2025)
Performance score8.1
Sinners asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Smoke / Stack 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 Smoke / Stack
Start here. Sinners is the clearest statement of what Michael B. Jordan does — accessible, 137 minutes, and rated 8.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Michael 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.
Creed (2015)
Same director as Sinners, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Just Mercy (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Creed but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sinners (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Just Mercy — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Swapped (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Sinners — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ryan Coogler
Director
6 films together
Notably Sinners
Michael B. Jordan
Director
2 films together
Notably Creed III
Brian Robbins
Director
1 film together
Notably Hardball
Anthony Hemingway
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Tails
Jay Oliva
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox
Tom Gormican
Director
1 film together
Notably That Awkward Moment
Steven Caple Jr.
Director
1 film together
Notably Creed II
Ramin Bahrani
Director
1 film together
Notably Fahrenheit 451
Destin Daniel Cretton
Director
1 film together
Notably Just Mercy
Denzel Washington
Director
1 film together
Notably A Journal for Jordan
Stefano Sollima
Director
1 film together
Notably Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
Malcolm D. Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Space Jam: A New Legacy
Nathan Greno
Director
1 film together
Notably Swapped
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Miami Vice '85
Hailee Steinfeld
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Miles Caton
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Jack O'Connell
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Wunmi Mosaku
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Jayme Lawson
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Omar Benson Miller
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Delroy Lindo
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Li Jun Li
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Yao
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Lola Kirke
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Peter Dreimanis
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Buddy Guy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Sinners
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ryan Coogler
Director
6 films together · 7.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 6 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SinnersMichael B. Jordan
Director
2 films together · 3.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Creed IIINathan Greno
Director
1 film together · 8.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SwappedDestin Daniel Cretton
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Just MercyJay Oliva
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League: The Flashpoint ParadoxDenzel Washington
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Journal for JordanSteven Caple Jr.
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Creed IIStefano Sollima
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tom Clancy's Without RemorseAnthony Hemingway
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red TailsMalcolm D. Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Space Jam: A New LegacyBrian Robbins
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HardballTom Gormican
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
That Awkward MomentRamin Bahrani
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fahrenheit 451Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miami Vice '85Six 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
Sinners
as Smoke / Stack
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Swapped
as Ollie (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
Sinners
as Smoke / Stack
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Space Jam: A New Legacy
as Michael B. Jordan
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Sinners
as Smoke / Stack
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. Michael B. Jordan 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 | 7.6 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #618 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.7 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Horror, Thriller, Drama | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Ryan Coogler | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Intensity, Quiet performance, Screen presence | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2025–2025 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Smoke / Stack — Sinners | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Sinners | 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
Thriller 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
27 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
11 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
Swapped
as Ollie (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Sinners
as Smoke / Stack
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Swapped
as Ollie (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Swapped
as Ollie (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Swapped
as Ollie (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Black Panther
as Erik Killmonger
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Swapped
as Ollie (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Sinners
as Smoke / Stack
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 4 Nutevio collections
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