Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#176
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Michael Caine represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 62 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 Caine appears in 75 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Michael. Working-class precision, six decades of it, and the calmest voice in any room he walks into. The Dark Knight is the clearest case: a film rated 9.5 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 war, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Oliver Parker, Mat Whitecross, Lina Roessler and others, Michael Caine helped set a standard other performers now audition against. 2 Academy Awards confirm what the films already argue.
The Dark Knight (2008) as Alfred · Interstellar (2014) as Professor Brand · Inception (2010) as Stephen Miles
Career snapshot
Ranked #176 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
75
1961–2023
Career length
70 yrs
Active since 1956
Academy Awards
2
Competitive wins
Oscar nominations
6
Career total
Highest Nutevio score
9.5
The Dark Knight
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
The Dark Knight
Most frequent director
Christopher Nolan
12 films together
Longest collaboration
12×
With Christopher Nolan
Most common genre
Drama
37 titles
Average runtime
1h 55m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
3
Career total
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.8
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
8.9
out of 10
Substantial influence: the work changed casting, not only credits.
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
7.2 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Harry Brown, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.2
Across 17 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
7.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
5 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. An Accidental Studio, King of Thieves, Sherlock Gnomes.
Most productive era
2010s
21 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 | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.74 films | 6.93 films | 7.05 films | 6.93 films | 7.411 films | 7.57 films | 6.44 films |
| Action | 6.71 film | 6.61 film | 6.31 film | 5.21 film | 7.77 films | 7.67 films | 6.73 films |
| Thriller | 6.82 films | 6.92 films | 6.04 films | 5.52 films | 7.47 films | 7.75 films | 7.41 film |
| Comedy | 6.83 films | — | 6.97 films | 6.84 films | 6.25 films | 6.57 films | 6.31 film |
| Sci-Fi | — | — | — | — | — | 9.42 films | — |
| Crime | 6.92 films | 7.31 film | 6.94 films | 5.71 film | 7.48 films | 7.06 films | 5.81 film |
| Romance | 6.51 film | — | 6.32 films | 6.31 film | 5.82 films | 6.91 film | — |
| Horror | — | — | 5.52 films | — | — | 6.91 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
Career begins
1956Working from 1956
The start of the professional record — years before the catalogue picks the story up.
First film in Nutevio
1961The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Checkpoint Policeman (uncredited).
First Academy Award nomination
1987Hannah and Her Sisters
Best Supporting Actor — the moment the industry started writing the same sentences our editors had been writing.
First Academy Award
1987Hannah and Her Sisters
Best Supporting Actor. Confirmation rather than revelation, which is how the best of these usually arrive.
First Nutevio masterpiece
2006The Prestige
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches.
Highest rated performance
2008The Dark Knight
9.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2014Interstellar
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 Bernard Jordan.
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.
75 of 75 films
as Professor Brand
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Alfred
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Cutter
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Professor Brand
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Stephen Miles
Directed by Christopher Nolan
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 73 titles · 74 total credits · active 1961–2026
TFI Unplugged
2026 · TV · Self (Archive Footage)
The Great Escaper
2023 · Bernard Jordan
Medieval
2022 · Lord Boreš
The Sound of 007
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Best Sellers
2021 · Harris Shaw
Twist
2021 · Fagin
Tenet
2020 · Crosby
Come Away
2020 · Charlie
An Accidental Studio
2019 · Self (archive footage)
King of Thieves
2018 · Brian Reader
Sherlock Gnomes
2018 · Lord Redbrick (voice)
Dear Dictator
2018 · General Anton Vincent
Going in Style
2017 · Joe Harding
Dunkirk
2017 · Voice on Radio (uncredited)
Now You See Me 2
2016 · Arthur Tressler
Kingsman: The Secret Service
2015 · Arthur
The Last Witch Hunter
2015 · Dolan 36th
Youth
2015 · Fred Ballinger
Interstellar
2014 · Professor Brand
Stonehearst Asylum
2014 · Dr. Benjamin Salt
The Double
2014 · Executive Producer
Now You See Me
2013 · Arthur Tressler
Mr. Morgan's Last Love
2013 · Matthew Morgan
The Dark Knight Rises
2012 · Alfred
The defining work
#1
Professor Brand
Interstellar (2014)
Performance score9.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Professor Brand gives Michael Caine a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Alfred
The Dark Knight (2008)
Performance score9.3
The Dark Knight asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alfred is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cutter
The Prestige (2006)
Performance score9.1
The Prestige asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cutter is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Professor Brand
Interstellar (2014)
Performance score8.9
Interstellar asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Professor Brand is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Professor Brand
Start here. Interstellar is the clearest statement of what Michael Caine does — accessible, 169 minutes, and rated 9.4 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.
The Prestige (2006)
Same director as Interstellar, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Dark Knight (2008)
Same director as The Prestige, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Inception (2010)
Same director as The Dark Knight, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Interstellar (2014)
Same director as Inception, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Christopher Nolan
Director
12 films together
Notably The Dark Knight
John Huston
Director
2 films together
Notably The Man Who Would Be King
Lewis Gilbert
Director
2 films together
Notably Educating Rita
Cillian Murphy
Actor
2 films together
Notably The Dark Knight
Christian Bale
Actor
2 films together
Notably The Dark Knight
Val Guest
Director
1 film together
Notably The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Cy Endfield
Director
1 film together
Notably Zulu
Sidney J. Furie
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ipcress File
Ronald Neame
Director
1 film together
Notably Gambit
Guy Hamilton
Director
1 film together
Notably Battle of Britain
Peter Collinson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Italian Job
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Director
1 film together
Notably Sleuth
John Sturges
Director
1 film together
Notably The Eagle Has Landed
Richard Attenborough
Director
1 film together
Notably A Bridge Too Far
Brian De Palma
Director
1 film together
Notably Dressed to Kill
Sidney Lumet
Director
1 film together
Notably Deathtrap
Terry Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Stanley Donen
Director
1 film together
Notably Blame It on Rio
Neil Jordan
Director
1 film together
Notably Mona Lisa
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Hannah and Her Sisters
Joseph Sargent
Director
1 film together
Notably Jaws: The Revenge
Frank Oz
Director
1 film together
Notably Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
James Orr
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Destiny
Peter Bogdanovich
Director
1 film together
Notably Noises Off...
Brian Henson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Muppet Christmas Carol
Steven Seagal
Director
1 film together
Notably On Deadly Ground
Bob Rafelson
Director
1 film together
Notably Blood and Wine
Mark Herman
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Voice
Lasse Hallström
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cider House Rules
Donald Petrie
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss Congeniality
Philip Kaufman
Director
1 film together
Notably Quills
Phillip Noyce
Director
1 film together
Notably The Quiet American
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably Austin Powers in Goldmember
Tim McCanlies
Director
1 film together
Notably Secondhand Lions
F. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together
Notably The Italian Job
Gore Verbinski
Director
1 film together
Notably The Weather Man
Nora Ephron
Director
1 film together
Notably Bewitched
Alfonso Cuarón
Director
1 film together
Notably Children of Men
Kenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Sleuth
Michael Radford
Director
1 film together
Notably Flawless
Kelly Asbury
Director
1 film together
Notably Gnomeo & Juliet
John Lasseter
Director
1 film together
Notably Cars 2
Brad Peyton
Director
1 film together
Notably Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably Now You See Me
Brad Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Stonehearst Asylum
Paolo Sorrentino
Director
1 film together
Notably Youth
Breck Eisner
Director
1 film together
Notably The Last Witch Hunter
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably Kingsman: The Secret Service
Jon M. Chu
Director
1 film together
Notably Now You See Me 2
Zach Braff
Director
1 film together
Notably Going in Style
John Stevenson
Director
1 film together
Notably Sherlock Gnomes
James Marsh
Director
1 film together
Notably King of Thieves
Bill Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably An Accidental Studio
Brenda Chapman
Director
1 film together
Notably Come Away
Lina Roessler
Director
1 film together
Notably Best Sellers
Mat Whitecross
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sound of 007
Oliver Parker
Director
1 film together
Notably The Great Escaper
Morgan Freeman
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Dark Knight
Heath Ledger
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Dark Knight
Aaron Eckhart
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Dark Knight
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Dark Knight
Gary Oldman
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Dark Knight
Monique Gabriela Curnen
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Dark Knight
Ron Dean
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Dark Knight
Chin Han
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Dark Knight
Nestor Carbonell
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Dark Knight
Eric Roberts
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Dark Knight
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christopher Nolan
Director
12 films together · 8.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 12 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Dark KnightJohn Huston
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Man Who Would Be KingLewis Gilbert
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Educating RitaMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kingsman: The Secret ServiceAlfonso Cuarón
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Children of MenWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hannah and Her SistersMat Whitecross
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sound of 007Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Now You See MeTerry Jones
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Monty Python's The Meaning of LifeJoseph L. Mankiewicz
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SleuthTim McCanlies
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Secondhand LionsBrian Henson
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Muppet Christmas CarolPeter Bogdanovich
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Noises Off...Philip Kaufman
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
QuillsLasse Hallström
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 Cider House RulesFrank Oz
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dirty Rotten ScoundrelsCy Endfield
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ZuluRichard Attenborough
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 Bridge Too FarRonald Neame
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GambitPaolo Sorrentino
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
YouthBrad Anderson
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stonehearst AsylumF. Gary Gray
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 Italian JobNeil Jordan
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mona LisaBrian De Palma
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dressed to KillJon M. Chu
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Now You See Me 2Michael Radford
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FlawlessPeter Collinson
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 Italian JobSidney J. Furie
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 Ipcress FileOliver Parker
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 Great EscaperZach Braff
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Going in StyleSidney Lumet
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DeathtrapGuy Hamilton
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Battle of BritainPhillip Noyce
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 Quiet AmericanJohn Sturges
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 Eagle Has LandedVal Guest
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 Day the Earth Caught FireDonald Petrie
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miss CongenialityBill Jones
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
An Accidental StudioJohn Lasseter
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cars 2Mark Herman
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little VoiceLina Roessler
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Best SellersKenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SleuthJames Orr
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. DestinyBrad Peyton
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Journey 2: The Mysterious IslandGore 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 Weather ManBreck Eisner
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 Last Witch HunterJay Roach
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Austin Powers in GoldmemberKelly Asbury
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gnomeo & JulietBrenda Chapman
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Come AwayStanley Donen
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blame It on RioJohn Stevenson
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sherlock GnomesBob Rafelson
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blood and WineJames Marsh
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
King of ThievesSteven Seagal
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
On Deadly GroundNora Ephron
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BewitchedJoseph Sargent
Director
1 film together · 4.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jaws: The RevengeSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Performer
Michael Caine
Where this journey starts
Director
Christopher Nolan
12 collaborations, averaging 8.6
Film
The Dark Knight
Their highest-rated film together (2008)
Performer
Cillian Murphy
Shares the frame in The Dark Knight
Film
Inception
Where Cillian goes next, and where you can too
Performer
Leonardo DiCaprio
Three steps from where you began
Recognition
6 wins · 1 nomination
5 wins · 1 nomination · latest 2015
Interstellar
Inception
The Dark Knight
The Cider House Rules · as Actor
Hannah and Her Sisters · as Actor
The Quiet American · as Actor
1 win · latest 1999
Little Voice · as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Dark Knight
as Alfred
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Muppet Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Inception
as Stephen Miles
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Sound of 007
as Self (archive footage)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Inception
as Stephen Miles
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 Caine has known it for a long time.”
“Do not go gentle into that good night.”
“Murph, I'm coming back.”
“You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.”
“An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious.”
“Why so serious?”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.9 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #2 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | 4 recorded | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | 2 | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | 6 | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.3 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2006–2014 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Professor Brand — Interstellar | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | The Dark Knight | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 4 catalogue films | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Interstellar
Shared directors
Christopher Nolan
Shared collections
Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies, Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked, Best Time Travel Movies, Adventure Movies, Sci-Fi Movies, Best Space Movies
Collaborators in common
Christopher Nolan · Cillian Murphy · Matthew McConaughey · Anne Hathaway · Jessica Chastain · Casey Affleck · Wes Bentley · Topher Grace
Our editors cannot separate them on the catalogue as it stands. Michael Caine and Matt Damon score within a rounding error of each other.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
62 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Editor's Icon
Awarded
Named by our desk for a body of work we return to when we need to explain what screen acting is for.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Most Influential Career
Awarded
Recognised for changing what casting directors thought a leading performance could look like.
Drama Legend
Awarded
37 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
Interstellar
as Professor Brand
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Dark Knight
as Alfred
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Muppet Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Inception
as Stephen Miles
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Dark Knight
as Alfred
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kingsman: The Secret Service
as Arthur
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Muppet Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Interstellar
as Professor Brand
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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Appears in 16 Nutevio collections
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Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked
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Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies
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Includes Interstellar, The Dark Knight, The Prestige
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Includes Inception, The Dark Knight
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Best Heist Movies
Includes Inception, The Dark Knight
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