Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#28
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Morgan Freeman represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 36 years in, and Morgan is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Morgan Freeman appears in 77 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Morgan. Authority without volume, and the narration voice a whole generation hears when it reads. The Shawshank Redemption is the clearest case: a film rated 9.6 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, thriller, documentary. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ruben Fleischer, Rusty Cundieff, George Gallo and others, Morgan Freeman helped set a standard other performers now audition against. 1 Academy Award confirm what the films already argue.
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · The Dark Knight (2008) as Lucius Fox · Se7en (1995) as Somerset
Career snapshot
Ranked #28 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
77
1989–2025
Career length
62 yrs
Active since 1964
Academy Awards
1
Competitive wins
Oscar nominations
5
Career total
Highest Nutevio score
9.6
The Shawshank Redemption
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.3
The Shawshank Redemption
Most frequent director
George Gallo
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With George Gallo
Most common genre
Thriller
33 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
1
Career total
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
8.2
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
1990s
7.3 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Deep Impact, Hard Rain, Kiss the Girls — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.3
Across 14 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
7.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
2 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Invictus, Thick as Thieves, The Maiden Heist.
Most productive era
2000s
23 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 | 7.32 films | 7.29 films | 7.013 films | 6.63 films | 6.15 films |
| Action | — | 6.35 films | 7.38 films | 6.510 films | 5.85 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.16 films | 6.610 films | 6.59 films | 5.98 films |
| Comedy | — | 5.61 film | 6.17 films | 6.75 films | 6.45 films |
| Crime | — | 8.26 films | 6.914 films | 6.76 films | 5.96 films |
| Horror | — | — | 5.71 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
Career begins
1964Working from 1964
The start of the professional record — years before the catalogue picks the story up.
First film in Nutevio
1989Glory
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins.
First Academy Award nomination
1990Driving Miss Daisy
Best Actor — the moment the industry started writing the same sentences our editors had been writing.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.6 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.
First Academy Award
2005Million Dollar Baby
Best Supporting Actor. Confirmation rather than revelation, which is how the best of these usually arrive.
Most recent film
2025Clint Eastwood : la légende
The current state of the argument, as Self.
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.
77 of 77 films
as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
Directed by Frank Darabont
as Somerset
Directed by David Fincher
as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
Directed by Frank Darabont
as Lucius Fox
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Somerset
Directed by David Fincher
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 91 titles · 97 total credits · active 1985–2026
The Dinosaurs
2026 · TV · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Gray House
2026 · TV · Executive Producer
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
2025 · Thaddeus Bradley
Clint Eastwood : la légende
2025 · Self
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025 · TV · Self
The American Revolution
2025 · TV · (voice)
Gunner
2024 · Kendrick Ryker
My Dead Friend Zoe
2024 · Dr. Cole
57 Seconds
2023 · Anton Burrell
The Ritual Killer
2023 · Dr. Mackles
A Good Person
2023 · Daniel
Lioness
2023 · TV · Secretary of State Edwin Mullins
The Muppets Mayhem
2023 · TV · Morgan Freeman
Life on Our Planet
2023 · TV · Self - Narrator (voice)
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023 · TV · Self - Narrator (voice)
VM-krönika 2022
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Sidney
2022 · Self
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
2022 · Sheriff Thurmond Fowler
Paradise Highway
2022 · Gerick
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021 · Senior
Coming 2 America
2021 · Morgan Freeman
Vanquish
2021 · Damon
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021 · Self
The defining work
#1
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Performance score9.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding gives Morgan Freeman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Somerset
Se7en (1995)
Performance score9.4
Se7en asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Somerset is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Performance score9.2
The Shawshank Redemption asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Lucius Fox
The Dark Knight (2008)
Performance score9.1
The Dark Knight asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lucius Fox 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 Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
Start here. The Shawshank Redemption is the clearest statement of what Morgan Freeman does — accessible, 142 minutes, and rated 9.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Morgan 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 Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Same director as The Shawshank Redemption, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Se7en (1995)
Keeps the crime register of The Shawshank Redemption but asks for a colder reading of it.
Se7en (1995)
Same director as Se7en, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Dark Knight (2008)
Keeps the crime register of Se7en but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Christopher Nolan
Director
4 films together
Notably The Dark Knight
George Gallo
Director
4 films together
Notably The Ritual Killer
Clint Eastwood
Director
3 films together
Notably Million Dollar Baby
Frank Darabont
Director
2 films together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
David Fincher
Director
2 films together
Notably Se7en
Tom Shadyac
Director
2 films together
Notably Bruce Almighty
Mimi Leder
Director
2 films together
Notably Deep Impact
Louis Leterrier
Director
2 films together
Notably Now You See Me
Timur Bekmambetov
Director
2 films together
Notably Wanted
Zach Braff
Director
2 films together
Notably A Good Person
Bruce Beresford
Director
1 film together
Notably Driving Miss Daisy
Edward Zwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Glory
Brian De Palma
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bonfire of the Vanities
Kevin Reynolds
Director
1 film together
Notably Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
John G. Avildsen
Director
1 film together
Notably The Power of One
Wolfgang Petersen
Director
1 film together
Notably Outbreak
Andrew Davis
Director
1 film together
Notably Chain Reaction
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Amistad
Gary Fleder
Director
1 film together
Notably Kiss the Girls
Mikael Salomon
Director
1 film together
Notably Hard Rain
Neil LaBute
Director
1 film together
Notably Nurse Betty
Stephen Hopkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Under Suspicion
Lee Tamahori
Director
1 film together
Notably Along Came a Spider
Carl Franklin
Director
1 film together
Notably High Crimes
Phil Alden Robinson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sum of All Fears
Lawrence Kasdan
Director
1 film together
Notably Dreamcatcher
Luc Jacquet
Director
1 film together
Notably March of the Penguins
Brad Silberling
Director
1 film together
Notably 10 Items or Less
Paul McGuigan
Director
1 film together
Notably Lucky Number Slevin
Rob Reiner
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bucket List
Ben Affleck
Director
1 film together
Notably Gone Baby Gone
Peter Hewitt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Maiden Heist
Robert Schwentke
Director
1 film together
Notably RED
Antoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together
Notably Olympus Has Fallen
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Oblivion
Jon Turteltaub
Director
1 film together
Notably Last Vegas
Wally Pfister
Director
1 film together
Notably Transcendence
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together
Notably Lucy
Phil Lord
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lego Movie
Seth MacFarlane
Director
1 film together
Notably Ted 2
Babak Najafi
Director
1 film together
Notably London Has Fallen
Jon M. Chu
Director
1 film together
Notably Now You See Me 2
Joe Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Ric Roman Waugh
Director
1 film together
Notably Angel Has Fallen
Craig Brewer
Director
1 film together
Notably Coming 2 America
Patrick Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Reginald Hudlin
Director
1 film together
Notably Sidney
Rusty Cundieff
Director
1 film together
Notably 57 Seconds
Ruben Fleischer
Director
1 film together
Notably Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Mark Rolston
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Tim Robbins
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Bob Gunton
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
William Sadler
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Clancy Brown
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Gil Bellows
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
James Whitmore
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Jeffrey DeMunn
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Larry Brandenburg
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Neil Giuntoli
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Brian Libby
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
David Proval
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Shawshank Redemption
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christopher Nolan
Director
4 films together · 8.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Dark KnightGeorge Gallo
Director
4 films together · 5.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Ritual KillerClint Eastwood
Director
3 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Million Dollar BabyFrank Darabont
Director
2 films together · 9.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Shawshank RedemptionDavid Fincher
Director
2 films together · 8.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Se7enLouis Leterrier
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
Now You See MeZach Braff
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
A Good PersonTimur Bekmambetov
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
WantedTom Shadyac
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
Bruce AlmightyMimi Leder
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
Deep ImpactPaul McGuigan
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lucky Number SlevinJohn G. Avildsen
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 Power of OnePhil Lord
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lego MovieBen Affleck
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gone Baby GoneEdward Zwick
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GloryRob Reiner
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 Bucket ListBruce Beresford
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Driving Miss DaisyReginald Hudlin
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SidneyLuc Jacquet
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
March of the PenguinsSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AmistadKevin Reynolds
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Robin Hood: Prince of ThievesJon 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 2Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OblivionRobert Schwentke
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
REDRuben Fleischer
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Now You See Me: Now You Don'tPatrick Hughes
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hitman's Wife's BodyguardRic Roman Waugh
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Angel Has FallenGary Fleder
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kiss the GirlsWolfgang Petersen
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OutbreakLuc Besson
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LucyJon Turteltaub
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Last VegasAntoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Olympus Has FallenPhil Alden Robinson
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sum of All FearsCarl Franklin
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
High CrimesLee Tamahori
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Along Came a SpiderCraig Brewer
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Coming 2 AmericaSeth MacFarlane
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ted 2Babak Najafi
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
London Has FallenBrad Silberling
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
10 Items or LessRusty Cundieff
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
57 SecondsJoe Johnston
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 Nutcracker and the Four RealmsWally Pfister
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TranscendenceStephen Hopkins
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Under SuspicionNeil LaBute
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nurse BettyMikael Salomon
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hard RainAndrew Davis
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chain ReactionPeter Hewitt
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Maiden HeistLawrence Kasdan
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DreamcatcherBrian De Palma
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bonfire of the VanitiesSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
3 wins · 2 nominations
2 wins · 2 nominations · latest 2009
The Dark Knight
Million Dollar Baby · as Actor
The Shawshank Redemption · as Actor
Driving Miss Daisy · as Actor
1 win · latest 1990
Driving Miss Daisy · as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Shawshank Redemption
as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
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 Shawshank Redemption
as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
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 Dark Knight
as Lucius Fox
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Shawshank Redemption
as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
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. Morgan Freeman has known it for a long time.”
“Why so serious?”
“You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
“What's in the box?”
“Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part.”
“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.7 | 8.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #7 of 681 | #21 of 681 |
| Awards on file | 4 recorded | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | 1 | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | 5 | 3 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.4 | 8.9 |
| Genres | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Drama, History, Thriller, Crime |
| Directors | Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Frank Darabont | Christopher Nolan, David Fincher |
| Performance DNA | Screen presence, Drama, Rewatchability | Quiet performance, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 1994–2008 | 2007–2023 |
| Most iconic role | Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding — The Shawshank Redemption | Lewis Strauss — Oppenheimer |
| Most rewatchable film | The Shawshank Redemption | Zodiac |
| Filmography | 3 catalogue films | 2 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Christopher Nolan, David Fincher
Shared collections
Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Best Psychological Thrillers, Best Detective Movies, Top 100 Crime Movies
Collaborators in common
David Fincher · Christopher Nolan · Cillian Murphy
Our editors cannot separate them on the catalogue as it stands. Morgan Freeman and Robert Downey Jr. 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
36 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
33 catalogue titles in thriller, 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 Shawshank Redemption
as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Dark Knight
as Lucius Fox
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Invictus
as Nelson Mandela
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Lucky Number Slevin
as The Boss
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Dark Knight
as Lucius Fox
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Vanquish
as Damon
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
My Dead Friend Zoe
as Dr. Cole
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Dark Knight
as Lucius Fox
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 14 Nutevio collections
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genre
Crime Movies
Includes The Dark Knight, Se7en, The Shawshank Redemption
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Drama Movies
Includes The Dark Knight, The Shawshank Redemption
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Action Movies
Features The Dark Knight at #1
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Movies With Incredible Endings
Features Se7en at #1
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Best Prison Movies
Features The Shawshank Redemption at #1
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Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked
Features The Dark Knight at #2
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Works with the same directors — shared collaborators
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Works with the same directors — shared collaborators
Michael Caine
Works with the same directors — Christopher Nolan
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Works with the same directors — Christopher Nolan
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