Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2810
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Omar Sy works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Omar Sy appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Omar. The Intouchables is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 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 crime, romance, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Bradley Cooper, Joe Carnahan, Anne Le Ny and others, Omar Sy 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.
The Intouchables (2011) as Driss · The Call of the Wild (2020) as Perreault · X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) as Bishop
Career snapshot
Ranked #2810 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2011–2027
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
The Intouchables
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The Intouchables
Most frequent director
Colin Trevorrow
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Colin Trevorrow
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Arctic Dogs, Yao, Transformers: The Last Knight — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Arctic Dogs, Yao, Transformers: The Last Knight.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.74 films | 6.26 films |
| Action | 6.34 films | 6.32 films |
| Thriller | 6.13 films | 6.44 films |
| Comedy | 6.54 films | 6.04 films |
| Crime | 5.51 film | 0.01 film |
| Romance | 5.01 film | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2011The Intouchables
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Driss. 8.5 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.
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.
23 of 23 films
as Driss
Directed by Olivier Nakache
as Perreault
Directed by Chris Sanders
as Bishop
Directed by Bryan Singer
as Marwan
Directed by Unknown
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The defining work
#1
Driss
The Intouchables (2011)
Performance score8.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Driss gives Omar Sy a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Perreault
The Call of the Wild (2020)
Performance score7.6
The Call of the Wild asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Perreault is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Seydou Tall
Yao (2019)
Performance score7.3
Yao asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Seydou Tall is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bishop
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Performance score7.3
X-Men: Days of Future Past asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bishop 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 Driss
Start here. The Intouchables is the clearest statement of what Omar Sy does — accessible, 113 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Omar 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.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
A deliberate change of key after The Intouchables — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Yao (2019)
Keeps the adventure register of X-Men: Days of Future Past but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Call of the Wild (2020)
Keeps the adventure register of Yao but asks for a colder reading of it.
I Was a Stranger (2025)
Keeps the drama register of The Call of the Wild but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Colin Trevorrow
Director
2 films together
Notably Jurassic World
Olivier Nakache
Director
1 film together
Notably The Intouchables
Olivier Dahan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dream Team
Henrik Ruben Genz
Director
1 film together
Notably Good People
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: Days of Future Past
John Wells
Director
1 film together
Notably Burnt
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Inferno
Michael Bay
Director
1 film together
Notably Transformers: The Last Knight
Jean-Pascal Zadi
Director
1 film together
Notably Simply Black
Chris Sanders
Director
1 film together
Notably The Call of the Wild
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably The Takedown
Mathieu Vadepied
Director
1 film together
Notably Father & Soldier
Anne Le Ny
Director
1 film together
Notably Out of Control
Joe Carnahan
Director
1 film together
Notably Shadow Force
Bradley Cooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Untitled Ocean's Prequel
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Colin Trevorrow
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
Jurassic WorldOlivier Nakache
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The IntouchablesChris Sanders
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 Call of the WildBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: Days of Future PastJohn Wells
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BurntJoe Carnahan
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Shadow ForceLouis Leterrier
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 TakedownMichael Bay
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Transformers: The Last KnightRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
InfernoMathieu Vadepied
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Father & SoldierJean-Pascal Zadi
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Simply BlackAnne Le Ny
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Out of ControlHenrik Ruben Genz
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good PeopleOlivier Dahan
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Dream TeamBradley Cooper
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Six 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
The Intouchables
as Driss
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 Call of the Wild
as Perreault
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 Intouchables
as Driss
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Hot Rod (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Intouchables
as Driss
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. Omar Sy 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.
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
10 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
The Intouchables
as Driss
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Intouchables
as Driss
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Call of the Wild
as Perreault
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Inferno
as Christoph Bouchard
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Bishop
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Bishop
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Intouchables
as Driss
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Intouchables
as Driss
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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