Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#750
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Pete Davidson 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.
Pete Davidson appears in 27 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Pete. The Suicide Squad is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 comedy, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Beth McCarthy-Miller, David Leitch, Will Gluck and others, Pete Davidson 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 Suicide Squad (2021) as Blackguard · Dog Man (2025) as Petey the Cat (voice) · School Dance (2014) as Stinkfinger
Career snapshot
Ranked #750 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
27
2014–2026
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
The Suicide Squad
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
The Suicide Squad
Most frequent director
Judd Apatow
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Judd Apatow
Most common genre
Comedy
22 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
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
6.2
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. What Men Want, The Jesus Rolls, The Angry Birds Movie 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 6 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
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. What Men Want, The Jesus Rolls, The Angry Birds Movie 2.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 5.92 films | 6.74 films |
| Action | 7.11 film | 7.25 films |
| Thriller | — | 4.73 films |
| Comedy | 6.36 films | 6.416 films |
| Crime | 4.41 film | 4.84 films |
| Romance | 5.84 films | 6.04 films |
| Horror | — | 6.52 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014School Dance
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Stinkfinger.
Highest rated performance
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2025Dog Man
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026One Night Only
The current state of the argument, as Detective Jeterson.
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.
27 of 27 films
as Petey the Cat (voice)
Directed by Peter Hastings
as Max
Directed by James DeMonaco
as Blackguard
Directed by James Gunn
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Petey the Cat (voice)
Dog Man (2025)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Petey the Cat (voice) gives Pete Davidson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Scott Carlin
The King of Staten Island (2020)
Performance score7.6
The King of Staten Island asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Scott Carlin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Zeke
Big Time Adolescence (2020)
Performance score7.6
Big Time Adolescence asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Zeke is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Max
The Home (2025)
Performance score7.4
The Home asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Max 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 Petey the Cat (voice)
Start here. Dog Man is the clearest statement of what Pete Davidson does — accessible, 89 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Pete 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 King of Staten Island (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of Dog Man but asks for a colder reading of it.
Big Time Adolescence (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of The King of Staten Island but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Big Time Adolescence but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Home (2025)
A deliberate change of key after The Suicide Squad — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Judd Apatow
Director
2 films together
Notably The King of Staten Island
Nick Cannon
Director
1 film together
Notably School Dance
Claire Scanlon
Director
1 film together
Notably Set It Up
Thurop Van Orman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Angry Birds Movie 2
John Turturro
Director
1 film together
Notably The Jesus Rolls
Adam Shankman
Director
1 film together
Notably What Men Want
James Gunn
Director
1 film together
Notably The Suicide Squad
Mod Sun
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Mourning
Halina Reijn
Director
1 film together
Notably Bodies Bodies Bodies
Phil Traill
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Burger 2
Craig Gillespie
Director
1 film together
Notably Dumb Money
Steven Caple Jr.
Director
1 film together
Notably Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast X
James DeMonaco
Director
1 film together
Notably The Home
Angus Wall
Director
1 film together
Notably Being Eddie
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably The Pickup
Peter Hastings
Director
1 film together
Notably Dog Man
Will Gluck
Director
1 film together
Notably One Night Only
David Leitch
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Rob a Bank
Beth McCarthy-Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably The Roast of Kevin Hart
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Judd Apatow
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The King of Staten IslandJames Gunn
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 Suicide SquadPeter Hastings
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dog ManNick Cannon
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
School DanceSteven Caple Jr.
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Transformers: Rise of the BeastsLouis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast XWill Gluck
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Night OnlyThurop Van Orman
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 Angry Birds Movie 2Claire Scanlon
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Set It UpAngus Wall
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Being EddieJames DeMonaco
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 HomeCraig Gillespie
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dumb MoneyTim Story
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 PickupPhil Traill
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good Burger 2Halina Reijn
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bodies Bodies BodiesAdam Shankman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What Men WantBeth McCarthy-Miller
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 Roast of Kevin HartMod Sun
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good MourningJohn Turturro
Director
1 film together · 4.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Jesus RollsDavid Leitch
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Rob a BankSix 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 Suicide Squad
as Blackguard
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 Jesus Rolls
as Jack
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 Suicide Squad
as Blackguard
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Trainwreck
as Dr. Conners' Patient
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Dog Man
as Petey the Cat (voice)
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. Pete Davidson 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
22 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
The Home
as Max
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Fast X
as Bowie
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Jesus Rolls
as Jack
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Home
as Max
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Suicide Squad
as Blackguard
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Dog Man
as Petey the Cat (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Dumb Money
as Kevin Gill
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Fast X
as Bowie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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