Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2324
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Scott Adsit is the performer our scores keep defending against the popular vote — a career of films that get better the further you stand from their release week.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Scott Adsit appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Scott. Big Hero 6 is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tim Story, Eric Fogel, Dan Abraham and others, Scott Adsit 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.
Big Hero 6 (2014) as Baymax (voice) · Once Upon a Studio (2023) as Baymax (voice) · The Terminal (2004) as Cab Driver
Career snapshot
Ranked #2324 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2003–2026
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Big Hero 6
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Once Upon a Studio
Most frequent director
F. Gary Gray
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With F. Gary Gray
Most common genre
Comedy
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 29m
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
6.5
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. Big Hero 6, St. Vincent, A Case of You — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. The Informant!, Accepted, For Your Consideration.
Most productive era
2000s
8 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 | 6.92 films | 6.31 film | 6.44 films |
| Action | 6.42 films | 8.01 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.37 films | 6.85 films | 6.55 films |
| Crime | 6.33 films | 7.01 film | 6.91 film |
| Romance | — | 6.03 films | 5.92 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2003The Italian Job
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Actor Rehearsing In Car.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014Big Hero 6
8.0 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
202672 HOURS
The current state of the argument, as Fisherman.
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.
21 of 21 films
as Baymax (voice)
Directed by Chris Williams
as Baymax (voice)
Directed by Dan Abraham
as Cab Driver
Directed by Steven Spielberg
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Baymax (voice)
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Baymax (voice) gives Scott Adsit a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Baymax (voice)
Once Upon a Studio (2023)
Performance score7.5
Once Upon a Studio asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Baymax (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cab Driver
The Terminal (2004)
Performance score7.3
The Terminal asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cab Driver is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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David
St. Vincent (2014)
Performance score7.0
St. Vincent asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. David 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 Baymax (voice)
Start here. Big Hero 6 is the clearest statement of what Scott Adsit does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Scott 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 Terminal (2004)
Keeps the comedy register of Big Hero 6 but asks for a colder reading of it.
We're the Millers (2013)
Keeps the comedy register of The Terminal but asks for a colder reading of it.
St. Vincent (2014)
Keeps the comedy register of We're the Millers but asks for a colder reading of it.
Once Upon a Studio (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of St. Vincent but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
F. Gary Gray
Director
2 films together
Notably The Italian Job
Steven Brill
Director
1 film together
Notably Without a Paddle
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The Terminal
Christopher Guest
Director
1 film together
Notably For Your Consideration
Steve Pink
Director
1 film together
Notably Accepted
Jason Winer
Director
1 film together
Notably Arthur
Kat Coiro
Director
1 film together
Notably A Case of You
Theodore Melfi
Director
1 film together
Notably St. Vincent
Chris Williams
Director
1 film together
Notably Big Hero 6
Oz Rodríguez
Director
1 film together
Notably 30 Rock: A One-Time Special
Kieran Mulcare
Director
1 film together
Notably Cicada
Dan Abraham
Director
1 film together
Notably Once Upon a Studio
Eric Fogel
Director
1 film together
Notably Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably 72 HOURS
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
F. Gary Gray
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
The Italian JobChris Williams
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big Hero 6Dan Abraham
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Once Upon a StudioSteven Spielberg
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 TerminalTheodore Melfi
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
St. VincentTim Story
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
72 HOURSSteve Pink
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AcceptedOz Rodríguez
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
30 Rock: A One-Time SpecialKieran Mulcare
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CicadaKat Coiro
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Case of YouChristopher Guest
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
For Your ConsiderationSteven Brill
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Without a PaddleJason Winer
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ArthurEric Fogel
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Megamind vs. the Doom SyndicateSix 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
Big Hero 6
as Baymax (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Once Upon a Studio
as Baymax (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
Big Hero 6
as Baymax (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Terminal
as Cab Driver
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Big Hero 6
as Baymax (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. Scott Adsit 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
23 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
17 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
Once Upon a Studio
as Baymax (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Big Hero 6
as Baymax (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Cicada
as Dr. Dragone
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Without a Paddle
as Greasy Man
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Big Hero 6
as Baymax (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Big Hero 6
as Baymax (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Once Upon a Studio
as Baymax (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Black Hole
as Jay
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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