Ryan Gosling

Ryan Gosling

Director & Actor (b. 1980)
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The ThumbScore for Ryan Gosling (71.6%) is the average audience approval rating across 27 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Ryan's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

27
Movies
71.6%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Ryan Gosling’s films higher than 50% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Drive (Pluto TV) · Lars and the Real Girl (YouTube, Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Plex, Tubi, Hoopla) · The Believer (Fawesome) · The Big Short (Pluto TV, Hoopla, Kanopy) · The Notebook (Pluto TV) · The Place Beyond the Pines (YouTube) and 6 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Emma Stone (3)Marisa Tomei (3)Damien Chazelle (2)Ana de Armas (2)Christina Hendricks (2)

Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor. Prominent in independent film, he has also worked in blockbuster films of varying genres, and has accrued a worldwide box office gross of over 1.9 billion USD. He has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award. Born and raised in Canada, he rose to prominence at age 13 for being a child star on the Disney Channel's The Mickey Mouse Club (1993–1995), and went on to appear in other family entertainment programs, including Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1995) and Goosebumps (1996). His first film role was as a Jewish neo-Nazi in The Believer (2001), and he went on to star in several independent films, including Murder by Numbers (2002), The Slaughter Rule (2002), and The United States of Leland (2003). Gosling gained wider recognition and stardom for the 2004 romance film The Notebook.

This was followed by starring roles in a string of critically acclaimed independent dramas including Half Nelson (2006), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Gosling co-starred in three mainstream films in 2011, the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love and the action drama Drive, all of which were critical and commercial successes. He then starred in the acclaimed financial satire The Big Short (2015) and the romantic musical La La Land (2016), the latter of which won him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Further acclaim followed with the science fiction thriller Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and the biopic First Man (2018). In addition to acting, he made his directorial debut in 2014's Lost River.

Born 1980-11-12 in London, Ontario, Canada.

On ThumbScore, Ryan Gosling appears in 27 films with an average audience score of 71.6%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Ryan Gosling movie, ranked by audience score

Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary
2026
👍 89%
Drive
Drive
2011
👍 89%
Lars and the Real Girl
Lars and the Real Girl
2007
👍 86%
The Believer
The Believer
2001
👍 86%
The Big Short
The Big Short
2015
👍 86%
La La Land
La La Land
2016
👍 84%
The Notebook
The Notebook
2004
👍 84%
The Fall Guy
The Fall Guy
2024
👍 78%
Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner 2049
2017
👍 78%
Barbie
Barbie
2023
👍 74%
The Place Beyond the Pines
The Place Beyond the Pines
2013
👍 74%
The Nice Guys
The Nice Guys
2016
👍 73%
Half Nelson
Half Nelson
2006
👍 72%
Fracture
Fracture
2007
👍 70%
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011
👍 70%
First Man
First Man
2018
👍 70%
The United States of Leland
The United States of Leland
2003
👍 70%
Murder by Numbers
Murder by Numbers
2002
👍 69%
The Gray Man
The Gray Man
2022
👍 68%
Blue Valentine
Blue Valentine
2010
👍 68%
All Good Things
All Good Things
2010
👍 66%
The Ides of March
The Ides of March
2011
👍 65%
Stay
Stay
2005
👍 65%
Gangster Squad
Gangster Squad
2013
👍 63%
Song to Song
Song to Song
2017
👍 51%
Only God Forgives
Only God Forgives
2013
👍 48%
Lost River
Lost River
2015
👍 37%