This, the Ryan Gosling edition of Posterized, has the cleanest trajectory of any I've done. It's like Young Hercules never put a foot wrong once he left minor teen success on tv for the movies at 20. It's just one steady climb up to superstardom: the showy debuts, the solidifying his rep years, the Oscar nominated and populist breakthroughs and then on to superstardom in 2011.
Hey girl, how many have you seen?
Young Hercules (1998-1999) | Remember the Titans (2000) |
The Believer (2001, Spirit Nom)
Who Was That?
15 More Films & The Gosling Ascendance after the jump...
The Slaughter Rule (2002) | Murder By Numbers (2002) | The United States of Leland (2003)
How About This Gosling Kid?
The Notebook (2004) | Stay (2005) |
Half Nelson (2006, Spirit Win, SAG Nom, Oscar Nom)
The Breakthrough
Fracture (2007) | Lars and the Real Girl (2007, Globe & SAG Noms) |
Blue Valentine (2010, Globe Nom, Oscar Nom grrrr)
Yep, He's the Real Deal
All Good Things (2010) | Crazy Stupid Love (2011, Globe Nom) | Drive (2011, Spirit Nom)
Undeniable Ascendance
The Ides of March (2011, Globe Nom) | Ganster Squad (2013) | The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)
The Threatening To Quit Years
Ryan Gosling is only 32 years old... (33 in November) which is just about the time when male stars usually start breaking through and having their "Half Nelson" years as their richest roles arrive in the thirtysomething and fortysomething years. But he's already there, having ascended by the age of 30. Don't quit now, Gosling! Don't quit now.
Are you excited about his future or do you think he's already peaked given his apparently wandering interest? He's got two more films in the can: the next from both Terrence Malick (Untiled) and his Drive auteur Nicolas Winding Refn (Only God Forgives)... but he's moving on to directing next with How To Catch a Monster (2014) which will star his Drive co-star Christina Hendricks and his girlfriend Eva Mendes.