Tom Hardy · Filmography Ranked
Best Tom Hardy Films, Ranked by IQ Score
Two decades of contemporary cinema's most-physically-committed leading man. Ranked.
Tom Hardy's filmography since Bronson (2008) is among the most-physically-committed emerging-leading-man catalogs of the 2010s. Three Christopher Nolan collaborations (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Dunkirk). Anchored the Mad Max franchise revival (Fury Road).
Anchor picks: Inception (2010, Nolan). The Dark Knight Rises (2012, Nolan). Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, Miller). Dunkirk (2017, Nolan). Bronson (2008, his breakthrough).
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Questions about this ranking
What is the best Tom Hardy film?
By IQ Score on TV Intelligentsia, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and Inception (2010) anchor the catalog. Dunkirk (2017), The Revenant (2015), Bronson (2008), and Warrior (2011) round out the canonical entries.
How many Oscars has Hardy been nominated for?
One, Best Supporting Actor for The Revenant (2015). He's been a major commercial-and-critical leading man across the 2010s without further nominations.
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