Every Christian Bale Movie, Ranked
Updated January 2023.
With the arrival of Ford v Ferrari this week, the famously "difficult" and intense Academy Award-winning British actor Christian Bale has now appeared in (or lent his voice to) 45 feature films, dating back to his debut as a teenager in 1987.
In the gallery above, we rank most of those films from worst to best, minus 1989's Henry V (in which he barely appears) and a pair of minor European films (1987's Mio in the Land of Faraway and 1994's Royal Deceit) which never screened or received reviews in the United States. Also excluded are three animated films in which Bale provided voices (Mowgli, Howl's Moving Castle, and Pocahontas).
Based on Michael Lewis's book of the same name, Adam McKay's 2015 best picture nominee recounts the events leading up to the 2007 financial crisis in often humorous fashion. Starring opposite Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Brad Pitt, Bale plays real-life hedge fund manager Michael Burry, who was one of the first people to detect instability in the U.S. housing market and was able to profit from his then-unfashionable prediction that the market would collapse. Bale was nominated in the supporting actor category, but lost the Oscar to Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies).
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