Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1981 age 0

   Born

2. 1992 age 11

   CreditA River Runs Through It

   CreditBeethoven

3. 1998 age 17

   CreditHalloween H20: 20 Years Later

4. 1999 age 18

   Credit10 Things I Hate About You

5. 2009 age 28

   Credit(500) Days of Summer

   CreditG.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

6. 2010 age 29

   CreditInception

7. 2011 age 30

   Credit50/50

8. 2012 age 31

   CreditLincoln

   CreditLooper

   CreditThe Dark Knight Rises

9. 2013 age 32

   CreditDon Jon

   CreditDon Jondirector

   CreditDon Jonscreenwriter

10. 2014 age 33

    CreditSin City: A Dame to Kill For

    CreditThe Interview

11. 2015 age 34

    CreditThe Walk

12. 2016 age 35

    CreditSnowden

13. 2017 age 36

    CreditStar Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi

14. 2020 age 39

    CreditThe Trial of the Chicago 7

15. 2022 age 41

    CreditGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

• BDBob Ducsay4 titles
• BWBruce Willis3 titles
• RJRian Johnson3 titles
• RBRam Bergman3 titles
• SYSteve Yedlin3 titles
• NJNathan Johnson3 titles
• HZHans Zimmer2 titles
• ASAlan Silvestri2 titles
• CNChristopher Nolan2 titles
• MCMichael Caine2 titles

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  Photo:Colleen SturtevantCC BY 4.0

• It's fascinating to watch a show develop from a script to a 22-minute comedy. I try to learn as much, and ask as many questions, as I can without being annoying.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels. Actors were poor. Celebrities used to be kings and queens. Then the United States abolished monarchy, and now there's this coming together of show business and celebrity. I don't think it's healthy. I don't want to sound self-important, but all these celebrity shows and magazines—it comes from us, from Hollywood, from our country. We're the ones creating it. And I think it works in close step with a lot of other bad things that are happening in the world. It promotes greed, it promotes being selfish and it promotes this ladder, where you're a better person if you have more money. It's not at all about the work itself. Don't get me wrong. I love movies. But this myth of celebrity has nothing to do with movies.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them. Brick was a good script just to read. It was like, “Oh my God, these words feel so good in my mouth.” A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt, CC BY-SA 4.0

• To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse—we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light. In Mysterious Skin, none of the sex scenes are like that. They all are about the process that this character is going through—and he grows from each of those scenes. You couldn't have told the story any other way. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. I would be embarrassed if I was like, "Shit, everybody wants to look at my ass."

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Traditionally there's this barrier between the people who make movies and the people who watch them, and I think it sucks. Making Hollywood this castle on a hill and crowning actors the "Stars" might have been exciting and even brought people together last century, but now it's grown kind of disgusting in its excesses and it's no longer bringing people together—it's keeping people apart. It always turns my stomach a little when, because I'm in movies and on TV, people sometimes treat me as if I'm somehow different from, even above, a normal person. But the emails, posts, and comments I've been trading recently with people through those aforementioned sites cause me no nausea; they inspire me. There's no nasty status predicated on "Fame" or "Fortune." There's just that beautiful thing, the point of all art in the first place: a connection between one individual and another.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy. Celebrity doesn’t have anything to do with art or craft. It’s about being rich and thinking that you’re better than everybody else.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt, CC BY-SA 4.0