In honor of Ryan Gosling’s long history of wearing cool jackets, I watched 26 of his films and figured out the percentage of time that they dedicate to Jacket Gosling (16.6% is the overall average). The 7%-12% (Notebook/Barbie/Half Nelson) and the 50%+ (Drive/Blade Runner 2049) ranges are ideal.

Ryan Gosling loves jackets. Between Drive, Blade Runner 2049, Crazy, Stupid, Love, Blue Valentine, Lars and the Real Girl, The Nice Guys, and Barbie – he’s worn some iconic jackets in wildly different movies – and looked great in all of them. Between Gosling wearing five different jackets/coats/dusters in The Fall Guy (The Miami Vice jacket is an all-timer Gosling jacket) and Shea Serrano’s book about Gosling (A Real Human Being – It’s wonderful) I was inspired to rewatch his movies, pull the timestamps of all his jacket wearing and figure out if there is an ideal amount of Gosling jacket time.

Quick Notes

• I pulled the timestamps by finding scenes where he wears a jacket. It would’ve taken forever to only count his screen time, so I pulled the time of the entire scene. For instance, in Blade Runner 2049 Gosling wears his jacket during the attack on Deckard’s home scene. He isn’t always on screen, but he’s in the scene (if that makes sense).
• I included the hoodie from The United States of Leland because it’s like an extension of his character
• In Stay, he wears a suit coat type jacket to stay warm. I counted this as a jacket/coat.
• I’m very happy I scanned the montage scenes in Remember the Titans.
• Suit coat time wasn’t counted. I also didn’t count Gosling’s gym hoodie in The Big Short.

Gosling Jacket Stats

• Percentage of time Gosling wears a jacket in his 26 movies – 16.6%

Gosling’s most jacket heavy roles

• Blade Runner 2049 – 60%
• Drive – 53%
• The Gray Man – 45%
• The Believer – 44%
• The Slaughter Rule – 43%

Quick Note – The Fall Guy falls in this category. I just don’t have exact times.

Five Gosling Movies With the Least Amount of jacket wearing

• Song to Song – 1%
• First Man – 1%
• Remember the Titans – .05% – He wears a jacket in the hospital and during a montage scene
• Only God Forgives – 0%
• The Big Short – 0%

Gosling has been nominated for three acting Oscars

• Barbie, Half Nelson, La La Land – Average amount of jacket wearing time – 7%

Gosling has been in three films nominated for Best Picture

• La La Land, Barbie, The Big Short – Average amount of jacket wearing time – 4.6%

Average stats for his films with jacket wearing time of 50% or more

• Tomatometer – 91% – Highest average
• IMDb – 7.9 – Highest average
• Letterboxd – 4 – Highest average
• Worldwide Box Office – $169.5 million average
• Two Movies – Drive – Blade Runner 2049

With the inclusion of The Fall Guy, the numbers drop to 87.6% (RT), 7.7 (IMDb), and 3.86. They are still legit numbers.

40 – 49%

• Tomatometer – 67%
• IMDb – 6.5
• Letterboxd – 3
• Worldwide Box Office – NA – The Gray Man (Netflix) and Believer/The Slaughter Rule didn’t have wide releases
• Three Movies – The Gray Man, The Believer, The Slaughter Rule

30 – 39%

• Tomatometer – 81%
• IMDb – 7.3
• Letterboxd – 3.8
• Worldwide Box Office – $11.2 million
• One Movie – Lars and the Real Girl

20% – 29%

• Tomatometer – 67%
• IMDb – 7
• Letterboxd – 3.5.
• Worldwide Box Office – $47.1 million
• Three Movies – The Nice Guys, Stay, The Ides of March

10% – 19%

• Tomatometer – 66%
• IMDb – 7
• Letterboxd – 3.52
• Worldwide Box Office – $342 million (Barbie helps a lot)
• Five Movies – Murder by Numbers, Barbie, The Notebook, Fracture, Blue Valentine

Average stats for his films with jacket wearing time of less than 10%

• Tomatometer – 64%
• IMDb – 7
• Letterboxd – 3.45
• Worldwide Box Office – $93 million
• 12 Movies – Half Nelson, The United States of Leland, The Place Beyond the Pines, All Good Things, La La Land, Gangster Squad, Crazy, Stupid, Love, Song to Song, First Man, Remember the Titans, Only God Forgives, The Big Short

Overall Stats For Gosling’s 26 films (for reference)

• Tomatometer – 68%
• IMDb -7
• Letterboxd – 3.4
• Box office – $138 million

Ideal Amount of Jacket Wearing for Gosling – There are three percentage ranges to pick from.

50% or more – Between Blade Runner 2049 (amazing jacket) and Drive (iconic jacket), both movies feature him wearing super cool jackets for long periods of time. To pull this off the jackets have to feel organic and become almost a character. The only caveat is that he needs to be mostly silent, mortally wounded (or stabbed real good), and alone at the end.

• Drive and Blade Runner 2049 have the best critic/user score average, and the jacket in Drive is an all-timer jacket.
• Drive is his second all-around highest rated film (93% Tomatometer – 7.8 IMDb – 3.9 Letterboxd)
• Blade Runner 2049 is his third highest rated film (88% – 8 – 4.1)

7% – 12% – Half Nelson (7%), Blue Valentine (10%), Fracture (10%), Barbie (12%) and The Notebook (12%) fall in this range. They are some heavy hitters that feature excellent coats and iconic Gosling performances.

• Barbie and Half Nelson make up two of his three Oscar nominations.
• The Notebook won him the coveted MTV Best Kiss Award
• His first Oscar nomination was for Half Nelson
• Golden Globe nominated for Blue Valentine
• Barbie is his highest grossing film

2% – His “Emma Stone” trilogy (Crazy, Stupid, Love – Gangster Squad – La La Land) all feature him wearing a jacket for 2% of the film’s running time. It’s a fun coincidence.

• La La Land won Best Picture for about three seconds
• La La Land is second highest grossing film
• La La Land is his best all-around rated film (91- Tomatometer – 8 IMDb – 4.1 Metacritic)

Overall winner

If its directed by an auteur the 50%+ range is cool. BUT, he’s able to showcase more range in Barbie, Half Nelson, The Notebook, and Blue Valentine. It’s because of this that I’ll go for the 7% to 12% range.

Top five jackets

1. Drive – The scorpion jacket works on several levels
2. Blade Runner 2049 – It’s functional and cool looking
3. Lars and the Real Girl – I love a good puffer jacket.
4. The Place Beyond the Pines – The red jacket is wonderful and it improves upon his red jacket work in Murder by Numbers.
5. Barbie – It’s big, bold and important to the plot

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