Yearly, Letterboxd, the social platform for movie opinions and discovery, places out a listing of its numbers from the earlier yr. This retrospective consists of the preferred movies, probably the most highly-anticipated releases, and even probably the most watched actors. On this final, for the final three years, an unlikely candidate has been beating a number of the largest superstars within the enterprise.
The world’s most watched actor
Letterboxd’s Yr in Overview 2024 included its most watched actor listing, which was topped by Willem Dafoe. The 69-year-old appeared in 5 releases within the yr – Sorts of Kindness, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Saturday Evening, Zero, and Nosferatu -but none of them because the lead. Regardless of this, he beat extra in style stars who had large releases within the yr, together with Timothee Chalamet (Dune Half Two) and Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool and Wolverine). The highest 10 is essentially dominated by character actors akin to Stellan Skarsgard, JK Simmons, Josh Brolin, Samuel L Jackson, and Dave Bautista. The one main males who make it are Chalamet (#2), Javier Bardem (#8), Mark Ruffalo (#9), and Brad Pitt (#10). Willem Dafoe had been probably the most watched actor on the earth in 2022 and 2021 as properly, beating the likes of Ryan Gosling, Robert Pattinson, and Matt Damon.
How Letterboxd creates these lists
Letterboxd is a group the place customers can log the movies they watched, leaving opinions and feedback. The platform makes use of the collective knowledge left by all its customers within the yr to find out which movies have been watched probably the most, and which actors characteristic in them. Since Letterboxd doesn’t restrict probably the most watched listing to solely movies launched in that yr, older actors with greater filmographies have increased possibilities of showing in them. That’s how Willem Dafoe – who has appeared in all the pieces from Spider-Man movies to Oliver Stone warfare dramas – routinely tops the listing.
Additionally, the group is essentially US and Europe-based with very restricted presence in Asia. That’s how no Chinese language or Indian movies or actors make it to the highest 10 lists.
