What are the best Adam Driver performances of all time?

Whether playing a tortured villain, a doomed fashion heir, or a poetry-writing bus driver, Driver makes every role feel inevitable. Which performance is his peak?

1

Marriage Story

A 2019 Noah Baumbach drama in which Driver plays Charlie Barber, a theater director navigating a painful divorce, earning him an Oscar nomination.

2

BlacKkKlansman

A 2018 Spike Lee crime film in which Driver plays Flip Zimmerman, a Jewish undercover detective infiltrating the KKK.

3

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

A 2015 sci-fi blockbuster in which Driver debuts as the brooding, conflicted villain Kylo Ren, son of Han Solo and Leia.

4

The Last Duel

A 2021 Ridley Scott historical drama in which Driver plays Sir Jacques Le Gris, a knight accused of assault in medieval France.

5

House of Gucci

A 2021 Ridley Scott crime drama in which Driver plays the doomed Maurizio Gucci opposite Lady Gaga's scheming Patrizia Reggiani.

6

Paterson

A 2016 Jim Jarmusch drama in which Driver plays a bus driver and poet named Paterson who finds beauty in everyday life.

7

Ferrari

A 2023 Michael Mann biopic in which Driver plays Enzo Ferrari, the automobile legend facing personal and professional crises.

8

White Noise

A 2022 Noah Baumbach adaptation in which Driver plays a professor of Hitler Studies obsessed with death and a mysterious toxic event.

9

Silence

A 2016 Martin Scorsese epic in which Driver plays a Jesuit priest entering 17th-century Japan to find his missing mentor.

10

Logan Lucky

A 2017 Steven Soderbergh heist comedy in which Driver plays Clyde Logan, a one-armed bartender planning a NASCAR speedway robbery.

11

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

A 2017 sci-fi blockbuster in which Driver's Kylo Ren undergoes his most complex arc, torn between darkness and the light.

12

Annette

A 2021 Leos Carax musical opera film in which Driver plays a controversial stand-up comedian whose daughter has a mysterious gift.

13

65

A 2023 sci-fi survival thriller in which Driver plays an astronaut who crash-lands on prehistoric Earth 65 million years ago.