Batman: Every Live-Action Commissioner Gordon Ranked Worst To Best

Let's face it, there was never any prospect of anyone else taking the #1 spot. Gary Oldman's Jim Gordon was, alongside Michael Caine's Alfred, the heart and soul of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Saga - a deeply moral character played with consistent brilliance across the three films.

Oldman of course had a huge advantage over every other Gordon actor on this list because he got three huge-scale Batman movies to sink his teeth into the character, rendered by Nolan as a supremely admirable pillar of integrity.

There's at once a humility and a powerful authority to this take on the character lacking in others, and the glimpses into Gordon's interior family life help further humanise him.

His dynamic with Batman (Christian Bale) is excellent, yet perhaps Gordon's greatest function in the Dark Knight Saga is keeping the story tethered to the ground in even its most outlandish moments.

This is also the most comic-accurate live-action version of Gordon in terms of both look and personality, and though it's entirely possible for Jeffrey Wright to surpass him in time, Oldman's masterful portrayal casts an incredibly long shadow.