32 Movies About The Smartest People In The Room

The smartest people in the world are often featured in film, sometimes they are real, and sometimes fictional. They don’t always have anything in common, either, other than being geniuses. One might be a math wizard, another a musician who hears music no one else could conceive of. Here is our list of people like that, the smartest people in movies.

The Theory Of Everything

It’s impossible to have a list like this and not include The Theory Of Everything, a movie about the man, Stephen Hawking, who was considered the smartest man in the world for decades. Eddie Redmayne‘s award-winning performance as the physics genius is incredible and the movie makes some complicated science actually fun.