Robert Pattinson is not as sexy as Johnny Depp! Says Who? RPattz came second on the Empire’s Sexiest 100 movie stars 2009 list, and Johnny the Pirate of the Caribbean star tops the list but you will scream when you hear number 3. It’s Robert Downey Jr.

more photos of some of the sexiest male movie stars after the jump…

Here’s the rest of the top 10:

4. Brad Pitt
5. Christian Bale
6. Hugh Jackman
7. George Clooney
8. Alan Rickman
9. James McCoy
10. Gerard Butler
- via Empire Online

My question is how did they come up with the list? Methinks they came up the names themselves or they had a bunch of middle-aged women voting. But let’s not ASSUME yet I have emailed Empire and will update you once I get a reply.

Some other interesting sexy men on their list:
Zac Efron takes number 15
Paul Newman spot 17 He would have been 83, he passed away last year. He was very handsome when he was young.

There are a total of 50 sexiest men and 50 women, we’ll give you the sexiest women in the next post so don’t leave just yet.

What do you think of the list? Agree or not?

Update: the list is voted by Empire readers.

photos: Bauer Griffin