The Sexiest Men Alive

Matt Damon takes the top honor, but he wasn't alone in turning up the heat. Check out some of the sexy men (Patrick! Brad!) who made PEOPLE's list

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JAVIER BARDEM

After seeing that recent shot of him in a leg-locking horizontal clutch with Penélope Cruz on a beach in the Maldives, who could deny the Spaniard is a sex symbol? Well, he could. "It just makes me laugh," says Bardem, 38, who's starring in Love in the Time of Cholera and No Country for Old Men. "I see a guy who looks like he's been beaten with a baseball bat." At least Bardem acknowledges that he has a certain seductive intensity. "Once you start to get older, you have to focus and be passionate about life day after day."