Barack Obama’s favorite movies of 2023 include Oppenheimer, No Barbie | Hollywood

Bollywood December 28, 2023

Barack Obama has chosen sides. He leans more towards Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer character in the Barbenheimer debate. As is customary every year, the former US President revealed his list of favorite films as the year 2023 approaches its end. The list included pillars of Hollywood, world cinema, and films from his own production company. (Read also: Director Spike Lee says Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer should have shown ‘what happened to the Japanese people’)

Oppenheimer, La Barbie

Barack Obama’s favorite movies of 2023 include Oppenheimer

Curiously, the list included the historical drama about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the atomic bomb that destroyed two cities in Japan at the end of World War II. However, there was no sign of Greta Gerwig’s satirical comedy Barbie, which was released on the same day as Oppenheimer and led to the minting of their feud, Barbenheimer.

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After Barack shared the list on X (formerly Twitter), one user commented: “Barbie missed the clip:” and another wrote: “Barbie tho.” A third posted: “I’m not a Barbie girl in a Barbie world I see.”

Other movies on the list

Barack took to X on Thursday and acknowledged the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) strikes have crippled Hollywood this year. “Earlier this year, writers and actors went on strike to demand better working conditions and protection. It has led to important changes that will transform the industry for the better.”

Barack then topped the list with three of his own productions, which he supported under Higher Ground Productions, which he co-owns with his wife, Michelle Obama. “Here are some films that reflect their hard work over the past year — including some like Rustin, American Symphony and Leave the World Behind that we were proud to release through HGMedia,” he said, adding that he was “biased” but they were “three of the best films” he had seen In 2023.

Other films on the list included Alexander Payne’s Christmas drama The Holdovers, Matt Johnson’s Canadian biographical drama BlackBerry, Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction, Justin Tritt’s courtroom thriller Anatomy of a Fall, and Japanese film Monster. Directed by Hirokazu Koreda, and Celine Song’s romantic drama Past Lives. , Ben Affleck’s biographical sports drama Air , Nida Manzoor’s martial arts action comedy Polite Society , and AV Rockwell’s A Thousand and One .