Barack Obama has chosen sides. He’s leaning extra in direction of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer within the Barbenheimer debate. As is the customized yearly, the previous US president unveiled his listing of favorite films as 2023 involves a detailed. The listing included Hollywood tentpoles, world cinema, and movies from his personal manufacturing home. (Also Read: Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer should have shown ‘what happened to the Japanese people’, says director Spike Lee)

Oppenheimer, no Barbie

The listing curiously included the interval drama that revolves round J. Robert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the atomic bomb that destroyed two cities of Japan on the finish of World War II. However, there was no signal of Greta Gerwig’s satirical comedy Barbie, which launched on the identical day as Oppenheimer and led to the coinage of their conflict, Barbenheimer.

After Barack shared the listing on X (previously Twitter), a consumer commented, “’Barbie’ missed the lower :(” Another wrote, “Barbie tho.” And a third one posted, “Not a Barbie girl in a Barbie world I see.”

Other films in the list

Barack took to X on Thursday and acknowledged the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) strikes that crippled Hollywood this 12 months. “Earlier this year, writers and actors went on strike to advocate for better working conditions and protections. It led to important changes that will transform the industry for the better,” he wrote.

Barack then led the list with three of his own productions, that he backed under Higher Ground Productions, that he co-owns with wife Michelle Obama. “Here are some films that reflect their hard work over the last 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’s “biased” however they have been “three of the best films” he watched in 2023.

The other films in the list included Alexander Payne’s Christmas dramedy The Holdovers, Matt Johnson’s Canadian biographical dramedy BlackBerry, Cord Jefferson’s dramedy American Fiction, Justine Triet’s courtroom thriller Anatomy of a Fall, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Japanese film Monster, 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.

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