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• Other films that made it into Obama’s list included The Holdovers, Blackberry, American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, Monster, Past Lives, and Polite Society.Earlier this year, writers and actors went on strike to advocate for better working conditions and protections..
• By Armando Tinoco Night & Weekend Editor Barack Obama has shared the list of his favorite movies of 2023 and included a message acknowledging the writers and actors strikes that halted Hollywood..
• Obama also shared his “other” favorite movies of the year, which included Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which starred Cillian Murphy playing the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer..
• “Earlier this year, writers and actors went on strike to advocate for better working conditions and protections..
• Rockwell’s A Thousand and One, about a woman who kidnaps her son from the foster care system, was one of Obama’s favorite films of the year..
• “I’m biased since these movies were produced by Higher Ground, but these are in fact three of the best films I saw this year,” he wrote..