Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans To Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero: Barack Obama Picks His Top Films Of 2022

Former US president Barack Obama has shared a list of the 17 movies from 2022 that he enjoyed the most. He watched films of different genres during the year, including Tom Cruise’s blockbuster action movie Top Gun: Maverick, the genre-hopping Everything Everywhere All at Once, the dramas TÁR and Aftersun, and many others.

Sharing his list of ‘Favourite Films of 2022’, Obama wrote on Twitter, “I saw some great movies this year – here are some of my favorites. What did I miss?”

The complete list of Obama’s favourite movies is as follows:

1. Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans
2. Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave
3. Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Woman King
4. Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun
5. John Patton Ford’s Emily the Criminal
6. Celine Sciamma’s Petite Maman
7. Margaret Brown’s Descendant
8. Audrey Diwane’s Happening
9. Chinonye Chukwu’s Till
10. Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once
11. Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick
12. Fernando León de Aranoa’s The Good Boss
13. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
14. Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero
15. Panah Panahi’s Hit the Road
16. Todd Field’s Tar
17. Kogonada’s After Yang

Barack Obama, who served as the US president from 2009 to 2017, has been sharing these annual lists ever since he left the White House. He also shared his favourite books and music of 2022.

Last year, Obama had 15 films on his list which included West Side Story, The Power of the Dog, Drive My Car, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and The Last Duel, among others.