Barack Obama has published his annual list of his favourite films for 2024 – check out his picks below.
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The former President has long been publishing his personal lists of favourite music, films and books at the end of every year. In a post on X/Twitter, Obama introduced his 2024 edition by writing: “Here are a few movies I’d recommend checking out this year.”
Featuring this year are Sean Baker’s Anora, the Timothée Chalamet-starring Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown and the mystery thriller Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Sergio Castellitto and Isabella Rossellini.
Elsewhere, he spotlighted Dune: Part Two, The Piano Lesson and All We Imagine as Light, directed by Payal Kapadia. Check out the full list below.
Here are a few movies I’d recommend checking out this year. pic.twitter.com/UtdKmsNUE8
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 20, 2024
Barack Obama’s full list of favourite 2024 films is as follows:
All We Imagine As Light
Conclave
The Piano Lesson
The Promised Land
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Dune: Part Two
Anora
Dìdi
Sugarcane
A Complete Unknown
Obama also shared his favourite music of the year, with Kendrick Lamar, Fontaines D.C., Beyoncé, Shaboozey and Billie Eilish all featuring on the list. You can check out all his picks here.
Last year, the former president’s list of favourite films included Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, BlackBerry – the film that charts the rise of the mobile phone brand – and the Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall.
Back in 2023, he also refuted any suggestion that he does not compile these lists himself. When asked, he said: “I do! Listen, I am so glad that I have this opportunity. People, they believe the books and the movies, but the playlists, they somehow think — and this is mostly coming from young people like you — somehow, y’all think you invented rock ‘n’ roll. You invented hip-hop.”
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