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Every year, former President Barack Obama drops his list of the best movies of the year, always showing a man of interesting taste and, at the very least, a prominent, globally renowned figure who puts a big spotlight on underseen movies.

Barack Obama has published his annual list of his favourite films of 2023 – check out the full list below.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, Obama introduced his list by writing: “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.”Earlier this year, writers and actors went on strike to advocate for better working conditions and protections.

Emily Blunt understands the power of a blockbuster. She’s been in word-of-mouth wonders such as “Edge of Tomorrow,” surprise hits like “A Quiet Place,” and prestige hits like “Sicario.” But, nothing prepared her (or the world for that matter) for “Barbenheimer.” A meme that became a pop culture phenomenon driving massive box office returns not only for Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” but a movie Blunt had a major role in, Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.” READ MORE: Christopher Nolan on Heath Ledger, Robert Downey, Jr.

The Critics’ Choice Association announced their 2024 nominations this morning and “Barbie” took the wheel. Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster earned 18 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Margot Robbie), Best Supporting Actress (America Ferrera), and three Best Song nominations.

It’s award season again! The nominees for the 2024 Golden Globes officially kick off one of the most exciting times of the year for Hollywood enthusiasts.The list of the potential winners who stood out for creating the best in film and TV in the past year features a blend of well-known series and quite a few films that weren’t exactly blockbusters, but a handful that certainly were — including an entire category full of them!Barbie leads all titles with the most Golden Globe nominations, with 10 chances to collect some gold. The movie ties the all-time record for the second-most nods in one ceremony.

Barbie has scored the most nominations for next year’s Golden Globes, inching slightly ahead of former summer box office rival Oppenheimer.The nominations for the upcoming ceremony were announced today (December 11), starting awards season off.Both films became huge critical and commercial successes after being released this summer, starting the ‘Barbenheimer’ trend of fans going to see both films on the same day.It now looks like both could be set to dominate awards season, with Barbie scoring nine nominations including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Director for Greta Gerwig and Best Actress – Musical or Comedy for Margot Robbie.The film also earned three Best Original Song nods, for ‘What Was I Made For?’ by Billie Eilish and Finneas, ‘Dance the Night’ by Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, and ‘I’m Just Ken’ by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt.Oppenheimer follows behind with eight nominations, including Best Director for Christopher Nolan, as well as acting nods for Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr.Both films are also up for the new category of Cinematic and Box Office Achievement in Motion Pictures. Other nominees include Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3, John Wick: Chapter 4, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, The Super Mario Bros Movie and Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.Other notable nominees across the board include Poor Things and Killers Of The Flower Moon, which both trail behind with seven nominations each.

John Waters has named Ari Aster’s dark comedy Beau Is Afraid as the best film of 2023.The Pink Flamingos director shared his annual list of favorite movies of the year with Vulture, placing the A24 film at the very top.“A superlong, super-crazy, super-funny movie about one man’s mental breakdown with a cast better than Around the World in 80 Days: Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone, Parker Posey, Nathan Lane, and Amy Ryan,” Waters wrote. “It’s a laugh riot from hell you’ll never forget, even if you want to.”Also making Waters’ top 10 were Pierre Croton’s A Prince, Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener, Fallen Leaves, Do Not Expect Too Much of the End of the World, Last Summer, and the short film Strange Way of Life.The director also included Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which Waters argued “deserves the Oscar for being a big-budget, star-studded, intelligent action movie about talking.”You can find Waters’ top 10 films of the year below:Recently, Beau Is Afraid writer-director Aster told Vanity Fair that he was “disappointed” by the film’s reception, describing the movie as a social “experiment” for audiences.“I always knew the film was going to be polarizing and it’s designed to be divisive.

Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer is set to be released in Japanese cinemas, despite public criticism surrounding the senstive subject matter of the film.The Cillian Murphy-led biopic is controversial in Japan, where two atomic bombs were detonated in 1945, killing hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens.The film was released in most territories in July by Universal and went on to gross $950 at the global box office. But Toho-Towa, which handles most Universal titles in Japan, did not release the film.However, Variety reports that indie film distributor Bitters End will now give the movie a theatrical release in the country.“Bitters End will release Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ in Japan in 2024.

As 2023 draws to a close, the Barbenheimer phenomenon still resounds as the year’s most important film event. Two highly anticipated blockbusters, poised in a head-to-head battle in the thick of summer movie season, from two of Hollywood’s premier directors; no wonder the double feature became so highly meme-able.

Cillian Murphy says he knows what a meme is now after admitting previously in an NME interview that he didn’t know what one was.The Oppenheimer actor took part in a Variety ‘actors on actors’ interview with Barbie star Margot Robbie when she asked him if he knew what a meme was.Robbie said to Murphy: “I have watched a lot of your things on YouTube, and it’s out there on the internet that you are not that aware of memes and things like that. First of all, is that true?”He replied: “I have two teenage boys.

Margot Robbie has said that she refused to move the release date for Barbie to make way for Oppenheimer at the cinema.In a new interview, Robbie was speaking to star of Oppenheimer Cillian Murphy about the success both films had over the summer.Barbie became the highest-grossing movie of the year worldwide, and the highest-grossing film ever by a female director while Oppenheimer broke multiple cinema records this summer including becoming the fourth highest-grossing IMAX release of all time internationally and the highest grossing film biopic of all time.Robbie asked Murphy if he thought “so many people were gonna watch a movie about the making of the atomic bomb” to which he laughed and replied: “Um…no! [Director] Christopher Nolan was always determined that it would be released in the summer as a big temple movie. That was always his plan.

Yes, trailers are just marketing material, and we’re not a BFD Advertising and Design class. But as any studio will tell you, a well-crafted trailer that builds hype and excitement for a movie can be a make-or-break part of the puzzle that creates much-needed anticipation and even word of mouth.

Like trailers, movie posters are marketing materials to put butts in seats for movies and one could argue—with the fragmenting nature of streaming and the downtrends of movie theatergoing—that movie posters aren’t as important as they once were to pop culture and movie-going culture. That said, we still love ‘em, especially the artful, more visually dynamic ones that aren’t afraid to do more than put a bunch of floating heads on a poster to sell the cast of a movie.

Cillian Murphy has said he stayed “at home, eating cheese” during the SAG-AFTRA strike.The actor appeared at a Q&A event for Oppenheimer alongside co-stars Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr. earlier this month, where he recalled how the strike was announced at the film’s London premiere in July.“It was very odd,” Murphy said.

Christopher Nolan has responded to Martin Scorsese‘s assertion that cinema needs to be saved from superheroes, sequels, reboots and franchises.In a recent interview with GQ, Scorsese suggested that such films present a “danger to our culture… because there are going to be generations now that think movies are only those—that’s what movies are”.The Killers Of The Flower Moon director added: “We have to then fight back stronger. And it’s got to come from the grassroots level.

Nothing has taken the pop-culture world by storm like “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” getting released on the same day this summer. The Barbenheimer weekend will go down in history and will forever link the two films.

Christopher Nolan has spoken about the “danger” of films only being available via streaming platforms, stressing that he believes in the ongoing importance of physical media.Speaking to The Washington Post, Nolan expanded on recent comments he made while introducing a screening of his film Oppenheimer, when he urged fans to buy the Blu-ray version, “so no evil streaming service can come steal it from you.”In the new interview, he clarified that he was joking in describing them as “evil”, but he did elaborate that the susceptibility of films disappearing from streaming platforms does concern him.“There is a danger these days that if things only exist in the streaming version, they do get taken down,” he said. “They come and go — as do broadcast versions of films, so my films will play on HBO or whatever, they’ll come and go.”“But the home video version is the thing that can always be there, so people can always access it.

As awards season approaches, many consider “Oppenheimer” a frontrunner for all kinds of awards. But while Christopher Nolan and his film will undoubtedly be in the running for Best Picture and Best Director at the Oscars, the director is ready to leave the film behind.

Give him another few decades and Ludwig Göransson may surpass the legendary John Williams in overall Grammy nominations. The Swedish-born composer, songwriter, and music producer has not even turned 40 and already has 14 Grammy nominations in just six years.

Christopher Nolan has shared his thoughts on Oppenheimer‘s upcoming release on Blu-ray and digital, urging fans to opt for the former of the two options.While introducing the film at a special screening in Los Angeles on Monday (November 13), Nolan took a jab at streaming services while sharing more about his approach to releasing films on Blu-ray and other physical avenues.Nolan said: “Obviously Oppenheimer has been quite a ride for us and now it is time for me to release a home version of the film. I’ve been working very hard on it for months.

As news broke that SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP had come to an agreement and Hollywood would finally be heading back to work again, Harris Dickinson and Zac Efron were walking the red carpet of the premiere of their latest film, “The Iron Claw,” in Dallas. As an A24 release, “Iron Claw” was able to sign an interim agreement with SAG so the pair, along with their co-stars Jeremy Allen White and Staney Simons, have been some of the few actors able to promote their films.

Oliver Twist spin-off series.Eccleston, known for playing the titular role in Russell T. Davies’ 2005 reboot of the classic series, Doctor Who, also played the pickpocketing gang leader in Dodger, a children’s series made for CBBC.The actor, aged 59, has faced criticism for the role due to the character’s repeated description as ‘the Jew’ in the original Charles Dickens text.In an interview with The Guardian, Eccleston shared that when the casting was announced, debate started over whether it was right for a non-Jewish actor like him to play the role.He shared in the interview that in his experience, at least one Jewish actor “noted they didn’t object to non-Jewish people playing Jewish roles, [they would] just like it to be spoken about.“Which I completely agree with.

When you look at a filmmaker who is able to take a story like “Oppenheimer” and have it earn more than Marvel films over the past couple of years (seriously, “Oppenheimer” has earned $950 million globally), there’s no denying Christopher Nolan has an unending supply of director’s golden tickets. He can make anything he wants and studios will fight each other for the opportunity to pay for it.

Oppenheimer has returned to IMAX and broken a new box office record.The Christopher Nolan movie, first released in cinemas, became the third highest-grossing release of 2023, behind Barbie and The Super Mario Bros. Movie.Starring Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr.

Barbenheimer film is in development to capitalise on the dual release phenomenon of Barbie and Oppenheimer.The planned comedy is from B-movie mogul Charles Band, who has been making low-budget horror comedies since the 1970s.In a mash-up of Barbie and Oppenheimer’s storylines, the film follows scientist doll Dr. Bambi J.

Cillian Murphy has revealed that he learned a lecture in Dutch fluently for a scene in Oppenheimer.The actor played J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s biographical epic about the creation of the atomic bomb this summer.

Halloween costumes on TikTok in 2023, according to a new study.In a list compiled by BonusInsider using search data across Google and TikTok, Barbie came out on top as the most popular costume for women with 48.6 per cent search popularity.This was followed by Wednesday Addams with 23.26 per cent, with others in the top five including Doja Cat Demon, The Little Mermaid and M3GAN.For men, Ken was the most searched for Halloween costume with 51.4 per cent, followed by Robert J. Oppenheimer with 18.09 per cent.Others in the top five include The Mandalorian, Super Mario and Donald Trump.Barbie has become the highest-grossing movie of the year worldwide, beating The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Oppenheimer and Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3.

Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” has essentially finished its box-office run, and while the film fell short of the $1 billion mark—grossing $942.1 million worldwide—a three-hour biopic earning anything over $150 million at the box office globally is an astounding achievement these days and demonstrates how Nolan can “eventize” any subject and make it into an epic. While its Oscar prospects seem very high—sure to earn a Best Picture and Best Director nomination, among others—the film has its critics and had criticism lobbied at it.

Martin Scorsese has said the simultaneous release of Barbie and Oppenheimer was a “wonderful” thing for cinema.The director discussed the “Barbenheimer” phenomena during an interview with the Hindustan Times, saying that it offered “hope” for a different kind of film landscape.“I do think that combination of Oppenheimer and Barbie was something special,” Scorsese said. “It seemed to be, I hate that word, but the perfect storm.

Spike Lee has always been a filmmaker who is willing to critique other people’s art. And when you’re Christopher Nolan and you released one of the biggest films of 2023, you can expect everyone to have an opinion.

Spike Lee has commented on Oppenheimer, suggesting it should have shown “what happened to the Japanese people”.The recent Christopher Nolan historical drama follows the story of the Manhattan Project during World War 2, which developed the first nuclear weapons. These were ultimately dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and are estimated to have killed up to 226,000 people.The film focuses solely on the US side of the events, and in a recent interview Lee – who has directed films such as Do The Right Thing and BlacKkKlansman – praised Nolan, though suggested a “comment” regarding the historical depiction of events.“Chris Nolan with Oppenheimer, you know, he’s a massive filmmaker.

If you want to win Best Picture, you usually need a screenplay win to do it. Over the last 20 years, 14 Best Picture winners also won Original or Adapted Screenplay.

In some years, the Best Picture race finds just two or three films vying for the last slot. In other years, there is a potential laundry list of movies trying to make the cut.

As of this writing, Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” has grossed more than $900 million at the global box office. That’s well above everyone’s highest expectations.

As of this writing, Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” has grossed more than $900 million at the global box office. That’s well above everyone’s highest expectations.

And just like that, we’re back. Yes, award season is in full swing, and as for much of this decade, we’ve got a crisis on our hands.