# Barack Obama's favourite films of 2022

The 17 films Barack Obama named as his favourites of 2022 on 23 December that year, from The Fabelmans to After Yang.

- 6 votes · 17 items
- Jan 2, 2023 · Simona Bianco
- https://even.best/en/l/1359/barack-obama-s-favourite-films-of-2022

## Top 17

1. **The Fabelmans** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Steven Spielberg. His childhood and discovery of cinema.
2. **Decision to Leave** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Park Chan-wook. A detective and a suspected widow.
3. **Everything Everywhere All at Once** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. Michelle Yeoh in the multiverse.
4. **Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Three tales of coincidence.
5. **Hit the Road** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Panah Panahi. An Iranian family on a road trip.
6. **The Woman King** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gina Prince-Bythewood. The women warriors of the Kingdom of Dahomey.
7. **Aftersun** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Charlotte Wells. A father-daughter holiday in Turkey.
8. **Petite Maman** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Céline Sciamma. A girl meets her mother as a child.
9. **Descendant** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Margaret Brown. Descendants of the last slave ship; a Higher Ground production.
10. **Happening** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Audrey Diwan. 2021 Golden Lion, from Annie Ernaux's book.
11. **Till** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Chinonye Chukwu. Emmett Till's mother.
12. **Top Gun: Maverick** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Joseph Kosinski. Tom Cruise back in the cockpit.
13. **The Good Boss** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fernando León de Aranoa. Javier Bardem as the owner of a scales factory.
14. **A Hero** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Asghar Farhadi. A prisoner on leave finds a bag of gold coins.
15. **Tár** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Todd Field. Cate Blanchett as an orchestra conductor.
16. **After Yang** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Kogonada. A family's android stops working.
17. **Emily the Criminal** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — John Patton Ford. Aubrey Plaza in credit card fraud.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.