Award winners

• Greenbook
• The Shape of Water
• Moonlight
• Spotlight
• The Revenant
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• 12 Years a Slave
• Argo
• The Artist
• The King's Speech
• The Hurt Locker
• Slumdog Millionaire
• No Country for Old Men
• The Departed
• Crash
• Million Dollar Baby
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Chicago
• A Beautiful Mind
• Gladiator
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Sex and the City

Often referenced

• Bad Moms
• Big Daddy
• Hidden Figures
• Godfather trilogy

Obama-recommended

• American Factory
• Amazing Grace
• Apollo 11
• Ash Is Purest White
• Atlantics
• Birds of Passage
• Booksmart
• Diane
• The Farewell
• Ford v Ferrari
• The Irishman
• Just Mercy
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco
• Little Women
• Marriage Story
• Parasite
• The Souvenir
• Transit

And TV shows that Obama considered as powerful as movies:

• Fleabag: Season 2
• Unbelievable
• Watchmen