Oliver Stone brings his George W Bush, we only have to wait until January then we really will be shut of him, biopic picture W to the big screen, yes he managed to release it just in time for the election.
Starring Josh Brolin, who is quickly becoming one of Hollywood's busiest actors, as the bumbling President the film follows the Bush college years right up to when he miraculously made it into the White House and was the most power world leader and is a film that is surrounded in Oscar whispers, in particular Brolin's performance.
And with the historic Presidential win for Barack Obama this week, if only British politics was this exciting would we dance in the street if we voted in David Cameron? We here at FemaleFirst have taken a look at some of the other U.S. presidents that have made it onto the big screen.
One of the most popular Presidents on film is Abraham Lincoln with actors such as John Carradine, Henry Fonda, Hal Holbrook and Raymond Massey have all taken on the role. One of the most noticeable performances came from Henry Fonda in 1939 in the film Young Mr Lincoln, which was directed by John Ford, and was a fictionalised biography/drama film about the early life of President Abraham Lincoln.
Despite Fonda not being too keen on taking on the role the film has been a long standing success and in 2003 Young Mr. Lincoln was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Also actor Raymond Massey received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the assassinated Lincoln in Abe Lincoln in Illinois in 1940 which followed his life from his days as a lawyer up until he was elected President.
Richard Nixon is also another President who has found himself on the big screen and Frank Langella's performance as the disgraced President in Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon is a strong and early favourite to pick up Best Actor at next year's Oscar ceremony.
Frost/Nixon is a big screen adaptation of the play which in turn was inspired by one of television's most iconic interviews in 1977 between chatshow host David Frost and disgraced US President Richard Nixon as 45 million people tuned in to see if Frost could get an apology out of Nixon over the Watergate scandal that rocked American politics.
Anthony Hopkins also took on the role in 1995 in the film Nixon, which was directed by Oliver Stone, and followed the professional and personal life of the President.
But controversy surrounded the film and just before it was released a statement was released from the Nixon family claiming that parts of the film were "reprehensible" and that it was designed to "defame and degrade President and Mrs. Nixon's memories in the mind of the American public." Despite this Hopkins was Oscar nominated for his performance
And Hopkins had the depiction of presidents down to a fine art when, as the sixth President of the United States John Quincy Adams in Amistad, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. The Steven Spielberg film based on the true story of a slave mutiny that took place aboard a ship of the same name in 1839, and the legal battle that followed, a court case which Adams took part in.
And while many movies such as JFK, Kelly's Heroes and more recently Flags of our Fathers have been serious presentations of a series of American leaders they have also been the subject of farce. Robin Williams took on the role of a wax work of Theodore Roosevelt that came alive in Night of the Museum
And who could forget the portrayal of Bill Clinton in both Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Naked Gun 33?: The Final Insult?
But with rumours that Will Smith is the leading actor to take on the role of the newly elected President Obama it seems that this is a topic of film that continues to fascinate filmmakers and audiences.
W is released 7th November
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw