Morgan Wallen Reveals His Favorite Christmas Movie

For many people, embracing the holiday season means returning to cherished holiday traditions, such as decorating a Christmas tree, admiring festive light displays, eating familiar comfort foods, drinking hot chocolate or watching beloved holiday films.

Like many, country artist Morgan Wallen has his own favored holiday film. The country recently told his label, Big Loud, that his favorite holiday movie is the 2003 comedy Elf, starring Will Ferrell.

“I don’t watch many Christmas movies, but if I had to pick, probably Elf,” Wallen said. The movie centers on the character Buddy (played by Ferrell), who is raised by Santa’s elves and eventually tries to reconnect with his father, a workaholic book publisher in New York City.

Wallen also opened up about whether he prefers to display a real or fake Christmas tree during the holiday season.

“I like real, but I didn’t grow up with real,” he said. “My mom always kept a fake one, well, a few fake ones. My mom is a big decorator, so I kinda got some of that from her. I enjoy the decorations. It’s always the saddest day of the year for me when the Christmas tree goes away and all that goes away … and it seems like it’s aways, like, it’s warm, too, and it’s just like a different feeling, so, but I like real.”

The holiday season usually also means a time of rest for artists after a busy, career-focused year. This year, Wallen released his album I’m the Problem, which spent 12 nonconsecutive weeks atop Billboard‘s all-genre Billboard 200, and landed at No. 2 on the 2025 Year-End Billboard 200 albums chart. Additionally, he performed several stadium shows on his I’m the Problem Tour, which visited cities including Houston, Seattle and Toronto. Wallen will launch his Still the Problem Tour in April, visiting 11 cities.