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Best of 2020

Film:
Lovers Rock
Babyteeth
Nomadland
The White Tiger
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Queen & Slim
Le Corbeau, Vertigo
Last year: Joker, Mid90s
Foreign-Language Film:
The White Tiger
Les Miserables (2019)
Last year: Parasite.
Documentary:
Crip Camp
Dick Johnson is Dead
Last year: Rolling Thunder Review
Male Lead:
Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Adarsh Gourav – The White Tiger
Tom Hanks – News of the World
Ralph Fiennes – The Dig
Last year: Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
Female Lead:
Frances McDormand – Nomadland
Michelle Pfeiffer – French Exit
Eliza Scanlen – Babyteeth
Kate Winslet – Ammonite
Jodie Turner-Smith – Queen & Slim
Last year: Elizabeth Debicki (Virginia, Vita & Virginia)
Male Support:
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Mauritanian
Mark Rylance – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Last year: Robert De Niro as Murray Franklin in Joker
Female Support:
Helena Zengel – News of the World
Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy
Saoirse Ronan – Ammonite
Olivia Coleman – The Father
Last year: Kaitlyn Dever as Amy in Booksmart
Director:
Steve McQueen – Lovers Rock
Shannon Murphy – Babyteeth
Ramin Bahrani – The White Tiger
Last year: Todd Phillips (Joker), Jonah Hill (Mid 90s)
Writer:
Ramin Bahrani – The White Tiger
News of the World – Paul Greengrass & Luke Davies
The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Aaron Sorkin (though I don’t generally like him as a writer, too many words)
Rita Kalnejais – Babyteeth
Last year: Jonah Hill (Mid 90s)
Editing:
?
Last year: ?
Cinematography:
Andrew Commis – Babyteeth
Paolo Carnera – The White Tiger
Dariusz Wolski – News of the World
Hoyte van Hoytema – Tenet
Last year: Roger Deakins – 1917
Film Music:
Lovers Rock
Last year: Rolling Thunder Review
Single/Song:
Long Tailed Winter Bird – Paul McCartney
Reborn a Queen – Naughty Alice
Kunta Kinte Dub – The Revolutionaries
Last year: Lately – Celeste
Album:
McCartney III – Paul McCartney
Letter to You – Bruce Springsteen
Last year: Ghosteen – Nick Cave
Gig:
Sarah Jane Morris – Ronnie Scott’s
ROE – The Waiting Room
A Bowie Celebration – Empire, Shepherd’s Bush
Last year: Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets (Roundhouse)
Play:
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Last year: A Taste of Honey (Trafalgar Studios)
Art Exhibition:
London Calling (Museum of London) – the only one I got to this year 😦
A Surge of Power by Marc Quinn going up on the base of the deposed Colston statue, Bristol
Boy & Bear – Brandon Hill, Bristol (thanks to Dylan on my birthday)
Last year: Van Gogh in Britain (Tate B)
Book:
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free – Andrew Miller
The Plague – Albert Camus
Summer – Ali Smith
Last year: A Woman of No Importance – Sonia Purnell; The Quiet American
TV:
Lovers Rock (BBC)
The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix)
The Crown – S4 (Amazon)
The Romantics and Us (BBC2)
The Bridge S1
Last year: After Life (Netflix)
Podcast:
Heavyweight
Adam Buxton
The Happiness Lab
Last Year: 13 Minutes to the Moon
Sport:
Spurs 2 – Arsenal 1 (11.7.20)
Dance:
Mam (Sadlers Wells)
Last Year: The Red Shoes (Sadlers Wells)
Event:
Statue of Edward Colston being chucked in Bristol harbour
The Winter Solstice at Newgrange, Ireland
Tim’s Twitter Listening Parties
Dearly departed:
- Andy Taylor (with whom I worked at Little Dot and Channel 4)
- Albert Uderzo
- Jimmy Cobb
- Alan Parker
- Terry Jones
- Carl Reiner
- Kirk Douglas
- Sean Connery
- John Hume
- Ruth Bader Ginsberg
- Terence Conran
- JJ Williams
- Nobby Stiles
- Nicholas Parsons
- Tim Brooke Taylor

Best of 2019 and links to earlier Bests Of
Best of 2019

The scene of the year
Film:
Joker
Mid90s
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Rolling Thunder Review
Booksmart
Last year: Vice, Cold War
Foreign-Language Film:
Parasite
Last year: The Square
Documentary:
Rolling Thunder Review
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love; Knock Down the House; Apollo 11
Male Lead:
Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
Sunny Suljic (Mid 90s)
Paul Walter Hauser (Richard Jewell)
Taron Egerton as Reggie Dwight/Elton John in Rocketman; Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood; Michael B. Jordan (Just Mercy)
Last year: Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
Female Lead:
Elizabeth Debicki (Virginia, Vita & Virginia)
Beanie Feldstein (Molly, Booksmart)
Gemma Arterton (Vita, Vita & Virginia)
Last year: Joanna Kulig – Cold War
Male Support:
Robert De Niro as Murray Franklin in Joker
Al Pacino – The Irishman
Olan Prenatt as Fuckshit in Mid90s; Lucas Hedges as Ian in Mid90s; Stephen Merchant as Deertz in Jojo Rabbit; Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood; Na-Kel Smith as Ray in Mid90s
Last year: Terry Notary (The Square)
Female Support:
Kaitlyn Dever as Amy in Booksmart
Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Laura Rose in Motherless Brooklyn; Scarlett Johansson as Rosie in Jojo Rabbit
Last year: Amy Adams(Vice)
Director:
Todd Phillips (Joker)
Jonah Hill (Mid 90s)
Last year: Adam McKay (Vice)
Writer:
Todd Phillips & Scott Silver – Joker
Jonah Hill (Mid 90s)
Taika Waititi – Jo Jo Rabbit
Last year: Adam McKay (Vice)
Editing:
tbc
Last year: Vice
Cinematography:
Roger Deakins – 1917
Last year: Lukasz Zal (Cold War)
Film Music:
Rolling Thunder Review
Last year: Bohemian Rhapsody / Cold War
Single/Song:
Lately – Celeste
Last year: I Want You (Sam Reid & Claudia Jolly – The Girl from the North Country)
Album:
Ghosteen – Nick Cave
Kiwanuka – Michael Kiwanuka; Western Stars – Bruce Springsteen
Last year: The Girl from the North Country (London cast)
Gig:
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets (Roundhouse)
Kamasi Washington (Brixton Academy)
Patti Smith (Westminster Central Hall)
The Midnight Special – Abbey Road anniversary (Jazz Cafe)
Abdullah Ibrahim (Cadogan Hall)
Proms: Jonny Greenwood (Albert Hall)
Last year: David Byrne – Hammersmith Odeon
Play:
A Taste of Honey (Trafalgar Studios)
Last year: Girl from the North Country [2nd viewing]
Art Exhibition:
Van Gogh in Britain (Tate B)
Preraphaelite Sisters (NPG)
Tate St Ives
Last year: Picasso: 1932 (Tate Modern)
Book:
A Woman of No Importance – Sonia Purnell
The Order of the Day – Eric Vuillard
The Cut-out Girl – Bart Van Es
The Quiet American, To Have & Have Not, The Catcher in the Rye, The Drowning Pool
Last year: The Leithen Stories – John Buchan
TV:
After Life (Netflix)
The Boys (Amazon), The Crown – S3 (Amazon)
Last year: Mrs Wilson
Podcast:
13 Minutes to the Moon
The Tip-Off
Sport:
England beating the All-Blacks at the Rugby World Cup, Japan
Dance:
The Red Shoes (Sadlers Wells)
Event:
150th anniversary of Girton College (including event at Trinity, Dublin)
50th anniversary of Moon Landing/Apollo 11
Mythos: The Gods – Stephen Fry
Dearly departed:
- Emily Hartridge (who I made Oh Shit I’m 30! with)
- Judith Kerr (with whom I was on Woman’s Hour)
- Leon Kossoff
- D.A. Pennebaker
- Clive James
- Jonathan Miller (who I walk with in Aldeburgh while he was having a cheeky fag)
- Albert Finney
- Gordon Banks (his Esso medal hangs on my wall along with his 1970 World Cup team mates)
- Peter Fonda
- Ginger Baker
- Doris Day
- Dr John
- Mark Hollis (who I have a vague memory of meeting briefly at Solus, my first job)
- Agnès Varda
- Mary Warnock (Mistress of Girton in my era)
- Jeremy Hardy (he contributed to my Omagh project at Channel 4)
- Terry O’Neill

Performance of the year
Best of 2018

Cold War
Film:
Vice
Cold War
Green Book, Bohemian Rhapsody
Last year: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Florida Project
Foreign-Language Film:
The Square
Cold War
Last year: The Square (Sweden)
Documentary:
Faces Places
Three Identical Strangers, RBG, Bombshell, The Ballymurphy Precedent
Male Lead:
Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
Christian Bale – Vice
Viggo Mortensen – Green Book, Robert Redford – The Old Man & The Gun, Steve Coogan – Stan & Ollie
Last year: Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread, Steve Carell – Battle of the Sexes
Female Lead:
Olivia Coleman – The Favourite
Joanna Kulig – Cold War
Last year: Frances McDormand – Three Billboards
Male Support:
Terry Notary – The Square
Steve Carell – Vice, Sam Rockwell – Vice
Last year: Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards, Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards
Female Support:
Amy Adams – Vice
Sissy Spacek – The Old Man & The Gun, Rachel Weisz – The Favourite, Emma Stone – The Favourite, Nina Arianda – Stan & Ollie
Last year: Brooklyn Prince – Florida Project, Mary J Blige – Mudbound
Director:
Adam McKay – Vice
Last year: Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards
Writer:
Adam McKay – Vice
Last year: Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards
Editing:
Vice
Last year: Dunkirk
Cinematography:
Lukasz Zal – Cold War
Last year: Roger Deakins – Blade Runner 2049 (went on to pick up his 1st Oscar for this, after numerous nominations)
Film Music:
Bohemian Rhapsody
Cold War
Last year: Three Billboards
Single/Song:
I Want You (Sam Reid & Claudia Jolly – The Girl from the North Country)
Last year: Willie Nelson – God’s Problem Child
Album:
The Girl from the North Country (London cast)
The Prophet Speaks (Van)
Last year: undecided
Gig:
David Byrne – Hammersmith Odeon
The Midnight Special – White Album anniversary; Tom Robinson – Shepherds Bush Empire; Hothouse Flowers/Hot Press anniversary – Nells; Donal Lunny & Andy Irvine – Barbican
Last year: Hothouse Flowers – Electric Ballroom, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Millennium Dome, Avishai Cohen – Barbican
Play:
Girl from the North Country [2nd viewing]
Last year: Girl from the North Country, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Art Exhibition:
Picasso: 1932 (Tate Modern)
Collections Privees (Musee Marmottan)
Last year: Basquiat (Barbican)
Book:
The Leithen Stories – John Buchan
Last year: Everybody Lies – Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
TV:
Mrs Wilson (BBC)
13 Reasons Why (Netflix), Maltese (More 4)
Last year: Stranger Things S1
Sport:
Ireland beating the All-Blacks
The demeanour of the England team at the World Cup in Russia
Event:
50th anniversary of The Beatles’ White Album
Dearly departed:
- Amos Oz
- Philip Roth
- Aretha Franklin
- William Goldman
- Chas (Hodges)
- Burt Reynolds
- Eric Bristow
- Stephen Hawking
- Ken Dodd
- Roger Bannister
- Dennis Edwards
- Peter Wyngarde
- Dolores O’Riordan
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[Nov] Ireland beat world champions New Zealand for the first time ever on home soil – Jacob Stockdale scores the only try of the match
Best of 2017

The Florida Project
Film:
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Florida Project
Lady Bird
Last Flag Flying
Last year: Manchester by the Sea, American Honey
Male Lead:
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
Steve Carell – Battle of the Sexes
Last year: Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
Female Lead:
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards
Bria Vinaite – The Florida Project
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Last year: Sasha Lane – American Honey
Male Support:
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards
Last year: Jack Reynor – Sing Street
Female Support:
Brooklyn Prince – Florida Project
Mary J Blige – Mudbound
Last year: Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea
Director:
Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards
Last year: Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea
Writer:
Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards
Last year: Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea
Editing:
Dunkirk
Cinematography:
Roger Deakins (my old boss, in my first job) – Blade Runner 2049
Last year: Vittorio Storaro – Cafe Society
Film Music:
Three Billboards
Last year: Sing Street
International Film:
The Square (Sweden)
Single/Song:
Willie Nelson – God’s Problem Child
Last year: In Tiburon – Van Morrison
Album:
Kamasi Washington – Harmony of Difference
Bjork – Utopia
Avishai Cohen – 1970
Last year: Blackstar – David Bowie, Keep Me Singing – Van Morrison
Gig:
Hothouse Flowers – Electric Ballroom
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Millennium Dome
Avishai Cohen – Barbican
U2 – Joshua Tree – Twickenham
Hollie Cook – Borderline
Last year: Imagining Ireland – Friday 29 April 2016 at Festival Hall
Play:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Girl from the North Country
St Joan (Donmar)
The Ferryman
Last year: Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park)
Art Exhibition:
Basquiat – Barbican
Last year: You Say You Want a Revolution? (V&A)
Book:
Everybody Lies – Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
M Train – Patti Smith
My Promised Land – Ari Shavit
Last year: The Sellout – Paul Beatty, Judas – Amos Oz
TV:
Stranger Things S1
Last year: Ambulance
Sport:
Lions beating & drawing with All-Blacks
Harry Kane scores his 8th hattrick of the year becoming top European goal-scorer and taking record for most Premiership goals in a year
Event:
?
Dearly departed:
- Roger Moore
- John Hurt
- Martin Landau
- Sean Hughes
- Brian Kant
- Jerry Lewis
- Christine Keeler
- Walter Becker
Best of 2016 – with links to all previous years
Best of 2016
Updated 1.1.17 & 7.1.17 – put to bed 10.1.17

American Honey
Film:
Manchester by the Sea
American Honey
Sing Street
American Pastoral
The Accountant
Allied
The Nice Guys
Male Lead:
Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
Ben Affleck – The Accountant
Tom Hanks – Sully
Shia LaBeouf – American Honey
Chris Pine – Hell or High Water
Brad Pitt – Allied
Ryan Gosling – The Nice Guys
Female Lead:
Sasha Lane – American Honey
Rebecca Hall – Christine
Marion Cotillard – Allied
Dakota Fanning – American Pastoral
Meryl Streep – Florence Foster Jenkins
Amy Adams – Arrival
Male Support:
Jack Reynor – Sing Street
Hugh Grant – Florence Foster Jenkins
Aaron Taylor-Johnson – Nocturnal Animals
Tom Wilkinson – Denial
Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water
Female Support:
Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea
Hayley Squires – I, Daniel Blake
Jennifer Connelly – American Pastoral
Riley Keough – American Honey
Margot Robbie – Suicide Squad
Director:
Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea
Andrea Arnold – American Honey
Ewan McGregor – American Pastoral
John Carney – Sing Street
Tom Ford – Nocturnal Animals
Woody Allen – Cafe Society
Writer:
Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea
John Carney – Sing Street
Andrea Arnold – American Honey
Tom Ford – Nocturnal Animals
Eric Heisserer – Arrival
Editing:
Joe Walker – Arrival
Jennifer Lame – Manchester by the Sea
Cinematography:
Vittorio Storaro – Cafe Society
Rodrigo Prieto – Silence
Film Music:
Sing Street
Single/Song:
In Tiburon – Van Morrison
Album:
Blackstar – David Bowie
Keep Me Singing – Van Morrison
Gig:
Imagining Ireland – Friday 29 April 2016 at Festival Hall
Bruce Springsteen – Wembley stadium
Fela Kuti tribute – Bukky Leo & Black Egypt (Jazz Cafe)
Carole King – Tapestry (Hyde Park)
Play:
Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park)
Things I Know to be True – Andrew Bovell (Lyric, Hammersmith)
How the Other Half Loves – Alan Aykborn (Haymarket)
Art Exhibition:
You Say You Want a Revolution? (V&A)
Georgia O’Keeffe (Tate Modern)
opening day of the Design Museum, Kensington
Russell-Cotes gallery, Bournemouth
Graves gallery, Sheffield
Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Book:
The Sellout – Paul Beatty
Judas – Amos Oz
Read This Year:
All Fall Down – James Leo Herlihy
TV:
Ambulance
Humans 2.0
The Night Manager
Long Lost Family
Sport:
Ireland beating New Zealand at rugby in Chicago
Jack Laugher and Chris Mears winning diving gold at Rio Olympics
Event:
Commemorating the Easter Rising at the GPO in Dublin (100 years to the minute after, right on the spot)
David Bowie trip to Berlin with Noah
Dearly departed:
- David Bowie
- Muhammad Ali
- Gene Wilder
- Leonard Cohen
- George Michael
- Bobby Wellins
- Terry Wogan
- Ronnie Corbett
- Johan Cruyff
- Robert Vaughn
- Peter Vaughan
- Maurice White
-
Frank Finlay
-
George Martin
-
Sylvia Anderson
-
Arnold Wesker
Best of 2015

The Big Short: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling
Film:
The Big Short
Grandma
Me & Earl & The Dying Girl
The Hateful Eight
Chappie
Ex-machina
Amy
Male Lead:
Steve Carell – The Big Short
Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl
Paul Dano – Love & Mercy
Samuel Jackson – The Hateful Eight
Oscar Isaac – Ex-machina
Female Lead:
Lily Tomlin – Grandma
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
Anne Dorval – Mommy
Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl
Greta Gerwig – Mistress America
Male Support:
Christian Bale – The Big Short
Ryan Gosling – The Big Short
Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight
Female Support:
Jennifer Jason Lee – The Hateful Eight
Cara Delevingne – Paper Towns
Rooney Mara – Carol
Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs
Julie Walters – Brooklyn
Director:
Adam McKay –The Big Short
Quentin Tarantino – The Hateful Eight
Paul Weitz – Grandma
Xavier Dolan – Mommy
Asif Kapadia – Amy
Writer:
Adam McKay –The Big Short
Quentin Tarantino – The Hateful Eight
Paul Weitz – Grandma
Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach – Mistress America
Editing:
Hank Corwin – The Big Short
Film Music:
Ennio Morricone – The Hateful Eight
Single/Song:
Long Strange Golden Road – The Waterboys
Listened to this year:
Where Did You Sleep Last Night – Nirvana
Album:
Modern Blues – The Waterboys
Van Morrison – Duets
Covered – Robert Glasper Trio
The Epic – Kamasi Washington
Gig:
The Waterboys – Roundhouse
The Waterboys – Colosseum, Watford
Van Morrison (No. 3) – Nell’s Jazz & Blues Club
Van & Tom Jones – Blues Fest – Millennium Dome
Marc Almond – Empire Shepherds Bush
Play:
Beautiful – Aldwych
Death of a Salesman – Noel Coward Theatre (Anthony Sher)
Guys & Dolls – The Savoy
Art Exhibition:
Peter Lanyon: Soaring Flight – Courtauld
Barbara Hepworth – Tate Britain
Frank Auerbach – Tate Britain
Book:
Purity – Jonathan Franzen
Read This Year:
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Then Again – Diane Keaton
TV:
Humans
Walking the Nile
House of Cards S3
The Murder Detectives
And Then There Were None
Sport:
All Blacks in Rugby World Cup Final at Twickenham
Event:
Paris climate change agreement
Dearly departed:
- BB King
- Warren Mitchell (Alf Garnett)
- Leonard Nimoy (Spock)
- Ron Moody (Fagin)
- George Cole (Arthur Daley)
- Anita Ekberg (Sylvia, La Dolce Vita)

Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett
Best of 2014
Film:
20,000 Days on Earth
Selma
Boyhood
The Theory of Everything
Male Lead:
Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
David Oyelowo – Selma
Nicholas Cage – Joe
Tom Hardy – Locke
Benedict Cumberbtach – The Imitation Game
Ralph Fiennes – Grand Hotel Budapest
Female Lead:
Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
Male Support:
Tim Roth – Selma
Steve Carell – Foxcatcher
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
Tom Wilkinson – Selma
Female Support:
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Sienna Miller – American Sniper
Director:
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard – 20,000 Days on Earth
Christopher Nolan – Interstellar
Pawel Pawlikoski – Ida
Paul King – Paddington
Yann Demange- ’71
Writer:
Paul Webb – Selma
Paul King – Paddington
Wes Anderson – Grand Hotel Budapest
Anthony McCarten – The Theory of Everything
Production Design:
Grand Hotel Budapest
Visual FX:
Interstellar
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Single:
(John Newman – Love Me Again)
Album:
Morning Phase – Beck
Tribute – John Newman
With The Artists – Rhythm & Sound
Liquid Spirit – Gregory Porter
(WomanChild -Cecile McLorin Salvant)
Gig:
Van Morrison on launch night of Nell’s Jazz & Blues Club
Michael Franti & Spearhead – Islington Assembly Hall (with D)
John Newman – Empire Shepherd’s Bush
ABC – Lexicon of Love – Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Peter Gabriel – So – Wembley Arena
Play:
A Taste of Honey – Shelagh Delaney – National Theatre, Lyttleton
Fiesta – adapted & directed by Alex Helfrecht – Trafalgar Studios
Oh What a Lovely War – Joan Littlewood & the Theatre Workshop – Theatre Royal Stratford East (Joan Littlewood centenary – with D)
Fings Ain’t Wot They Used to Be – Frank Norman – Theatre Royal Stratford East
Art Exhibition:
Egon Schiele drawings: The Radical Nude – Courtauld
John Craxton – Fitzwilliam, Cambridge
Richard Hamilton – Tate Modern
Abram Games: designing the 20th Century – Jewish Museum, Camden Town
MALBA – Buenos Aires
Museum der bildenden Kunste – Leipzig (with N)
Book: (that I read this year)
Rabbit at Rest – John Updike
Sport:
Germany crushing Brazil at the World Cup (7-1 semi-final)
Jonny May’s try for England against the All Blacks at Twickenham
Event:
Philae probe from European spacecraft Rosetta landing on a comet
Dearly departed:
Joe Cocker
Jack Bruce
Tommy Ramone
Best of 2013
[work in progress]
Film:
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Way Way Back
Gravity
Male Lead:
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
Female Lead:
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Judy Dench – Philomena
Male Support:
Matthew McConaughy – The Wolf of Wall Street
Female Support:
(Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine)
(Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle)
Director:
Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street
Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity
Writer:
Nat Faxon & Jim Rash – The Way Way Back
Single:
Love Me Again – John Newman
Down the Road – C2C
Children Go Where I Send Thee – Nick Lowe
Where Are We Now – David Bowie
Get Lucky – Daft Punk
Nothing’s Changed – Tricky (with Francesca Belmonte)
Hang Me, Oh Hang Me – Oscar Isaac
Album:
Quality Street – Nick Lowe
Cecile McLorin Salvant – WomanChild
Big Inner – Matthew E White
False Idols – Tricky
(Lee Perry presents – Candy McKenzie (1977 reissue))
Gig:
Van Morrison at Ronnie Scott’s
Bruce Springsteen at Wembley Stadium (Darkness on the Edge of Town)
The Rolling Stones at Hyde Park
Dexys – One Day I’m Going To Soar – Duke Of York’s Theatre
Play:
Othello at Olivier Theatre
Art Exhibition:
All that is Solid Melts into Air (Jeremy Deller), Manchester
Sport:
Andy Murray winning Wimbledon
Event:
My birthday party – incorporating The Box