The 60th Grammy Awards 2018, Red Carpet and Winners

The 60th Grammy Awards 2018 


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National Television Awards, NTAs 2018 – Nominees, predictions & winners

National Television Awards, NTAs 2018 – Nominees, predictions & winners

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The National Television Awards 2018: who will win – and who should

Courtesy of https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/23/the-national-television-awards-2018-who-will-win-and-who-should

The British public are going to give their verdict on the last 12 months of TV, so will hardy perennials like Ant & Dec be weeded out? Here are our predictions

The British public: give them a vote and you can rely on them to return a solid, sensible result. That’s the ethos behind The National Television Awards, the only gong show of its kind decided entirely by viewer opinion. So who’s going to go home with the top prizes from tonight’s celebratory ceremony at London’s O2 Arena? Our form guide for the nominated programmes and performers most likely to win is below, along with – heretical saboteurs that we are – some suggestions for what the TV electorate should have chosen instead…

CHALLENGE SHOW

Will win: I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
Should win: Love Island

Defending champ I’m a Celebrity ought to have too much for the competition here, with series 17 memorable for a compelling and even moving narrative centring on alleged bullying victim Iain Lee. The glossy, muscly, steaming dark horse is Love Island: ITV2’s deceptively wholesome sex olympics fully penetrated the national conversation last summer.

Also nominated: The Great British Bake Off, MasterChef

CRIME DRAMA

Will win: Broadchurch
Should win: Line of Duty

Line of Duty feels like a critically acclaimed, Guardian-y show, of the kind that normally gets trampled and spat on at the NTAs – but the move to BBC1, the ten million viewers for the finale and the fact that season four was insanely exciting give it a shot. It doesn’t have the fanbase to beat a resurgent Broadchurch, though. Sherlock is nommed but has never won an NTA: it airs in January, so a whole 12 months later, everyone’s either forgotten it or is still trying.

Also nominated: Little Boy Blue

TALENT SHOW

Will win: Strictly Come Dancing
Should win: Strictly Come Dancing

Increasingly this category is a sparkly shoe-in for Strictly, since Simon Cowell’s ITV showcases both imploded some time ago: this year’s Britain’s Got Talent was notable mainly for the state-of-the-nation moment when an eight-year-old comedian came on and said something misogynist, while The X Factor finally slid completely into tone-deaf irrelevance.

Also nominated: The Voice UK

DRAMA

Will win: Doctor Foster
Should win: Doctor Foster

The NTAs love a category shake-up, and a rejig’s left this one wide open. Of course Drama isn’t a new category, but with no Period Drama this time round, Call the Midwife is here to face off against last year’s surprise Drama winner, Casualty. Panting in the shadows with a sharpened hairbrush up its sleeve is Doctor Foster, a previous winner (of New Drama, which it obviously couldn’t win again even if that category still existed, which it doesn’t – hope you’re keeping up with this) that caused even more theorising, gossiping and live-tweeting in 2017 with its triumphantly doolally second season.

Also nominated: Liar, Game of Thrones

TV PRESENTER

Will win: Ant & Dec
Should win: Ant & Dec

It simply isn’t the NTAs if Ant & Dec don’t win – the only ceremony for the past 18 years when they’ve not had to do their humble-surprise routine was 2009, when they narrowly missed out due to the NTAs not taking place. (ITV had run out of money.) Unless the voting public take a harsh view of Ant McPartlin’s heavily tabloid-documented personal woes, which seems unlikely, up the pair toddle again.

Also nominated: Phillip Schofield, Bradley Walsh, Holly Willoughby

FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT

Will win: Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy
Should win: Ambulance

An epochal fight between us down there and them up there: regular winner Gogglebox, which long since lost the element of surprise its citizen critics used to have, is under fire. Princes William and Harry are currently popular with the proletariat thanks to their inspirational children and/or lady-friends, and they melted even republican hearts back in July with a one-off, warmly emotional memoir of life as Princess Di’s sons. Just imagine, though, if Ambulance – BBC2’s heartbreaking portrait of NHS heroes – roared up and won. No chance.

Also nominated: Paul O’Grady: For the Love of Dogs

DRAMA PERFORMANCE

Will win: Suranne Jones (Doctor Foster)
Should win: Suranne Jones (Doctor Foster)

Jones has form over course and distance: in 2016 she won this category against David Tennant’s turn in Broadchurch, which earns him another nom now, and even the mighty Sheridan Smith, who’s also here again. This time Smith gets a nod for The Moorside, a stronger vehicle than 2016’s Black Work. On the other hand, her unwatchably oozy song-and-chat showcase Sheridan ought to have caused instant disqualification, if not deportation. Suranne it is.

Also nominated: Tom Hardy – Taboo, Jenna Coleman – Victoria

THE BRUCE FORSYTH ENTERTAINMENT AWARD

Will win: All Round to Mrs Brown’s
Should win: Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway

The Entertainment category has cutely been renamed after the late Sir Brucie, but for rune-readers the interest is in two NTA titans suddenly landing in the same pool: All Round to Mrs Brown’s, the variety showcase that made the original Mrs Brown’s Boys look slick and cerebral, qualifies here and might topple the ordinarily invincible Saturday Night Takeaway. As always, Celebrity Juice is in the running, but is as likely to win as it is to feature a special round on Valerie Solanas.

Also nominated: The Graham Norton Show

SERIAL DRAMA

Will win: Emmerdale
Should win: Emmerdale

Last year Emmerdale shocked some, but not all, observers by finally edging out the big two soaps. There’s no reason why it can’t defend its title: it’s had another strong, solid year, and its digitally engaged fans will vote just as keenly. Meanwhile, Coronation Street and EastEnders have both overreached, with the too-horrible Pat Phelan storyline and the too-crap New Year heist respectively.

Also nominated: Hollyoaks

COMEDY

Will win: Peter Kay’s Car Share
Should win: Peter Kay’s Car Share

Often a depressingly weak category at the NTAs, and this year is no exception. Thank goodness for Peter Kay, whose sublimely romantic sitcom should make it two wins out of two with its second season. Rival nominees The Big Bang Theory and (2011 winner) Benidorm have been bridesmaids here for years – it would be weird if either of them beat Kay this time.

Also nominated: Still Open All Hours

DAYTIME

Will win: The Chase
Should win: This Morning

A weird one, in that if the NTAs had only just started you might assume This Morning would walk it. Yet The Chase is going for its third win in succession and, after a year in which none of the nominees made a particular impact, it might do it again. Last time This Morning had the consolation of the Live Magazine Show category, which might as well have been renamed Best Show Called This Morning, but that’s gone now.

Also nominated: Loose Women, The Jeremy Kyle Show

TV JUDGE

Will win: David Walliams
Should win: Paul Hollywood

The 2017 super-heavyweight champion Mary Berry doesn’t qualify because she didn’t do the Channel 4 version of Bake Off. Paul Hollywood did, and it would be nice for the new GBBO to win something after it so graciously coped with a tricky change of personnel and channel. But were NTA voters backing Berry because they love Bake Off, or because they love Mary? If it was the latter, David Walliamsmight sneak up behind Paul Hollywood and surprise him.

Also nominated: Simon Cowell, will.i.am

Hugh Masekela, Trumpeter and Anti-Apartheid Activist, Dies at 78

Hugh Masekela, Trumpeter and Anti-Apartheid Activist, Dies at 78

Courtesy of https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/hugh-masekela-dies.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

ORBITUARY

Hugh Masekela, a South African trumpeter, singer and activist whose music became symbolic of the country’s anti-apartheid movement, even as he spent three decades in exile, died on Tuesday in Johannesburg. He was 78.

His death was confirmed by Dreamcatcher, a communications agency that represented him.

Mr. Masekela came to the forefront of his country’s music scene in the 1950s, when he became a pioneer of South African jazz as a member of the Jazz Epistles, a bebop sextet that included the pianist Abdullah Ibrahim and other future stars. After a move to the United States in 1960, he won international acclaim and carried the mantle of his country’s freedom struggle.

His biggest hit was “Grazing in the Grass,” a peppy instrumental from 1968 with a twirling trumpet hook and a jangly cowbell rhythm. In the 1980s, as the struggle against apartheid hit a fever pitch, he worked often with fellow expatriate musicians, and with others from different African nations. On songs like “Stimela (Coal Train),” “Mace and Grenades” and the anthem “Mandela (Bring Him Back Home),” he played spiraling, plump-toned trumpet lines and sang of fortitude and resisting oppression in a gravelly tenor, landing somewhere between a storyteller’s incantation and a folk singer’s croon.

In the 1970s and ’80s, he collaborated with musicians across sub-Saharan Africa, constantly expanding his style to accommodate a range of traditions.

In 1986, Mr. Masekela founded the Botswana International School of Music, a nonprofit organization aimed at educating young African musicians. The next year, he played with Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo on the “Graceland” tour, which was not allowed in South Africa but made stops in nearby countries. On that tour, Mr. Masekela often performed “Mandela (Bring Him Back Home),” a hit song demanding justice for Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned on Robben Island at the time.

Ramopolo Hugh Masekela was born on April 4, 1939, in Witbank, South Africa, a coal-mining town near Johannesburg. His father, Thomas Selema Masekela, was a health inspector and noted sculptor; his mother, Pauline Bowers Masekela, was a social worker.

As a young child, Mr. Masekela was raised primarily by his grandmother, who ran an illegal bar for mine workers. “One of the great things also about Witbank was that all these people brought their different music and their different stories about where they came from,” he said of the miners. “As a little kid, I hung out with them in the backyard and the kitchen and I knew all about their countries.”

When he was 12, he entered St. Peter’s Secondary School, a boarding school in Rosettenville, closer to Johannesburg. By that point he had already begun to pursue music, singing in groups on the street and learning piano in private lessons.

He grew infatuated with the trumpet in 1950, after seeing Kirk Douglas in the film “Young Man With a Horn,” based on a novel inspired by the life of the trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke.

Neil Diamond Retires From Touring After Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis

Neil Diamond Retires From Touring After Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis

Courtesy of https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-diamond-retires-from-touring-due-to-parkinsons-disease-w515759

"I plan to remain active in writing, recording and other projects for a long time to come," singer promised after doctors recommend tour cancellation

Acting on his doctor's advice, Diamond immediately canceled the upcoming Australian and New Zealand legs of his 50th Anniversary tour, the singer revealed on his website.

"It is with great reluctance and disappointment that I announce my retirement from concert touring," Diamond said in a statement. “I have been so honored to bring my shows to the public for the past 50 years. My sincerest apologies to everyone who purchased tickets and were planning to come to the upcoming shows."

Although the Parkinson's diagnosis ended Diamond's 50-year career as a live act, the 77-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted singer hopes to continue making music.

"I plan to remain active in writing, recording and other projects for a long time to come," Diamond added. "My thanks goes out to my loyal and devoted audiences around the world. You will always have my appreciation for your support and encouragement. This ride has been 'so good, so good, so good' thanks to you," a nod to his hit "Sweet Caroline."

In December 2016, Diamond spoke to Rolling Stone about performing to arenas long into his half-century-long career. "It's been very heartening to me. I've been doing this 50 years and to have an audience that's out there and anxious and enthusiastic is exciting," Diamond said.

"As a matter of fact, when I started having hit records you think your career might be one or two or three records. And that's it. You were finished when one bombed. That's all the chance you got. Next!"

THE OSCARS 2018 – ACADEMY AWARDS NOMINATIONS 2018

THE OSCARS 2018 – ACADEMY AWARDS NOMINATIONS 2018

Courtesy of: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5297773/Academy-Awards-Nominations-2018-announced.html#ixzz551H0Oyni

See the Oscars website https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2018

The Shape Of Water sweeps the board with 13 Academy Award nominations... while Dunkirk and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri emerge as strong Oscars contenders

Angelina Jolie was noticeably snubbed along with All Of The Money In The World star Michelle Williams and actor James Franco

Directors Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott were also missed when the 2018 nominations were announced live from Los Angeles on Tuesday 

The Shape Of Water has won a total of 13 nods, compared to eight for Dunkirk and six for fellow British wartime film Darkest Hour

Elsewhere, the film's leading actor Gary Oldman is nominated for Best Actor. This season, he has already won the Golden Globe award and the Screen Actors Guild for his role as Winston Churchill

Shock nominations included musician Mary J. Blige, who is the first person to be recognised in an acting category and a musical category in the same year

Actress Octavia Spencer also became the first black actress to get multiple follow-up Oscar nominations, following her win in 2012

Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is this year banned from the ceremony, after being dropped as a member of the Academy 

The 90th annual Academy Awards will be held live from the Dolby Theater in LA on March 4, 2018 and hosted by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel for the second time in a row 

BEST ACTOR

Timothee Chalamet - Call Me By Your Name

Daniel Day-Lewis - Phantom Thread

Daniel Kaluuya - Get Out

Gary OIdman - Darkest Hour

Denzel Washington - Roman J. Israel, Esq

BEST ACTRESS    

Sally Hawkins - The Shape of Water

Frances McDormand - Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Margot Robbie - I, Tonya

Saoirse Ronan - Lady Bird

Meryl Streep - The Post 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 

Mary J Blige - Mudbound

Alison Janney - I, Tonya

Lesley Manville - Phanton Thread

Laurie Metcalf - Ladybird

Octavia Spencer - The Shape Of Water

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR   

Willem Dafoe - The Florida Project

Woody Harrelson - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Richard Jenkins - The Shape of Water

Christopher Plummer - All the Money in the World

Sam Rockwell - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

A Fantastic Woman

The Insult

Loveless

On Body and Soul

The Square

BEST DOCUMENTARY  SHORT

Edith + Eddie

Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405

Heroin(e)

Knife Skills

Traffic Stop

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Faces Places

Icarus

Last Men in Aleppo

Strong Island

BEST ORIGINAL SONG 

Mighty River - Mudbound

Mystery Of Love - Call Me by Your Name

Remember Me - Coco 

Stand Up For Something - Marshall

This Is Me - The Greatest Showman 

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

The Boss Baby

The Breadwinner

Coco

Ferdinand

Loving Vincent

BEST ADAPTATED SCREENPLAY

Call Me By Your Name - James Ivory

The Disaster Artist - Scott Neustadter and Michael H Weber

Logan - Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green

Molly's Game - Aaron Sorkin

Mudbound - Virgil Williams and Dee Rees

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Big Sick - Emily V Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani

Get Out - Jordan Peele

Lady Bird - Greta Gerwig

The Shape of Water - Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor (story by Guillermo del Toro)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Martin McDonagh

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Dunkirk

Phantom Thread

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 

BEST DIRECTOR  

Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk 

Jordan Peele - Get Out  

Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird  

Paul Thomas Anderson - Phantom Thread

Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water 

BEST PICTURE  

Call Me By Your Name

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Get Out

Lady Bird

Phantom Thread

The Post

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 

Bladerunner 2049

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Mudbound

Shape of Water

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Beauty and the Beast

Darkest Hour

Phantom Thread

The Shape of Water

Victoria and Abdul

BEST SOUND EDITING

Baby Driver

Blade Runner

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Dear Basketball

Garden Party

Lou

Negative Space

Revolting Rhymes

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

DeKalb Elementary

The Eleven O'Clock

My Nephew Emmet

The Silent Child

Watu Wota / All of Us 

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Blade Runner 2049

Guardian of the Galaxy vol. 2

Kong: Skull Island

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

War for the Planet of the Apes

BEST FILM EDITING

Baby Driver

I,Tonya

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri   

BEST SOUND MIXING

Baby Driver

Blade Runner

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Beauty and the Beast

Blade Runner 2049

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

BEST MAKE UP AND HAIR STYLING

Darkest Hour

Victoria & Abdul

Wonder