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  • Grammy 2014 Winners: The Full List

    Grammy 2014 Winners: The Full List

    grammyMusic’s biggest night lived up to its name, punctuated by performances by the aforementioned robots and another by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis that culminated in an appearance by Madonna.

    The night featured performances by many more of the most talented names in music. Sometimes one in the same–including a reunion of the last two living Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, who played a new song from the former’s latest album.

    1. Album of the Year: “Random Access Memories,” Daft Punk
    2. Record of the Year: “Get Lucky,” Daft Punk Featuring Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers

     

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    3. Song of the Year: “Royals,” Joel Little & Ella Yelich O’Connor, songwriters (Lorde)
    4. Best New Artist: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
    5. Best Pop Solo Performance: “Royals,” Lorde
    6. Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: “Get Lucky,” Daft Punk Featuring Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
    7. Best Pop Instrumental Album: “Steppin’ Out,” Herb Alpert
    8. Best Pop Vocal Album: “Unorthodox Jukebox,” Bruno Mars
    9. Best Dance Recording: “Clarity,” Zedd Featuring Foxes
    10. Best Dance/Electronica Album: “Random Access Memories,” Daft Punk
    11. Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: “To Be Loved,” Michael Buble
    12. Best Rock Performance: “Radioactive,” Imagine Dragons
    13. Best Metal Performance: “God Is Dead?” Black Sabbath
    14. Best Rock Song: “Cut Me Some Slack,” Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney, Krist Novoselic & Pat Smear, songwriters (Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear)
    15. Best Rock Album: “Celebration Day,” Led Zeppelin
    16. Best Alternative Music Album: “Modern Vampires Of The City,” Vampire Weekend
    17. Best R&B Performance: “Something,” Snarky Puppy With Lalah Hathaway
    18. Best Traditional R&B Performance: “Please Come Home,” Gary Clark Jr.
    19. Best R&B Song: “Pusher Love Girl,” James Fauntleroy, Jerome Harmon, Timothy Mosley & Justin Timberlake, songwriters (Justin Timberlake)
    20. Best Urban Contemporary Album: “Unapologetic,” Rihanna
    21. Best R&B Album: “Girl On Fire,” Alicia Keys
    22. Best Rap Performance: “Thrift Shop,” Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Wanz
    23. Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: “Holy Grail,” Jay Z feat. Justin Timberlake
    24. Best Rap Song: “Thrift Shop,” Ben Haggerty & Ryan Lewis, songwriters (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Wanz)
    25. Best Rap Album: “The Heist,” Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
    26. Best Country Solo Performance: “Wagon Wheel,” Darius Rucker
    27. Best Country Duo/Group Performance: “From This Valley,” The Civil Wars
    28. Best Country Song: “Merry Go ‘Round,” Shane McAnally, Kacey Musgraves & Josh Osborne, songwriters (Kacey Musgraves)
    29. Best Country Album: “Same Trailer Different Park,” Kacey Musgraves
    30. Best New Age Album: “Love’s River,” Laura Sullivan
    31. Best Improvised Jazz Solo: “Orbits,” Wayne Shorter, soloist
    32. Best Jazz Vocal Album: “Liquid Spirit,” Gregory Porter
    33. Best Jazz Instrumental Album: “Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue,” Terri Lyne Carrington
    34. Best Large Jazz Ensemble: “Night In Calisia,” Randy Brecker, Włodek Pawlik Trio & Kalisz Philharmonic
    35. Best Latin Jazz Album: “Song For Maura,” Paquito D’Rivera And Trio Corrente
    36. Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance: “Break Every Chain [Live],” Tasha Cobbs
    37. Best Gospel Song: “If He Did It Before… Same God [Live],” Tye Tribbett, songwriter (Tye Tribbett)
    38. Best Contemporary Christian Music Song: “Overcomer,” David Garcia, Ben Glover & Christopher Stevens, songwriters (Mandisa)
    39. Best Gospel Album: “Greater Than [Live],” Tye Tribbett
    40. Best Contemporary Christian Music Album: “Overcomer,” Mandisa
    41. Best Latin Pop Album: “Vida,” Draco Rosa
    42. Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album: “Treinta Días,” La Santa Cecilia
    43. Best Regional Mexican Music Album: “A Mi Manera,” Mariachi Divas De Cindy Shea
    44. Best Tropical Latin Album: “Pacific Mambo Orchestra,” Pacific Mambo Orchestra
    45. Best American Roots Song: “Love Has Come For You,” Edie Brickell & Steve Martin, songwriters (Steve Martin & Edie Brickell)
    46. Best Americana Album: “Old Yellow Moon,” Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
    47. Best Bluegrass Album: “The Streets Of Baltimore,” Del McCoury Band
    48. Best Blues Album: “Get Up!” Ben Harper With Charlie Musselwhite
    49. Best Folk Album: “My Favorite Picture Of You,” Guy Clark
    50. Best Regional Roots Music Album: “Dockside Sessions,” Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience
    51. Best Reggae Album: “Ziggy Marley In Concert,” Ziggy Marley
    52. Best World Music Album: (TIE) “Savor Flamenco,” Gipsy Kings / “Live: Singing For Peace Around The World,” Ladysmith Black Mambazo
    53. Best Children’s Album: “Throw A Penny In The Wishing Well,” Jennifer Gasoi
    54. Best Spoken-Word Album: “America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren’t,” Stephen Colbert
    55. Best Comedy Album: “Calm Down Gurrl,” Kathy Griffin
    56. Best Musical Theater Album: “Kinky Boots”
    57. Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media: “Sound City: Real To Reel,” Butch Vig, compilation producer
    58. Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media: “Skyfall,” Thomas Newman, composer
    59. Best Song Written For Visual Media: “Skyfall,” Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth, songwriters (Adele)
    60. Best Instrumental Composition: “Pensamientos For Solo Alto Saxophone And Chamber Orchestra,” Clare Fischer, composer (The Clare Fischer Orchestra)
    61. Best Instrumental Arrangement: “On Green Dolphin Street,” Gordon Goodwin, arranger (Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band)
    62. Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): “Swing Low,” Gil Goldstein, arranger (Bobby McFerrin & Esperanza Spalding)
    63. Best Recording Package: “Long Night Moon,” Sarah Dodds & Shauna Dodds, art directors (Reckless Kelly)
    64. Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: “Wings Over America (Deluxe Edition),” Simon Earith & James Musgrave, art directors (Paul McCartney And Wings)
    65. Best Album Notes: “Afro Blue Impressions (Remastered & Expanded),” Neil Tesser, album notes writer (John Coltrane)
    66. Best Historical Album: (TIE) “Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965,” “The Complete Sussex And Columbia Albums”
    67. Best Engineered Album: “Random Access Memories,” Peter Franco, Mick Guzauski, Florian Lagatta & Daniel Lerner, engineers; Antoine “Chab” Chabert, Bob Ludwig, mastering engineers (Daft Punk)
    68. Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Pharrell
    69. Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: “Summertime Sadness (Cedric Gervais Remix),” Cedric Gervais, remixer (Lana Del Rey)
    70. Best Surround Sound Album: “Live Kisses,” Al Schmitt, surround mix engineer; Tommy LiPuma, surround producer (Paul McCartney)
    71. Best Engineered Album, Classical: “Winter Morning Walks,” David Frost, Brian Losch & Tim Martyn, engineers; Tim Martyn, mastering engineer (Dawn Upshaw, Maria Schneider, Australian Chamber Orchestra & St. Paul Chamber Orchestra)
    72. Producer of the Year, Classical: David Frost
    73. Best Orchestral Performance: “Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4,” Osmo Vänskä, conductor (MinnesotaOrchestra)
    74. Best Opera Recording: “Adès: The Tempest,” Thomas Adès, conductor; Simon Keenlyside, Isabel Leonard, Audrey Luna & Alan Oke; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
    75. Best Choral Performance: “Pärt: Adam’s Lament,” Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor (Tui Hirv & Rainer Vilu; Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir; Sinfonietta Riga & Tallinn Chamber Orchestra; Latvian Radio Choir & Vox Clamantis)
    76. Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: “Roomful Of Teeth,” Brad Wells & Roomful Of Teeth
    77. Best Classical Instrumental Solo: “Corigliano: Conjurer – Concerto For Percussionist & String Orchestra,” Evelyn Glennie; David Alan Miller, conductor (Albany Symphony)
    78. Best Classical Vocal Solo: “Winter Morning Walks,” Dawn Upshaw (Maria Schneider; Jay Anderson, Frank Kimbrough & Scott Robinson; Australian Chamber Orchestra & St. Paul Chamber Orchestra)
    79. Best Classical Compendium: “Hindemith: Violinkonzert; Symphonic Metamorphosis; Konzertmusik,” Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
    80. Best Contemporary Classical Composition: “Schneider, Maria: Winter Morning Walks,” Maria Schneider, composer (Dawn Upshaw, Jay Anderson, Frank Kimbrough, Scott Robinson & Australian Chamber Orchestra)
    81. Best Music Video: “Suit & Tie,” Justin Timberlake Featuring Jay Z
    82. Best Music Film: “Live Kisses,” Paul McCartney

  • Oscars 2013: Winners Full List

    Oscars 2013: Winners Full List

    010913_OscarsLogoABCThe 85th Academy Awards ceremony (referred to as The Oscars), honoring the best films of 2012 in the United States, took place February 24, 2013. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) presented its annual Academy Awards to honor the best films of 2012 in the United States. The ceremony was held at the Dolby Theatre in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California Seth MacFarlane hosted the Academy Awards for the first time.

    Life of Pi won four awards (the most for the evening) including Best Director for Ang Lee,and Argo won three awards including Best Picture. Les Misérables also won three awards; Django Unchained, Lincoln and Skyfall won two awards each. Jennifer Lawrence won the Best Actress award for her role in Silver Linings Playbook. Daniel Day-Lewis won a third Best Actor (the most for any actor) for his role as President Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln.

    ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
    Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

    ANIMATED SHORT FILM
    Paperman
    John Kahrs

    ANIMATED FEATURE
    Brave
    Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman

    CINEMATOGRAPHY
    Claudio Miranda, Life Of Pi

    VISUAL EFFECTS
    Life Of Pi
    Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott

    COSTUME DESIGN
    Jacqueline Durran, Anna Karenina

    MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
    Les Misérables
    Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

    LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
    Curfew
    Shawn Christensen

    DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
    Inocente
    Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine

    DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
    Searching For Sugar Man
    Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn

    FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
    Amour (Austria)
    Michael Haneke, director; Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz, Producers

    SOUND MIXING
    Les Misérables
    Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes

    SOUND EDITING
    (tie)
    Zero Dark Thirty
    Paul N.J. Ottosson

    Skyfall
    Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers

    ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
    Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables

    FILM EDITING
    Argo
    William Goldenberg

    PRODUCTION DESIGN
    Lincoln
    Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

    ORIGINAL SCORE
    Life Of Pi
    Mychael Danna

    ORIGINAL SONG
    “Skyfall” from Skyfall
    Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth

    ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
    Chris Terrio, Argo

    ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
    Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained

    DIRECTING
    Ang Lee, Life Of Pi

    ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
    Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

    ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
    Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

    BEST PICTURE
    Argo
    Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers

  • 55th Grammys Awards 2013: Winners List

    55th Grammys Awards 2013: Winners List

    grammysThe 55th Annual Grammy Awards was held on February 10, 2013, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.The Recording Academy introduced three new categories to the 78 awards previously presented at the 54th ceremony—Best Classical Compendium, Best Latin Jazz Album, and Best Urban Contemporary Album, bringing it to a total of 81 awards.

     


    Album of the Year


    “El Camino”
    The Black Keys

    “Some Nights”
    Fun.

    WINNER
    “Babel”
    Mumford & Sons

    “Channel Orange”
    Frank Ocean

    “Blunderbuss”
    Jack White

    Record of the Year


    “Lonely Boy”
    The Black Keys

    “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”
    Kelly Clarkson

    “We Are Young”
    Fun. feat. Janelle Monaé

    WINNER
    “Somebody That I Used To Know”
    Gotye feat. Kimbra

    “Thinkin’ Bout You”
    Frank Ocean

    “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”
    Taylor Swift

    Song of the Year


    “The A Team”
    Ed Sheeran

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    ;Adorn”
    Miguel

    “Call Me Maybe”
    Carly Rae Jepsen

    “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You”
    Kelly Clarkson

    WINNER
    “We Are Young”
    Fun. feat. Janelle Monaé

    Best New Artist


    Alabama Shakes

    WINNER
    Fun.

    Hunter Hayes

    The Lumineers

    Frank Ocean

     

    MORE TOP WINNERS at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards:

    Best Pop Solo Performance:

     

    “Set Fire To The Rain (Live)” — Adele

     

     

    Best Pop Duo/Group Performance:

     

    “Somebody That I Used To Know” — Gotye Featuring Kimbra

     

     

    Best Pop Vocal Album:

     

    “Stronger” — Kelly Clarkson

     

     

    Best Pop Instrumental Album:

     

    “Impressions” — Chris Botti

     

     

    Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album “Kisses on the Bottom” — Paul McCartney

    Best Rock Performance: “Lonely Boy” — The Black Keys

    Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance:

     

    “Love Bites (So Do I)” — Halestorm

     

     

    Best Rock Album:

     

    “El Camino” — The Black Keys

     

     

    Best Rock Song:

     

    “Lonely Boy” — The Black Keys

     

     

    Be
    st Alternative Music Album:

     

    “Making Mirrors” — Gotye

     

     

    Best Dance/Electronica Album:

     

    “Bangarang” — Skrillex

     

     

    Best R&B Performance:

     

    “Climax” — Usher

     

     

    Best Traditional R&B Performance:

     

    “Love on Top” — Beyonce

     

     

    Best Urban Contemporary Album

     

    “Channel Orange” — Frank Ocean

     

     

    Best R&B Album:

     

    “Black Radio” — Robert Glasper Experiment

     

     

    Best R&B Song:

     

    “Adorn” — Miguel

     

     

    Best Rap/Sung Collaboration:

     

    “No Church In The Wild” — Jay-Z & Kanye West Featuring Frank Ocean & The-Dream

     

     

    Best Rap Performance:

     

    “N****s In Paris” — Jay–Z & Kanye West

     

     

    Best Rap Album:

     

    “Take Care” — Drake

     

     

    Best Rap Song:

     

    “N****s in Paris” — Jay-Z & Kanye West

     

     

    Best Latin Pop Album:

     

    MTV Unplugged — Juanes

     

     

    Best Country Solo Performance:

     

    “Blown Away” — Carrie Underwood

     

     

    Best Country Duo Performance:

     

    “Pontoon” — Little Big Town

     

     

    Best Country Album:

     

    “Uncaged” — Zac Brown Band

     

     

    Best Country Song:

     

    Blown Away — Carrie Underwood (Josh Kear & Chris Tompkins, songwriters)

     

     

    Best Americana Album:

     

    “Slipstream” — Bonnie Raitt

     

     

    Best Jazz Vocal Album:

     

    “Radio Music Society” — Esperanza Spalding

     

     

    Best Blues Album:

     

    “Locked Down” — Dr. John

     

     

    Best Spoken Word Album:

     

    “Society’s Child: My Autobiography” — Janis Ian

     

     

    Best Musical Theater Album:

     

    Once: A New Musical

     

     

    Best Comedy Album:

     

    “Blow Your Pants Off” — Jimmy Fallon