Juno 2014 Most Notable Awards

Pop Album of the Year

• Winner: Tegan and Sara, Heartthrob
• Hedley, Wild Life
• Michael Bublé, To Be Loved
• Robin Thicke, Blurred Lines
• Walk off the Earth, R.E.V.O.

International Album of the Year

• Winner: Bruno Mars, Unorthodox Jukebox
• Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP 2
• Imagine Dragons, Night Visions
• One Direction, Take Me Home
• Pink, The Truth About Love

Album of the Year

• Winner: Arcade Fire, Reflektor
• Celine Dion, Loved Me Back to Life
• Drake, Nothing Was the Same
• Michael Bublé, To Be Loved
• Serena Ryder, Harmony

Single of the Year

• Winner: Tegan and Sara, "Closer"
• Arcade Fire, "Reflektor"
• Classified ft. David Myles, "Inner Ninja"
• Michael Bublé, "It's a Beautiful Day"
• Serena Ryder, "What I Wouldn't Do"

Artist of the Year

• Winner: Serena Ryder
• Celine Dion
• Drake
• Michael Bublé
• Robin Thicke

Group of the Year

• Winner: Tegan and Sara
• Arcade Fire
• Blue Rodeo
• Hedley
• Walk off the Earth

Fan Choice Award

• Winner: Justin Bieber
• Arcade Fire
• Avril Lavigne
• Celine Dion
• Drake
• Hedley
• Michael Bublé
• Robin Thicke
• Serena Ryder
• Walk off the Earth

Juno Awards 2014

This year's Juno Awards took place in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The televised ceremony, hosted by Classified, Johnny Reid and Serena Ryder, was brodcast live March 30 from the MTS Centre on CTV.

This year, Tegan and Sara won 3 awards, Group of the Year, Pop Album of the Year for Heartthrob, and Single of the Year for "Closer". Serena Ryder managed to win 2 awards this time around: Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year. Arcade Fire won both Album of the Year and Alternative Album of the Year for Reflektor.

My 7 most notable awards list @ http://starcolumn.blogspot.ca/2014/04/juno-2014-most-notable-awards.html

Surprising award winners included:

• Bruno Mars' Unorthodox Jukebox for International Album of the Year, beating Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Imagine Dragons' Night Visions, One Direction's Take Me Home and Pink's The Truth About Love.
• Justin Bieber for Juno Fan Choice Award, beating Arcade Fire,Avril Lavigne, Celine Dion, Drake, Hedley, Michael Bublé, Robin Thicke, Serena Ryder, and Walk off the Earth.

The opening song for the show was a joint performance of Classified and Serena Ryder. Performers this year included:

• Gord Bamford
• Dean Brody
• Classified
• Brett Kissel
• Matt Mays
• Sarah McLachlan
• OneRepublic
• Serena Ryder
• The Sheepdogs
• Tegan and Sara
• Walk off the Earth

Special guests included:

• Chris Hadfield
• Chantal Kreviazuk
• Shelly Glover
• The Sochi 2014 Olympic gold medal women’s curling team
• Raine Maida
• Shad
• Jim Cuddy
• A Tribe Called Red
• July Talk
• Trevor Guthrie
• Sarah Mclachlan
• Small Town Pistols

56th Annual GRAMMY Awards

The 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards were held at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014 and was broadcast on CBS at 8 p.m. ET/PT.  LL Cool J hosted the show for the third time in a row. According to SocialGuide,  the statistics compiled by Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter showed that the combined social media interactions on this year's show reached a record-breaking 34 million, making it television's biggest social event of the 2013–2014 season.

For the list of the performances, see my post @ http://starcolumn.blogspot.ca/2014/01/56th-annual-grammy-awards-performances.html.

For a summary of 9/77 of the award winners, see my post @ http://starcolumn.blogspot.ca/2014/01/56th-annual-grammy-awards-winners.html.

For a full list of the award nominees and winners, see the list @ http://www.grammy.com/nominees.

C.Louie

56th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners

9/77 of this year's Grammy Award winners were:

Award	Presenters	Winner
Best New Artist	Anna Kendrick and Pharell Williams	Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance	Anna Farris and Juanes	Daft Punk: Get Lucky
Best Rock Song	Charlie Wilson and Kevin Hart	Pat Smear: Cut Me Some Slack
Best Pop Solo Performance	Ariana Grande and Miguel	Lorde: Royals
Best Pop Vocal Album	Gloria Estefan and Marc Anthony	Bruno Mars: Unorthodox Jukebox
Best Country Album	Martina McBride and Zac Brown	Kacey Musgraves: Same Trailer Different Park
Song of the Year	Carole King and Sara Bareilles	Lorde: Royals
Record of the Year	Steven Tyler and Smokey Robinson	Daft Punk: Get Lucky
Album of the Year	Alicia Keys, Yoko Ono, and Olivia Harrison	Daft Punk: Random Access Memories

Full list of nominees and winners @ http://www.grammy.com/nominees.

C.Louie

56th Annual GRAMMY Awards Performances

This year's Grammy performances in chronological order were:

1. Beyoncé and Jay Z: Drunk In Love
2. Lorde: Royals
3. Hunter Hayes: Invisible
4. Katy Perry:  Dark Horse
5. Robin Thicke: A medley of Chicago songs
6. Robin Thicke and Chicago: Blurred Lines
7. Keith Urban and Gary Clark, Jr.: Cop Car
8. John Legend: All Of Me
9. Taylor Swift: All Too Well
10. Pink: Try
11. Pink and Nate Ruess: Just Give Me A Reason
12. Ringo Starr: Photographs
13. Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons: A mash-up of Radioactive and M.A.A.D City
14. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr: Queenie Eye
15. Blake Shelton, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson
16. Daft Punk, Stevie Wonder, Nile Rodgers, and Pharrell Williams: Get Lucky
17. Carole King and Sara Bareilles: A mash-up of  Beautiful and Brave
18. Metallica and pianist Lang Lang: One
19. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, along with Mary Lambert: Same Love\
20. Madonna: Open Your Heart
21. Miranda Lambert and Billie Joe Armstrong in tribute to The Everly Brothers: When Will I Be Loved
22. Nine Inch Nails and Queens of the Stone Age joined by Dave Grohl and Lindsay Buckingham

C.Louie

The Most Influential Celebrities of 2014

Forbes recently released its list of the most influential celebrities of 2014. This list was based on data from E-Poll Market Research, ranking more than 6,600 celebrities on 46 personality traits based on their polling data of Americans. Both likeability and awareness metrics were factored in to break ties.

Surprisingly, most of the celebrities that made this list were directors.Steven Spielberg tops this years list with an Influential Rating of 47%, beating Oprah Winfrey, who dropped from an Influential Rating of 49% last year to 45% this year. Spielberg's success with Lincoln (winning 2/12 Oscar nominations and earning $275 million at the box office) and his amazing storytelling abilities helped make him the most influential celebrity in America.

George Lucas ends up third this year. Due to the production of Star Wars 7 and plans for 8 and 9, Lucas is still in the spotlight because of all the media and fanboy attention going to the world he created. Star Wars 7 is slated to hit theatres in 2015.

For this years top 10, visit:
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mfl45eiflf/methodology-8/

For an in depth guide to the top 5, visit:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2014/01/15/steven-spielberg-tops-our-list-of-the-most-influential-celebrities/

C.Louie

40th People's Choice Awards

The 40th People's Choice Awards were held on January 8, 2014 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California and was broadcast live on he CBS Television Network. This years show was hosted by by Beth Behrs and Kat Dennings of 2 Broke Girls.

Some surprising award winners and speeches were:

1. Justin Timberlake : Favourite album.
2. Robert Downey Jr.: After accepting the award favourite action movie actor, he went full Tony Stark on the crowd, asking the house to play some heroic music and put a spotlight on him. He then declared triumphantly, "I am Iron Man."
3. Ellen DeGeneres: Her 14th People's Choice Award, taking home favourite daytime TV host. In her speech, she said she recently met a single African-American woman who worked 80 hours a week to get by and looked forward to going home to watch DeGeneres' show every day. That women was Oprah Winfrey.
4. Stephen Colbert: Winner for favourite late night talk show host. In the video message he delivered, he  joked that he was unable to attend because he was performing at a party for a dictator.
5. Adam Sandler: Won for favourite comedic movie actor. He read a childlike fan letter, claiming at the end that it came from Drew Barrymore — who presented him with the award.
6. Chris Colfer: Won favourite comedic TV actor for the second year in a row. He said that he didn't deserve the honour more than others in the category. He also added that at one point or other, he'd been "paid to make out with" most of them .

For a complete list of nominees and winners, visit the link below.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peoples-choice-awards-complete-winners-669458

C. Louie