It looks like those naked Prince Harry photos have paid off for this single Brit. According to Town & Country magazine, this fine piece of royal backside is the Top Bachelor in the World. The list of 40 hunks is “a highly subjective, thoroughly opinionated survey of the princes, politicians, scions, DJs, and billionaires-to-be we consider the most eligible men in the universe,” says the publication, which has somehow ranked George Clooney at #33. And while that two-time Sexiest Man Alive would never speak out on his behalf, we’re asking readers to chime in below: Do you agree with the list? Which single stud would you rather take it from, Harry or George? And the Winner is? Prince Harry Click Here To Vote for Prince George Clooney Click Here To Vote for George Prince Harry or George Clooney? If you could only take one to bed, which would it be? View Poll »
Kate Middleton is a working mom-to-be, at least for the time being. Well, at least to the degree that British royal family members work. While she was initially hospitalized with morning sickness and confined to bed rest, she will not be giving up her public engagements for the time being. “The duchess, health permitting , will continue to undertake engagements in the near future,” a Palace rep said, adding that no timeframe has been set. Good to know Middleton mania won’t be taking half a year off. According to yesterday’s official Kate Middleton due date announcement, it’s sometime in July, meaning we have a solid five or six months of bump watch coming.
Game of Thrones star Wilko Johnson, 65, is preparing for his final battle. The British actor and musician has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. His manager confirmed to BBC News this week.”I am very sad to announce that Wilko has recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer of the pancreas.” “He has chosen not to receive any chemotherapy.” “He is currently in good spirits, is not yet suffering any physical effects and can expect to enjoy at least another few months of reasonable health and activity.” Wilko Johnson portrayed the character of Ilyn Payne, a mute executioner, on seasons one and two of the wildly popular HBO fantasy series. He also a member of British blues band Dr. Feelgood. ” Wilko wishes to offer his sincere thanks for all the support he has had over his long career, from those who have worked with him to, above all, his devoted fans and admirers.” “To those who have attended his live gigs, bought his recordings and generally made his life such an extraordinarily full and eventful experience, thank you,” his manager adds. Game of Thrones Season 3 premieres on March 31.
Les Misérables director Tom Hooper may have been bypassed with a nomination Wednesday by the British Film Academy for Best Director (though the film itself received nine nominations), but at the Palm Springs International Film Festival this week, he received the event’s Sonny Bono Visionary Award at a celeb-filled event that included Naomi Watts, Bradley Cooper, Helen Mirren, Sally Field and Ben Affleck. At the festival, Hooper talked about the creation of Les Misérables , why the story made him cry and the “dark box” Anne Hathaway traveled to as she took on the role of Fantine. [ Related: Tom Hooper Defends His ‘Les Misérables ‘ Close-Ups & Reveals Who’s The Bigger Musical Geek: Jackman or Hathaway ] Les Misérables became the quickest musical to top out over $100 million last weekend and it has factored heavily on the Awards Circuit this year. The Victor Hugo novel had been on Hooper’s mind even before The King’s Speech won Best Film and Best Director two years ago, saying he hoped the emotional impact he experienced with audiences on that film would translate in his next feature. “I was overwhelmed with how much emotion The King’s Speech was greeted with when I traveled with it around the world and I wanted to find material that would keep that emotion going and even take it further and Les Misérables is famous for creating that feel,” said Hooper. “And I thought it would be possible to make it a more intense emotional experience for the audience.” Hooper, who spoke with Deadlin.com’s Pete Hammond following a screening of the film at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, showed his lighter side before a full audience, saying that he had wept after first seeing Les Misérables after seeing the lead character, Jean Valjean (played in the on-screen version by Hugh Jackman) die. “I was weeping and I thought about why I was weeping,” said Hooper. “And it was because I thought about the day my own father will die. And then I thought about something my own father said to me, which was that he said as he gets older he wants to master ‘the art of dying well.’ Continuing he added, “I really thought about that and thought about that last act of grace. This film really does look death square in the face. For Jean Val Jean, it’s all about love…And he dies having done the ultimate obligation of finding love for her and in that moment we feel he has transcended death and that’s the ultimate message of the movie.” Hooper said he auditioned every actor in the film from “Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe on down” because he was committed to doing Les Misérables live. He praised Jackman’s ability to “communicate through song,” which Hooper said was magical. “The Hugh Jackman audition took place last May in New York and it was an extraordinary three hours,” said Hooper. “When Hugh sings, he’s so comfortable communicating through song that you don’t want to hear him speak. Hearing him sing was the best place to be… The other thing I noticed was that Hugh had an emotional side to himself that I had never seen before.” Hooper said he wanted Les Misérables sung live to allow his actors leeway to own their characters and their emotions, adding that the decision was important in portraying the feature’s characters. “Great acting is about being in control of the medium at the time. Because great acting is about you being the author or creator of the dialog or songs you were given to play and to sell that illusion you’re inventing and the joy of doing it live allows you create the moment of invention.” Hooper noted Anne Hathaway’s lauded performance in the seminal number, “I Dreamed A Dream” as an example of how the live performance gave Hathaway, in this case, flexibility. “In ‘I Dreamed A Dream,’ Annie sings and then there’s a long pause, and then says, ‘But it all went wrong.’ In that pause, she’s communicating everything that happened to her: How she’s been raped, how she had her hair cut and everything that’s gone wrong with her life. In musical terms that should have been a moment, but Annie takes ten seconds and earns that moment.” Hooper noted that Hathaway told him after performing the song that she had mentally traveled to a dark space, saying the actress said, “Tom I opened the lid of a box I lived inside and closed that lid and I hope I never go inside that box again.” [ Tom Hooper and actor Eddie Redmayne at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Photo by Brian Brooks ]
Lincoln , Les Misérables and Life of Pi lead the pack Wendesday among the 2013 British Academy Film Award nominations, with Spielberg’s pic on the 16th U.S. president receiving ten nominations including Best Film while Les Mis and Pi each received nine, also picking up Best Film noms. [ Related: Directors Guild Award Nominations: Was The Wrong Director Snubbed? ] Neither Les Miérables director Tom Hooper nor Spielberg landed in the Director category, however, though Pi ‘s Ang Lee made the category along with Quentin Tarantino , Michael Haneke for Amour , Ben Affleck for Argo and Kathryn Bigelow ( Zero Dark Thirty ). The U.K.’s Skyfall , meanwhile failed to receive Best Film or Director nominations by the group, though it did receive eight other nominations, including Outstanding British Film. EE British Academy Film Awards which will take place on Sunday 10 February at London’s Royal Opera House. 2013 Nominations follow: BEST FILM ARGO – Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney LES MISÉRABLES – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh LIFE OF PI – Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark LINCOLN – Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy ZERO DARK THIRTY – Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison DIRECTOR AMOUR – Michael Haneke ARGO – Ben Affleck DJANGO UNCHAINED – Quentin Tarantino LIFE OF PI – Ang Lee ZERO DARK THIRTY – Kathryn Bigelow LEADING ACTOR BEN AFFLECK – Argo BRADLEY COOPER – Silver Linings Playbook DANIEL DAY-LEWIS – Lincoln HUGH JACKMAN – Les Misérables JOAQUIN PHOENIX – The Master LEADING ACTRESS EMMANUELLE RIVA – Amour HELEN MIRREN – Hitchcock JENNIFER LAWRENCE – Silver Linings Playbook JESSICA CHASTAIN – Zero Dark Thirty MARION COTILLARD – Rust and Bone SUPPORTING ACTOR ALAN ARKIN – Argo CHRISTOPH WALTZ – Django Unchained JAVIER BARDEM – Skyfall PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN – The Master TOMMY LEE JONES – Lincoln SUPPORTING ACTRESS AMY ADAMS – The Master ANNE HATHAWAY – Les Misérables HELEN HUNT – The Sessions JUDI DENCH – Skyfall SALLY FIELD – Lincoln OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM ANNA KARENINA – Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL – John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Ol Parker LES MISÉRABLES – Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS – Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin SKYFALL – Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER BART LAYTON (Director), DIMITRI DOGANIS (Producer)- The Imposter DAVID MORRIS (Director), JACQUI MORRIS (Director/Producer) – McCullin DEXTER FLETCHER (Director/Writer), DANNY KING (Writer) – Wild Bill JAMES BOBIN (Director) – The Muppets TINA GHARAVI (Director/Writer) – I Am Nasrine DOCUMENTARY THE IMPOSTER – Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis MARLEY – Kevin Macdonald, Steve Bing, Charles Steel McCULLIN – David Morris, Jacqui Morris SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN – Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn WEST OF MEMPHIS – Amy Berg ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY AMOUR – Michael Haneke DJANGO UNCHAINED – Quentin Tarantino THE MASTER – Paul Thomas Anderson MOONRISE KINGDOM – Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola ZERO DARK THIRTY – Mark Boal ADAPTED SCREENPLAY ARGO – Chris Terrio BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD – Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin LIFE OF PI – David Magee LINCOLN – Tony Kushner SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK – David O. Russell FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AMOUR – Michael Haneke, Margaret Ménégoz HEADHUNTERS – Morten Tyldum, Marianne Gray, Asle Vatn THE HUNT – Thomas Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Morten Kaufmann RUST AND BONE – Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux UNTOUCHABLE – Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun ANIMATED FILM BRAVE – Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman FRANKENWEENIE – Tim Burton PARANORMAN – Sam Fell, Chris Butler ORIGINAL MUSIC ANNA KARENINA – Dario Marianelli ARGO – Alexandre Desplat LIFE OF PI – Mychael Danna LINCOLN – John Williams SKYFALL – Thomas Newman CINEMATOGRAPHY ANNA KARENINA – Seamus McGarvey LES MISÉRABLES – Danny Cohen LIFE OF PI – Claudio Miranda LINCOLN – Janusz Kaminski SKYFALL – Roger Deakins EDITING ARGO – William Goldenberg DJANGO UNCHAINED – Fred Raskin LIFE OF PI – Tim Squyres SKYFALL – Stuart Baird ZERO DARK THIRTY – Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg PRODUCTION DESIGN ANNA KARENINA – Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer LES MISÉRABLES – Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson LIFE OF PI – David Gropman, Anna Pinnock LINCOLN – Rick Carter, Jim Erickson SKYFALL – Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock COSTUME DESIGN ANNA KARENINA – Jacqueline Durran GREAT EXPECTATIONS – Beatrix Aruna Pasztor LES MISÉRABLES – Paco Delgado LINCOLN – Joanna Johnston SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN – Colleen Atwood SOUND DJANGO UNCHAINED – Mark Ulano, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Wylie Stateman THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY – Tony Johnson, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Brent Burge, Chris Ward LES MISÉRABLES – Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole, John Warhurst LIFE OF PI – Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton, Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill SKYFALL – Stuart Wilson, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS THE DARK KNIGHT RISES – Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Peter Bebb, Andrew Lockley THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White LIFE OF PI – Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer MARVEL AVENGERS ASSEMBLE – Nominees TBC PROMETHEUS – Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Trevor Wood, Paul Butterworth MAKE UP & HAIR ANNA KARENINA – Ivana Primorac HITCHCOCK – Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY – Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater LES MISÉRABLES – Lisa Westcott LINCOLN – Lois Burwell, Kay Georgiou SHORT ANIMATION HERE TO FALL – Kris Kelly, Evelyn McGrath I’M FINE THANKS – Eamonn O’Neill THE MAKING OF LONGBIRD – Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson SHORT FILM THE CURSE – Fyzal Boulifa, Gavin Humphries GOOD NIGHT – Muriel d’Ansembourg, Eva Sigurdardottir SWIMMER – Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton, Diarmid Scrimshaw TUMULT – Johnny Barrington, Rhianna Andrews THE VOORMAN PROBLEM – Mark Gill, Baldwin Li EE RISING STAR AWARD Elizabeth Olsen Andrea Riseborough Suraj Sharma Juno Temple Alicia Vikander
Lincoln , Les Misérables and Life of Pi lead the pack Wendesday among the 2013 British Academy Film Award nominations, with Spielberg’s pic on the 16th U.S. president receiving ten nominations including Best Film while Les Mis and Pi each received nine, also picking up Best Film noms. [ Related: Directors Guild Award Nominations: Was The Wrong Director Snubbed? ] Neither Les Miérables director Tom Hooper nor Spielberg landed in the Director category, however, though Pi ‘s Ang Lee made the category along with Quentin Tarantino , Michael Haneke for Amour , Ben Affleck for Argo and Kathryn Bigelow ( Zero Dark Thirty ). The U.K.’s Skyfall , meanwhile failed to receive Best Film or Director nominations by the group, though it did receive eight other nominations, including Outstanding British Film. EE British Academy Film Awards which will take place on Sunday 10 February at London’s Royal Opera House. 2013 Nominations follow: BEST FILM ARGO – Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney LES MISÉRABLES – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh LIFE OF PI – Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark LINCOLN – Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy ZERO DARK THIRTY – Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison DIRECTOR AMOUR – Michael Haneke ARGO – Ben Affleck DJANGO UNCHAINED – Quentin Tarantino LIFE OF PI – Ang Lee ZERO DARK THIRTY – Kathryn Bigelow LEADING ACTOR BEN AFFLECK – Argo BRADLEY COOPER – Silver Linings Playbook DANIEL DAY-LEWIS – Lincoln HUGH JACKMAN – Les Misérables JOAQUIN PHOENIX – The Master LEADING ACTRESS EMMANUELLE RIVA – Amour HELEN MIRREN – Hitchcock JENNIFER LAWRENCE – Silver Linings Playbook JESSICA CHASTAIN – Zero Dark Thirty MARION COTILLARD – Rust and Bone SUPPORTING ACTOR ALAN ARKIN – Argo CHRISTOPH WALTZ – Django Unchained JAVIER BARDEM – Skyfall PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN – The Master TOMMY LEE JONES – Lincoln SUPPORTING ACTRESS AMY ADAMS – The Master ANNE HATHAWAY – Les Misérables HELEN HUNT – The Sessions JUDI DENCH – Skyfall SALLY FIELD – Lincoln OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM ANNA KARENINA – Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL – John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Ol Parker LES MISÉRABLES – Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS – Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin SKYFALL – Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER BART LAYTON (Director), DIMITRI DOGANIS (Producer)- The Imposter DAVID MORRIS (Director), JACQUI MORRIS (Director/Producer) – McCullin DEXTER FLETCHER (Director/Writer), DANNY KING (Writer) – Wild Bill JAMES BOBIN (Director) – The Muppets TINA GHARAVI (Director/Writer) – I Am Nasrine DOCUMENTARY THE IMPOSTER – Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis MARLEY – Kevin Macdonald, Steve Bing, Charles Steel McCULLIN – David Morris, Jacqui Morris SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN – Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn WEST OF MEMPHIS – Amy Berg ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY AMOUR – Michael Haneke DJANGO UNCHAINED – Quentin Tarantino THE MASTER – Paul Thomas Anderson MOONRISE KINGDOM – Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola ZERO DARK THIRTY – Mark Boal ADAPTED SCREENPLAY ARGO – Chris Terrio BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD – Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin LIFE OF PI – David Magee LINCOLN – Tony Kushner SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK – David O. Russell FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AMOUR – Michael Haneke, Margaret Ménégoz HEADHUNTERS – Morten Tyldum, Marianne Gray, Asle Vatn THE HUNT – Thomas Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Morten Kaufmann RUST AND BONE – Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux UNTOUCHABLE – Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun ANIMATED FILM BRAVE – Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman FRANKENWEENIE – Tim Burton PARANORMAN – Sam Fell, Chris Butler ORIGINAL MUSIC ANNA KARENINA – Dario Marianelli ARGO – Alexandre Desplat LIFE OF PI – Mychael Danna LINCOLN – John Williams SKYFALL – Thomas Newman CINEMATOGRAPHY ANNA KARENINA – Seamus McGarvey LES MISÉRABLES – Danny Cohen LIFE OF PI – Claudio Miranda LINCOLN – Janusz Kaminski SKYFALL – Roger Deakins EDITING ARGO – William Goldenberg DJANGO UNCHAINED – Fred Raskin LIFE OF PI – Tim Squyres SKYFALL – Stuart Baird ZERO DARK THIRTY – Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg PRODUCTION DESIGN ANNA KARENINA – Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer LES MISÉRABLES – Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson LIFE OF PI – David Gropman, Anna Pinnock LINCOLN – Rick Carter, Jim Erickson SKYFALL – Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock COSTUME DESIGN ANNA KARENINA – Jacqueline Durran GREAT EXPECTATIONS – Beatrix Aruna Pasztor LES MISÉRABLES – Paco Delgado LINCOLN – Joanna Johnston SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN – Colleen Atwood SOUND DJANGO UNCHAINED – Mark Ulano, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Wylie Stateman THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY – Tony Johnson, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Brent Burge, Chris Ward LES MISÉRABLES – Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole, John Warhurst LIFE OF PI – Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton, Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill SKYFALL – Stuart Wilson, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS THE DARK KNIGHT RISES – Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Peter Bebb, Andrew Lockley THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White LIFE OF PI – Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer MARVEL AVENGERS ASSEMBLE – Nominees TBC PROMETHEUS – Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Trevor Wood, Paul Butterworth MAKE UP & HAIR ANNA KARENINA – Ivana Primorac HITCHCOCK – Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY – Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater LES MISÉRABLES – Lisa Westcott LINCOLN – Lois Burwell, Kay Georgiou SHORT ANIMATION HERE TO FALL – Kris Kelly, Evelyn McGrath I’M FINE THANKS – Eamonn O’Neill THE MAKING OF LONGBIRD – Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson SHORT FILM THE CURSE – Fyzal Boulifa, Gavin Humphries GOOD NIGHT – Muriel d’Ansembourg, Eva Sigurdardottir SWIMMER – Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton, Diarmid Scrimshaw TUMULT – Johnny Barrington, Rhianna Andrews THE VOORMAN PROBLEM – Mark Gill, Baldwin Li EE RISING STAR AWARD Elizabeth Olsen Andrea Riseborough Suraj Sharma Juno Temple Alicia Vikander
According to recent reports, the Taylor Swift and Harry Styles break up was based on an argument between the couple while their vacationed in Virgin Gorda. And now we may know more about the basis for that fight. Styles was spotted over the weekend partying on Richard Branson’s Necker Island, seemingly at ease with a group that includes British Internet entrepreneur and reality-TV star Hermione Way . Courtesy of a friend’s Facebook post from the event, she’s pictured with Harry and company in a red bikini here: Sources tell E! News that Way flirted with Styles , but nothing came of their interaction. Still, Way Tweeted a link to a Daily Mail story about Harry’s split with Taylor along with the caption “Oh Dear…” She’s not exactly distancing herself from the situation. “Everyone on the island was wondering what exactly had gone wrong but he did not say at all,” the source says. “He did not tell anyone they were necessarily over, just that there had been some unrest and that something had gone wrong. He wasn’t specific and no one pressed him for more.” At least one mole, however, confirms that Styles and Swift are “100” percent finished.
British singer opens up to MTV News about his fave artist as his debut album, Contrast, drops in the States. By Jocelyn Vena Conor Maynard Photo: MTV News
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