An Award Season Special!

The BARFTAs – It’s been a vintage year for terrible films but, thankfully, not all of them will be going home empty-handed. Now those phoned-in performances and scripts written on the back of fag packets can finally be recognised for the cultural lowlights they really were. In this issue, we present this year’s BARFTAs.

The Oscars – It’s the biggest award of all of awards season; the most highly-coveted artistic achievement in the world of movie-making. But just who is going to walk away with the Academy Award for Best Picture? We have no idea, but we can try to figure it out using our massively unscientific but data-driven approach. [Read As A Preview]

The BRITS – It’s hard to take the BRIT Award for Best British Album seriously – especially after The Darkness’s Permission To Land won it in 2004 – but we made a pledge here at Popbitch to stick by pop music through thick and thin. So we decided to take it seriously. Very seriously indeed.

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Role Play – For his latest project, Act, visual artist Joe Simpson is giving British actors the chance to play the part they’ve always wanted to, but never had the chance – whether it’s recreating a movie scene they love, being cast in a play they’ve never been in, or adapting a book that’s never been optioned. In this gallery we see Paddy Considine, Warwick Davis, Michael Sheen and others as we’ve never seen them before [Read As A Preview]

The Secret Diary Of Harvey Weinstein – It’s awards season and the competition to see whose fuckin film’s gonna fuckin win has never been hotter. We got a sneak peek inside Harvey Fuckin Weinstein’s secret fuckin diary. Now, where did he put those statins…?

Sales Of The Century – We’re told time and time again about the death of the album, but is it really true? As the album charts attempt to modernise and start to include streaming data in the compilation of their end-of-week figures, James Masterton talks us through what this might mean for the album as we know it.

…and much, much more.