Following is a list of the main categories:
Best British Band
- Arctic Monkeys
- Babyshambles
- The Cribs
- Klaxons
- Muse
Best International Band
- Arcade Fire
- Foo Fighters
- The Killers
- Kings of Leon
- My Chemical Romance
Best New Band
- The Enemy
- Foals
- Joe Lean and The Jing Jang Jong
- The Pigeon Detectives
- The Wombats
Best Live Band
- Arctic Monkeys
- The Cribs
- Kaiser Chiefs
- Muse
- My Chemical Romance
Best Solo Artist
- Kate Nash
- Jack Penate
- Jamie T
- Amy Winehouse
- Patrick Wolf
Best Album
- Favourite Worst Nightmare, Arctic Monkeys
- Shotters Nation, Babyshambles
- We'll Live and Die in These Towns, The Enemy
- Myths of the Near Future, Klaxons
- In Rainbows, Radiohead
Best Track
- Fluorescent Adolescent, Arctic Monkeys
- Flux, Bloc Party
- Men's Needs, The Cribs
- Lord Don't Slow Me Down, Oasis
- Let's Dance to Joy Division, The Wombats
Best Video
- Teddy Picker, Arctic Monkeys
- Flux, Bloc Party
- D.A.N.C.E., Justice
- Golden Skans, Klaxons
- Teenagers, My Chemical Romance
Villain of the Year
- Tony Blair
- Johnny Borrell
- Gordon Brown
- George W. Bush
- Amy Winehouse
Worst Album
1973, James Blunt
The Trick to Life, The Hoosiers
Spirit, Leona Lewis
Life in Cartoon Motion, Mika
Blackout, Britney Spears
Nine Taiwanese nervously stand on an observation platform at Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport. It’s 9:20am on March 27, 1968, and they are awaiting the arrival of Liu Wen-ching (柳文卿), who is about to be deported back to Taiwan where he faces possible execution for his independence activities. As he is removed from a minibus, a tenth activist, Dai Tian-chao (戴天昭), jumps out of his hiding place and attacks the immigration officials — the nine other activists in tow — while urging Liu to make a run for it. But he’s pinned to the ground. Amid the commotion, Liu tries to
A dozen excited 10-year-olds are bouncing in their chairs. The small classroom’s walls are lined with racks of wetsuits and water equipment, and decorated with posters of turtles. But the students’ eyes are trained on their teacher, Tseng Ching-ming, describing the currents and sea conditions at nearby Banana Bay, where they’ll soon be going. “Today you have one mission: to take off your equipment and float in the water,” he says. Some of the kids grin, nervously. They don’t know it, but the students from Kenting-Eluan elementary school on Taiwan’s southernmost point, are rare among their peers and predecessors. Despite most of
A pig’s head sits atop a shelf, tufts of blonde hair sprouting from its taut scalp. Opposite, its chalky, wrinkled heart glows red in a bubbling vat of liquid, locks of thick dark hair and teeth scattered below. A giant screen shows the pig draped in a hospital gown. Is it dead? A surgeon inserts human teeth implants, then hair implants — beautifying the horrifyingly human-like animal. Chang Chen-shen (張辰申) calls Incarnation Project: Deviation Lovers “a satirical self-criticism, a critique on the fact that throughout our lives we’ve been instilled with ideas and things that don’t belong to us.” Chang
Feb. 10 to Feb. 16 More than three decades after penning the iconic High Green Mountains (高山青), a frail Teng Yu-ping (鄧禹平) finally visited the verdant peaks and blue streams of Alishan described in the lyrics. Often mistaken as an indigenous folk song, it was actually created in 1949 by Chinese filmmakers while shooting a scene for the movie Happenings in Alishan (阿里山風雲) in Taipei’s Beitou District (北投), recounts director Chang Ying (張英) in the 1999 book, Chang Ying’s Contributions to Taiwanese Cinema and Theater (打鑼三響包得行: 張英對台灣影劇的貢獻). The team was meant to return to China after filming, but