Hit songs are increasingly "broken" through video clips, viewed in their millions on YouTube and Vevo, a shift the Brits acknowledged with a revived Best Video award, voted for via social media during the show.
Mr. Bloomberg has revived arts awards that were rarely given after Mayor Edward I. Koch left office, and he makes a point of attending the presentation ceremonies for them.
Danny Boyle's film, which was well reviewed and could yet be revived by awards season success, now has just $14.5m from its first two weeks against a production budget of $30m alone.
Swift also pulled down a nod for top female artist, and Smith for the male equivalent for the magazine's revived annual awards show.
Igor Kholmanskikh, a rough-hewed, working-class former tank factory foreman who started a pro-Putin movement in the Ural Mountain industrial area, first proposed reviving the award in August.
The decision to restore the Latin jazz category, he said, came after several academy members from the Latin jazz world made a strong case at this year's meeting for reviving the award.
"One may regret this kind of press reporting but it could be revived if an award to Mr Smith were made," he added.
At the BAC in Battersea (to 9 April), Kneehigh revive their award-winning, early hit The Red Shoes.
He doubled the number of postdocs HHMI funds, revived graduate student awards with an emphasis on foreign students, and refocused HHMI's international programs on younger U.S.-trained scientists.
He doubled the number of postdocs HHMI funds, revived graduate student awards with an emphasis on foreign students, and refocused HHMI's international programs on younger U.S.-trained scientists," Jocelyn Kaiser wrote last Friday at ScienceInsider.
