We find Shigeru Ban, the Pritzker prize-winning darling of disaster design, with his cardboard tube structures and recent timber-frame and brick-infill house prototype in Nepal, built following the 2015 earthquake.
That will be left until after the votes are cast.So who won? Mr Darling is too familiar a figure now to extract much benefit from this kind of event, but he showed once again that he is a safe pair of hands.
At the moment, Mr Darling can win easy applause, as Mrs Thatcher used to, for comforting soundbites about "putting children first" and for sounding tough on fathers who dodge their maintenance.
Outstanding Ensemble Cast of Male, Female, and Transgender Actors and Actresses went to a bunch of Madmen, probably driven crazy by all the SAG gender confusion, although its always nice to see darling Bobby Morse win something.
(That indie darling won eight Oscars, including that for best picture, in 2009).
The game they produced, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, was released in late 2010 and instantly repositioned the series as a critical darling, winning awards, including a Bafta, and becoming the best-reviewed game in the franchise.
(Mr Darling won the coin toss and elected to go first).
The same night, London defeated Darling, winning the title.
Instead she was freed to approach jazz on her own terms, contributing a fresh voice of eclectic tastes and quickly rising to the top--becoming the international jazz darling, winning critics poll awards left and right with her embrace of tradition as well as her burgeoning compositional prowess.
"There's no reason why he shouldn't win the Gold Glove this year," Darling said.
