Ben Beaumont-Thomas
Ben Beaumont-Thomas is Assistant Commissioning Editor for the Guardian's culture section.
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La La Land trumped and seven records smashed: five Oscars surprisesWas there a bigger star in attendance than Gary from Chicago? What must Donald Trump have made of it all? Here is what we learned from this year’s Academy Awards – aside from the need for more clearly labelled envelopes
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The best quotes from the 2017 OscarsFrom Viola Davis’s lyrical paean to art, to the barbs Jimmy Kimmel aimed at Trump, here are the highlights from the acceptance speeches and award presentationsrs
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Robbie Williams, Skepta, the 1975 and more – every Brits 2017 performance reviewedWho rocked the house, and who made a mess of the carpet? Here’s the verdict on every Brits performance
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The George Michael tribute, the 1975, Ed Sheeran and more – the 2017 Brits awards as they happenedLittle Mix and Skepta stole the show and Chris Martin did his best George Michael, but not a single grime artist took an award … we followed the winners and losers at this year’s Brit awards
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Ata Kandó's best photograph: a Gypsy family fleeing execution by the Russian army‘They had escaped, but lost their country. He played a Hungarian song on his violin’
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From DJ Scotch Egg to Ross From Friends, it pays to have a stupid DJ nameA wacky moniker can help artists draw attention to themselves. But if you want to get past playing uni club nights, you’d better have the skills to back it up
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‘As long as there are hairbrushes, people will sing’ – the best of 2016’s webchatsJon Bon Jovi’s key change killer, Gemma Arterton’s weep-off with Glenn Close, the weirdest thing that ever happened to Harry Shearer … here are the highlights of 2016’s culture webchats
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Remembering Bowie, digging the Dancing Queen and more – our favourite features of 2016Our music writers pick a selection of the best features we published during the past year – from mourning a great to celebrating the new
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'Is it a reindeer crash?' Photographers on their best winter shotsA lone Santa Claus, a dog carrying vodka, a peculiar pocket of east Washington and the flow of a river – Matt Stuart, Pentti Sammallahti, Todd Hido and Susan Derges explain the stories behind their favourite photographs
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How we made SpongeBob SquarePants‘We sucked on a tank of helium to do the voices of the ravenous anchovies’
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Bleddyn Butcher's best photograph: Nick Cave in Berlin‘I wanted to show that Nick Cave was more than just a tough guy in tight pants with incredible hair’
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'It's got balls and it can bite': the woman blowing recorder prejudice awayShe is revolutionising the classroom scourge – blasting raw experimental music through it, sometimes playing two at once. Meet recorder powerhouse Laura Cannell
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What does the US election mean for America? Catch up on our discussionWhat a week it’s been! Recap on our live look at the top news and comment below the line, with input from our journalists
How we made How we made cult cartoon Mr Benn