GQ Males Of The Yr Awards 2021 winners: from Ed Sheeran to Anthony Hopkins

As one other tumultuous yr attracts nearer to its finish, we glance to rejoice the women and men who’ve enriched (and, in some circumstances, saved) our lives over the previous 12 months. These are 2021's winners, together with Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine heroes Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert and Dr Catherine Inexperienced, Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins, first-time novelist Quentin Tarantino and plenty of, many extra. 

Heroes: Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, Dr Catherine Inexperienced and the workforce behind the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine

In an educational lab in Oxford in early 2020, Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert and Dr Catherine Inexperienced set about to develop a life-saving vaccine to Covid-19. By November, they’d pulled it off, asserting to the world that they’d developed a components that was 94 per cent efficient at preventing towards the virus (a minimum of the then-dominant Alpha pressure). For providing hope to each nook of the globe and saving numerous lives within the course of, they decide up the award for GQ's Heroes Of The Yr.

Standout Efficiency: Regé-Jean Web page

you're having a very good yr when, at 31, you're warding off Bond questions from journalists at each flip. With the downright stonking Shonda Rhimes' steamy interval drama Bridgerton – it’s Netflix's most-watched collection ever, with 63 million individuals viewing it in its first month alone – Regé-Jean Web page skipped a number of ranges within the appearing sport to grow to be one of many hottest younger stars of his technology. For setting pulses racing throughout the nation, we commend him for his standout efficiency. “Of all of the belongings you’ll examine your self on the web, it’s one of many extra nice and extra flattering,” Web page says of the Bond rumours. “However I take it and go away it at that, personally.”

Solo Artist: Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran has carried out all of it and, but, he retains ascending to new heights. This yr, the bestselling artist behind historical past’s highest-grossing tour releases =, the shock fourth report in his well-known five-part plan. We rejoice the achievements of a younger British legend, our Solo Artist Of The Yr. 

Legend: Sir Anthony Hopkins

Sir Anthony Hopkins didn't want a second Oscar – picked up in February on the age of 83 – to solidify his standing as one of many biggest display screen presences of the previous century, nevertheless it didn't harm. For a lifetime price of basic performances and, extra not too long ago, a slew of extremely entertaining video posts on Twitter, Anthony Hopkins is GQ's Legend Of The Yr 2021. “It’s arduous to consider at 83,” he says. “Getting these awards is a state of fixed shock at my age, however what enjoyable.”

Tv Actor: Adrian Dunbar

Mom of God! Scorching off the again of Line Of Obligation's record-breaking sixth collection, which solidified its place because the most-watched drama on terrestrial TV this century, Adrian Dunbar scoops the GQ award for TV Actor Of The Yr. “That is, for me, in my profession, the defining second,” he informed GQ. “And it’s fairly good.”

Author: Quentin Tarantino

There was a lot dialogue about what Quentin Tarantino will do when he finishes his tenth and closing movie (he has remained adamant that he’ll retire at that landmark), but when his debut novel, As soon as Upon A Time In… Hollywood (an adaptation of his movie of the identical identify) is something to go by, he'll be simply tremendous. “After I wrote the ebook I noticed Brad Pitt doing every part,” he says. “I noticed Leonardo DiCaprio doing every part.” The result’s a critically acclaimed triumph, making him a no brainer for GQ's Author Of The Yr.

Peroni Nastro Azzurro Breakthrough Designer: Harris Reed

Harris Reed is the celebrity British-American designer finest identified for dressing Harry Types and pushing menswear in a radical new course. GQ celebrates the flamboyant and free-spirited thoughts behind his gender-fluid, eponymous label with the Peroni Nastro Azzurro Breakthrough Designer Of The Yr award. “I began designing menswear for myself and that’s when it clicked,” Reed says. “When conventional masculine kinds – the swimsuit, the trousers – are pushed and explored, it’s fabulous!”

Deezer Breakthrough Music Artist: Arlo Parks

With fluidity, complexity, kindness and self-acceptance on the coronary heart of this Brit Award winner’s affecting, genre-melding indie pop, behold a resonant voice worthy of the excitement. Simply don't name our Deezer Breakthrough Music Artist Of The Yr a voice of a technology. “I perceive that I’m part of that technology and quite a lot of the issues that I discuss could be associated to by people who find themselves round my age,” Parks says. “However I feel pulling again and being conscious of the truth that, like, OK, I’m only a one who has lived a really particular set of issues is essential. Hopefully I present illustration, however I’m not a figurehead…”

Designer: Brunello Cucinelli

Brunello Cucinelli has come out the opposite aspect of the pandemic in tremendous type (and with a web price of at least £1.7 billion). What's extra, the designer made not one in all his 2,000 world workforce members redundant and his firm boasted an nearly 60 per cent enhance in revenues within the first half of 2021. And GQ's Designer Of The Yr preaches kindness in his office. “On this firm, when you offend somebody you might be fired on the spot,” he says.

Sport Changer: Dame Vivienne Westwood

Having handed over the reins of her style empire to her husband, 80-year-old Dame Vivienne Westwood has turned her consideration to tackling local weather change with a brand new manifesto. For her endeavours to save lots of our ailing planet, Westwood takes dwelling the Sport Changer Of The Yr award. “The one manner we are able to survive shouldn’t be to return to regular, to not purchase bombs but in addition to not purchase electrical automobiles,” Westwood says. “Preserve your personal automotive and, if doable, don’t use it. If it’s a must to use it and it breaks down, then you definately purchase an electrical automotive, when you completely should.”

Excellent Contribution: Bobby Gillespie

This October, the Primal Scream frontman releases his long-awaited memoir, Tenement Child, charting his life as much as and together with the recording and launch of the album many credit score with “beginning the Nineties”, Screamadelica. From his rocking 1991 album that formed the last decade’s get together scene to a hip, contemplative collab report and memoir 20 years on, we salute the recipient of our Excellent Contribution Of The Yr award, whose contributions to different music, politics and states of consciousness have already entered legend.

Inspiration: Gareth Southgate

Gareth Southgate confronted a mammoth activity when he signed on to grow to be the England supervisor in 2016. To deliver pleasure and hope again right into a nationwide aspect affected by years of underachievement would take one thing particular. However with a brand new class of shiny younger stars of the footballing world, Southgate managed to steer England to their first closing since 1966. However, greater than that, all through the Euros he backed his squad in taking a stand by taking a knee and consoled them, as maybe solely he may, after they fell simply wanting glory. For giving power not simply to his workforce, nor even simply his nation, however to everybody watching, Gareth Southgate is GQ’s Inspiration Of The Yr.

Maddox Gallery Artist: Beeple

Likelihood is, the primary time you heard the now ubiquitous acronym NFT this yr it was adopted intently by one other uncommon phrase: Beeple. The auction-smashing digital visionary – also referred to as 40-year-old South Carolina resident Mike Winkelmann – bought an NFT at Christie's in March for $69 million, altering the best way artwork is made and bought perpetually within the course of. He’s our Maddox Gallery Artist Of The Yr.

Boss Breakthrough Actor: Kingsley Ben-Adir

For scene-stealing portrayals as not one, however two icons of American historical past – Malcolm X and Barack Obama – we gild the head-turning yr of a British star on the rise. And issues are removed from slowing down for the younger actor. “The state of affairs I’m in now and the roles which are coming in and the scripts that I’m studying?” Ben-Adir says, “I really feel like there’s a minimum of ten years’ price of enjoyable available.”

Boss Main Man: Paul Bettany

After a horrible assembly with a producer in 2013, Paul Bettany thought his profession was over. Then Marvel known as and he gladly answered. Quick-forward eight years, the 50-year-old is up for his first Emmy for enjoying the purple synthezoid Imaginative and prescient within the MCU's first TV entry, WandaVision. However earlier than that, he'll take dwelling GQ's Boss Main Man Of The Yr award.

Band: Wolf Alice

Wolf Alice's third album, Blue Weekend, was launched in June to a bombardment of five-star evaluations and lavish reward for the best way it deftly intertwined its intimate lyrics with a widescreen indie-rock sound. It turned the band’s first No1 album within the UK and earned them a 3rd Mercury Prize nomination, all of which made crowning them as GQ’s Band Of The Yr a considerably straightforward activity. 

Icon: Sacha Baron Cohen

Who knew that what 2020 wanted was one other Borat film? Sacha Baron Cohen's movie, which as soon as once more probed the darkish coronary heart of America's Republican states, arrived like a storm in October, mere weeks earlier than the presidential election that ousted Donald Trump (one in all Cohen's main targets) from workplace. Oh, and he acquired his first Oscar nomination for starring in Aaron Sorkin's Trial Of The Chicago 7 too. “Chicago 7 and Borat share a message,” he says. “The significance of reality and the hazard of lies”. Cohen is our Icon Of The Yr 2021.

Jaguar Excellent Achievement: Crew GB & ParalympicsGB

There is no such thing as a overstating the problem athletes confronted on the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo this summer time. With a lethal virus rampaging globally, they cordoned off within the Olympic village, separate from each other and a whole lot of miles away from their households, to compete in spectator-less stadiums. When all was stated and carried out, it was not the distinctive medal haul that made an affect at dwelling, however the athletes’ collective braveness to compete. 

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