The big-time biopics, the triumphant albums (and killer comebacks), the nerds who ruled the world, the painfully (no, really, painfully) honest memoirs, the hardest-working actors in show business, the apocalyptic plot twists, and all the other entertaining, unforgettable moments that made 2014 THE YEAR THAT

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celebrity kids became bona !ide stars They might have grown up in homes decorated with Oscars and Emmys, but these up-and-comers have enough talent to make us forget who their parents are.

ALLISON WILLIAMS AGE: 26 DAUGHTER OF: Brian Williams MADE HER OWN NAME: Playing hot mess Marnie Michaels on HBO’s Girls and donning green spandex to become the boy who never grew up in NBC’s Peter Pan Live! SCOTT EASTWOOD AGE: 28 SON OF: Clint Eastwood MADE HIS OWN NAME: Starring opposite Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf as Ser- geant Miles in David Ayer’s World War II drama, Fury. MARGARET QUALLEY AGE: 20 DAUGHTER OF: Andie MacDowell MADE HER OWN NAME: As Jill Garvey, Justin Theroux’s perfectly disaffected teen daughter on HBO’s The Leftovers. COLIN HANKS AGE: 37 SON OF: Tom Hanks MADE HIS OWN NAME: Earning a supporting actor Emmy nod for his role as hapless police deputy Gus Grimly in FX’s Fargo. DYLAN PENN AGE: 23 DAUGHTER OF: and MADE HER OWN NAME: Signing a deal with Premier Model Management, the agency that helped turn GIRLS AND Cindy, Naomi, and Claudia PETER PAN LIVE! STAR ALLISON into supermodels. WILLIAMS

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“WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC QUIET FOR: NERDS WERE WITTY, 3 years BACK WITH: Mandatory PRETTY, POPULAR! artists made killer comebacks Fun, a brand- Whether band members hugged it out or soloists reemerged after a little new crop of These days the higher your IQ, the more parodies that soul-searching, we were more than ready to download these albums. debuted at No. 1. likely you are to dominate pop culture.

THE PUNK CODER THE NOT!SO!NUTTY INTERPOL G!UNIT JENNY BETTE Between her Bad Brains sing- PROFESSOR QUIET FOR: QUIET FOR: LEWIS MIDLER alongs and her big-brain code- In her book The Secret History of 4 years 6 years QUIET FOR: QUIET FOR: cracking on AMC’s Halt and Catch Wonder Woman, Harvard historian BACK WITH: BACK WITH: 6 years 8 years Fire, MACKENZIE DAVIS proves that JILL LEPORE connects the beloved El Pintor, The Beauty BACK WITH: BACK WITH: recorded at of Indepen- The Voyager, It’s the Girls!, ′80s computer hackers weren’t all superhero to the women’s rights Jimi Hendrix’s dence, a a captivating her renditions dudes with neckbeards. movement, endearing herself to Electric Lady surprise collection of girl-group THE SEXY SPACEMAN comics fanatics and feminist schol- Studios in six-track of nostalgic hits from the ars everywhere. New York City. digital release. narrative songs. ’30s to the ’90s. The universe holds billions of stars but barely contains the charm of THE ACADEMIC MACKENZIE Fox’s Cosmos host NEIL DEGRASSE NEWS ANCHOR DAVIS PLAYS MSNBC’s popular left-leaning host DAMIEN NICKEL FEISTY TYSON—the only astrophysicist PRINCE RICE CREEK HACKER who makes a lecture about the MELISSA HARRIS!PERRY not only CAMERON QUIET FOR: QUIET FOR: QUIET FOR: Pleiades seem like pillow talk. posts an online syllabus for every 5 years HOWE ON 8 years 9 years HALT AND single lesson-packed episode of BACK WITH: THE TV TRUTH SEEKER BACK WITH: BACK WITH: CATCH FIRE. her show, she also encourages Art Of!icial Age, Literary fantasy fan NIC PIZZOLATTO My Favourite A Dotted thoughtful discussion via Twitter a solo album was in!luenced by cult horror writer Faded Fantasy, Line—eight using #nerdland. that includes produced new acoustic H. P. Lovecraft, Hieronymus Bosch, everything from with industry bluegrass tunes and medieval plague masks when new-wave funk giant Rick Rubin. and two covers. to slow jams. creating HBO’s True Detective. As NERDIVERSARIES GQ put it, you might have had a nerdgasm while watching and not APHEX TWIN PINK FLOYD even known it. QUIET FOR: QUIET FOR: 13 years 20 years THE DYNAMIC DORK DUO BACK WITH: BACK WITH: Dartmouth-grad directors PHIL Syro, 12 richly The Endless LORD and CHRIS MILLER used dorky layered elec- River, featur- inside jokes and what GQ calls “ADD tronic tracks ing Stephen recorded Hawking’s antics” to turn a cheesy TV-show over the past voice and adaptation (22 Jump Street) and a few years. other surprises. cartoon about a kid’s toy (The Lego Movie) into big-screen hits. THE GALLIC GENIUS This was a banner year for Economist THOMAS PIKETTY de- our dweeby forefathers. BANDS THAT WILL NEVER "EVER# REUNITE serves serious props. It’s one thing We’d like to wish the role- to come up with a dense economic No matter how much we want them to. playing game DUNGEONS theory on wealth redistribution. But & DRAGONS a happy 40th it’s quite another to turn it into a birthday, but someone GUNS N’ ROSES The Axl–Slash cold war won’t be patched up 700-page best-seller wonkily titled stole our twelve-sided dice “in this lifetime,” Rose has said. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. THE FUGEES Said Pras: “You will have a better chance of seeing and shoved us in a locker. THE MENSA SUPERHEROES Osama bin Laden and [George W.] Bush in Starbucks having a latte.” The original Geek Wish- In CBS’s drama SCORPION, a Ful!illment Fantasy, REVENGE THE WHITE STRIPES Only if, said Jack White, “we went bankrupt brilliant eccentric assembles or really needed the cash.” a whole team of off-the-charts OF THE NERDS, has been THE SMITHS Said Morrissey: “I would rather eat my own testicles than intellectual heavyweights. The inspiring bullied brainiacs re-form the Smiths, and that’s saying something for a vegetarian.” result? Nerd-dom’s answer to not to get mad but to get —GQ The Avengers—saving the world even for 30 years. Steven one keystroke at a time. Spielberg’s tale of dinos run amok, JURASSIC PARK, is now old enough to drink. (To cel- ebrate, hipsters stampeded to buy the re-released soundtrack pressed on am- ber vinyl.) And Mike Judge’s ACTING WENT ode to cubicle sad sacks, OFFICE SPACE, has been mak- ing us do spit-takes on our TIME!LAPSE TPS reports for !ifteen years. In Boyhood, Ellar Coltrane aged twelve years in three hours. Isn’t it time someone gave As his character, Mason, grew from !irst grade to college, Milton his stapler back? we cried, we cringed—and we developed an impossibly high standard for future coming-of-age !ilms.

14 CONDÉ NAST A-LIST CONDÉ NAST A-LIST 15 The tenderness that made us

Relive it on Her Sam Smith, Eleanor & Park Disco Zoo In the Lonely Hour

The sentimental warmth of experiencing love vicariously. It’s tender and heartwarming. We find love in the expected, the unexpected, the cute and cuddly. 2014 warmed our hearts.

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we binged SEX STARRED on fringe Gone are the days of sly innuendo. Check out the year’s hot-and-bothered highlights, on a scale from blatant to downright pornographic. From synthy hip-hop to frat-boy

country, niche became mainstream. KINK RATING

RAP EMBRACED EDM THE CONTINUED RISE OF BRO!COUNTRY X XX XXX XXXX XXXXX The thump-thump-thump THE SEX LIVES OF “ANACONDA” & WELCOME TO LOOKING NYMPHOMANIAC: SIAMESE TWINS “BOOTY” NEW YORK VOLUMES 1 & 2 of electronic dance music The dude revolution HBO’s attempt to Trainspotting author Music videos in which What could be more Lars von Trier’s that’s been penetrating known for its cocky deliver a Sex and the cornball songs about Irvine Welsh leaves Nicki Minaj and Jennifer très-risqué transgres- City for gay men gave exploration of female pop also made huge Scotland for South Lopez with Iggy Azalea sive than a movie sexuality runs the booze and babes in boots us some of the year’s waves in hip-hop. Iggy Beach and puts his employ the rear-view “loosely” based on gamut of threesomes, grew even stronger thanks hottest guy-on-guy Azalea’s “Fancy” had pingy two heroines—one fat, perspective (and many the Dominique action as well as racy pedophile-shaming, to new releases from synths, while A$AP Rocky one !itness-obsessed— well-oiled extreme Strauss-Kahn affair? bathhouse throwbacks sapphic experimenta- followed last year’s suc- Jason Aldean, whose through all sorts of close-ups) to see who and several new tion, and good old- cessful collaboration with single “Burnin’ It Down” sadistic, sociopathic has the most junk in meanings for the fashioned graphic sex. Skrillex by teaming up subbed an R&B-style shenanigans. her trunk. phrase “story climax.” Come back, Christian Grey. All is forgiven. with Gesaffelstein to cre- bass line for banjos; the ate the otherworldly single tattooed, party-loving “In Distress” for the sci-!i duo Florida Georgia Line; thriller Divergent. And we and Eric Church, the KILLER S can’t forget Wiz Khalifa’s outlaw who incorporated we had more than HAR KS slow-burning euphoria rap beats and guitar riffs in “Stayin Out All Night.” The Outsiders. Somewhere Hank Williams is turning enough to worry about TEENS CROWNED over in his grave. Rampant disease, climate chaos, zombie apocalypse— EDGIER QUEENS our harrowing journey through a year of living dangerously. ICYMI: R&B The young women of 2014 had sharper elbows A trove of alternative and more talent than the artists crooned their way NOAH THE LAST THE SHARKNADO 2: You’re dead SHIP LEFTOVERS THE SECOND ONE bubblegum girls of onto the charts with a START if you’re not You’re dead Where did Which is scarier— years past. Electro-pop modern sound that’s on this boat. if you’re not everyone go? the return of phenom Charli XCX sang nothing like your daddy’s on this U.S. (And why !lying sharks about “getting high and ’70s R&B. The Weeknd Navy boat. didn’t I go or the return of with them?) Tara Reid? getting wrecked” in and pop princess Ariana “Break the Rules,” Jessie J Grande created the sultry

had one of summer’s duet “Love Me Harder,” EXTANT UNDER

biggest hits with bad-girl retro-cool Tinashe EN BABIES Space travel THE DOME ALI is even more Your biggest fear anthem “Bang Bang,” and released the club hit “2 On,” terrifying now is realized: You everyone freaked over and Banks bewitched that you can are trapped in Zola Jesus’s dark, operatic us with her melancholy be unwittingly your hometown. knocked up “Dangerous Days.” debut album, Goddess. by an alien.

SNOWPIERCER THE STRAIN Z NATION TINASHE Not even a Why worry The zombie train speed- about Ebola apocalypse con- ing through a when there’s tinues! And now futuristic ice a virus turn- you must battle age is safe from ing everyone the undead all the battles between into zombie- way from New GIRLFRIENDS OFFERED HARD!EARNED WISDOM the haves and vampires? York to have-nots. for the cure. Our favorite female philosopher-kings cashed in with book deals—and gave us lots to think about.

LEFT BEHIND “Never rest on “Getting naked “One has to have “Stay away from Seriously, your laurels. feels better the stomach orgies. They where did Never quit. some days than to take the just take so everyone go?

Never stop others. (Good: roller-coaster much organiz- (And why working to make when you are lurches from ing, and I feel didn’t Nicolas the world a vaguely tan. failure to like your time Cage go with them?) better place.” Bad: when you success and could be Hillary Rodham have diarrhea.)” back to failure.” better spent.” Clinton, Lena Dunham, Gail Sheehy, Amy Poehler, Hard Choices Not That Kind of Girl Daring Yes Please END S U D O EX MASS

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Want again on

Masters of Sex Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence Outlander Tinder

A deep and passionate yearning. Swept away in fantasy. Torn between two lovers. Time travel. A swipe in the right direction. In whatever form lust delivered 2014, it always left us satisfied.

Rediscover the year’s most inspiring entertainment at g.co/play2014 THE YEAR THAT PROMOTION

one role wasn’t enough Call them workaholics or proli!ic, these actors went by many names this year.

ALLISON JANNEY • Dr. Bernice Deagan, Bad Words • Elizabeth, Days and Nights • Kathy, Get On Up • Margaret Scully, Masters of Sex • Bonnie Plunkett, Mom • Ms. Grunion, ! Mr. Peabody & Sherman • Deb, Tammy

ROSARIO DAWSON • Nicole Dunlop, The Captive • Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez " • Mia, Parts Per Billion • Gail, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For • Chelsea Brown, Top Five

MORGAN FREEMAN • Dr. Cameron McCarthy, Dolphin Tale 2 " • Vitruvius, The Lego Movie • Professor Norman, Lucy • Alex, Ruth & Alex • Joseph Tagger, Transcendence

MICHIEL HUISMAN COREY STOLL • Daario Naharis, Game of Thrones • Bud Gordon, Glass Chin EMILY BLUNT # • Liam McGuinnis, Nashville • Jack, The Good Lie $ • Rita Vrataski, • Cal Morrison, Orphan Black !• Sandy Bachman, Homeland Edge of Tomorrow • Jonathan, Wild • Austin Reilly, Non-Stop • The Baker’s Wife, • John Bruno, The Normal Heart Into the Woods ANNA KENDRICK • Ephraim Goodweather, The Strain • Nahoko Satomi, • Jenny, Happy Christmas • Paul Altman, This Is Where I Leave You The Wind Rises # • Cinderella, Into the Woods • Cathy Hiatt, The Last 5 Years • Erica Wexler, Life After Beth

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1. SARAH MANNING British punk-rock thief and con artist 7. COSIMA NIEHAUS tattooed lesbian scientist 2. ALISON HENDRIX pill-popping suburban soccer mom 8. RACHEL DUNCAN uptight corporate executive with daddy issues 3. DANIELLE FOURNIER dead French clone 9. JANIKA ZINGLER dead Austrian clone An in-depth look at W’s 4. HELENA deranged Ukrainian assassin 10. JENNIFER FITZSIMMONS high school teacher and swim coach 5. KATJA OBINGER sickly German 11. ARYANNA GIORDANO dead Italian clone most arresting fashion features. 6. BETH CHILDS wealthy, suicidal detective 12. TONY SAWICKI goateed transgender grifter With a foreword by Miuccia Prada Plus an exclusive online access code for five fashion films by Steven Klein, Tim Walker, Steven Meisel, and more

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