British GQ 2014 Awards
On Tuesday last week British GQ hosted their Awards of the year bash. Meaning Gentleman’s Quarterly, GQ’s awards cast a doubtful shadow over the legitimacy of accuracy and rightful winners, instead plagued with favourites and ‘hot right now’ winners.
Whilst talented some winners such as Peter Capaldi as TV Personality after just One episode of Doctor Who as the new Doctor aired do not show off GQ as a credible entity to look towards, something it usually prides itself on as a brand. We like Peter, but come on, he only had one episode last week.
Cumberbatch accepts award though still deserved and funny too.
So below, we shall list the Alternative awards with a list of who SHOULD have won and who COULD win also. The SHOULD have won is clear enough. The second, will be who COULD feasibly win for GQ’s reputation to gain interest and be somewhat deserving of the gong over a joint or compromisable decision, keeping the tone of its brand in tact.
Those in bold are the one’s we would have chosen this year. It’s not personal, but these aren’t the ‘give them an award because I like them awards’.
The Alternative British GQ Awards
Comedian
SHOULD – Miles Jupp/Jon Richardson/Lee Mack/John Bishop
COULD – All of above
DID – John Bishop
Editor’s Special
SHOULD – Liam Neeson
COULD – David Bowie, Mick Jagger
DID – Liam Neeson
Chef
SHOULD – Micheal Roux Jr.
COULD – Either
DID – Tom Kerridge
Designer
(no complaints)
SHOULD/COULD/DID – Christopher Bailey
Writer
(no complaints)
SHOULD/COULD/DID – Michael Lewis
Breakthrough Fashion Designers
(no complaints)
SHOULD/COULD/DID – Agi and Sam
Hugo Boss Most Stylish Man
SHOULD – Gary Oldman,
COULD – Whoever Hugo Boss decides
DID – Douglas Booth
International Man
SHOULD – Jon Hamm, Matthew McConaughey, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Chris Hemsworth, Aaron Paul, Peter Dinklage, Ryan Gosling,
COULD – Jon Hamm, Ryan Gosling, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Chris Hemsworth
DID – Jonah Hill
Philanthropist
SHOULD – Sir Elton John
COULD – As above
DID – Tony Blair
TV Personality
SHOULD – Josh Bowman
COULD – Ben Whishaw
DID – Peter Capaldi
Innovator
SHOULD – James Dyson
COULD – Max Waltham
DID – Ewan Venters
Inspiration
SHOULD – Stephen Sutton
COULD – Tom Daley
DID – New Order
Sportsman
SHOULD – Mark Cavendish
COULD – Jenson Button, Mark Cavendish, Bradley Wiggins, George Groves,
DID -Lewis Hamilton
Entrepreneur
(no arguments)
SHOULD/COULD/DID – Andre Balazs
Special Achievement
SHOULD – Michael Fassbender
COULD – Anyone (in theory)
DID – Paulo Nutini
Vertu Breakthrough
SHOULD – Henry Cavill
COULD – (Anyone young and stylish, in theory)
DID – Jamie Dornan
Solo Artist
SHOULD – Pharrell Williams
COULD – Jake Bugg
DID – Pharrell Williams
Leading Man
SHOULD – Either below
COULD – Damien Lewis, Idris Elba
DID – Colin Firth
Humanitarian
(no complaints)
SHOULD/COULD/DID – Ringo Starr
Actor
SHOULD – Tom Hiddleston
COULD – Andrew Garfield, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Hardy, Dan Stevens, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch,
DID – Benedict Cumberbatch
Legend
(no complaints)
SHOULD/COULD/DID – Van Morrison
Woman
SHOULD – Angelina Jolie
COULD – Dolly Parton
DID – Kim Kardashian
Icon
(no complaints)
SHOULD/COULD/DID – Iggy Pop
It wont be long before Nicole, Cheryl, Louis Smith and the like of luvvie duvvies get their gongs at this rate.
One thing you can be sure of, every fashion company will now undoubtedly endorse many of the names printed above. Clearly they can’t think who is deserving and need to pilfer from here. That’s because they are mindless at how to run the show. GQ UK Mag, Esquire and the like can hire me for job roles. Hell, even I would be better as GQ Editor in Chief. Make it happen GQ, I will boost your sales, instead of declining them and your reputation you sought so hard to achieve as a credible focal point, along stars of the mag.
The awards had some questionable winners including Tony Blair and Kim Kardashian.
Richard Dodgson – who organised the GQ Men of the Year Awards – said controversy is no bad thing.
“We like to have celebrities at our event who cause a bit of a stir,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live. “So having Tony was fantastic. We like to have people who have opinions and are forthright.”
Clearly trying to make a name for themselves to gather attention, this has been done in the wrong way and Dodgson clearly sees to lack the nature of grasping media in a correct context to establish brand identity. Instead it made laughable fools of them instead.
IMAGES
Native Monster
The Mirror
