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GQ’s Filmmaker of the Year just won Best Director at the Golden Globes. Congrats, Ben!

Stud of the Year: John Hawkes

He played a creepy meth addict in Winter’s Bone and a creepy cult leader in Martha Marcy May Marlene, but in The Sessions—the feel-good polio comedy of the year—gangly, craggy character actor John Hawkes plays a man immobilized from the neck down and desperate to lose his virginity and, in the process, reinvents himself as a charming leading man.

The Master: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Chen Guangcheng: Rebel of the Year

Guards routinely stole into Chen Guangcheng’s house, wrapped him in a blanket, beat him bloody, broke his wife’s bones. The blanket seemed especially gratuitous: Chen is blind. This went on for a year and a half, all because the self-taught lawyer had sued the Chinese government to stop forced abortions in his village. So one dark April night, he left it all behind. 

“I feel like I’ve gone round a loop once. And for this lap, it’s more measured. I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.” - Ben Affleck

So, this happened.

Channing Tatum

Yes, he was a stripper. Yes, he was in Step Up—and Step Up 2: The Streets. But after a year like this, when he showed not just his abs and his glutes but his smarts and his inner Stanislavsky, it’s time to give Channing Tatum his due. 

Live Stream: Tonight’s Men of the Year Party

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“Sometimes a person looks at me and sees dollars. They see numbers and they see a product. I look at me and see art.” - Rihanna