PCA 17

Favorite Humanitarian: Tyler Perry
MOVIES
Favorite Movie: “Finding Dory”
Favorite Movie Actor: Ryan Reynolds
Favorite Movie Actress: Jennifer Lawrence
Favorite Action Movie: “Deadpool”
Favorite Action Movie Actor: Robert Downey Jr.
Favorite Action Movie Actress: Margot Robbie
Favorite Comedic Movie: “Bad Moms”
Favorite Comedic Movie Actor: Kevin Hart
Favorite Comedic Movie Actress: Melissa McCarthy
Favorite Dramatic Movie: “Me Before You”
Favorite Dramatic Movie Actor: Tom Hanks
Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress: Blake Lively
Favorite Family Movie: “Finding Dory”
Favorite Animated Movie Voice: Ellen DeGeneres, “Finding Dory”
Favorite Thriller Movie: “The Girl on the Train”
Favorite Movie Icon: Johnny Depp
TV
Favorite TV Show: “Outlander”
Favorite Network TV Comedy: “The Big Bang Theory”
Favorite Comedic TV Actor: Jim Parsons
Favorite Comedic TV Actress: Sofia Vergara
Favorite Network TV Drama: “Grey’s Anatomy”
Favorite Dramatic TV Actor: Justin Chambers
Favorite Dramatic TV Actress: Priyanka Chopra
Favorite Cable TV Comedy: “Baby Daddy”
Favorite Cable TV Drama: “Bates Motel”
Favorite Cable TV Actor: Freddie Highmore
Favorite Cable TV Actress: Vera Farmiga
Favorite TV Crime Drama: “Criminal Minds”
Favorite TV Crime Drama Actor: Mark Harmon
Favorite TV Crime Drama Actress: Jennifer Lopez
Favorite Premium Drama Series: “Orange is the New Black”
Favorite Premium Comedy Series: “Fuller House”
Favorite Premium Series Actor: Dwayne Johnson
Favorite Premium Series Actress: Sarah Jessica Parker
Favorite Network Sci-fi/Fantasy TV Show: “Supernatural”
Favorite Cable Sci-fi/Fantasy TV Show: “The Walking Dead”
Favorite Premium Sci-fi/Fantasy TV Show: “Outlander”
Favorite Fantasy Sci-fi Actor: Sam Heughan
Favorite Fantasy Sci-fi Actress: Caitriona Balfe
Favorite Competition TV Show: “The Voice”
Favorite Animated TV Show: “The Simpsons”
Favorite Actor in a New TV Series: Matt LeBlanc
Favorite Actress in a New TV Series: Kristen Bell
Favorite New TV Comedy: “Man with a Plan”
Favorite New TV Drama: “This Is Us”
Favorite Daytime TV Host: Ellen DeGeneres
Favorite Daytime Hosting Team: “GMA”
Favorite Late Night Talk Show Host: Jimmy Fallon
MUSIC
Favorite Male Artist: Justin Timberlake
Favorite Female Artist: Britney Spears
Favorite Group: Fifth Harmony
Favorite Breakout Artist: Niall Horan
Favorite Male Country Artist: Blake Shelton
Favorite Female Country Artist: Carrie Underwood
Favorite Country Group: Little Big Town
Favorite Pop Artist: Britney Spears
Favorite Hip-Hop Artist: G-Eazy
Favorite R&B Artist: Rihanna
Favorite Album: “If I’m Honest,” Blake Shelton
Favorite Song: “Can’t Stop the Feeling,” Justin Timberlake
DIGITAL
Favorite Social Media Star: Cameron Dallas
Favorite Social Media Celebrity: Britney Spears
Favorite YouTube Star: Lilly Singh
Favorite Comedic Collaboration: Ellen DeGeneres and Britney Spears’ “Mall Mischief”
CBS.com’s Favorite Digital Obsession: Mannequin Challenge

SAG 17

Actor: Denzel Washington, “Fences”
Actress: Emma Stone, “La La Land”
Supporting actor: Mahershala Ali, “Moonlight”
Supporting actress: Viola Davis, “Fences”
Cast: “Hidden Figures”
Stunt ensemble: “Hacksaw Ridge”
TELEVISION
Actor in a comedy series: William H. Macy, “Shameless”
Actress in a comedy series: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Veep”
Comedy series cast: “Orange is the New Black”
Actor in a movie or miniseries: Bryan Cranston, “All the Way”
Actress in a movie or miniseries: Sarah Paulson, “The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”
Drama series cast: “Stranger Things”
Actor in a drama series: John Lithgow, “The Crown”
Actress in a drama series: Claire Foy, “The Crown”
Stunt ensemble: “Game of Thrones”

CCA 17

 Best Picture: La La Land
 Best Actor: Casey Affleck -- Manchester By The Sea
 Best Actress: Natalie Portman -- Jackie
 Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali -- Moonlight
 Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis -- Fences

Best Young Actor/Actress: Lucas Hedges -- Manchester by the Sea
Best Acting Ensemble: Moonlight
Best Director: Damien Chazelle -- La La Land
 Best Animated Feature: Zootopia
 Best Action Movie: Hacksaw Ridge
 Best Comedy: Deadpool
 Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie: Arrival
 Best Comedy Series: Silicon Valley -- HBO
Best Actress In A Comedy Series: Kate McKinnon -- Saturday Night Live -- NBC
Best Actor In A Comedy Series: Donald Glover -- Atlanta -- FX
Best Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series: Jane Krakowski -- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt -- Netflix
Best Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series: Louie Anderson -- Baskets -- FX
Best Drama Series: Game of Thrones -- HBO
Best Actor In A Drama Series: Bob Odenkirk -- Better Call Saul -- AMC
Best Actress In A Drama Series: Evan Rachel Wood -- Westworld -- HBO
Best Supporting Actor In A Drama Series: John Lithgow -- The Crown -- Netflix
Best Supporting Actress In A Drama Series: Thandie Newton -- Westworld -- HBO

2017 Golden Globes

Best Motion Picture – Drama
MOONLIGHT
A24 / Plan B / Pastel; A24
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Isabelle Huppert, ELLE
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Casey Affleck, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
LA LA LAND
Impostor Pictures / Gilbert Films / Marc Platt Productions; Summit Entertainment A Lionsgate Company
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Emma Stone, LA LA LAND
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Donald Glover, ATLANTA
Best Director – Motion Picture
Damien Chazelle, LA LA LAND
Best Television Series – Drama
THE CROWN, Netflix
Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama
Claire Foy, THE CROWN
Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Tom Hiddleston, THE NIGHT MANAGER
Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
ELLE (FRANCE)
SBS Productions; Sony Pictures Classics

Best Motion Picture – Animated
ZOOTOPIA
Walt Disney Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Best Motion  Picture Screenplay
Damien Chazelle, LA LA LAND
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Ryan Gosling, LA LA LAND
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Olivia Colman, THE NIGHT MANAGER

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
Viola Davis, FENCES
Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“City Of Stars”, LA LA LAND
Music by: Justin Hurwitz
Lyrics by: Benj Pasek, Justin Paul
Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Justin Hurwitz, LA LA LAND
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Hugh Laurie, THE NIGHT MANAGER
Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
THE PEOPLE v. O.J. SIMPSON: AMERICAN CRIME STORY (FX)
Fox 21 Television Studios and FX Productions
Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Sarah Paulson, THE PEOPLE v. O.J. SIMPSON: AMERICAN CRIME STORY
Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy
ATLANTA (FX)
FX Productions
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Tracee Ellis Ross, BLACK-ISH
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Billy Bob Thornton, GOLIATH
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, NOCTURNAL ANIMALS

critics choice awards 16

MOVIES

BEST PICTURE
Spotlight

BEST ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant

BEST ACTRESS
Brie Larson – Room

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sylvester Stallone – Creed

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Jacob Tremblay – Room

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Spotlight

BEST DIRECTOR
George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy – Spotlight

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Charles Randolph and Adam McKay – The Big Short

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Mad Max: Fury Road – Colin Gibson, Lisa Thompson

BEST EDITING
Mad Max: Fury Road – Margaret Sixel

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Mad Max: Fury Road – Jenny Beavan

BEST HAIR & MAKEUP
Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Inside Out

BEST ACTION MOVIE
Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Tom Hardy – Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST COMEDY
The Big Short

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Christian Bale – The Big Short

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Amy Schumer – Trainwreck

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
Ex Machina

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Son of Saul

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Amy

BEST SONG
Furious 7 – "See You Again"

BEST SCORE
The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone

TV

BEST DRAMA SERIES
Mr. Robot

BEST COMEDY SERIES
Master of None

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Rami Malek, Mr. Robot

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Carrie Coon, The Leftovers

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Christian Slater, Mr. Robot

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Constance Zimmer, UnREAL

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Mayim Bialik, The Big Bang Theory

THE BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Fargo

BEST ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Idris Elba, Luther

BEST ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Kirsten Dunst, Fargo

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Jesse Plemons, Fargo

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Jean Smart, Fargo

BEST GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Timothy Olyphant, The Grinder

BEST GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Margo Martindale, The Good Wife

BEST REALITY SHOW -- COMPETITION
The Voice

BEST REALITY SHOW HOST
James Lipton, Inside the Actors Studio

BEST STRUCTURED REALITY SHOW
Shark Tank

BEST UNSTRUCTURED REALITY SHOW
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

BEST TALK SHOW
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

BEST ANIMATED SERIES
BoJack Horseman

 

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CMA 50TH AWARDS 2016

 We start off with a montage of past moments at the show, which is a great touch and much better than a hokey opening sketch.Vince Gill and Merle’s son Ben Haggard open the show with a tribute to the Hag, by playing “Mama Tried.” It’s a really nice little tribute and you have to think Sturgill’s comments prompted them to open the show so he wouldn’t be proven right.This segues into Brad Paisley and Roy Clark (!) playing “I’ve Got a Tiger By The Tail.” Carrie Underwood then sings Tammy Wynette’s “Stand By Your Man.” This is followed by Paisley and Charley Pride singing “Kiss An Angel Good Morning.” Alabama performs “Mountain Music.” Charlie Daniels plays his signature song “Devil Went Down to Georgia.” Reba performs her classic “Fancy.” Dwight Yoakam plays one of my all-time favorites “Guitars, Cadillac's.” Clint Black plays “Killin’ Time.” Ricky Skaggs plays “Country Boy.” Alan Jackson plays “Don’t Rock the Jukebox.”And then everyone I just mentioned joins together as they sing Randy Travis’ “Forever and Amen.” At the very end Paisley and Underwood introduce Travis, who sings the final word, “Amen.” Holy shit! So much damn emotion that you can’t help but tear up. And we’re only ten minutes in. Bravo to the CMAs for what I believe to be one of the greatest openings I’ve ever seen to an awards show.Brad and Carrie sing a little ditty about how sick they are of the election and how it’s taking forever. I agree.Then we find out Billy Ray Cyrus is the designate country music survivor. Okay…We get some more political jokes from Paisley. It’s hokey, but that’s Paisley.More assorted cheesiness. Some of it hits. Some of it makes me cringe.It just keeps going.Now Brad and Carrie are playing with dolls. What is happening?Nationwide jingle off between Brad & Carrie and Peyton Manning.A bunch of distinguished winners at the 2016 Summer Olympics are our first presenters. They’re presenting the Single of the Year winner. Finally an award.The 2016 CMA Single of the Year award winner is Thomas Rhett’s “Die A Happy Man.” Called that one. It was a big hit, even if it did rip off Ed Sheeran.Kelsea Ballerini performs “Peter Pan.” She continues to be an average vocalist at best to me. At least she performed her best single, for what it’s worth I guess.Former CMA Female Vocalist of the Year Olivia Newton John and a couple of actresses from The Goldbergs present Song of the Year.The 2016 CMA Song of the Year award winner is Tim McGraw’s “Humble and Kind,” penned by the excellent Lori McKenna!McKenna is accepting the award and she’s understandably choked up as she delivers a classy acceptance speech. A really awesome moment for a deserving singer-songwriter. Love how McGraw stood back and let her have this deserving moment.Brooks & Dunn along with Jason Aldean perform the duo’s hit song “Brand New Man.” Brooks & Dunn sound pretty good like always. Aldean sounds flat as always. I’m guessing he chose to participate in this song since it isn’t too songwriter-y. But overall a good performance from the other two.After a commercial we get Dierks Bentley and Elle King performing the unfortunate hit “Different For Girls.” Fast-forwarding through this…Carrie acknowledges some past winners of the Female Vocalist of the Year award.Joined by the Preservation Jazz Hall Band and The McCrary Sisters, Maren Morris delivers a fantastic performance of “My Church.” Everyone a part of this performance delivered in spades. Well done. Hopefully in the future we get more songs like this from Morris instead of the majority of her debut album.Right away it stands out that this show is putting an increased focus on female artists, which is just great. It shows the CMA is listening and trying to give women a fairer shake than what they’ve been getting from these shows in the past. Now let’s continue to make this a thing to the point it’s not something that needs pointed out.Jennifer Garner is presenting New Artist of the Year.The 2016 CMA New Artist of the Year is Maren Morris. Another one I called. Maybe I’m getting better at this predicting thing.Morris delivers a really emotional speech, crying throughout it. Her humbleness really shines through, as you can see how much this meant to her. Can’t help but feel good when seeing a moment like this.Brad introduces the first artist to ever win Entertainer of the Year twice, Barbara Mandrell. She helps him introduce Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood.The couple performs a cool medley: first Johnny Cash and June Carter’s “Jackson,” Garth does Roger Miller’s “Chug-a-lug,” Yearwood does Crystal Gayle’s “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” and then together perform Conway Twitty’s & Loretta Lynn’s “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man.” This is followed by Yearwood doing Lynn Anderson’s “Rose Garden” and Garth doing Keith Whitley’s “Don’t Close Your Eyes.” They finish by performing George Jones and Tammy Wynette’s “Golden Ring.” They could have easily just did one of their songs, but instead paid tribute to a bunch of great artists who we should never forget.We’re only one hour in and younger country fans or those who haven’t studied up on the history of the genre are getting a nice history lesson. Hopefully those people will go out and listen to these older artists.Whisperin’ Bill Anderson makes an appearance, which brings a smile to my face.Carrie Underwood performs “Dirty Laundry,” a song that continues to do nothing for me. It’s going to be a shame if “Choctaw County Affair” never gets released as a single.Faith Hill is presenting Album of the Year. Despite an awkward at times introduction, she gives a well deserved shout out to the first winner of the awards, Wanted: The Outlaws.The 2016 CMA Album of the Year award winner is Eric Church’s Mr. Misunderstood! Glad I was wrong on this one!It all comes full circle for Church, who surprise released the album during last year’s show. It’s a fantastic album that is fully deserving of winning. Glad the CMAs got this right.Little Big Town performs their new single “Better Man,” which was just revealed to be written by Taylor Swift. After this reveal, I went back to look at the lyrics and it doesn’t surprise me at all she wrote it. It has all the earmarks of a Swift song. Little Big Town delivers a solid performance here and with it being Swift written song, I think it’ll be a big hit.Carrie checks on Billy Ray Cyrus, who wants out of his room and Carrie says to let out. I disagree. Leave him in there so he can’t make another “Achy Breaky Heart” or a crappy TV show like the one he has on CMT right now.Miranda Lambert delivers a phenomenal performance of her current single “Vice.” I don’t know if Lambert has ever been in this kind of zone before where she just nails every single note. Can’t wait to hear the albumAlright, alright. Matthew McConaughey shows up, much to the delight of the ladies in the crowd. He presents Tim McGraw, who’s performing “Humble and Kind.” He delivers one hell of performance and definitely chokes a few people up, including McKenna. Glad to see McGraw get a big spot like this, as he’s certainly earned it.Brad & The Oak Ridge Boys perform an abridged performance of “Elvira,” which got the crowd excited.Next is Alan Jackson and George Strait. Words can’t describe their performance. It’s simply magical. Jackson begins with “Remember When.” We then get a small package of country stars who have passed and expressed their gratitude for country music. Then Strait comes and together the legendary duo performs a medley of Strait songs. Performance of the night hands down!ESPN personalities Kirk Herbstreit and Samantha Ponder are presenting the Vocal Duo of the Year.The 2016 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year award winner is….the Brothers Osborne?! HOLY SHIT. Nobody saw this coming, not even them by the looks on their faces.They’re completely speechless and admit they expected Florida Georgia Line to win like the rest of us. They can’t believe it and are so thrilled. What an upset! I love it.Keith Urban performs “Blue Ain’t Your Color,” his slightly more interesting sounding take on Sam Hunt’s creepy “Take Your Time.” No thanks.Some actor along with Cam and Cole Swindell present Vocal Group of the Year.The 2016 CMA Vocal Group of the Year award winner is Little Big Town. Not surprised at all.They’re also surprised about the Brothers Osborne winning. Give a shout out to the legends in attendance. Short and sweet speech.We kick off hour three with a performance by two late announcements to the show that I mentioned above: Beyoncé and the Dixie Chicks. Now a lot of people were talking about the former being on this show, but the bigger news to me is the return of the Dixie Chicks. I never ever saw them returning to the CMA Awards. I was completely shocked when it was announced they were returning after over a decade. And it’s so great to see country music welcome them back.Together Beyoncé and the Dixie Chicks perform “Daddy Lessons” off of Beyoncé’s excellent Lemonade album. It’s an awesome performance and I don’t know why you would complain about this. But it’s not country you say. No, the studio recording of this song I wouldn’t call country. But they did make this live performance more country and as a music fan I really enjoyed it. I know some country fans will bitch and moan, but it’s usually the same ones who always find something to complain about.The main thing I hope this does is bring the Dixie Chicks back into the genre again. This talented group belongs in country music.The annoying Peyton Manning presents Kenny Chesney with the Pinnacle Award. *insert wanking motion*This isn’t a personality contest by the way. Chesney’s a good guy, but his music is not worthy of awards.Thomas Rhett performs “Die A Happy Man.” Moving along…Finally we get Chris Stapleton performing! And he’s with Dwight! And Morgane is here too! They’re performing Willie Nelson and Ray Charles’ “Seven Spanish Angels.” This is gonna be amazing!Yep my mind has been blown. We need a studio recording of this now so we can listen to it over and over again. Stapleton once again steals the show with his performance. I’m not surprised at all.And after that amazing performance we get Luke Bryan performing “Move.” In back to back performance we get a microcosm of country music right now: on one side we having the ever growing traditional movement and the other who refuses to abandon bro country/pop pretending to be country dreck. But I have a news flash for the latter: you’re losing the battle right now.Florida Georgia along with Tim McGraw perform their current single “May We All.” I don’t hate this song and it’s their second best single they’ve ever released. The performance is fine. Tim McGraw has a lot of fun and really lets loose, quite the opposite of Florida Georgia Line, who are trying their hardest to be serious. They’re clearly trying to shake off their previous reputation and with them walking away empty handed from a country awards show for the first time in a while, there’s definitely some concern in their camp.The always classy Vince Gill present Female Vocalist of the Year. Unfortunately there’s some issues and poor Gill is kind of stuck on stage fighting through it. It was awkward.The 2016 CMA Female Vocalist of the Year award winner is Carrie Underwood! There you go Carrie fans! The Miranda streak is finally broken and rightfully so, as this was Carrie’s year. Miranda fans don’t feel bad, as it’s lock she wins next year. Congrats to Carrie though, who teared up accepting it.Up next is Eric Church and Rhiannon Giddens performing “Kill A Word.” I still can’t believe we’re getting Giddens on a major country awards show.A great performance from the two and Giddens really shined in the spotlight. Church is the man for giving her this opportunity, as she’s more than earned it and I hope everyone checks her music out.Emmy, Tony and Grammy winner Lily Tomlin is here to honor the legendary Dolly Parton, who is receiving the Willie Nelson Life Achievement Award. A fitting honor for one of the greatest artists of all time.Jennifer Nettles and Pentatonix perform “Jolene” in her honor. Reba follows with a performance of “9 to 5.” Then Kacey Musgraves performs “Here You Come Again.” It concludes with Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride, Jennifer Nettles, Reba and Kacey performing “I Will Always Love You.” All of this is amazing and I can’t imagine all of these performers getting to perform in front of Dolly as she looks on smiling the whole time.Dolly delivers a classy, elegant speech with some witty Willie pot humor interjected. She says she had a big speech prepared, but they won’t let her do it all. Boo! Let this legend speak as long as she wants!We’re running over, as actress Sharon Stone presents Male Vocalist of the Year.The 2016 CMA Male Vocalist of the Year award winner is Chris Stapleton! Holy shit! Second year in a row for Stapleton.Stapleton says he wishes he could give his time to Dolly. Delivers a good speech talking about how great it was to be a fan and see so many great artists from the past honored. It’s a year later and I still don’t think he believes all of this that has happened to him.Brad Paisley performs “Today” and it’s a really good performance.Taylor Swift is here to present the Entertainer of the Year.The 2016 CMA Entertainer of the Year awards winner is Garth Brooks! Wow! I did not see this coming. Then again when Carrie won Female Vocalist and Stapleton won Male Vocalist, I knew they wouldn’t win this one too. So it was going to be between Garth and Luke Bryan. And I’ll take Garth over Luke any day.