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The Arts 2014 Year in Review Survey Results

The numbers have been crunched and the results are in

By Lizbeth Hernandez
By Crimson Arts Staff, Crimson Staff Writer

Top Movies

The Grand Budapest Hotel - 22%

Boyhood - 14%

Guardians of the Galaxy - 12%

Gone Girl - 8%

The Lego Movie - 8%

Dear White People - 7%

The Fault in Our Stars - 7%

Interstellar - 6%

Snowpiercer - 4%

X-Men: Days of Future Past - 4%

Birdman - 2%

Nymphomaniac - 2%

Other - 4%

Top Albums

Taylor Swift, "1989" - 26%

Ed Sheeran, "x" - 14%

Sam Smith, "In the Lonely Hour" - 10%

Lana del Rey, "Ultraviolence" - 8%

The Black Keys, "Turn Blue" - 6%

alt-j, "This Is All Yours" - 5%

Pharrell Williams, "G I R L" - 5%

FKA twigs, "LP1" - 4%

St. Vincent, "St. Vincent" - 4%

Beck, "Morning Phase" - 3%

Mac DeMarco, "Salad Days" - 3%

Other - 12%

Best Single

Sia, "Chandelier" - 14%

Nicki Minaj, "Anaconda" - 13%

Taylor Swift, "Shake It Off" - 12%

Pharrell Williams, "Happy" - 11%

Meghan Trainor, "All About That Bass" - 8%

Kendrick Lamar, "i" - 8%

Calvin Harris, "Summer" - 8%

Ariana Grande, "Problem" - 6%

Iggy Azalea, "Fancy" - 6%

The Black Keys, "Weight of Love" - 5%

Other - 9%

Best New TV Show

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - 25%

How to Get Away with Murder - 21%

True Detective - 14%

Silicon Valley - 7%

Fargo - 7%

Broad City - 6%

Looking - 4%

Outlander - 3%

Gotham - 3%

The Leftovers - 3%

Other - 7%

Best Book

Haruki Murakami, "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" - 24%

Lena Dunham, "Not That Kind of Girl" - 22%

Margaret Atwood, "Stone Mattress: 9 Tales" - 20%

Isabel Allende, "Ripper" - 10%

Michael Cunningham, "The Snow Queen" - 6%

Tana French, "The Secret Place" - 3%

Ian McEwan, "The Children Act" - 3%

El Doctorow, "Andrew's Brain" - 3%

David Mitchell, "The Bone Clocks" - 3%

Ha Jin, "A Map of Betrayal" - 1%

Most important cultural event

Lupita Nyong'o wins Oscar for Best Supporting Actress - 31%

The Oscar selfie - 17%

"Anaconda" music video - 10%

The "How I Met Your Mother" finale - 8%

Marvel's upcoming movie dump - 8%

The Kimye wedding - 7%

Solange vs. Jay-Z - 7%

Kim Kardashian's Paper magazine spread - 4%

Miley Cyrus sends a homeless man to accept her award at the VMAs - 4%

Shia LeBoeuf's paper bag incident - 3%

Other - 1%

Favorite on-campus arts event

The opening of the Harvard Art Museums - 41%

Yardfest - 22%

Pussy Riot at the IOP - 13%

ARTS First - 7%

Cultural Rhythms - 4%

Ghungroo - 3%

LOOK UP - 2%

The ART of Human Rights - 2%

Black Arts Festival - 2%

Other - 3%

Favorite on-campus theater production

Batboy - 25%

Little Murders - 12%

Spring Awakening - 12%

With Fates Driving - 11%

The Pillowman - 10%

Three Sisters - 9%

Negative - 9%

Laughter on the 23rd Floor - 7%

Mother Courage - 4%

Other - 1%

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