What more can we say about Donald Glover’s year as an artist?  Plenty.  He is utterly catching us off guard and breaking through every time he takes a turn as his music altar ego, Childish Gambino. His acting, direction and writing for Atlanta show pure unleashed and immense talent.  More!

Bohemian Rhapsody may not be the best movie of the year, but the hot and very talented Malek, as iconic singer Freddie Mercury of Queen, gets the PROVOKR crown.

Two supporting performances stood above the rest this year: Weisz for her conniving Lady Sarah, Queen Anne’s manipulative favourite; and Regina King for her tender but tough Sharon, a mother desperately trying to save her daughter’s husband from an unjust prison sentence.

You can cut the tension between religious-bound Esti and her former lover Ronit with a knife. But when the clandestine paramours finally, literally, swap spit in a hidden corner, all bets are off.

Cuaron’s gorgeously shot memory piece about Cleo, his fractured family’s caregiver, is a valentine to Roma, the Mexico City neighborhood he grew up in, and to his beloved nanny.

The entire cast of PROVOKR’s Best Film of the Year is what makes this movie so utterly enjoyable. From Oscar shoe-ins Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, and Emma Stone, to their gorgeous sidekicks, Joe Alwyn and Nicholas Hoult, this is pure actor eye-candy at its most delicious.

This long-running FX favorite follows Russian spies who seek to to undermine the United States. The 1980s-set saga just ended its six-season run on one hell of a high note.

She’s beautiful, she’s talented, she’s Lois Lane. Amy Adams is a goddess and one of the most talented actors of our time. We’re lucky to have her!

The Handmaid’s Tale is not a feel-good TV show. Hulu’s masterpiece is a rough watch, but one which nobody should miss. Joseph Fiennes plays a pivotal role in the series, and deserves all the awards that are coming to him.

As Emmy Rossum’s reign as Fiona Gallagher on Shameless comes to an end, we can’t help but relive her sexiest scenes in our head over and over and over again. Her sexcapades, as well as those of her family, have made the show what it is — the sexiest series on TV.

Post Malone’s breakout year brought us party music for the ages. “Better Now,” his followup to “rockstar,” shows a more vulnerable side of the tattooed icon, making it the best song of the year.

When Donald Glover hosted Saturday Night Live in May, he released a song the live broadcast under his stage name Childish Gambino. That resulted in an instantly viral video highlighting violence against black people.

DAMN. may have come out in 2017, but that didn’t stop Kendrick Lamar from having an equally successful year. His name was everywhere when he developed the soundtrack for the Marvel blockbuster Black Panther. Lamar even picked up a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for “All of the Stars” with SZA.

Saturday Night Live has always brought great live performances, and that was definitely the case when Miley Cyrus and Mark Ronson teamed up for the Christmas episode. The pair performed its country-techno song “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart” and covered the Beatle’s anthem “Happy X-Mas (War is Over).” They didn’t perform the latter by themselves: Sean Ono, son of Yoko Ono and John Lennon, sang and played guitar alongside them.

Diane Arbus was a quiet force of nature which flourished around those the world belligerently labeled “freaks.” Her work, much like her death, hit the photography world of her time with the kind of shock value even Kim Kardashian couldn’t match. If you’ve yet to partake in Arbus’s work, you should.

Then we stumbled upon Haris Nukem’s Instagram profile, and let’s just say we needed some alone time the likes of which have rendered our left hands useless for the next hour or so. Pardon us while we pop a few zinc supplements and rehydrate.

This show honored Eugene Richards’s five-decade career by curating his work thematically rather than chronologically. We struggled to breathe under the gravity of it all when we noticed how the truth in his photographs – much like history, itself – repeats in diverse circumstances, as a reminder that societies have learned very little.

“Put Your Head on my Shoulder “by Nick Knight, Britt Lloyd, and Kate Moss takes us through a sensuous night of fashion as model Raquel Zimmermann embarks on an intimate exploration of her own body. Nick and his team do it like no one else.

Clara Darko wins hands down. The brilliant Editor form Spain continues to amaze and thrill us. Check out her youtube channel now.  From movie kisses to movie bad girls and superheroes she is unchallenged in her ability to entertain, her devotion to film and her talent.

This is America – Childish Gambino and Director Hiro Murai worked tirelessly to reveal the nightmares hidden under America’s beds. It is loaded with images of haunting oppression of black people and gun violence. It is filled with real references like the father of Trayvon Martin’s father playing guitar in the opening sequence. A social masterpiece of a myriad of fast fleeting violent truths and a genius painting of white suppression and yet somehow Donald Glover mixed in a celebration of African culture. Wow.

Novelist Madeline Miller was the creative mind behind the suspenseful accent tale of “Circe.” The title represents a unique offspring that possessed the power of witchcraft, that soon leads to a family rivalry, love and loss, and a grand celebration of a woman dominating a man’s world with the power of strength.

The dark audio read “Pet Seminary” by Stephen King, and Michael C. Hall will leave you will goosebumps, while Dr. Louis Creed and his wife find their beloved cat dead after discovering a hidden Indian burial ground near their newly bought home.

The sensational novel “Open Me” By Lisa Locascio is a coming-of-age novel about a young woman having an erotic awakening in Copenhagen between two men. The fresh fiction voice, will grab your attention and leave you wanting the desire that the main character Roxana Olsen demands from her loves.

The oft-quoted but never duplicated Pop master was given a stunning reassessment of Warhol’s themes and interests by curator Donna DeSalvo.

Although Wojnarowicz died in the 1990s, the artist experienced a resurgence this year during his major retrospective at the Whitney Museum, and in our current political era, the work shone with renewed brilliance and urgency.

Nicolas Ghesquiere masterfully nails his own stylistic expression while conspiring brilliantly with the Louis Vuitton legacy. He has re-energized and re-elevated the brand while thrilling the consumer.

Anthony Vaccarello steaming up women’s design at Yves Saint Laurent, stirring a frenzy in sales and social media. His ultra-sexy show in Paris under the twinkling lights of the Eiffel Tower celebrated this mega talent, and the brand itself.

Kerby Jean-Raymond of Pyer Moss injected hope, biting political messaging and African culture into fashion with a confident, resonant vibe. Through the mosaic ‘Black Family Murals’ painted on shirts and pants, with the phrase ‘See Us Now?’ printed on a white cummerbund in a white tuxedo look.

We worship at the altar of Inez and Vinoodh. Check out their instagram to see why. They shoot with a unique sensibility to the zeitgeist, and never abandon the mission to capture the most compelling moment.

The beautiful Dominican model, Daniel Morel, is in all the shows and in many ad campaigns. He instantly elevates any couture look when he works his magic.

Start with Cara Delevigne interviewing her close friend, Kendall Jenner; stir in the creative team at Harper’s Bazaar, then mix in a heavy dose of Solve Sundsbo’s photographic sensibility, and there you have it – The Best Fashion Editorial of the year.