Tony Curran 0

A FILM ACTOR All hail the ginger prince! You may have seen prolific actor Curran in TV show This Life or films Gladiator. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Flight of the Phoenix. In 2006 he could be seen in Underworld: Evolution and Michael Mann's Miami Vice. It was. however. his remarkable. pained and deeply intelligent turn as the mysterious Clyde in Andrea Arnold's Red Road that wins him inclusion here. It is no wonder that Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney begged him to take a significant role in their new film The Good German (out March 2007). (PD)

Zaha Hadid 0

A ARCHITECT the gravel voiced. Miyake-clad grande dame of architecture has spent 20 years shedding the accusation that she's a ‘paper architect' whose designs are ‘unbuildable'. But now the smart money has discovered that not only do her buildings stand up; they are capable of taking architecture to giddy heights. This year. every major world city suddenly wants a Hadid building in its collection. It's neat. then, that Scotland won the race to build her first permanent protect in Britain. The Maggie's Centre in Fife is a inooest little number. but it offers a clear demonstration of her monumental abilities and the people of Kirkcaldy are saying they absolutely love it. (NB)

Armando Iannucci (10) SATIRIST If the job of a satirist is to get into the most blanng of hot waters. then Armando IannuCCi achieved that this year. His BBC2 fantasy political show

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Time Trumpet featured Tony Blair berng assassinated amid a terrorist attack on London. Earlier in the year. lannucCi was the subject of a South Bank Show. dropped in on Oxford University to deliver a series of lectures entitled ‘British Comedy: Dead or Alive?‘ and neglected to cancel his Festival of Politics appearance. tBDl

Martin Wishart (28) v CHEF

Scottish Chef of the Year for the second

time in 2000. Wishart has. in his undernonstrative and assured way. become Scotland's most influential chef. Quietly spoken and comfortably distant from celebrity chef status. Wishart has championed Scottish cuisine both overseas and at home. successfully initiating the Scottish Food Scholarship to identify the country's most talented young chefs. Imminent is a new cook school aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia and. surely. further recognition for Restaurant Martin Wishart from the Michelin man. lDBi

James McAvoy (57)

V FILM ACTOR The hardest working man in showbusiness this year has got to be the vertically challenged Mr McAvoy. The heartthrob from Shameless has made some ill Judged forays into film before but With box office hit comedy

Starter For Ten he finally hit paydirt. He can also soon be seen in adaptations

The Last King of Scotland and

Atonement. and as it that wasn't enough. he plays the love interest in Austen biopic Becoming Jane released

in September 200/. Phew! lime the boy from Glasgow took a holiday. iPDi

Limmy (-)

Long gone is the day when a wannabe comedian would simply write a few jokes down and grab an open mic. In this techno ticklestick age, you just need a marginally presentable room, a functioning webcam, maybe even a funny idea or two and away you go. No one has grabbed this moment more than Limmy aka Brian Limond whose website (www.limmy.com) and podcast (Limmy’s World of

Callum Innes (-)

ARTIST Innes takes forma? risks Ill paintings that drag the whole of Modernist Art into the rectilinear arena of his canvases. These gallery machines coine fully armed. demanding your attention through their unsiiakeable confidence. this is difficult art made to look very easy. lhe best bits of your itiVOilliit} paintings are examined through processes or application and paint removal. so that the final piece bears the scars of work. thought. struggle and th in peace. iAK:

Iohn Tiffany 0

THEATRE DIRECTOR the three very diverse plays that .John liftany directed tor NlS this year. all politically resonant and immediately relevant. set the agenda for a national

Glasgow) have led him to challenge Ricky Gervais and Russell Brand in the iTunes top 20 and to be namechecked by Franz Ferdinand in a 0 interview.

Journey into Limmy’s universe and you find a range of comedy styles; from the podcast’s West Coast ‘characters’ to the site’s more trippy interactive elements where you help a wrist bleed its owner to death or play a profane xylophone. Nowadays, anyone can nab their five minutes of fame through the YouTube revolution. Or, in this case, YaTube. (BD)

theatre rooted deep in the Scottish psyche. After Home: Glasgow an explosion of abseiling carneramen and floodlit towerblrmks. he retreated indoors tor a $3102"!i)tlfillll§]_ beautiful revwal of [Ii/i'ibefh Cordon Quinn. It's Black Watch. his third collaboration With Oratory Burke. which sticks like desert sand. though bitterly funny and flickering Wlill anger. iKI)

Andy Murray (6)

V TENNIS PLAYER lhe [)unblane-brrxl tennis pro ascended the world rankings to number i/ in September. With an increasingly devoted fan follownig. he he s stolen lini HOlllTltill'f; crown as Britain's best hope. Passionate on and off the courts. he has an outspoken public persona that places him ll‘, a proud tradition of ballsy Scots. iSBli