Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
How Often Do Oscar Voters Agree With the Critics Choice Awards Picks?
hollywoodreporter.comRenewed criticisms against the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and its Golden Globe Awards have many in the industry again rethinking the top of the awards-season almanac — namely, who gets to set the tone in the run-up to the Oscars.
The Critics Choice Awards are a natural choice for prognosticator, as the second major kudos on the calendar arriving one week after the Globes, on March 7.
And while critics are hardly immune to controversy of their own, they're surprisingly reliable predictors of who'll get an Oscar.
The roughly 400 movie branch members of the Critics Choice Association have voted in line with The Film Academy 73 percent of the time in the six major categories — best picture, best director and the four acting races — for.
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