The Arts 2014 Year in Review Survey Results

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%