The last turkey burp has echoed away and the wrapping paper has been binned... the fireworks have died out and that nasty jumper has been swapped for something better at M&S.

In the cold clear dawn of a the new year it's time for... The Chrissies!

As is tradition we start with the theatre awards:

Best Drama/Comedy:

JUDGMENT DAY by Odon von Horvath (adapted by Christopher Hampton) at the Almeida

nominees - A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Donmar); ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE (Whitehall); ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (National Theatre); THE PITMEN PAINTERS (National Theatre)

Best Musical - not a particularly inspiring year in this genre so the winner goes to a revival :

SWAN LAKE at Sadlers Wells

nominees - SWEET CHARITY (Menier); INTO THE WOODS (Landor);
PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT (Palace)

Best Actor (Drama/Comedy):
SIMON RUSSELL BEALE (The Winter's Tale at the Old Vic)

nominees - DAVID HAIG (Loot); MICHAEL FEAST (Plague Over England);
CHRISTOPHER CONNEL (The Pitmen Painters); JOSEPH MILLSON (Judgment Day)

Best Actor (Musical):
ROGER ALLAM (La Cage Aux Folles at the Playhouse)

nominees - TONY SHELDON (Priscilla); JONATHAN OLLIVIER (Swan Lake);
DOMINIC NORTH (Swan Lake); LEO ANDREW (Into The Woods)

Best Actress (Drama/Comedy):
RACHEL WEISZ (A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar)

nominees - ALISON STEADMAN (Enjoy); IMELDA STAUNTON (Entertaining Mr. Sloane);
JULIET STEVENSON (Duet For One); FRANCESCA ANNIS (Time And The Conways)

Best Actress (Musical):
TAMZIN OUTHWAITE (Sweet Charity at the Menier)

nominees - SARAH HOOD (Into The Woods); SUE APPLEBY (Into The Woods);
REBECCA WICKING (Into the Woods); ORLA MULLEN (Into The Woods)

Best Supporting Actor (Drama/Comedy):
SIMON PAISLEY DAY (Entertaining Mr. Sloane at the Whitehall)

nominees - ADRIAN SCARBOROUGH (Time And The Conways); RON COOK (Hamlet);
JAMES HAYES (Loot); KEVIN McNALLY (Hamlet)

Best Supporting Actor (Musical):
MARC UMBERS (Sweet Charity)

nominees - PAUL J. MEDFORD (Sweet Charity); JACK EDWARDS (Sweet Charity);
LUKE EDWARDS (Into The Woods); JONATHAN EIO (Into The Woods)

Best Supporting Actress (Drama/Comedy):
FRANCES BARBER (Madame de Sade at the Wyndhams)

nominees - SARAH WOODWARD (Judgment Day); SINEAD CUSACK (The Winter's Tale);
LAURA DONNELLY (Judgment Day); RUTH WILSON (A Streetcar Named Desire)

Best Supporting Actress (Musical):
JOSEFINA GABRIELLE (Sweet Charity)

nominees - NINA GOLDMAN (Swan Lake); KERRY BIGGIN (Swan Lake);
ABIGAIL McKERN (La Cage Aux Folles); TIFFANY GRAVES (Sweet Charity)

Best Director:
DAVID MacDONALD (Judgment Day)

nominees - MARIANNE ELLIOT (All's Well That Ends Well); HOWARD DAVIES (Burnt By The Sun); NICK BAGNALL (Entertaining Mr. Sloane); MAX ROBERTS (The Pitmen Painters)

Best Designer:RAE SMITH (All's Well That Ends Well)

nominees - MIRIAM BEUTHER (Judgment Day); CHRISTOPHER ORAM (Madame de Sade); CHRISTOPHER ORAM (Streetcar Named Desire); PETER McKINTOSH (Entertaining Mr. Sloane)

Best Lighting:
NEIL AUSTIN (Judgment Day)

nominees - NEIL AUSTIN (Hamlet); NEIL AUSTIN (Streetcar Named Desire);
NEIL AUSTIN (Madame de Sade); PETER MUMFORD (All's Well That Ends Well)

Now onto other awards!

Best Gig - a hugely busy year for gigs this year, so my award goes to the opportunity of seeing three singers I never expected ever to see on stage:

THE MOTOWN SESSIONS: MABLE JOHN CHRIS CLARK, BRENDA HOLLOWAY

nominees - MADONNA @ O2; GRACE JONES @ Roundhouse;
PET SHOP BOYS @ O2 (December); ALPHABEAT @ Heaven
(closely followed by Beverley Knight, Ray Davies and Tom Tom Club)

Best film - not a great year for cinema-going so it's an easy winner...

BROKEN EMBRACES (Pedro Almodovar)

nominees: MILK; THE READER

Best Books read:

IN COLD BLOOD (Truman Capote); THE SUSPICIONS OF MR. WHICHER (Kate Summerscale); THE MITFORDS: LETTERS BETWEEN SIX SISTERS; THE LETTERS OF VITA SACKVILLE-WEST TO VIRGINIA WOOLF; A STRANGE EVENTUAL HISTORY (Michael Holroyd)

Best Live Entertaiment:

JANEANE GAROFALO (Bloomsbury Theatre)

nominees - JASON BOND: RITES OF SPRING (Purcell Room); SANDRA BERNHARD: WITHOUT YOU I'M NOTHING (Leicester Square Theatre);
ALAN CUMMING: I BOUGHT A BLUE CAR TODAY (Vaudeville)

Best Television:

THE WIRE - no contest, 60 hours of engrossing drama, teeming with memorable characters wonderfully played.