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Apple Names Its Picks for Best Apps, Movies, Music, Books, Podcasts and TV Shows of 2016

Apple Names Its Picks for Best Apps, Movies, Music, Books, Podcasts and TV Shows of 2016

Posted December 7, 2016 at 5:40am by iClarified
Apple has announced its picks for best apps, movies, music, books, podcasts, and TV shows of 2016.

Here's a look at the company's selections starting with App of the Year!

App of the Year
Prisma: Free Photo Editor, Art Filters Pic Effects


Game of the Year
Clash Royale

Breakout Hit
Pokémon GO

Apple Names Its Picks for Best Apps, Movies, Music, Books, Podcasts and TV Shows of 2016

10 Best Apps of the Year
Prisma
MSQRD
Quartz
Vogue
Meditation Studio
Detour
Credit Karma
Glasses by Warby Parker
Hyper
Tinycards


Apple Names Its Picks for Best Apps, Movies, Music, Books, Podcasts and TV Shows of 2016

10 Best Games of the Year
Clash Royale
Reigns
Plants vs. Zombies Heroes
twofold inc
Riptide GP: Renegade
FIFA Mobile Soccer
Rodeo Stampede - Sky Zoo Safari
"klocki"
Steppy Pants
The Trail

Apple Names Its Picks for Best Apps, Movies, Music, Books, Podcasts and TV Shows of 2016


Best Movies of 2016
● Best Blockbuster: Deadpool
● Best Comedy: Sausage Party
● Best Hollywood Romance: La La Land
● Best Animated Movie: Kubo and the Two Strings
● Best Documentary: Weiner
● Best Feel-Good Movie: Sing Street
● Breakout Star of the Year: American Honey
● Best New Filmmaker: Moonlight

Top Selling Movies of 2016
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Deadpool, Zootopia, The Martian, Captain America: Civil War, Spectre, The Revenant, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, Finding Dory, The Big Short.

Apple Names Its Picks for Best Apps, Movies, Music, Books, Podcasts and TV Shows of 2016


Best TV Shows of 2016
● This Year's Obsession: American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson
● Most Thought-Provoking: O.J.: Made in America
● Late Night Rule-Breaker: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Volume 3
● Best New Comedy: Atlanta
● Most Original Kids Show: Steven Universe
● Extravaganza of the Year: RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars
● Most Consistently Great: The Americans
● Best New Drama: This Is Us

Top Selling TV Shows of 2016
Game of Thrones (Season 6), The Walking Dead Season 7), Downton Abbey (The Final Season), The Americans (Season 4), The Big Bang Theory (Season 10), Suits (Season 6), Mr. Robot (Season 2), The Blacklist (Season 4), Vikings (Season 4), Modern Family (Season 8).

Apple Names Its Picks for Best Apps, Movies, Music, Books, Podcasts and TV Shows of 2016


Best Books of 2016
● Novel of the Year: Moonglow, Michael Chabon
● Nonfiction of the Year: Evicted, Matthew Desmond
● YA Novel of the Year: If I Was Your Girl, Meredith Russo
● Debut of the Year: Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
● Mystery: Charcoal Joe, Walter Mosley
● Thriller: Behind Closed Doors, B A Paris
● Popular Fiction: Sweetbitter, Stephanie Danler
● Literary Fiction: What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Helen Oyeyemi
● Memoir: Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
● History: Dark Money, Jane Mayer
● Romance: Beautiful Burn: A Novel, Jamie McGuire
● Science Fiction: A Closed and Common Orbit, Becky Chambers
● Fantasy: The Fate of the Tearling, Erika Johansen
● Kids: Raymie Nightingale, Kate DiCamillo
● Cookbook: Everything I Want to Eat, Jessica Koslow
● Graphic Novel: March: Book Three, John Lewis

Top Selling Books of 2016 (Fiction)
The Girl on the Train, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Me Before You, After You, The Last Mile, The Whistler, The Nightingale, One with You, The Nest, Fool Me Once.

Top Selling Books of 2016 (Non-Fiction)
When Breath Becomes Air, Killing the Rising Sun, The Girl with the Lower Back Tatoo, Alexander Hamilton, Hillbilly Elegy, The 5 Love Languages, Crisis of Character, It's Not Okay, The Rainbow Comes and Goes, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.

Apple Names Its Picks for Best Apps, Movies, Music, Books, Podcasts and TV Shows of 2016


Best Podcasts of 2016
● Revisionist History
● How I Built This
● In the Dark
● Jocko Podcast
● Anna Faris is Unqualified
● NPR Politics Podcast
● My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
● 2 Dope Queens
● Accused
● FiveThirtyEight Politics
● Heavyweight
● Pardon My Take

Apple Names Its Picks for Best Apps, Movies, Music, Books, Podcasts and TV Shows of 2016
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