Each year Entertainment Weekly names the year’s top entertainers. This year’s list includes the most popular, the most buzzed about, the class clowns, the prodigies, the 8 to watch in ’08, the valedictorians, and EW.com readers’ pick. This year's Entertainers of the Year are:

• Taking the title of this year’s Entertainers of the Year is not an individual, but a visionary – J.K. Rowling.
• Matt Damon, Carrie Underwood, Johnny Depp, Kanye West, and Katherine Heigl are crowned the most popular for the sole reason that they’ve been able to win over both the masses and the critics – a huge feat.
• Gerard Butler, Amy Winehouse, Tyler Perry, and Mad Men constitute the people who really set tongues wagging at the watercooler.
• Odds are the comedy that had you rolling in the aisles – or off your couches - was brought to audiences by Tina Fey, Judd Apatow and his gang (Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd).
• With a combined age of 75 years, Zac Efron, Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, and Shia LaBeouf are the four fresh faces that are leading an explosive youth movement in music, movies, and TV.
• The Sopranos, Angelina Jolie, Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, the cable queens (Glenn Close, Mary-Louise Parker, Kyra Sedgwick, Holly Hunter), and George Clooney constitute the straight “A” crowd that gets their grades for a reason.

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