Benedict Cumberbatch Movies 2013

In March, Benedict and Martin kept it professional while working on the show's third season, which premieres Jan. 19, 2014! This year, we got news that the duo will reprise their roles for a fourth season.

It was the Benedict role geeks waited for — the villain in J.J. Abrams's Star Trek Into Darkness. This Summer, he was a scary force against Chris Pine's Captain Kirk and proved he could take on the part of action star.

Benedict graced the cover of Time for the Oct. 28, 2013 international issue — keyword international. The US edition of the magazine got a cover story about Texas instead, enraging an entire population of Cumberb*tches. It was upsetting, but at least Time offered fans a behind-the-scenes look at the shoot, which features exactly 59 seconds of Benedict looking quite dapper.

Benedict Cumberbatch went on Jimmy Kimmel Live in December and seduced the entire audience with a dramatic reading of R. Kelly's "Genius." The best part? He winks. The second-best part? R. Kelly responded.

At the BAFTA LA awards in September, Benny took home the artist of the year award and rubbed shoulders with George Clooney.

Reddit user _BenedictCumberbatch answered the Internet's most pressing questions during an October Ask Me Anything. Cheekbone-polishing parties with Matt Smith and Tom Hiddleston, what lies beneath his robe, and his weirdest fan encounter were just some of the AMA's hot topics.

Benedict broke the Internet yet again in December, but this time via Twitter. He brought his A game to a Q&A with fans to promote The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (in which, we might add, he is excellent).

The disciples of BBC One's hit show starring geek favorite Benedict Cumberbatch turned the leading character's signature stance into a meme.

Sherlocking is the act of pressing one's fingertips together and holding this prayer-like pose against the lips or beneath the chin, preferably while lying down and practicing the art of deducing, scheming, or both. It's like planking without the ab workout, and it went viral.

In October's The Fifth Estate, Benedict fully embodies WikiLeaks editor in chief Julian Assange. His compelling performance does not take away from the issue at hand: is privacy possible in this increasingly digital world?

The father of computer science, Alan Turing, will finally have his story told in The Imitation Game (hits theaters in 2014), which cast Benedict as its leading man in September. Computer science and Cumberbatch? Two of our favorite things.