How can we explain their sweeping success and the resonance of their work? He also appeared in Waitress and Rock of Ages before originating the role of Sonny in the Broadway musical premiere of A Bronx Tale. Whose advice can you believe? After establishing herself as a queen of quick wit and cutting observations during her 12 years as a correspondent on The Daily Show, Bee drew even more cultural clout as the American election came to a close and attracted her ire. Fast forward almost 40 years and the Charlemagne, Que., native is on her way to achieving that goal. As the lead single off Biebers first full-length album, My World 2.0, its lyrics were simple (Oh, for you, I wouldve done whatever / And I just cant believe we aint together), its melody was easy to sing along with and its catchiness made it an aggressive earworm that could quickly convince anybody listening that it was the greatest song in the world. In the last weeks of 2019, the My Heart Will Go On singer is enjoying the peak of a mid-life renaissance fueled by millennials nostalgia for less complicated times, her Vogueapproved status as a fashion icon and social medias appetite for self-deprecating yet wholesome celebrities. I have yet to be asked to guest star. SCHITT'S CREEK, also a multi-CSA winner which just premiered in its third season, follows closely in second with 13 nominations, while KIM'S . CNN called him a national treasure because of it, and he further cemented his status as the internets wholesome boyfriend. And this preoccupation continued into the 2010s, notably with the 2011 episode Royal Pudding. Clearly parodying the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, it centres around the wedding of the prince of Canada. During the ceremony, the princes bride is suddenly abducted, leading people all over Canada to kill themselves in despair and Rush to perform their own version of Candle in the Wind.. Any ideas I had about how our relationship might affect the work that she might be a pushover or do whatever I told her, just because were friends were unfounded. I doubt its a coincidence. Like Saskatoon before it, Calgary found itself on the Timess 52 places list in 2019, but the star attraction downtowns new Central Library has earned more than the sweet, sweet international attention of the Gray Lady. I am one of those ladies. Were people interested in exercise tips or Jacks tales of jungle children? From Monkman to Margaret (Atwood), Bieber to ballet, Keanu to Come from Away, CBC Arts presents an unapologetic celebration of a decade of outsized achievement. And, more often than you might realize, those fantasy worlds on screenwere actually somewhere in Canada. She earned an Emmy for the role in September. Meanwhile, the films produced in Quebec this decade by great French-Canadian auteurs like Monia Chokri, Anne mond, Sophie Goyette, Myriam Verreault, Genevive Dulude-De Celles, Louise Archambault and Chlo Robichaud should mean that we never have to speak of Jean-Marc Valle again after what he did to poor Andrea Arnold. Family patriarch Logan Roy was partially raised in Quebec, and his brother Ewan still lives there. So how can I argue that Alanis matters as much now, at the end of this decade, as she did in the 90s? The thought of this might have sent fashion insiders into a tailspin just a few years ago. Because regardless of whether the Emmys take notice, its going to make great TV. Once upon a time, your boomer aunt wasnt obsessed with building her personal brand on Instagram but social medias defined the decade, and as a result, weve all learned to sell ourselves (or at least feel very worried if we arent). Many of these artists first and second features were noticed fast, and came at a time when world cinema and film festivals were more influential than they had ever been, right before the content boom were now experiencing. Munro was a celebrated visual artist known not only for his provocative (and endearing) works centered around handmade Y-front briefs but also for his creation of spaces like Vazaleen and Torontos The Beaver, which became safe hubs for the LGBTQ+ community. Six years earlier, Youngs 14-year-old daughter and her two cousins died in a cabin fire on a family vacation in the B.C. Nominated for an Oscar, it clinched the Grammy for best R&B performance. More than a decade after the release of Mordecai Richlers Giller Prizewinning novel Barneys Version, the story of a man, his three marriages and the disappearance of his friend Boogie was brought to the big screen on Dec. 24 by director Richard J. Lewis and screenwriter Michael Konyves. I felt confident in myself knowing that if I ever wanted to find love, I could just create a fake reality show all over again., The plan: Reach an untapped market: the 50 per cent of people who believe in ghosts.. With Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy. It was designed by Patkau Architects, and the Vancouver firm went on to win a Governor Generals Medal in Architecture in 2018 for its work. And all three of those were shot in B.C. We leave behind the industrial room and theatrical costumes, and now its just Young and the five dancers in rehearsal sweats, offering a series of ravishing meditations-in-dance on trauma, hope, support and the painstaking, repetitive work of recovery. Tanya Tagaq, Inner Ninja by Classified feat. The teen romance starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson was only Meghies second feature film, but it made Hollywood and the rest of the world sit up and pay attention to this visionary from the north as she broke barriers for Black Canadian female filmmakers. Born in Colombia and raised in Toronto, Sergio Trujillo became one of Broadways most sought-after choreographers this decade. Among the highlights? I like sci-fi mostly the quiet kind, where people are stuck in space alone with maybe one book or maybe zero books. Her second EP, Being Human in Public, was nominated for a Grammy, and shes penned songs for the likes of Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa and Sam Smith. Again with the bunker, Lillian says. Its incredibly hard to describe alternative drag succinctly. A smile crept across Colberts face he was left speechless. On Nov. 15, her new English album, Courage, even debuted at No.1 on the US Billboard 200 chart, a first in 17 years (and an achievement a decade in the making). And among those strides, Canada created its own spot for Asian representation in ways that the country had never witnessed before, allowing us to claim our place on the world stage as an example of what representation can look like and do. The St. Johns native had, of course, come to prominence thanks to his work on This Hour Has 22 Minutes and subsequent Ricks Rants, the segment in which hed walk through graffitied alleys and, well, rant about whatever nonsense our prime minister and any other relevant soul was up to. I know that the ones who love us will miss us, he replied earnestly. Im pretty sure I wrote an essay about it in university. Where theres a loophole, theres a way. Its a dubious honour on both accounts and points to the wide array of work that needs to be done not only in Hollywood but also here at home. The reality is that, despite the success of Indigenous artists prior to 2015, there wasnt a national push to both recognize and, more importantly, fund Indigenous artists until the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) released its final report in December of that year. ), Kent Monkmans Shame and Prejudice debuts in Toronto. The best weight loss systems usually have a charismatic fitness guru behind the brand, so Nathan hires a random bodybuilder named Jack to play the part, booking him a slew of TV appearances. But since the storys set in a near-future dystopia, spots including Nanton, Fort Macleod and Lethbridge got a dustbowl makeover. Last name Ever, first name Greatest, his birth name was Aubrey Drake Graham and he was now our 6ix God even if we didnt know it yet. Its iconic intro (Testing, testing / Im just suggesting) wormed its way into the ears of the country when it was dropped in 2011 as the lead single to the bands third album Ever After. In the episode, Nathan reveals his involvement at a press conference, and its the happiest hes ever been: My business was not only a bona fide success, but for the first time in my life it felt like people actually wanted to be around me. And Grey Enterprises? For her entire career, shes been accused of being juvenile and psychobabble-y in her writing, but its what makes her great. Who among us really thought that Schitts Creek a 30-minute comedy series created by and starring Canadian treasures Dan and Eugene Levy (and co-starring the equally treasured likes of Catherine OHara and Annie Murphy) would go on to earn a (still) growing international fanbase, a slew of Emmy nominations and praise for its inclusive and heartwarming storylines? ), The plan: Nathan will beat his fear of the opposite sex by dating not one, but 10 women at the same time.. In 2012, this Degrassi: The Next Generation graduate made his Broadway debut in the now-infamous Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, acting as the alternate for the titular role. ), The National Gallery of Canada presents a landmark survey of global Indigenous art, Annie Pootoogook Cape Dorset Freezer (Dorset Fine Arts/National Gallery of Canada), Canadas institutions tokenized, ignored or exoticized Indigenous art for a really long time. No doubt, Asian-Canadian representation in the 2010s was stellar. Starring Dolans muses Anne Dorval and Suzanne Clment as the mother and tutor of a troubled teen with violent tendencies (Antoine-Olivier Pilon), its Dolans magnum opus: hilarious, heartbreaking and extremely well acted. She has a tattoo of James Stewart's silhouette on her wrist. Thats where The Hunk cracks the show open. He starred in the critically acclaimed play This Is Our Youth in 2014, and then earned a Tony nomination in 2018 for his role as Jeff in Lobby Hero. Ren-Charles, the couples first son, was born on Jan. 25, 2001. largely in the Vancouver area, where fans were known to mob sets (and sign up for location tours). A quirky catharsis according to The Guardian. Chandler Levack is a writer and a filmmaker who is currently existing in Toronto. Tat was sweet. And putting aside quacks like Egon Spengler, the science is on my side. I like to picture him in it now, surveying his legacy (this artist was also my dear friend). What motivates people to believe the most obvious, calculated lie, despite all evidence to the contrary? In the 2010s, Keanu Reeves graduated from brooding 90s action movie superstar to beloved cult hero. He might not say it out loud, but the characters real KPI is friendship, and what, besides money, is a bigger motivation than the power of love? Elliot Page comes out at the Human Rights Campaign Foundations inaugural Time to Thrive conference. lang and Sarah McLachlan were heralded as ceremonial triumphs. You might have noticed a little trend on your TV screens (or laptops or phones) in the past 10 years: our neighbours to the south seem really into us. A post shared by Cline Dion (@celinedion) on May 2, 2017 at 8:32am PDT. A man lies unconscious, or dead, in the most strangely peaceful detail of the scene, as we hope the two teens running away in the distance make it to some kind of safety. Where traditional drag can be viewed as a card in which one side says female and the other says male, many think drag is simply flipping that card. Xavier Dolan is hot off of proving hes no one-hit wonder with his sophomore feature Les amours imaginaires (Heartbeats), the stylish followup to his sensational debut Jai tu ma mre (I Killed My Mother). Videos of Reeves interacting with his fellow stranded passengers picked up speed (get it?) Can Alanis hear me? of 46-year-old artist Alexandra Grant, and the internet revelled in the knowledge that the actor was romantically linked to someone who was close to his age. Theres no easy epiphany at the end of Betroffenheit only the promise of engaging once again with the world. I fantasize regularly about the Oscars not just retrospectively giving Mommy a best foreign language film nomination, but Dorval and Clment acting nominations as well. It felt like we could learn from old industry mistakes. Canada has been heavily featured in South Park since it started back in 1997 (even more than in The Simpsons). Fan theories about the control that her late husband and manager Ren Anglil had over her career abound. Say hello to art, culture and a metric truckload of eye candy in our newsletter. Now this is how you close out a decade. But he doesnt always explain social insecurities with the same painfully literal detail as one of his business plans. Its incredible how quickly these same institutions that shut us out changed their tunes and got on board once they realized we could not only get them awards recognition but also make them money. And while Inside The Solar Temple would be his last show, it was emblematic of his incredible energy and a prophecy of his impact on future artists. And it worked. Her takeover has only just begun, and I for one cant wait to see what she does in the next decade. Hosted by Martin Short, the inaugural Canadian Screen Awards offered prizes for film, television and digital storytelling (which hadnt been covered by the Geminis or the Genies), and raked in 756,000 viewers, which is around double the number of people who watched the Geminis or Genies the previous year. Ultimately, they get her address through some old-fashioned library research but in the episodes heartbreaking climax, Bill cant summon the courage to ring the doorbell. But her biggest hit, Figures, didnt really perform commercially outside of the Toronto singer-songwriters home country. Once upon a time, Cline Dion had one dream: to become an international star. And anyone who thinks its screenplay is less worthy of an Oscar nomination than Craig Borten and Melisa Wallacks dangerously problematic script for another Canadian-directed film that doesnt need to be named deserves a big slap from Rihanna. And he isn't showing any signs of slowing down: this year, McAnuff garnered a Tony nomination for directing the musical Aint Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations. Your renaissance is complete. Off they went with their new beautiful-people families, while we stood in the window waving lovingly and slightly nervously. To channel a bit of Umma and Appa from Kims Convenience, all of this was a very big deal!. A flash goes off, and disembodied voices start to ring out , What do we say? And that doesnt just mean coming out anymore: it means ensuring less privileged or famous creative queer folks get a chance to thrive, or using opportunities on public stages (like Page sure did on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this year) to remind people it is not OK that we live in a society where homophobia and transphobia still exist so violently. Still, few could have anticipated how quickly Atwoods latest instalment would break sales records, selling more print copies in its first week than any other Canadian book has since BookNet Canada began tracking sales in 2005. Plus, where the movies only scored Razzies, their soundtracks were winners. The Handmaids Tale wins big at the Emmys. If theres a Platonic ideal of a TV host, he is its opposite, and while Im enough of a weirdo to find the notion of an anti-Seacrest appealing, the effect is discomfiting to most. The mere fact that someone was able to light the internet on fire in 2019 by writing a review of a record thats almost 25 years old tells you just how powerful this album is. But as we soon learn, he has taken care of everything: the wake is televised and in May, Dion releases a cover of the Queen song The Show Must Go On to emphasize that she will keep working, whatever happens. And after debuting at 95 on the Billboard Hot 100, it found its way to the top of the charts and became Caras first top-five single (marking the beginning of her ascension through the pop ranks). The movie was the 10th highest grossing picture of the year, worldwide. And the results were a group effort: 57 artists including Drake, Justin Bieber and Nelly Furtado appeared on the track, with money earned going toward charities in Haiti such as Free the Children, War Child Canada and World Vision. Darlene Naponses short story She is Water became a finalist for the 2017 Journey Prize after appearing in this issue. A dream come true! The film went on to become a box office triumph and, notably, the first comic book movie ever to score a nomination for best picture at the Golden Globes. Nods to the Canadian penny; Drummondville, Que. Crystal Pite and Jonathon Youngs dance sensation Betroffenheit wraps up its global tour in Montreal, A man is sitting hunched in the corner of a bare concrete room, head in his hands, as electrical cables, literal live wires held together by duct tape, unspool themselves around him. And when movie-goers gambled on something fresh, they chose sci-fi dark and puzzling but still explosion-packed sci-fi, like Christopher Nolans Inception. Her Disney Plus series, which ends its first season this week, found ways to combine comedy with superhero romance. I was immediately taken back to moments when I was a child and my parents probably wanted to flick me on the head for doing something trivial in public (Asian kid problems). I would get to know this person, work with them sometimes on that very stage. In a 2019 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Reeves admitted that he had a schoolboy crush on co-star Sandra Bullock while they were filming the 1994 bus thriller. It only took 19 years and a show in which she played 11 different characters (thats the number she gave me, so dont @ me, Clone Club) to effectively showcase the depth and breadth of her talent. Traditionally, mainstream drag has always focused on passability, meaning to pass realistically as the opposite of your assigned or expressed daily gender. Of course, being the obedient little 20-year-olds we were, not only did we do it, we head-butted each other on the first take and then profusely apologized. 1 on the Billboard 200. Its trickier still when it comes to Quebec filmmakers. The series took home the Golden Globe for best television limited series and led to individual wins for stars Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern and Alexander Skarsgrd, as well as a plethora of Emmys. And his exhibit took full advantage of the interstitial state of the pavilion there was no roof, few walls and a definite feeling that the structure was about to take a new shape. As a viewer, it becomes increasingly hard to keep the facts straight. This is the capitalistic reality behind all art: marginalized artists work will always be considered niche when arts institutions, publishers and galleries continue to treat it as niche. ), she went for it with me. She didnt take up a lot of space. Thats just the basic formula, but from the first episode, NFY was engineering something grander than a five-year troll. Twain fan: lifes about to get good. Pallett and Butler ended up earning an Academy Award nomination for best original score, and while they lost out to Gravity, not even Sandra Bullocks hair in that movie can make us cry the way Palletts music still can. After conquering YouTube and the publishing world, Torontos Lilly Singh turned her sights to late-night TV this past September and made her debut with A Little Late with Lilly Singh, NBCs replacement for Last Call with Carson Daly. Seriously, you dont want to miss it. If NFYs the story of one mans quest for attention and the lies hed tell to get it then its basically just The Bachelor. It also shines its comedic light on gaps in communication that result from existing in a culture that often doesnt understand the nuances of Asian family dynamics. Spoiler? As it turns out, it also led me to a friends birthday party at the drag bar Crews and Tangos in Torontos gay village. With a few small exceptions, everything was shot in Alberta and B.C., and to capture those Rocky Mountain vistas, cinematographer Emmanuel Chivo Lubezki used nothing but natural light. By my count, Canadians were nominated for 72 Academy Awards in the 2010s, which is nothing to be sorry about. Alternative scenes in particular have exploded in Canada over the last 10 years, with huge epicentres in Vancouver, Edmonton, Montreal, and my beloved Toronto. (Said filmmaker Jasmin Mozaffari, while accepting her award for direction for her first feature Firecrackers: I think Im one of the few women to win this award; I dont think Ill be the last just watch.) Kathleen Hepburn and Elle-Mji Tailfeatherss staggeringly beautiful feature The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, then TIFF, where Ava DuVernays company Array acquired worldwide rights to the film. Sure, sureyouve been following him since his days on The Odyssey. For her titular role in Killing Eve, Oh became the first Asian woman in 39 years to win the prize for best actress in a TV drama. Based on Emma Donoghues gripping 2010 novel which follows a kidnapping and assault victim, and the escape she and her son must make from their captor the film adaptation of Room hit Canadian theatres on Oct. 23, just over a month after screening at TIFF. Go ahead and file that under things that could only happen in the 2010s. And like The Twilight Saga before it, Fifty Shadess big-screen adaptations were made in Vancouver. They dont exist. After all, it took 75 years before the first Asian person hosted the Globes. ), A Tribe Called Red release their self-titled album, Four years after first forming, the Ottawa-based A Tribe Called Red made their full-length debut with the release of their self-titled album, which went on to be longlisted for the Polaris Music Prize. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada releases 94 calls to action in their final report, You are in the midst of an Indigenous renaissance. Furthering the lasting mark of Offreds dystopian nightmare, the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwoods novel cleaned up at the 2017 Emmys, earning trophies for outstanding drama series, supporting actress (drama), lead actress (drama) and writing (drama). Nathan tells her theyll stop filming. The plan: Find an ordinary guy and transform him into a national hero.. Elliot Page is living proof of that. And when Bullock was asked afterward if she knew of any potential matches for the then-bachelor, her reply came quickly: "He doesn't need anybody's help. (Keandra?). And Im not just talking about their infatuation with Schitts Creek. Before 2013, Canadas primary film and television awards worked much like their American counterparts: the film-honouring Genies were our Oscars, while the television-centric Geminis were like the Canadian Emmys. Admittedly, despite the attention given to Guillaume Ct the choreographer and principal dancer of the National Ballet of Canada who also starred in the film Lost in Motion didnt change the distribution game. Canadian drag much like much Canadian pop culture has often occupied a smaller sibling position next to the general epicentre that is the United States. The waxy ashen faces of nuns, RCMP officers and priests are in ghastly contrast to the pained expressions of the women and children. There were hugs, claps and plenty of cheers on the set of the sci-fi series "Orphan Black" on Thursday as cast and crew members learned star Tatiana Maslany had scored a Golden Globe nomination. Munro has written 14 collections of short stories, which I suggest we all read out loud together this holiday season. Thats over-simplifying things a touch, but this art museum was designed to be at one with nature. Like the hungry overachievers we are, we then succeeded wildly, all over your face. But connect it did. At the time, I had been performing drag myself for just over a month, and it was making me feel on top of the world. Nathan visits real entrepreneurs. Operatic soprano Barbara Hannigan achieved a professional and life milestone when she was awarded the 2018 Rolf Schock Prize for Musical Arts at a ceremony in Stockholm in October.