It takes time and money to develop writers and filmmakers, and it takes bold greenlighting decisions to birth projects that can cut through the noise. Succession de HBO, tiene muchas posibilidades de sustituir a Game of Thrones como la serie favorita por los Premios de la Academia de Artes y Ciencias de la Televisin de Estados Unidos. Canadians win big at the Oscars with The Shape of Water. With Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy. The show is a true accomplishment in Canadian television writing one that has not only shown that Canada is a mosaic of cultures, but that within these cultures, there are individual nuances that deserve time in the spotlight. Youre like one of those ladies who go to Montreal and then, suddenly, everything is about Montreal. Be careful, Lilllian. Tanya Tagaq, Inner Ninja by Classified feat. This timeline is loaded with essays, lists, videos and infographics (plus 70-odd reflections on moments big and small from our Anne-iversaries columnist Anne T. Donahue). 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. Emily Kai Bock directs Grimess iconic video for Oblivion, When Montreal-based director Emily Kai Bock joined forces with Grimes (born Claire Boucher) and cinematographer Evan Prosofsky for the video for Oblivion, the trio likely had no idea that their limited budget and simple premise would garner 200,000 views in just a few days. ), but there were a few clear oversights on the Academys part when it came to nominating Canuck excellence in the 2010s. Based on the iconic graphic novel series by Bryan Lee OMalley, director Edgar Wrights Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a love letter to a city that often plays dress-up. When it comes to the top-grossing movies of the decade, theres not much in the way of variety. Before the Group of Seven (and others of their ilk) started trying to make visual sense of our forests and waters, too many Canadian artists vision of our landscape was borrowed from European painting tradition and idealized our surroundings while making colonialism look romantic. The commission gave 94 calls to action that would help Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada move toward reconciliation for these atrocities, and number 83 called on the Canada Council for the Arts to establish, as a funding priority, a strategy for Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists to undertake collaborative projects and produce works that contribute to the reconciliation process. The Canada Council for the Arts responded by creating the {Re}conciliation Initiative in 2015, which funded collaborative arts projects between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists and communities. By the end of the 2010s, The Simpsons will have aired 678 episodes, making it by far the longest-running American sitcom. She didnt take up a lot of space. After wrapping her 16-year on/off Vegas gig this past June (a fact: the residency was only supposed to last three years), shes gone on to embark on a 50-plus city tour across North America in support of her new album, Courage, and win the affections of anyone with an affinity for couture fashion, eccentricity and stirring renditions of My Heart Will Go On (in other words, anybody with a pulse). As Buddy Cole, the iconic (and infamous) character from The Kids in the Hall, Scott Thompson has earned everything from fans praise to critics vitriol. Billboard 200 chart, a first in 17 years (and an achievement a decade in the making). The Fortress Mountain Resort in Kananaskis stands in for a snowy nightmare maze. Canada kicked off the 2010s with three straight nominations for best foreign language film (Incendies, Monsieur Lazhar and War Witch), but it very much deserved one more in 2014 when it submitted Xavier Dolans Mommy. Off they went with their new beautiful-people families, while we stood in the window waving lovingly and slightly nervously. By the end of the following month, it had sold more than 160,000 units on iTunes and its accompanying music video had been viewed more than 4.5 million times. 6 Tatiana Maslany Is Married. Is he accepting reality or holding on to his illusions, content to replay the memories of an old romance? Alas, a star was born. Since then, its become something to look forward to come (early, early) springtime (or late, late winter) in Canada, and its gotten even bigger thanks to the introduction of Canadian Screen Week, which allows for even more time and attention for well-deserved Canadian productions. Tanya Talaga wins the RBC Taylor Prize for her first book, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City. During her rise, her voice was as powerful as her bad taste (or that of her entourage), and she was dismissed as the most bland person on the stage of 1998s VH1 Divas Live concert. Tatiana Maslany knows from playing multiple roles on the same TV series. Tatiana Maslany, best known for the clone thriller "Orphan Black," joins the Marvel universe with "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.". Now finished, the temples curved wings fold together to create a dome of glass, marble and steel and it glows from within come nightfall. Winner of best picture at the 90th Academy Awards, it was also the most-nominated film of the year. Today, Canadian libraries and museums even a pedestrian bridge are earning international attention. CBC Arts first covered its construction in 2016, when we visited the building site in the foothills of the Andes outside Santiago. typically makes headlines for all the wrong reasons. Read: theyre friendly! According to the thread, he tried to jump-start her car, and when that failed, he called a tow truck and drove the woman home, giving her his number and telling her to call him if she needed anything. Artist and educator Jason Baerg discusses the impact abstract artist Alex Janvier has had on the art world in the past 10 years. A quirky catharsis according to The Guardian. Turns out, the then-82-year-old was away staying with her daughter in Victoria at the time of the revelation. pulled it off when a YouTube video called Pig rescues baby goat became an international sensation. Maki worked with Moriyama & Teshima Architects on the project a firm responsible for several Canadian cultural institutions, including the Canadian War Museum and the Ontario Science Centre. 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. TORONTO - Catherine O'Hara, Sidney Crosby and Tatiana Maslany are among the stars set to appear at the Canadian Screen Awards. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the most-viewed video on YouTube until Psys Gangnam Style surpassed it in November of 2012. Named CELINUNUNU, the collection replaces baby blue and hot pink with a palette that equates neutrality and gloom: black, grey and a touch of green. Ten years ago she made the decision that so many of us dream about: she quit her day job and decided to pursue her passion. 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. Cline Dionat the Met Gala? 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. You Want It Darker was a game-changing exercise in listening as Cohen reconciles who hes become with who he once was, and reflects on the peace thats necessary in navigating even the final chapter of ones life a brave, insightful gift to us all. Released in September, it went on to win the 2019 Man Booker Prize alongside Bernardine Evaristos Girl, Woman, Other and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, because of course. Now this is how you close out a decade. Girls. And since Indigenous peoples supposed lack of history, art, politics, science, medicine and culture was often used to excuse Canadas systematic attempts to wipe out our nations, this sort of erasure had concrete effects on our lives. The plan: Get brand recognition by turning an indie cafe into the worlds first parody Starbucks. Heres one reason: her silence is golden. a boyfriend. Well, obviously, she experienced a lot of personal growth, but also: Orphan Black ran for five seasons, winning her four consecutive Canadian Screen Awards for her performances. (while they themselves borrowed from Scandinavian landscapes) gave us a truly modern language for the Canadian wild that has become a signature of our own art history. (So youre welcome, and congrats to us all.) So, he invents a Bachelor-style reality show. Turns out, Tegan and Sara can do anything but true blue fans already knew that. Workshopped in Oakville, Ont., Come From Away made its official premiere in San Diego before eventually taking over the world (and providing an opportunity for Justin Trudeau to spend an evening with Ivanka Trump, but lets forget about that). (Some of us miss the graffiti. Videos of Reeves interacting with his fellow stranded passengers picked up speed (get it?) We don't want to seem greedy (that'd go against the Canadian stereotype, right? What is more heartening is their relatively recent acknowledgment of the role Indigenous art has played and continues to play in historical and contemporary culture. Catharsis, Im telling ya. If you drew a Venn diagram of yoga and rad buildings and bonkers natural beauty, Instagram would definitely be the term in the middle. Farmers work A way out of the mirror was an ode to fountains and their monumentalizing and memorializing qualities. Supposedly hired for a scheme that never plays out, Nathan keeps calling her, and she is, in a way, an ideal match. The show is simply titled Celine and one of the posters shows her exposed back with the unsubtle tagline: Celines Back. Her fashion choices, supervised by longtime stylist and creative director Annie Horth, prove of better taste than the marketing campaign and include Lanvin and Versace. I am here today because I am gay, he announced. Munros 2010 exhibition, Inside The Solar Temple of the Cosmic Leather Daddy, referenced the AIDS epidemic, paying homage to those who lost their lives in it while looking to figures from Egyptian history and the leather subculture of the 1970s. 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. Richard Wagameses Indian Horse is published. (But thats two years from now, so lets move on.). She leaves everything on the mic on this song, so it figures that her fellow Canadians ate it up. 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. While in Arkansas, Nathan starts seeing an escort named Maci. and starring Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Aubrey Plaza, Brie Larson and Chris Evans, the movie unapologetically pays tribute to city icons like Lees Palace, Casa Loma and Honest Eds (may it rest in peace). In 2017, he again produced and starred in a LGBTQ-themed film, this time the romantic drama My Days of Mercy with openly queer director Tali Shalom-Ezer. Lest I sound less than impressed, Im not. (Hi! Even better (and more relevant to 2019), two years after the records release, Shania announced plans for a 23-date Las Vegas residency, where shell be playing well into 2020. Frankly, few of us will ever see anything like it again. Universally panned, just like the bestselling books that spawned it, Fifty Shades was nevertheless a phenomenon. What motivates people to believe the most obvious, calculated lie, despite all evidence to the contrary? And it reflected not only his own headspace, but the dark, sad feelings that became synonymous with a year that ended with the election of U.S. President Trump and all that he stood for. And this decade, she actually proved it. Where were you when you first heard Baby when, despite your better judgment and years of ingrained cynicism, it oozed into your psyche and began redefining your relationship with pop as you knew it? To channel a bit of Umma and Appa from Kims Convenience, all of this was a very big deal!. But then, in January 2019, she did something even better: she teamed up with Andy Samberg to host the Golden Globes and succeeded at making them the absolute best. The decade begins auspiciously for French-language cinema and its only le tip de liceberg. And it includes names like Elle-Mij Tailfeathers, Kathleen Hepburn, Jeff Barnaby, Albert Shin, Johnny Ma, Jasmin Mozaffari, Andrew Cividino, Stephen Dunn, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Matt Johnson and Kazik Radwanski (to name just a few). Co-production treaties are activated left, right and centre. Because honestly, its not too often that a brand-new actor ends up fronting a movie that earns a goddamn billion. By showing something as little as a flick on the forehead, Kims Convenience has helped the rest of the world understand Asian family dynamics better. Two great entries in the canon of celebrities picking slightly random names for their children, if you ask me. The Venice Biennale is important (as I argued in a recent episode of Art 101). ; Elvis Stojko; Manitoba Sauce Cake; suburban Ottawa; and, of course, maple syrup and poutine. By tailoring her persona to different cultures America, Quebec, France, Japan she IS the epitome of an international star. But despite global success, Dion was never cool. And thats a really big deal. At the tail-end of this decade, right when we need it most, Alanis has turned Jagged Little Pill into a musical with a book written by Diablo Cody. (The fact that that scene isnt already gay canon is, to me, a greater outrage than any Emmy snub.). 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. The sharp exterior walls make it an unmistakable landmark, visible from the Don Valley Parkway, and the angles create a sort of sundial effect throughout the day. (Raves one woman after the show: Its so nothing in a way, but incredibly profound. Like the most beautiful flowers that grow in the darkest of places, the Canadian drag scene in the 2010s has blossomed in ways that I dont think anyone could have ever predicted. Its also incredible how hungry Canadians have been for Indigenous art and stories once the government actually started to write us back into our collective history and institutions actually featured our work. Crushingly, Richard Wagamese passed away in March of that year. A heist movie where the robbers break into dreams, Leonardo DiCaprio leads an all-star cast (including Halifaxs Ellen Page). Live from New York, its Saturday night! And starting in 2017, Lees hilarious work paid off when he won back-to-back Canadian Screen Awards, reaffirming that when minority creatives have space to tell their own stories, the world responds positively and audiences are left wanting more. And similar to the Temple of Light in Santiago, this structure is a light-filled dome in the wilderness. But its followup single, the wholesome What I Wouldnt Do, only enjoyed real success in Canada. This answer and the Vegas-inspired gold dress with a chandelier-sized headpiece make her a winner of the night, topping her fantastic 2017 appearance. It couldnt be more obvious than on mid-tempo anthem Imperfections, where Dion sings that she has her own you guessed it imperfections. She . Silence that ranges from contemplative to evoking sheer terror is kind of my jam. Discussing homegrown artists who break out internationally is always tricky. Baroness von Sketch Shows Aurora Browne talks about how Tanya Talagas investigative book Seven Fallen Feathers opened her eyes to Thunder Bays past and present treatment of Indigenous communities. Browse Aaron Poole movies and TV shows available on Prime Video and begin streaming right away to your favorite device. Well, he nailed it. 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. Rachel McAdams gets an Oscar nomination for Spotlight, (New Line Cinema/Columbia Pictures/Plan B Entertainment). But in 2018, he took it on an international tour. Im going to call you Cher from now on. This stunning drag queen who towered over me, teetering over the edge of that platform was talking to me. Par exemple: Regina King deservedly won an Oscar for her work in Barry Jenkinss If Beale Street Could Talk, an adaptation of the 1974 novel by James Baldwin, but somehow she was the films only acting nominee. When one actor paraded around bare-assed (boxers pulled up into his butt crack for comedic effect) between takes of Tats big crying scene, she like any great Canadian artist, pre-2010 took her bottled-up biliousness and put it into the work, delivering a performance (real tears!) "Peter Moosebridge" steals scenes in Zootopia. Its no problem: the crew will focus on getting a cool drone shot, instead. She has a passion for romance and seems intrigued by the way it ignites vulnerability and inspires transformation. The film follows a family dominated by Black women who are forced to confront secrets that have been hidden for decades when a man shows up at their door and promptly falls dead. 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? Indigenous filmmakers also brought some of the most affecting stories to our screens; a new wave of filmmakers revitalized the indie scene while veterans got called to work on some of the biggest series on Earth; and gender parity became a serious priority with the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements. Halfway through 2019, a series of pictures of the actor holding his hand inches away from the backs of women he took pictures with (including Dolly Parton!) Of all the instant classics this decade produced, horror movies were some of the best: Get Out, The Babadook, Crimson Peak. Toronto drag queen Brooke Lynn Hytes finishes second on the 11th season of RuPauls Drag Race. Carly followed that by releasing her own video for the song, and it has since been viewed over one billion times. Whod have thought it would be the start of a career equally as prolific and powerful? The shows always been building to this point.). ), Kent Monkmans Shame and Prejudice debuts in Toronto. The lyrics are classic, straightforward Cline, referencing her ongoing claim that she is now the boss of her career: Im flying on my own / On the wings of your love () / The warmer winds will carry me / Anywhere I want them to / If you could see what I can see / That nothing's blocking my view. Is she singing about her late husband and manager no longer controlling all aspects of her life? 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. So here goes: heralded as the No. In customary Monkman fashion, the figures in this canvas spread through every quadrant an echo of the desperation of all of the family members trying to keep their children close. But its exciting that even in the era of viral videos, the audience went wild for dance, for classical music and for a corner of the arts world that, unfairly, gets so overlooked. When did you finally accept that our homegrown pop music could be synonymous with having fun? And the supernatural mystery of the plot ultimately crescendos into a finale thats pure horror and ecstasy all at once. Let there be light so, so much light. We were all afraid of this project, but what we discovered in the process is a kind of joy in the act of creation, to make something out of such a tragic event. (The tour may be over, but the show lives on in a beautifully filmed BBC production, which you can watch on the streaming service Marquee TV.). Alanis Nadine Morissette, where have you been? Thankfully, Canadians get the band all to ourselves. With her Asian glow jokes and speaking Korean on stage, she oh-so solidified her spot as a Canadian queen I will forever stan. In the 2010s, it isnt that we earned the right to voice our opinion, stand up for our work and stop saying sorry its that we realized wed had that right all along. Shell return to star as Judy Robinson in the second season of the Netflix remake of Lost in Space. Hes 78 and lives alone. The period language is alien. She also went on to win the Juno Award for Aboriginal album of the year. This was truly the decade of the Reevesaissance, with the Canadian icon starring in a number of action films and three smash John Wick movies and winning the internets heart along the way. Welcome to Betroffenheit, the soul-searing, genre-defying collaboration between choreographer Crystal Pite and playwright and performer Jonathon Young that stormed the stages of the worlds performing arts centres in the mid-2010s, leaving audiences harrowed, healed and breathless in its wake. Villeneuve also dove into sci-fi with Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, while Valle went on to participate in giving television its current Golden Age status with Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects. For her entire career, shes been accused of being juvenile and psychobabble-y in her writing, but its what makes her great. Noah 40 Shebib is nominated for two best rap song Grammys in the same year, Photographer Norman Wong talks about the impact music producer Noah 40 Shebib has had on crafting the Toronto sound., Nathan Fielder opens Dumb Starbucks in Los Angeles. We were too, Stephen. We didnt know back then, but the years 2008 to 2015 (roughly from Lady Gagas The Fame to Adeles 25) were decidedly a golden age for female pop. She ended the aughts like she ended the 90s: telling the world how much being a mother was her real calling. Thats over-simplifying things a touch, but this art museum was designed to be at one with nature. The result? A few examples: The next time Tat and I were together on set was 10 years later, when I directed her in a short film I wrote called Apart From Everything. She later took over the lead role in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical from Tony winner Jessie Mueller, and has since played King in more than 1,000 performances between the Broadway and Toronto productions of the show and its U.S. national tour. Fortunately, for fans of the blue people (who are not to be confused with the Blue Man Group), James Cameron has been talking about plans for multiple Avatar followups since 2010 and has four sequels in the works because why wouldnt he. Its Leonardo DiCaprio versus the wilderness the Canadian wilderness. ), 2015 saw an influx of younger talent who learned to utilize the internet to build momentum, communities and connections all while creating catchy, unique sounds that have come to define several genres. It evoked emotions many of us hadnt felt since junior high and tapped into a nostalgia that ended up defining the decade in its own way. But Furtado can rest easy knowing she dropped a seriously fun single that resonated in her native country. Youre going to freak people out, but youll probably connect with them too, and thats an amazing feeling to have. Im ready for a Domee Shiwritten and directed full-length feature any time. 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. Canadas premier pop punk darlings went full pop with this single. He originated the role of the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webbers 2010 musical Love Never Dies, and has played leading roles in the West End production of its long-running prequel, Phantom of the Opera. Still, Dion is still more queen of corny than queen of cool. The rest of Canada is arguably more culturally open than Quebec (Im looking at you, Bill 21) but has yet to truly tap into its multitude of storytelling options and voices. These butt-covering details can turn a Byzantine act of deception into a Byzantine act of deception thats legal and over four seasons of semantic manipulation, Dumb Starbucks remains NFYs most celebrated moment. The group had spent most of the summer on their Man Machine Poem tour, which kicked off in Victoria in July and ended in their hometown of Kingston, Ont., where the sold-out crowd was joined by more than 11 million fans who tuned in to join them. What do we tell him? ), 57 artists come together to raise money for Haiti with Wavin Flag. Acclaimed but never a smash, its the rarest of comic book adaptations: a movie thats lovingly faithful to the source material. Also? ), The inaugural Canadian Screen Awards arrive. Breathtaking. And he didnt just come out: making good on the promise of that speech, he spent the rest of the decade using his celebrity to amplify LGBTQ stories and other LGBTQ artists. Comedy Central wants him to promote the new season, he explains, but unlike other celebrities, he doesnt have a wild and fabulous story to share. The prize: a trip to Reynoldss hometown. Over the last 10 years, Canadian artists have been storming the world stage like never before in music, film and TV, literature, visual art, dance, theatre and everything in between. The heartwarming show went on to earn seven Tony nominations, winning one for best direction of a musical. Tegan and Sara used Heartthrob, their (quite amazing) seventh album, to wade further into the waters of pop and earned the praise of fans, critics and anyone lucky enough to hear it as a result. It also led to the release of her followup, The Sun and Her Flowers, but were not talking about 2017 (yet). (In my mind, we are best friends.) I cannot think of a better way to end this decade than with the promise of her musical return. When Everything, Everything was released on May 19, 2017, it made Canadian director Stella Meghie the only Black woman to have a wide release studio-backed feature film for the year. Dutchers victory was historic for a few reasons: a member of the Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick, he was the first East Coast artist ever to take home the Polaris and he recorded the album using 100-year-old wax cylinder recordings of songs in traditional Wolastoq, which is a language spoken by fewer than 100 people. If its successful, hell make a hero out of a stranger: a random dude (Corey Calderwood) who lets Nathan assume his identity and, you know, carry out the plot. I doubt its a coincidence. And I loved every minute of iteven if I had no idea who the fuck she was.

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