The Illinois-born, Ontario-raised director won his first Tony Award in 1985 for directing Big River and has had a storied career ever since. She earned an Emmy for the role in September. Inspired by the true story of an 1820s frontiersman, The Revenant ultimately won DiCaprio his first acting Oscar and would claim best drama honours at the Golden Globes that same year. . Amy Harrity for The New York Times. It was later nominated for eight Canadian Screen Awards. Were all for his relationship with Alexandra Grant, but its hard not to dream about a Sandanu. 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 went for it with me. So to the Asian kid crunching on shrimp chips while watching Marvel movies: your world is about to change. Absolutely check it out. The phenomenal success of productions like Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen launched the continents premier stage destination into a bold new era. (But thats two years from now, so lets move on.). He also appeared in Waitress and Rock of Ages before originating the role of Sonny in the Broadway musical premiere of A Bronx Tale. pulled it off when a YouTube video called Pig rescues baby goat became an international sensation. Family patriarch Logan Roy was partially raised in Quebec, and his brother Ewan still lives there. It couldnt be more obvious than on mid-tempo anthem Imperfections, where Dion sings that she has her own you guessed it imperfections. Throughout, the dancers move like caged animals to Pites inspired choreography, their bodies deformed and released according to the logic of the protagonists tortured journey. Fan theories about the control that her late husband and manager Ren Anglil had over her career abound. At the Oscars of fashion (which is a bad comparison because the event is a fundraiser and a vernissage, not an award ceremony, but we digress), Dion easily wins best newcomer with her performance in the celebrity video booth. A flash goes off, and disembodied voices start to ring out , What do we say? Where theres a loophole, theres a way. Hop a funicular car, and in less than a minute, a sleek glass cube will drop you in the river valley home to an extremely extensive network of trails. Culture shock ensues. Even if the story of a woman falling in love with a water monster/fish-man wasnt entirely up your alley (full disclosure: Id be more interested in it if he wore jeans), The Shape of Water became a point of Canadian pride after the crew cleaned up at the Academy Awards. Say hello to art, culture and a metric truckload of eye candy in our newsletter. 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? By 2016, we were truly lacking movies based on comic book characters. (All told, its more greenspace than 20 Central Parks.) 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. For anyone who doubted whether the CBCs Peter Mansbridge (or Uncle Peter, as he deserves to be called) would find his way into the Disney canon: how dare you/I wont forget it. Possibly! to a serious issue we should definitely have approximately 8,000 panels about until, finally, we were given the resources we deserved to thrive and succeed (thanks in part to gender parity initiatives set by the CBC and Telefilm Canada). Industry heavyweights like DallasK (Fifth Harmony), Lauv (Charli XCX), Greg Kurstin (Sia, Adele) and Jrgen Elofsson (Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson) are on board to help Dion sound as cool as her newfound fashion sense, while not alienating her base (a tall order). Since the 90s, she has been synonymous with syrupy power ballads, questionable fashion choices and a passion for golfing. (Related: I was also largely incompetent.) John Barton, former editor of The Malahat Review, described the impact this had in the afterword of the magazines first all-Indigenous issue, called Indigenous Perspectives. Barton wrote that the issue was in part inspired by a letter the British Columbia Arts Council sent to literary magazines in 2015, exhorting us not only to better represent Indigenous writers in our pages, but to involve them in our decision-making. (Basically, the B.C. (Hes the handsome star. The heartwarming show went on to earn seven Tony nominations, winning one for best direction of a musical. Other notable filming locations include Chinatown and Gastown. No one expected the films breakout star to be you guessed it Keanu Reeves. Back in 1998, Alanis gave us a song called That I Would Be Good, which became a mantra. Soon after the show premiered at Panamania, the arts and culture festival attached to the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto, rumours of its remarkable transmutation of grief into art spread far and wide. One hilarious early example comes in the first-season episode Rude Kid, when the five-year-old son of Janets white professor is misbehaving and Appa (Jung and Janets father, played by Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) instinctively flicks the boys forehead and is quickly scolded for it. At the end of the decade, Dion wanted to take time off again to have another child, but getting pregnant proved to be more difficult for her than the first time. The resulting video for the power ballad Ashes shows a heavily retouched Dion prancing on The Colosseum stage with dancer Yanis Marshall in heels and a Deadpool costume. 2015 ended on a cultural high note after Justin Bieber, The Weeknd and Drake had banner years, dominating the Billboard charts. Is he accepting reality or holding on to his illusions, content to replay the memories of an old romance? 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. When did Justin Bieber, a wee baby maestro, evolve into a national treasure? Leah Collins is the senior writer at CBC Arts. But it was still a joy when Vancouvers Ryan Reynolds tossed on some Spandex to play Deadpool, the Marvel superhero defined by his DGAF attitude, comedic timing and lust for revenge in the wake of an experiment gone wrong. Following this, they launched their first world tour, released two more albums and three EPs, and took home the award for group of the year at the 2018 Juno Awards. In 2016, Page produced and hosted the Viceland documentary series Gaycation, which explores LGBTQ cultures around the world. Alternative performers have always seen more sides to the constructs of gender in which they can play. TOP STORY The Orphan Black Star Lined Up to Star as the Marvel Attorney/Superheroine (Photo by Marvel Comics; Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images) The MCU's TV wing just got a little more badass: Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany has been tapped by Marvel to star in its Disney+ She-Hulk series, playing the leading lady who snagged super powers after sharing some of cousin Bruce Banner's . In a bit of a twist, Canadas quirkiest screen star had quite the Broadway run this decade. Say hello to art, culture and a metric truckload of eye candy in our newsletter. And Thompsons seemingly fine with all of it. With her Asian glow jokes and speaking Korean on stage, she oh-so solidified her spot as a Canadian queen I will forever stan. 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. 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. Shortly after the birth of Winter this year, Alanis posted a raw and honest blog on her website, in which she described PPD as a sneaky monkey with a machete working its way through my psyche.. Following 15 years of rants, jokes and biting political commentary, the Rick Mercer Report came to a close on April 10 and ended a distinctive era of Canadian television. Reeves and his fellow passengers were on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Burbank, Calif. when their plane had to make an emergency landing in Bakersfield over 160 kilometres away from their destination. ), 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. You can make good money having people smoke here, he tells the owner. He's good." No doubt, Asian-Canadian representation in the 2010s was stellar. Canadians Paul Austerberry, Jeffrey Melvin and Shane Vieau also nabbed the Oscar for best production design thanks to their work making Ontario stand in for 1960s-era Baltimore. But as we bid farewell to the 2010s, thats all changed: Cline Dion is the new queen of cool. Drag Race alone has had 11 regular seasons, four All-Stars seasons, two holiday specials and several spinoff series including Drag U (in which former contestants mentored and madeover new candidates every week), the Chilean show The Switch, two seasons of Drag Race Thailand and a newly finished season of Drag Race UK. Im pretty sure I wrote an essay about it in university. If NFYs the story of one mans quest for attention and the lies hed tell to get it then its basically just The Bachelor. Released in 2002, Hands Clean is Alaniss account and calling out of sexual abuse and manipulation by a music industry figure she was working with in her early pop days and the lyrics still resonate. Keanu Reeves might be a roadside hero. Hand-picked links plus the best of CBC Arts, delivered weekly. Again with the bunker, Lillian says. Born in Colombia and raised in Toronto, Sergio Trujillo became one of Broadways most sought-after choreographers this decade. Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava (who does not, to my knowledge, work for Stark Industries), both Azure and Designboom praised this downtown pedestrian/cyclist bridge as one of the worlds top architectural moments of 2012. about love and the lies we tell ourselves. Not quite yet, but there is hope. On April 16 just weeks after his 17th birthday Calgary-bred pianist Jan Lisiecki released his album of Mozart concertos as a debut for the label Deutsche Grammophon. Turns out Keanu Reeves is super respectful to women but thats not really a surprise. I say that like its a bad thing, but its really not. While there are artists who emerged from the wreckage of these schools, I mourn the loss of the artists who may have been if theyd had the support, and the Indigenous artistic movements that could have flourished if only Canada hadnt marked our nations for destruction. It was a triumphant moment of international recognition for Canadian television so triumphant that its easy to forget that at the same awards show only five years prior, Billy Eichner was screaming TATIANA MASLANY WAS SNUBBED!! 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. I cannot think of a better way to end this decade than with the promise of her musical return. And yet voters overlooked this, oh-so-questionably deciding to nominate the vastly inferior performance Rami Malek gave in Bohemian Rhapsody instead and hand him the trophy. Canadas got your back. Drake, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, Alessia Cara and Shawn Mendes all became global superstars over the course of the last 10 years, producing a slew of hits. But as we bid farewell to the 2010s, thats all changed: Cline Dion is the new queen of cool. Traditionally, mainstream drag has always focused on passability, meaning to pass realistically as the opposite of your assigned or expressed daily gender. 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. Elliot Page comes out at the Human Rights Campaign Foundations inaugural Time to Thrive conference. Shrayas beautiful words are accompanied by Juliana Neufelds illustrations, and the book earned glowing praise from publications lucky enough to review it. 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. Alanis Nadine Morissette, where have you been? The only asset left to them is a small, unsophisticated town: Schitt's Creek. But some Canadian-made songs didnt quite make the same splash outside of the country, even though they deserved that same worldwide recognition. 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 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. The truth about not only Tat, but also Dan Levy (the visionary co-creator of Schitts Creek and also a longtime friend) and other Canadian artists, is that weve always had the talent just maybe not the audacity to make it known. But of course, the seriess rare brand of genius and grit was thanks in part to Canadians Michelle MacLaren, who directed 11 episodes and served as an executive producer, and Moira Walley-Beckett, who worked on the show as both a writer and producer and earned an Emmy for outstanding writing after she penned the episode Ozymandias. They are the danger. 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. 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. But the other treasure these residencies offer is entry into a new community, insight into another place or into the state of our environment. ), The plan: Nathan will beat his fear of the opposite sex by dating not one, but 10 women at the same time.. And as 2019 comes to a close, social media is buzzing with excitement for her next film The Photograph, releasing Valentines Day 2020 and starring two of the biggest names in this current Black Hollywood Renaissance: Issa Rae and Lakeith Stanfield. Ben Lewis is an actor/writer/director from Toronto, best known for his role on the hit CW series Arrow. The whole endeavour is inherently absurd, made even more bonkers if the gambit actually works. Of course, the sisters had already broken into the mainstream thanks to an abundance of So Jealous tracks being featured on Greys Anatomy. (See: Arkells, The Sheepdogs.) 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. Crushingly, Richard Wagamese passed away in March of that year. But Furtado can rest easy knowing she dropped a seriously fun single that resonated in her native country. The Times piece called it a centrepiece of Saskatoons redeveloping riverfront, and that growth has earned the city a more recent mention: Architectural Digest named the city a top travel destination for 2019. Bills a recurring presence on the show, popping up in scams or even just visual gags, usually rambling about Microsoft and providing a little surreal colour. But how could it not? In 2017, Hulu debuted the first season of its adaptation of Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale. But two minutes in, you know the man is in trouble. And ultimately, it was like a mainline to being young again. her seven evil exes including, fun fact, the future Captain America (Chris Evans). ), Kent Monkmans Shame and Prejudice debuts in Toronto. And it reminded anybody who saw it of the cruelty inflicted by the Canadian government over the course of the last 150 years. The thought of this might have sent fashion insiders into a tailspin just a few years ago. Annie Murphy Height Weight Body Measurements Shoe Size Facts Enter Jeremy Dutcher, whose win for Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa beat out contemporaries like Alvvays and U.S. Meanwhile, Dolan became mind-bogglingly prolific and had his arthouse blockbuster moment with Mommy, then produced Adeles Hello music video and directed in Europe and the U.S. As a francophone Qubcoise living in Toronto and working in the film industry, this decade felt like watching the kids we had cared for and supported emotionally and financially for years suddenly fly the coop and leave home. 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. Think of Ari Asters Hereditary and Midsommar both, incidentally, produced by A24, the same company that distributed The Witch. 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 show was powerful, touching, heartbreaking and beautiful, as Downies gifts as a showman and speaker were put on display, and united everyone paying witness. For the last 10 years, we just wanted to perform. 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. With the release of the TRCs final report in 2015, Canadians finally had to look at the effects of their countrys actions. 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). With Falls Around Her, Darlene Naponse gave Tantoo Cardinal her first starring role in her more than 40-year-long career, which has included over 120 film and television credits. Maybe you dont really know the mans story either. While the awards have had a tendency to be hosted by white actors, Oh made history as she delivered the opening monologue onstage in a blazing red dress that Villanelle would have definitely killed for. Stompa, a storm of a song, catapulted Millbrook, Ont., singer-songwriter Serena Ryder to national and, to a certain extent, international stardom. It soon became exactly the TV show we needed to survive the rest of the decade. The score accompanied the story of Joaquin Phoenixs characters evolution from heartbroken man to even more of a heartbroken man after he falls in love with his operating systems virtual assistant (Samantha, voiced by Scarlett Johansson) which, in 2019, doesnt seem like a stretch. A post shared by Cline Dion (@celinedion) on May 2, 2017 at 8:32am PDT. It felt like we could learn from old industry mistakes. Following the decade-long obsession with Yann Martels 2001 novel Life of Pi, the story was finally released in film form in November 2012. That particular outdoor playgrounds been there for ages, but the funicular project, designed by architecture firm DIALOG, makes it even more accessible to citizens with the bonus of some very scenic touches. Prior to her Gotham Awardwinning (and Spirit Awardnominated) performance in the familial drama Waves (which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in August and was released theatrically in November), the Vancouver-born 25-year-old starred in the psychological horror film Escape Room. In every episode, clients react with a moment or two of slack-jawed silence and then, they invariably let him at it. Instead of relying on non-Indigenous editors, Barton made the smart decision to invite Philip Kevin Paul, Richard Van Camp and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson to edit the issue. She doubles down on that claim with a second iconic look that month when she performs My Heart Will Go On in a puffy white dress with a plunging neckline at the Billboard Music Awards a surprising nod to the reverse pantsuit (with a plunging back) that she wore to the 1999 Academy Awards. One year before cleaning up at the Canadian Screen Awards (where his work picked up nine awards, thank you very much), Xavier Dolan earned the Jury Prize at the 67th Cannes Film Festival for Mommy, the Montrealers fifth full-length feature. Hell, even as a 2010s-era indie music snob, it only took a handful of listens for me to brand myself a Belieber and brag to anyone who would listen that Stratford, Ont., was only about half an hour away from my hometown. 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.
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