(Book Club, anyone?) Jean of the Joneses was nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards (including Best Original Screenplay) and an Independent Spirit Award (for Best First Screenplay). The big secret is that all drag has always been alternative. Having used the gay lounge lizard-slash-socialite persona as a means of speaking his own truth or offering pure satirical commentary, Thompson has been a mainstay of Canadian comedy, and his return to the stage over the course of 2018 was highly celebrated. It was the most fun. By tailoring her persona to different cultures America, Quebec, France, Japan she IS the epitome of an international star. But despite her global success, Dion was never cool. Plus, where the movies only scored Razzies, their soundtracks were winners. dollars.) But Furtado can rest easy knowing she dropped a seriously fun single that resonated in her native country. 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. 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. 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. 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. A dance-theatre hybrid, Betroffenheit is an unlikely achievement a strikingly original show about loss that became a global sensation. Canadians played a major role in this critical turning point in Broadway history both onstage and off. 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. Its an incubus which is way less surprising than Sues reaction. Karen Kain tours the National Ballet of Canada to Los Angeles for the first time in 35 years. And in the 2010s, it was more of the same gone supernova. 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. Which was helped, obviously, by the bands killer performance of Ready to Start, which closed out the show that night. After his time with Spider-Man, Epstein went on to originate the lead role of Gerry Goffin in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. 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. The result? In the last 10 years, Beyonc and Taylor Swift two of the biggest pop stars of the decade both performed covers of You Oughta Know. And in 2015, Alanis herself released a beautiful 20th anniversary edition of the album, including never-before-heard demos. Cop Altmejds The Flux and The Puddle, which appeared as part of his 2015 retrospective, reads like the lab of a madman, or maybe some sort of future version of an island Dr. Moreau lived on, or a cabinet of curiosities I never want to see again but also cant help but really want to see again. (Years later, I would sit on the Avon Theatre steps where Justin used to play his acoustic guitar and fight back the urge to tell anybody who passed me that he was my son.) 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. Beck + Call, featuring celebrated throat singer Tanya Tagaq, helped cement their staying power on Canadas alternative charts. As a working mom and Cirque du Soleil enthusiast, Dion then wanted to balance her career and her family life. In a travel reversal, the tense second season finale of Homeland (I guess I should say spoiler alert, but seriously, folks) sees Carrie take Brody to the Quebec border so he can escape on foot to Montreal. Tatiana Maslany, best known for the clone thriller "Orphan Black," joins the Marvel universe with "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.". 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. Celine Dion releases her 27th studio album, 10 iconic moments from a decade where Cline Dion unexpectedly became the queen of everything, social medias appetite for self-deprecating yet wholesome celebrities, longtime stylist and creative director Annie Horth, A post shared by Cline Dion (@celinedion), one of the rare misses of Dions renaissance, I was ready to camp and sleep all night., her wild ride with James Corden on his Carpool Karaoke segment, When I excitedly played her Hilary and Haylie Duffs cover of Material Girl in my trailer, she smiled, nodded and pretended like she thought it was great. If NFYs the story of one mans quest for attention and the lies hed tell to get it then its basically just The Bachelor. Tatiana Maslany on taking Orphan Black back: 'It was surprising how 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). And those graphic novels, which make up a six-part series by Bryan Lee OMalley, are a time capsule of 2000s Toronto. After being a victim of fraud, Johnny Rose and his family go from extremely wealthy to penniless overnight. As we move out of a decade that has seen immense progress in LGBTQ representation, its important to remember that despite this, the world remains a dangerous place for many LGBTQ people which is why its imperative more celebrities take a page from Page and use their platform in a more aggressive manner. typically makes headlines for all the wrong reasons. 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. And yet, then came Art Angels. ), she went for it with me. As raw and unflinching as Betroffenheit is, writes Judith Mackrell, you come away from it with a wild feeling of exhilaration uplifted by its courage, its coruscating beauty and by the faith it affirms in the power of art to address emotions that lie beyond reason or words. That those emotions derive from Youngs real-life tragedy what Pite calls the engine of the work makes the accomplishment all the more extraordinary. 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. I know that the ones who love us will miss us, he replied earnestly. B.C. Often their goal is competing on it, fulfilling the ultimate form of the American drag dream as we know it today. 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. Dobson never quite reached the same echelon of stardom outside of Canada that these songs brought her here, but they remain carved into this decades Canadian pop consciousness. The 2010s saw screen industries worldwide experience a fundamental metamorphosis: streaming services changed the game in terms of the ways audiences watch content and how creators compete in the marketplace. Whatever the answer, if the 2010s have been a time of all-purpose confusion, few shows have nailed the decade quite like this one, and these are just 10 of its finest moments. Anyone with even the most miniscule knowledge of Canadian pop respects and worships at the altar of Shania Twain, one of the biggest country-turned-pop (and yet still country) stars, well, ever. Outdoor elements are inspired by the neighbouring foothills; inside, wooden beams wrap the atrium, suggesting the shape of a canoe. Nathan and Maci are still holding hands, and the cameras are still directly on them. Ghosts? Unfortunately, because these works didnt fit colonial ideas of what constituted art, they were labeled either crafts or anthropological artifacts for centuries not art worthy of examining, studying and displaying in art museums. In 2017, I met Sandra Oh when I interviewed her at TIFF, and we hugged after I told her that Greys Anatomy got me through college. The jury called the building both complex and serene, a masterpiece on every level, and it received plenty more major accolades that same year, including a RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Award for International Excellence and an AIA (American Institute of Architects) Award. into the grey woods of 17th-century New England in this Canada/U.S. The decade begins auspiciously for French-language cinema and its only le tip de liceberg. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100, (Getty Images: Mark Metcalfe/Rebecca Sapp/Ethan Miller). In 2018, her third feature film The Weekend premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival before being released in theatres earlier this year. But in a decade of mega-powered blockbusters, Scott Pilgrim was always going to be the misfit. While it would be romantic to say that all of these brilliant Indigenous artists coincidentally emerged in the art scene at the same time and that Canadians and Canadian arts institutions just so happened to recognize that brilliance at the same time it wouldnt exactly be accurate. Take, for example, Lius character Jung the furthest thing from a stereotypically academically-inclined and parent-pleasing Asian son. Considering the vastness of YouTube, it was a small miracle that the Ben Shiriniandirected short film Lost In Motion earned millions of views and went on to spark hope in anyone working in the arts that theres life in digital distribution. She has a passion for romance and seems intrigued by the way it ignites vulnerability and inspires transformation. From the pageantry and jewels, to the filth and horror, Canadian drag has and continues to create a space where the most glamourous of bejewelled gods and goddesses can work and perform alongside the strange, unusual or radical. ), 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. Women dominated at this years Governor Generals Literary Awards, with winners including: Joan Thomas for fiction (Five Wives); Gwen Benaway for poetry, the first trans woman to take the prize (Holy Wild); Erin Bow for young peoples literature (Stand on the Sky); and CBC Artss very own Amanda Parris for drama (Other Side of the Game), which should incite serious chants of HELL, YES! from all of us. Even as a performer who is considered such, its hard to sum up the ethos of what makes me alternative because it has historically been a label given by others rather than claimed by oneself. When did you finally accept that our homegrown pop music could be synonymous with having fun? that, frankly, belonged in a much better movie. The Tragically Hip perform their final concert in Kingston, Ont. CBC Arts first covered its construction in 2016, when we visited the building site in the foothills of the Andes outside Santiago. 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. ), Remai Modern opens its doors to the public. I like sci-fi mostly the quiet kind, where people are stuck in space alone with maybe one book or maybe zero books. The plan: Find an ordinary guy and transform him into a national hero.. Clearly to be filed under this should happen all the time, 2015 saw Canadian Mtis artist Christi Belcourt collaborate with Valentino for the fashion houses 2016 Resort collection. And of course, we were in luck: two more mixtapes followed the same year, which completed a trilogy. But in March 2013, two became one. In 2019 two years after it dropped on Netflix, four years after it premiered on CBC and with 18 Canadian Screen Awards to its name Schitts Creek was finally recognized by the Emmys with four nominations, including an outstanding comedy series nod. Tatiana Maslany to Star in AMC's 'Invitation to a Bonfire' Series | TVLine Alicia Elliott is the author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground. 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. In 2017, while the building was being refurbished for the masses, Geoffrey Farmer was Canadas representative at the Biennale. She also went on to win the Juno Award for Aboriginal album of the year. Carly Rae Jepsen releases Call Me Maybe. Rachel McAdams gets an Oscar nomination for Spotlight, (New Line Cinema/Columbia Pictures/Plan B Entertainment). This bouncy rap single was a huge smash in Canada, going five times platinum, but failed to perform anywhere else which really is a shame, because Nova Scotias Classified put together an incredibly catchy, fun and motivational single. Its the second half of Betroffenheit, though, that elevates it to genius. If it was before June 15 the day Drizzys debut album dropped congratulations, you (for many reasons, I imagine) are better than me and most people. Alanis Morissette releases her eighth studio album, Havoc and Bright Lights. Her, featuring a score by Owen Pallett and Win Butler, premieres at New York Film Festival. KC Hoard edits the Arts and Culture section of Carleton Universitys the Charlatan, and has written for The Globe and Mail and the National Post. 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. It was later nominated for eight Canadian Screen Awards. How can we explain their sweeping success and the resonance of their work? In Brief | TheSpec.com In March of 2016, the veteran news anchor morphed into the iconic Peter Moosebridge, Zootopias beloved newscaster, at the behest of Chris Williams, the Waterloo, Ont., native who worked on the film alongside co-director Byron Howard and convinced him that Mansbridge was (is) the Canadian Walter Cronkite. In related news, I would trust Peter Moosebridge with my life. To say there was hype for Margaret Atwoods followup to The Handmaids Tale is an understatement, particularly since The Testaments set 15 years after its predecessor takes place and published 34 years later returns readers to Gilead, the terrifying place select U.S. politicians seem to be steamrolling us toward. But her biggest hit, Figures, didnt really perform commercially outside of the Toronto singer-songwriters home country. Now in its 41st year, Buddies is gearing up for a collaboration with Theatre Rusticle for their version of A Midsummer Nights Dream, while the community continues to evolve and grow thanks to the theatres support of (and consistent call for) new talent. The exhibit opened at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto in January and then toured across Canada. 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. In a country as ethnically diverse as ours, we can use film and television to move away from our so-called cultural silos. Over four seasons, the greatest and most elaborate stunt Nathan for You ever produced was the series itself. I doubt its a coincidence. 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 . Royal Winnipeg Ballet adapts The Handmaids Tale. 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. Ten years ago, none of these places existed and neither did Instagram an app that would go on to invent an extremely 2010s activity: liking pics of the worlds coolest-looking cool stuff. Of course, the Damien Chazelle romantic musical was destined to be a hit after opening to almost unanimous praise at the Venice Film Festival (spoiler: it did go on to earn over $400 million US worldwide). All of us are destined to be Taylor Russell superfans, and truly, I am ready. Cheyenne Jacksons character, Danny, is from Ottawa and joins the cast of the show-within-a-show TGS with Tracy Jordan after starring in a movie about Canadian football, while Steve Martins Gavin Volure tries to evade house arrest by whisking Liz Lemon off to Toronto (Toronto is just like New York, but without all the stuff!). 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. (Raves one woman after the show: Its so nothing in a way, but incredibly profound. Canada had no greater presence on Broadway this decade than with Irene Sankoff and David Heins smash musical Come From Away. 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). Both Megan and the actress who plays her are from Montreal, and we also get to meet her Quebecoise mother (played with a questionable accent by Brit Julia Ormond), who, in one episode, makes a random reference to Regina, which surely was the talk of the Saskatchewan capital for most of 2012. A Prologue: The 2000s or Clines Lost Decade, Before we dig into Dions 2010s, lets take a quick look at the previous decade a strange one for Dion. Thats iconic behaviour, but his presentation about the game at E3 a major video game expo was even more so. But what both Deadpool and its sequel are probably most regarded for is the thing that differentiated them from Marvel and DCs usual onslaught of cinematic offerings: they both ended up earning R-ratings for language and violence something The Avengers would never dare. It felt like a new era the dawn of a new day. Versatile film and television actor Tatiana Maslany is perhaps best known for her multiple performances as various clones in the hit sci-fi series Orphan Black (2013-17). In the work, Xa and her husband and collaborator Benito Mayor Vellayo used masks, costumes and performance to conjure elements of Korean folklore and the orcas that are such an integral part of the Vancouver imaginary. As for the colour, the dresss near-black/navy shade reflected the occasions sombre tone. A heist movie where the robbers break into dreams, Leonardo DiCaprio leads an all-star cast (including Halifaxs Ellen Page). The Rolf Schock jury also praised Hannigans work running a mentoring foundation, Equilibrium Young Artists, which focuses on young and newly professional musicians across the world (a.k.a. Like the hungry overachievers we are, we then succeeded wildly, all over your face. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the first time in 17 years. It felt like we could learn from old industry mistakes. Most of the time, getting stranded at an airport after an emergency landing is a stressful experience. The best Canadian TV shows by genre: Best Canadian Comedies Schitt's Creek Seasons: 5 (2015-present) Where to stream: Netflix, PopTV app Even if you've been sleeping on this hit comedy, it's not too late to fall in love with the Rose family. I say that like its a bad thing, but its really not. In Switzerland. The list of overachievers that dominate pop culture, whose projects are seen by hundreds of thousands of audience members on a consistent basis, is five times as long and more varied. (I caught the show in Portland, Ore., where the local alt weeklys admiring preview was headlined Whats German for WTF?), Its been the most incredible, profound and powerful experience of my artistic career, Pite said in an interview with La Presse before the tour wrapped up in Montreal last summer. Now finished, the temples curved wings fold together to create a dome of glass, marble and steel and it glows from within come nightfall. These songs exemplify the power of Canadian artists even if their success was limited to Canadas borders. Toronto drag queen Brooke Lynn Hytes finishes second on the 11th season of RuPauls Drag Race. As Alonzo Fonny Hunt, a man sent to prison for a rape he didnt commit, James is deeply captivating in a very challenging role. The journey begins near one of Edmontons favourite landmarks: the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald. She earned an Emmy for the role in September. 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. Gone were the days where Will & Grace was literally all that there was; in its place, we were blessed with a seemingly endless array of high-quality shows representing all walks of queer life. It looks like something out of an Avengers flick: a steel double helix-like structure painted firetruck red. But the show went on: videos depicting Canadas glorious landscape and flawless performances by k.d. 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. Canadians win big at the Oscars with The Shape of Water. The Rose . Understandably, it made a mark. one of the hottest Hollywood agencies to have in your corner), was approached by Warner Bros. and MGM to direct Everything, Everything and began booking gigs directing episodes of Insecure, Grown-ish and First Wives Club. Nathan pitches the client, Sue Stanford, on a rebrand: become a ghost realtor! Famous names like Sam Smith and David Guetta also contribute to the songwriting effort. It featured Mozarts Piano Concerto No. 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.