Girls. Three of the five premiered in the 2010s: Eclipse and Breaking Dawn Part 1 and 2. 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. They really, really, really, really, really, really like her: In this episode of Stan Wars, host Peter Knegt gives four Carly Rae Jepsen diehards the chance to compete for the title of her ultimate stan. And earlier this year, he starred alongside a slew of other queer actors in the Netflix reboot of Tales of the City, developed by lesbian writer Lauren Morelli. 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. 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. (Fielder famously donated $150,000 of the profits to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre 150,000 U.S. Catherine O'Hara is sharing a positive update on the "Schitt's Creek" movie that fans all want. The Handmaids Tale wins big at the Emmys. 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. 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). Taylor Russell makes waves (eh?) While in Arkansas, Nathan starts seeing an escort named Maci. 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. How lucky are we to be entering our fourth decade in knowing Alanis? But starting with The Witch in 2015, another trend emerged. 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. 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. But in a decade of mega-powered blockbusters, Scott Pilgrim was always going to be the misfit. Tracy Wrights final performance opens Torontos new TIFF Bell Lightbox. The win came on the heels of her 2012 short story collection, Dear Life, and the news was initially met with silence since the Swedish Academy was unable to locate the author and was forced to make its announcement public after leaving her a message on her answering machine. In the decade since Drag Race premiered, the number of drag performers, professionals, ingenues and aspiring hopefuls has skyrocketed. 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. Is Dion doing it for the kids? 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. ), 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. We dont know. Twin pop stars Tegan and Sara followed up their smash 2013 album Heartthrob with this single, an upbeat 80s throwback about having a same-sex affair with a girl that has gasp! Though its polygonal shape is striking as can be, the dark colour scheme lets it fade into the trees, while the interior mimics the same dappled light as a forest canopy. Carly followed that by releasing her own video for the song, and it has since been viewed over one billion times. ), 57 artists come together to raise money for Haiti with Wavin Flag. It debuted at No. 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. 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. First of all, that concept. La La Land premieres at the Venice Film Festival. Not quite yet, but there is hope. Five days before turning 35, Dion opened A New Day, a live residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, a specially built venue attached to Anglils natural habitat: a casino (he was a notorious poker player). 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. But really, the inn pays homage to local architecture and industry. Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany, Schitt's Creek leads Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara and Daniel Levy, and Sons of Anarchy alumnus Kim Coates will be among the presenters at this year's. Were here for it. 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). 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. 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. Though most identify her as a New Zealander, Anna Paquin was born in Winnipeg and spent the first four years of her life there, so its more than fair that we claim her as our own especially since it allows us to take pride in one of the greatest cinematic performances of the decade: Paquins in Kenneth Lonergans 2011 masterpiece Margaret. What do you get when you combine Canadas premier EDM DJ/producer and a classic short story by celebrated sci-fi author Ray Bradbury? The series of photos, overlaid with her paintings and other manipulations, celebrate the North and make it feel romantic while also pointing to climate change, industrial colonization and the parts of our natural world that are going to disappear. How can we explain their sweeping success and the resonance of their work? Psyched as many of us may have been to ring in Canadas 150th, we also know that the land that makes up Canada is much older than that and belongs to Indigenous communities that our government has repeatedly tried to annihilate. Its the Bentall 5 building downtown. 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. If a tactic bombs, hell call it a success or hire an actress wholl tell him she loved it. And of course, we were in luck: two more mixtapes followed the same year, which completed a trilogy. After premiering on Netflix in August, the dark comedy drew attention for its biting humour and social commentary on the ways we frame success and community. Its our topsy-turvy reality that makes any given episode of NFY more confoundingly hilarious. He later wrote and starred in a one-man cabaret at the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival called Boy Falls From the Sky, which detailed his experience during that production. Chris James, banner years, dominating the Billboard charts, How 94 calls to action finally allowed Indigenous artists the space to cultivate a renaissance, Rachel McAdams gets an Oscar nomination for, 10 Canadians who should have been nominated for Oscars in the 2010s, another Canadian-directed film that doesnt need to be named, leading my former employer Indiewire to demand the Academy reconsider its rules, the first comic book movie ever to score a nomination, convinced him that Mansbridge was (is) the Canadian Walter Cronkite., William Ellis and Jordan Tannahill opted to close Videofag, Having hosted several hundred performances, more than 11 million fans who tuned in to join them, Asian-Canadian representation exploded on the world stage in the 2010sand that's a very big deal, you can catch it at the Winnipeg Art Gallery until Feb. 22, 2020, Stella Meghie breaks barriers with the major studio release of, In the 2010s, Stella Meghie proved that Canadian women of colour can take over Hollywood, debuted at No. Deadmau5 released The Veldt, a retelling of Bradburys story of the same name, in 2012. For four straight weeks starting December 5th, they joined Shawn Mendes and Alessia Cara to occupy seven of the top 10 spots. Its not a race here. Seven Tony Award nominations later, its still playing in Toronto, New York City and London, and notably surpassed The Drowsy Chaperones record to become the longest-running Canadian musical on Broadway in October 2018. (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. As for that YouTube video, it has more than 10 million views as of writing, and however it was made, it remains, per the description, simply amazing., The plan: Attract customers with cheap gas by offering a completely legal rebate that absolutely no one claims.. In 2018, her third feature film The Weekend premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival before being released in theatres earlier this year. The live-action Aladdin comes out in theatres. Directed by Claude Poissant, the play revolves around a young man whose companion dies and leaves its titular character to navigate the heartbreaking familial dynamics his late partner was forced to endure. Geoffrey Jamess chilling look inside Kingston Pen opens 2 km away from the prison at Queens Universitys Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Geoffrey James Armed guard outside Tower 3 (TrpanierBaer Gallery). Stella Meghie breaks barriers with the major studio release of Everything, Everything. Its glass walls, for instance, are no match against Calgary vandals (or Calgary weather), and according to the local CBC News outlet, the citys spent around $300,000 repairing the panes. The solution: spend nearly six hours analyzing late-night interviews and write the perfect story. 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 local opinion, at least one thing is clear: Calgarians cant stop Instagramming the thing. Dions husband and former manager Ren Anglil dies of cancer on Jan. 14, 2016. Its my opinion that non-dominant cultures tend to be more observant and their cultural outputs often richer than dominant ones. Here are 10 times the internet swooned over the musings and (apparent) misadventures of Keanu Reeves. 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. Because thats what made a song like Baby so easily digestible: where the magic of crushes and innocent heartbreak that accompany low-stakes relationships tend to fade the further into adulthood you go, Biebers premiere single served as a delightful time machine. The Fortress Mountain Resort in Kananaskis stands in for a snowy nightmare maze. Insiders are starting to take notes. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the most-viewed video on YouTube until Psys Gangnam Style surpassed it in November of 2012. ), Before he was linked to Camila Cabello, before he collaborated with Taylor Swift and before he was anointed the face of Tim Hortons (the biggest achievement of all three), Shawn Mendes was just a Canadian boy, standing in front of the internet, asking all of us to like him. Well, he nailed it. Can Alanis hear me? 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. 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.). So I encountered Inside Kingston Penitentiary, a series of photographs by Geoffrey James, with some trepidation. 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. With more than 28 billion streams, Drake is named Spotifys artist of the decade. 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. But Ryan Reynolds locked his superstar status on Deadpool. Plus $9.5 million is a lot of money the most a Canadian painting has ever commanded and this is a really good painting. But if youve seen photos of the main building, youve likely had a pang of envy: Dang, I want to go to thereeven if it takes two connecting flights, a ferry trip, plus an overnighter in Gander. Before landing the role of Alexis Rose in Schitt's Creek, she was in consideration of quitting acting. In a bit of a twist, Canadas quirkiest screen star had quite the Broadway run this decade. ), and its music video spotlights Indigenous hoop dancers. 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. Is NFY spoofing reality TV? The dream of the artists residency is that it can take you somewhere youve never been (while paying you). In the late aughts, there was nothing hotter than vampire romance, and by 2010, it was like someone had slashed an artery on the whole trend. A quirky catharsis according to The Guardian. Margaret Atwood concludes a dystopian trilogy with the release of MaddAddam. Never a critical hit, the series was a pop culture titan, bolstered by legions of Twihards. Stan culture came to dominate the decade, and the acolytes of this schlocky supernatural romance more or less signalled the first wave. ), Remai Modern opens its doors to the public. They dont exist. 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. In addition to being set in Toronto, the writer-director herself is Canadian and delivered an acceptance speech that burgeoning artists need to hear. READ. But what might be my favourite thing about Canadian drag is what we have done in the last decade without the end goal of reality TV. 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!) (All told, its more greenspace than 20 Central Parks.) After Meghie moved to London, England, and got her masters degree in screenwriting, she wrote the first draft of what would become her debut feature film Jean of the Joneses. The rest, as they say, is history. Here are 10 Canadians who couldnt help but kill it on the Great White Way this decade. Beck + Call, featuring celebrated throat singer Tanya Tagaq, helped cement their staying power on Canadas alternative charts. 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. This Toronto-born Second City alum took a Tony home in 2006 for co-writing the book for the musical The Drowsy Chaperone, but he didnt stop there. 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. 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. "Peter Moosebridge" steals scenes in Zootopia. (One sure sign that impact will carry on the National Gallery of Canada recently acquired six of his underwear pieces. Because honestly, its not too often that a brand-new actor ends up fronting a movie that earns a goddamn billion. A flash goes off, and disembodied voices start to ring out , What do we say? When did he graduate to being a force to be reckoned with, a young artist whom you wanted to cradle and dance with and ultimately protect? In the 2010s, Keanu Reeves graduated from brooding 90s action movie superstar to beloved cult hero. Rachel McAdams gets an Oscar nomination for Spotlight, (New Line Cinema/Columbia Pictures/Plan B Entertainment). The Hamilton native scored a Tony nomination for best featured actor in a musical for his portrayal of Cheech in the 2014 production of Bullets Over Broadway. But for a handful of lucky passengers flying in March of 2019, getting stranded meant hanging out with Keanu Reeves. When Netflix dropped Always Be My Maybe in 2019, many expected the movie to be a fun vehicle for comedy superstar Ali Wong. Traditionally, mainstream drag has always focused on passability, meaning to pass realistically as the opposite of your assigned or expressed daily gender. The plan: Become the only drinking hole in town where people could legally smoke.. Dion hits No. 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. Guarantee listings that are 100 per cent ghost and demon free. Though delighted by her spooky new bench ads, Sue seems skeptical at first. Its a riff on the wooden buildings where fishers would process a catch. What can you believe, period? Those who are worthy are scooped up to heaven, while unworthy souls are doomed to spend an eternity in hell. 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). Youre welcome, world. Will Munros final show opens at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Will Munro Spider Sex Sling (Paul Petro Contemporary Art), While he was in the last months of a terminal illness, Will Munro was working on his final exhibition for Paul Petro Contemporary Art. By my count, Canadians were nominated for 72 Academy Awards in the 2010s, which is nothing to be sorry about. 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. [3] Watchmen memimpin semua program dengan total 26 nominasi antara upacara utama dan Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards ke-72, . His talent deserves a platform. There are two ways to divide history: life before Carly Rae Jepsen released Call Me Maybe and life after. It ruminated on histories, ruins and water itself, and it was a moving tribute to the site. Or is it reality TV a show about a lonely comedian from Vancouver who happened to go to business school? Are they still OURS? As some were hitting the Hollywood big-time, artists like Denis Ct, Anne mond, Sbastien Pilote, Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie were also becoming international festival darlings embraced by out-of-province and out-of-country audiences alike. True Blood, The Vampire Diaries: softbois with fangs were bloody everywhere and The Twilight Saga started the frenzy. My essay A Mind Spread Out on the Ground won a Gold medal at the National Magazine Awards that year, which helped me land an agent, and that piece eventually became the title essay of my essay collection. Videos of Reeves interacting with his fellow stranded passengers picked up speed (get it?) Vivek Shraya publishes her debut book God Loves Hair. Before he was the internets darling, Reeves was just a beloved actor in his own right. In October 2013, Clinton, Ont.s Alice Munro earned the Nobel Prize in Literature, making her the first Canadian and 13th woman to do so. I would get to know this person, work with them sometimes on that very stage. The age of a celebritys S.O. Only two years after directing Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon in Wild, Jean-Marc Valle became an even bigger mainstream sensation after the premiere and success of Big Little Lies, the HBO adaptation of the 2014 novel by Liane Moriarty. Tranna Wintour is a comedian, singer, writer and the co-host of Chosen Family on CBC Podcasts. The shows previews have received rave reviews, and its shaping up to be a Broadway smash. Starring (then) real-life couple Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, the franchise spun four books into five movies. Jan Versweyveld In 2016, Page produced and hosted the Viceland documentary series Gaycation, which explores LGBTQ cultures around the world. Fast forward almost 40 years and the Charlemagne, Que., native is on her way to achieving that goal. her seven evil exes including, fun fact, the future Captain America (Chris Evans). Cline Dion begins her Las Vegas residency. But BoJack Horseman, an animated show about a famous actor/horse and his peers, managed to evolve into a touchstone for anyone acquainted with unhappiness. In 2019, the citys tourism department even launched a contest. Des McAnuff is a Broadway legacy name at this point. It sounded like butterflies, the first time holding hands, and quiet but bold albeit still very harmless emotive declarations. (But thats two years from now, so lets move on.). What this means, in practical terms, is that arts organizations, publishers, literary journals and other arts institutions are not only encouraged to include Indigenous artists and our work but financially incentivized to do so. The song brought the superstar DJ to the top 40 in Canada, educating a generation of Canadians about Bradburys terrifying, dystopian storytelling along the way. Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds is the genius who convinced Dion to sing the theme song for Deadpool 2. The Birdcage, Brokeback Mountain, The Imitation Game, Dallas Buyers Club and Philadelphia were all directed by straight men, while Modern Family and even Will & Grace definitely catered to straight audiences. As we know, not falling in love with the song proved impossible. The Rose . (Terrific!) Canadas premier pop punk darlings went full pop with this single. And sunlight animates the structures features both inside and out. If NFYs the story of one mans quest for attention and the lies hed tell to get it then its basically just The Bachelor. And Im not just talking about their infatuation with Schitts Creek. The third single off Carly Rae Jepsens 2015 album E MO TION, Your Type is just one of Jepsens many pop diamonds. At 51, 16 years after launching her first residency in Las Vegas, Dion bids farewell (for now?) For her entire career, shes been accused of being juvenile and psychobabble-y in her writing, but its what makes her great. Women made an impact in other forms of media during the 2010s too like music videos. Nominated for an Oscar, it clinched the Grammy for best R&B performance. He also appeared in Waitress and Rock of Ages before originating the role of Sonny in the Broadway musical premiere of A Bronx Tale. Her roadmap is one that commits to a specific and focused vision while thinking big. Munro has written 14 collections of short stories, which I suggest we all read out loud together this holiday season. Cera capped off the decade with a supporting role in the Tony-nominated Broadway run of The Waverly Gallery, a play about a young man who slowly watches his grandmother succumb to Alzheimers disease. Whod have thought it would be the start of a career equally as prolific and powerful? 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. So Harris et al. She has a tattoo of James Stewart's silhouette on her wrist. When did you, dear reader, learn that finally (finally!) Subscribe, Valentino releases a 2016 collection featuring artwork by Christi Belcourt. For Loved Me Back to Life, her first album in six years, Dion arguably goes poppier than ever before. Add to this the Leacock Medal, the Giller Prize and the Walter Scott Prize, and its no wonder deWitt continues to earn accolades for his dark humour and fiction work. Tatiana Maslany attends the world premiere of Marvel Studios' upcoming new series "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California on August 15, 2022. 50 really is the new 21. Its early 2011, and Denis Villeneuves Incendies is up for the Academy Award for best foreign language film. Leading the Television nominees once again is ORPHAN BLACK with a stellar 14 nominations (and wins in the past three consecutive years) including Best Dramatic Series and Actress (Tatiana Maslany).

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