A few short days after losing her husband, Dion greets fans in Montrals Notre-Dame Basilica, thanking them for their support (this woman really is selfless). Its a shame it didnt get the international recognition of its sister single, but at least we Canadians get to enjoy this gem ourselves. Winner of best picture at the 90th Academy Awards, it was also the most-nominated film of the year. They dont exist. 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. B.C. The future looks even more promising thanks to the December 2018 announcement that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is getting its first lead Asian superhero. A quirky, catchy Canadian hit. Beck + Call, featuring celebrated throat singer Tanya Tagaq, helped cement their staying power on Canadas alternative charts. After decades of being shut out by a male-dominated industry as the subjects of institutional sexism, the 2010s saw Canadian women finally being given the opportunity to fulfill their potential. (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. Cop 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. But in March 2013, two became one. 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). We dont say anything, we dont communicate. That all changed in May of 2010 when a photo of The Matrix star morosely biting into a sandwich on a New York park bench went viral. In a decade defined by the relentless noise of content creation and everyone doing everything they can to get likes and followers, silence is rare and precious. After conquering YouTube and the publishing world, Torontos Lilly Singh turned her sights to late-night TV this past September and made her debut with A Little Late with Lilly Singh, NBCs replacement for Last Call with Carson Daly. Youll need a passport to visit this otherworldly temple, a Canadian-led project designed by Torontos Hariri Pontarini Architects. Tatiana Gabrielle Maslany, actor (born 22 September 1985 in Regina, Saskatchewan). Read: theyre friendly! The shows always been building to this point.). Just kidding Im not delusional. OK, thats not exactly true. Six years earlier, Youngs 14-year-old daughter and her two cousins died in a cabin fire on a family vacation in the B.C. I would get to know this person, work with them sometimes on that very stage. But between you and I, Ive never seen it, because I refuse to believe Ryan Gosling saved jazz. So if I asked her to do something that felt unnatural or dishonest (like, say, nose nuzzling), I had to justify why I needed it and more often than not, I realized that I didnt. The film went on to become a box office triumph and, notably, the first comic book movie ever to score a nomination for best picture at the Golden Globes. As a viewer, it becomes increasingly hard to keep the facts straight. Artist and educator Jason Baerg discusses the impact abstract artist Alex Janvier has had on the art world in the past 10 years. Jean of the Joneses was nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards (including Best Original Screenplay) and an Independent Spirit Award (for Best First Screenplay). Josh Gad, dan Tatiana Maslany. This is the year it happened. 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. Theyre shining examples of the possibilities of how Asians can be portrayed without conforming to stereotypical and racist perceptions. Munro has written 14 collections of short stories, which I suggest we all read out loud together this holiday season. 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. Although Tatiana . When the New York Times named Saskatoon one of the 52 places to go in 2018, the Remai Modern was tipped as the main attraction. Because of non-U.S. residents ineligibility to compete on the show (which Brooke Lynn Hytes got around by moving to Nashville and becoming a U.S. resident), drag as an art form in other international scenes grew in a very different way. Audiences had an appetite for a particular strain of high-concept terror. It was inevitable. Although its not strictly autobiographical, the shock, grief and bewilderment that follow such a tragedy are at the heart of the show (indeed, the word betroffenheit" in German means just that finding yourself in a state of shock or trauma). Mordecai Richler gets a big-screen adaptation with Barneys Version. And directed by Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver), its a hyper-stylized rom-com blended with a few rounds of Street Fighter. Alessia Caras debut single, released on both her debut EP Four Pink Walls and debut full-length Know-It-All, Here is a song about wanting to leave parties and the splendour of doing just that. And when Bullock was asked afterward if she knew of any potential matches for the then-bachelor, her reply came quickly: "He doesn't need anybody's help. She-Hulk was born in . [5] Maslany also appeared in television series such as Heartland (2008-2010), The Nativity (2010), Being Erica (2009-2011), Perry Mason (2020), and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022) in the lead role of Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk. After many rumors and delays, Cline Dion closes the 2010s by launching her most hyped album in decades, Courage. (One sure sign that impact will carry on the National Gallery of Canada recently acquired six of his underwear pieces. 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. In 2015, he produced and starred in Freeheld, a docudrama based on the story of a lesbian police officers fight for relationship recognition after her partner is diagnosed with cancer. 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. But how could it not? True, the song and Bieber obviously followed the formula that pop music has long been built on (a young star sings about puppy love as a means to launch a brand hell inevitably abandon in a handful of years as he grows up). The story of a child-murdering clown alien, its one of Stephen Kings best-known creations, but this particular adaptation which shot several scenes in and around Toronto is now the highest grossing horror movie ever made. Like The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine was created by Michael Schur, who is maybe the most Canada-obsessed American TV writer. I cannot think of a better way to end this decade than with the promise of her musical return. In July of 2012, we all set out on a journey: after four seasons of action, adventure, the Albuquerque underworld and Heisenberg, Breaking Bads fifth and last season premiered and brought with it an intensity I cant possibly describe in a simple paragraph. 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. Young plays the man who starts the show in the corner. Now this is how you close out a decade. a gale-force blast of raw, unrelenting emotion. Gays familiar with his work are gagging. (It was so intense, as you remember, that it was split into two sub-seasons and officially wrapped in the fall of 2013.) Both actors have been exceptional across Dolans filmography (in particular, Dorval in I Killed My Mother and Clment in Laurence, Anyways), but Mommy was everybodys finest hour (or two and a half hours, as it were). All these years, weve watched Nathan engineer business opportunities as a means to an end (re: a platonic hang). The Venice Biennale is important (as I argued in a recent episode of Art 101). Starring Dolans muses Anne Dorval and Suzanne Clment as the mother and tutor of a troubled teen with violent tendencies (Antoine-Olivier Pilon), its Dolans magnum opus: hilarious, heartbreaking and extremely well acted. With Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy. Starring Canadian besties Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel, This Is the End a Rogen/Evan Goldbergwritten/directed/produced joint took the terror and hilarity of the apocalypse to new heights with their version of what might happen when the world finally ends. Nearly a decade later, Shraya is still a creative force to be reckoned with. Incendies competes for best foreign language film at the Oscars. when it was named the years outstanding production of a play, while Caroline, or Change earned the prize for outstanding production of a musical. Their own shows seemed to incorporate Canadian references and plotlines with strange regularity in the 2010s, suggesting a lot of U.S. writers rooms have a bit of a crush on us (or maybe that those writers rooms just have a lot of Canadians working in them). Starting the year off on what seemed like a hopeful note (oh, how wrong we were), Samantha Bee debuted her often-satirical late-night talk show, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, in February. Unzipped is more of a design installation, originally created by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels for his 2016 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. The thing is, the Globes were Ohs to own entirely. Those who are worthy are scooped up to heaven, while unworthy souls are doomed to spend an eternity in hell. Looking back on the 2010s, I'm struck by the sweeping changes that impacted me, a Canadian female filmmaker, and my people. And of course, we were in luck: two more mixtapes followed the same year, which completed a trilogy. Youre like one of those ladies who go to Montreal and then, suddenly, everything is about Montreal. Be careful, Lilllian. In 2010, a Reddit thread about Reeves apparently rescuing a woman stranded on the side of the highway who was without a functioning car or cell phone percolated around the web. For Loved Me Back to Life, her first album in six years, Dion arguably goes poppier than ever before.
