The story about a single mother (played powerfully by Anne Dorval) trying to raise her troubled son (Antoine Olivier Pilon) was praised as a cinematic tour de force, or even better: a gale-force blast of raw, unrelenting emotion. As a result, Mommy went on to become Dolans highest grossing feature, and the following year, the writer/director/producer directed Adeles video for Hello (which would go on to get over 2.5 billion views on YouTube). And it was so easy to sing and dance to, and as a result, easier still to defend to naysayers whose problems with the song seemed rooted in cynicism and bitterness. A post shared by Cline Dion (@celinedion) on Nov 16, 2019 at 6:33am PST. Reeves was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert when the titular host asked him the ultimate question: What do you think happens when we die, Keanu Reeves? Reeves exhaled slowly, paused and looked Colbert in the eyes. Billboard 200 chart, a first in 17 years (and an achievement a decade in the making). The painting is an indictment and in 2018, a reminder of the truth thats supposed to precede any reconciliation. Its Leonardo DiCaprio versus the wilderness the Canadian wilderness. Her roadmap is one that commits to a specific and focused vision while thinking big. But in March 2013, two became one. Few artists can draw out emotions like Inuk musician Tanya Tagaq, and even fewer can bring those emotions out simultaneously. Its a riff on the wooden buildings where fishers would process a catch. And of course, this past year she was the very first Canadian contestant to compete on the ever popular RuPauls Drag Race. Canada had no greater presence on Broadway this decade than with Irene Sankoff and David Heins smash musical Come From Away. 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. (Remember lip dubs?!) The series is packed with moments of human connection that are as unexpected as they are genuine. 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. (In Season 2, theres a blip of a visual gag where Nathans seen writing a passion project called Looking For Susan. And it reminded anybody who saw it of the cruelty inflicted by the Canadian government over the course of the last 150 years. Alternative drag shows that gender expression isnt a two-dimensional plane its a sphere. While shes now a mainstay on the landscape of Canadian publishing, in 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published her first book, God Loves Hair a collection of 21 short stories that follow a child who navigates topics like gender, racial politics, sexuality and religion. Beyond a few supremely bizarre moments (three words: naturopathic piss drinking), a fireside convo brings the group together and as Nathan says at the conclusion: By the end of the night, I felt like I had made new friends. (But also, nobody got the rebate. Cline Dion begins her Las Vegas residency. Tatiana Maslany knows from playing multiple roles on the same TV series. 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. Schitt's Creek (TV Series 2015-2020) - IMDb Grimes releases Art Angels to widespread acclaim. When their children come home unable to speak to them, their bodies covered with evidence of abuse they cant escape, their minds and spirits forever changed by abuse they dare not name? Im kidding, of course. 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. Nine pieces drew inspiration from Belcourts painting Water Song (which can be found in the National Gallery of Canada), and all nine were a true testament to the vivacity and beauty that define the artists work. 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. 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. So I encountered Inside Kingston Penitentiary, a series of photographs by Geoffrey James, with some trepidation. (One sure sign that impact will carry on the National Gallery of Canada recently acquired six of his underwear pieces. To say that alternative drag is in any way a new concept is not only misguided but a fundamentally flawed assessment. She ended the aughts like she ended the 90s: telling the world how much being a mother was her real calling. The only asset left to them is a small, unsophisticated town: Schitt's Creek. Xas Child of Magohalmi and the Echoes of Creation was performed at Londons Art Night before travelling, in various iterations, to Glasgow and Baku, Azerbaijan. As we enter the 2020s, one can only hope the best is yet to come. And thats a really big deal. Earned It by Torontos The Weeknd is one of the more notable cuts. For what artistic culture can thrive when its peoples children have been stolen from their arms? Richardson sets her video on Mars during a dust storm among detritus from previous explorations of the planet. (Related: I was also largely incompetent.) Created by Canadas Lorne Michaels in 1975, the sketch comedy series wove its way into the fabric of our cultural discourse and went on to tackle everything from political headlines to scandals and gossip to the risk of being eaten by a shark as you answer your front door. Nathan enjoys playing Corey a little too much, and amazingly, the gambit succeeds. 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. There was a big reason to celebrate Domee Shis Oscar win on Feb. 24, and not only because her animated short about an aging Chinese-Canadian woman and a little dumpling that comes to life was the perfect way to spend eight minutes. Writer/director Christopher Nolan hopped back to Alberta for his next sci-fi adventure. In the style of a documentary mystery, the movies a search for Bills long-lost love. 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. 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. Just 26 years old at the time, Halifax-born Page became one of only a handful of folks at his level of celebrity to make the decision to come out publicly as gay. 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. Its particularly impressive when you consider that, even five years ago, many non-Indigenous editors, tastemakers and gatekeepers in the literary community referred to Indigenous work as niche, claiming there was no audience for it. With the release of the TRCs final report in 2015, Canadians finally had to look at the effects of their countrys actions. Even reading the words Wavin Flag is enough to get Knaans 2009 hit remade by Young Artists for Haiti in 2010 stuck in your head. What was once considered the great equalizer for drag in the United States has become a global standard for drag as viewed by the mainstream. To all the nerdy girls out there who hide behind their sketchbooks: dont be afraid to tell your stories to the world, she said. Everything I know about La La Land, I learned in a crash course of a few hours: 1) it did not win best picture at the Oscars (even though Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announced it had) and 2) Canadas boyfriend, Ryan Gosling, lost best actor to Casey Affleck (which Brie Larson reacted appropriately to, IMHO). Tat was sweet. And of course, in the fourth season of Mad Men, Canadian whisky fan Don Draper starts dating his receptionist Megan, played by Jessica Par. Tatiana Maslany | The Canadian Encyclopedia After being a victim of fraud, Johnny Rose and his family go from extremely wealthy to penniless overnight. 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. 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. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World hits cinemas in all its Toronto-set glory. It will surely make a difference to help others have an easier and more hopeful time. These can be observed from the filmmakers first features all the way to the largest American studio projects theyve worked on. I suppose its what makes this segment one of the more powerful moments in NFYs run: its just candid enough to shake your grasp of whats genuine or scripted, fact or fiction. (Float on down to 450 Pape Avenue if you dare to see it in person. With the seemingly unstoppable one-two punch of Ghost and Stuttering both pieces of pop perfection in their own right Dobson built an incredible foundation for herself. about love and the lies we tell ourselves. Michel Marc Bouchards Tom la ferme debuts at Centre du Thtre dAujourdhui, Playwright Michel Marc Bouchards Tom on the Farm (Tom la ferme) made its debut at the Centre du Thtre dAujourdhui in Montreal in January, which clearly kicked the year off right. Because honestly, its not too often that a brand-new actor ends up fronting a movie that earns a goddamn billion. 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. For the last 10 years, we just wanted to perform. Should we cut their allowances? The 2010s have been all about fame often vapid, toxic, shallow and undeserved fame, a new kind of parasitic stardom that almost anyone can attain just as long as theyre desperate enough. When she was putting together the decades inarguably perfect pop album E MO TION, Carly Rae Jepsen decided one of the tracks shed recorded shouldnt make the cut because it felt too cinematic. That track was the equally inarguably perfect pop song Cut to the Feeling, and Jepsen decided to offer it to the soundtrack of animated film Ballerina (or Leap!, as it was titled in the U.S.). And when she tells Nathan she likes him, she acts like she means it nevermind the $350/hour fee. Produced by: Peter Knegt and Mercedes Grundy | Editing: Eleanor Knowles, Reiko Milley, Peter Knegt and Samantha Edwards | Design: Mercedes Grundy and Jeff Hume | Website: Jeff Hume | Video: Lucius Dechausay, Mercedes Grundy, March Mercanti, Romeo Candido, Jessica Hayes and Kiah Welsh | Graphics: Camille Charbonneau | Research: Peter Knegt and KC Hoard, (Jeff Bottari/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign), Justin Bieber kicked off a decade of reinvention for Canadian pop music, Following the benefit singles release on March 12, 10 times Keanu Reeves was the internet's boyfriend, Videos of Reeves interacting with his fellow stranded passengers, A change.org petition to name Reeves Time magazines 2019 Person of the Year was launched, a Reddit thread about Reeves apparently rescuing a woman stranded on the side of the highway, Mordecai Richler gets a big-screen adaptation with, Ryan Goslings heartbreaking performance in, Incendies in the 2010s: A decade of Qubcois filmmakers bringing down the arthouse, the debut of her second Las Vegas residency, 10 of the decade's most influential movies (that just happened to shoot in Canada), despite the attention given to Guillaume Ct, would garner 200,000 views in just a few days, 50,000-person crowd of motorbike rally spectators, who directed 11 episodes and served as an executive producer. Canadians played a major role in this critical turning point in Broadway history both onstage and off. Major projects are made with our money and also without and thats OK, as Toronto and the rest of Canada welcome major productions, and our filmmakers shape them, here and elsewhere. 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. David Altmejds Flux exhibit opens at the Muse dart contemporain de Montral, David Altmejd The Flux and The Puddle (James Ewing/Andrea Rosen Gallery). In less than a decade, a 29-room hotel in a Newfoundland town most Canadians have never heard of became one of the worlds most talked-about tourist destinations. In a moment that was highly deserved and long overdue, Obsidian Theatre Canadas leading Black theatre company stunned at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards in June when it conquered the play and musical theatre categories simultaneously. Afterward, Valle went on to direct Amy Adams in the 2018 miniseries Sharp Objects, based on the book by Gillian Flynn, which somehow did not earn Amy Adams a Golden Globe or Emmy (a disgrace Id be happy to write at least 6,000 words about). She was in Cas and Dylan with Richard Dreyfuss, The Other Half with her partner. Nods to the Canadian penny; Drummondville, Que. One of the many quests in the third season of The Good Place is for the gang (which includes our very own Manny Jacinto as Jason Mendoza) to find Doug Forcett, a former stoner from Calgary who has gained fame among those in the Good Place by making a very accurate prediction (92 per cent) about the afterlife and its points system when he was high on mushrooms in the 1970s. 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. The Vancouver Winter Olympic Games help kick off a new decade. 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. But as we soon learn, he has taken care of everything: the wake is televised and in May, Dion releases a cover of the Queen song The Show Must Go On to emphasize that she will keep working, whatever happens. They pose as a film crew for Mud 2: Never Clean; they stage a 57th year reunion at Francess old high school. Her look that evening leaves fashion observers shook, but its her wild ride with James Corden on his Carpool Karaoke segment later that month that confirms to the world that Dion is now a full-time meme. To explore career opportunities, she moved to the United States at age 22. But how could it not? Fan theories about the control that her late husband and manager Ren Anglil had over her career abound. 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. 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. And you hope to hell that hell find his way out of it for both your sakes. His iconic slow-motion entrance in the movie quickly became another popular meme, and the actor continued to uphold his internet icon status.