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Jacob Tremblay wins Best Actor at the

Jacob Tremblay speaks after winning Best Actor in a for ‘Room’ at the Canadian Screen Awards in on Sunday. — AP photos accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Eugene Levy, left, and his son Dan Levy accept the Best , left, and his son Rossif Sutherland receives a standing ovation before Jacob Tremblay, left, meets Norm Macdonald before Comedy Series Award for ‘Schitt’s Creek’. present the Best Drama Series award to ‘19-2’. presenting the Best Film Award. announcing the winner of the Best Actor in a Drama Series.

t just nine years old he’s taken the world of cinema by VPD baseball cap throughout the day, and looked even cuter than storm. And Jacob Tremblay won his highest honor to date normal as he and his dad donned matching Aviator shades. Hours Aon Sunday night at the Canadian Screen Awards in Toronto. earlier he posted another just as impressive montage: his ‘award The child star picked up the gong for Best Actor for his break- season super selfie collage’. In it he tagged just some of the through performance in Room. Jacob beat out acting legend famous faces he met during his circuit of the awards, including Christopher Plummer, 86, for the honor. ‘Christopher Plummer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L Jackson, Amy Adams, Paul Dano, you’re a legend,’ the little boy said once he got onstage, but only Rooney Mara, The Weeknd, Elizabeth Banks, Saoirse Ronan and Winners after his hugged his mom and dad, according to TheStar.com. He Jason Segel. then went on to thank the academy ‘for giving me this wonderful It can be hard to remember such an accomplished actor is still Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Candy . . . I feel like I won real Canadian gold.’ just a child, but Jacob himself certainly hasn’t forgotten, as he Jacob Tremblay His Room co-star also won for Best Actress, but she shared another picture of himself scaling a jungle gym at a play- Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role was absent due to her filming schedule. Room also took home the ground. ‘I’m the king of the playground!!!’ he captioned the silhou- award for Best Direction, a high honor for . etted shot, giving a nod to his fellow SAG nominee Leonardo Brie Larson Meanwhile, as a nine-year-old actor, he has to get chaperoned to DiCaprio’s Titanic. Following his breakout and critically acclaimed Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role work by his understanding parents. So last week Jacob decided roll in the Oscar-winning Room, the Canadian has a busy year Nick Serino to return the favor and accompany his dad to his job for a change. ahead of him. He currently has five scheduled for release this Best Achievement in Direction The Critic’s Choice winner spent a day hanging out with his ‘hot year, including the Funny Or Die parody Donald Trump’s The Art of Lenny Abrahamson, Room cop’ dad Jason at his precinct in the Police Department. the Deal: The Movie. Best Achievement in Cinematography The Room star posted a montage on his Instagram account — www.dailymail.co.uk showing him riding in his police car and enjoying doughnuts with Yves BÈlanger, Brooklyn the team at the local haunt. ‘I always bring my Dad to my work, Best Achievement in Costume Design but today I went to his!!! @vancouverpd @timhortons #vpdcap- Joanne Hansen, Beeba Boys tures #timhortons #bestdoughnutsever @vanpolicefnd Emma Donoghue accepts her Screen Award for Best Best Achievement in Editing #kopsshadesforkids #vpd,’ he wrote. The youngster wore his own Adapted Screenplay for ‘Room’. Nathan Nugent, Room Talent Fund Discovery Award Andrew Korogyi, Yosef Baraki, & Asef Baraki for Mina Walking Award for Original Screenplay Benjamin August, Remember Canadian Screen Lifetime Achievement Award Martin Short Digital Media Trailblazing Award Ana Serrano Canadian Screen Humanitarian Award PAL Foundation Karen Walton Academy Icon Award For Broadcast Journalism Mark Starowicz Academy Board of Directors’ Tribute (Posthumously) Ivan Fecan Outstanding Technical Achievement Aunjanue Ellis, centre, wears a dress with a slogan printed on it as a protest against the pres- The cast of Schitt’s Creek pose for photos as they arrive on the red carpet. Much ence of the Confederate Flag on Capitol Hill, as she stands on the red carpet with cast members from the show ‘Book of Negroes’ at the 2016 Canadian Screen Awards.

Surprise Kendrick Lamar Anderson, Grammy-nominated album debuts at number one surprise new album by Kendrick Lamar opened dates, which once enraged record stores, have become Jazz singer, dies at 87 Sunday at number one on the US chart in the latest increasingly commonplace as the popularity of streaming Atriumph for the critically acclaimed rapper. The transforms the music industry. Rap superstar Kanye West album-the fourth by the 28-year-old, entitled “untitled has said he has no plans to release a physical version of his azz vocalist Ernestine Anderson, who was nominated for She began touring when she was 18, going on the road unmastered” sold 178,000 copies or the equivalent in latest work, “The Life of Pablo,” and vowed to stream three four Grammys over her career, died Thursday, reports the with Otis’ band. Her first single, “KC. Lover/Good Lovin’ Babe,” streaming in the United States in the week through new albums per year. — AFP JAssociated Press. She was 87. The King County Medical was recorded in 1948. While she was in New York, Anderson Thursday, Nielsen Music said. Lamar released “untitled Examiner’s Office told the AP on Sunday that she died of “nat- toured Rolf Ericson to tour Europe. There, she recorded her unmastered.” without previous notice on March 4 in the ural causes” at a nursing home in Shoreline, Wash. Over her critically acclaimed album “Hot Cargo,” which was released by wake of the Grammys, where he was the music industry Kendrick Lamar six-decade career, Anderson performed at events around the Mercury Records in 1958. Anderson would go on to release gala’s biggest winner with five awards. world, including at the first Monterey Jazz Festival in 1958, as six albums with Mercury Records until she quit singing in the He characterized the album as a series of rough works well as at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, according to ‘60s. She revived her career in the ‘70s and released “Hello, from the studio, although the songs take on heavy themes the Seattle Times. Her voice was once described as “honey at Like Before” in 1977, and continued to record for years after. including an opening track that mixes images of the bibli- desk” by friend and producer Quincy Jones. The singer per- While she frequently moved across the United States, cal apocalypse and contemporary social ills. Lamar also formed at Dwight D Eisenhower’s presidential inauguration, Anderson often returned to Seattle, where she became a jazz went to number one in 2015 with “To Pimp a Butterfly,” a and often played with bands led by Lionel Hampton and staple. The city’s Bumbershoot Arts Festival awarded her with reflective look at the state of black America that experi- Johnny Otis. Anderson was born in Houston and won a talent its Golden Umbrella honor in 2002. Anderson is survived by mented with jazz elements, which are also apparent on contest when she was 12. She moved with her family to three children, eight grandchildren and four great-grandchil- “untitled unmastered.” The latest album hit number one Seattle in 1944, where she attended the Garfield High School. dren. — Reuters despite the lack of a physical release. A CD came out on There, she sang with the Bumps Blackwell Junior Band, which Friday, seven days after the digital version and too late to featured Jones. be considered for the first-week chart. Discrepancies between digital and physical release