“A Canadian Screen Awards That Put Marginalized Voices Front and Center and Challeng the Global Political Landscape Saw The Apprentice Night. Director Ali Abbasi’s Trump Origin Story Won Best Movie, While Sebastian Stan, The Romanian-Born American Actor Who Plays”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Director Ali Abbasi’s Trump Origin Story Won Best Movie, While Sebastian Stan, The Romanian-Born American Actor Who’s Plays The Future US President Alonglier Top Honors for Best Leading Role.
Daniel Bekerman, Co-Powder of the Canada/Ireland/Denmark COPRODUCTION The Apprentice by Director Ali Abbasi, SAID ON STAGE IN TORONTO WHEN ACCEPTING The PRIZE “OUR MOVIE SHOWS HOWS How the Young Donald Trump Amassed Wealth and Power by -Finding A DILAPIDATED BUILDING BUILDING BUILDING BUILDING President.
THEN BECERMAN TURNED TO TRUMP TAUNING CANADA As A POSSIBLE 51ST STATE FOR THE UNITED STATES. “Now HE Wants to Slap His Name on This Country. This Is A Challenge, But A Good Challenge, Because As Independent Filmmakers and Storytelers Stories with HONESTY THAT CAN BUILD AND BUILD Community. Structures that Want to Silence US.
Bekerman Added The Apprentice, WHICH Bowed in Cannes, Received Nominations at the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards. “BUT ALI, I Told You, You Have To Come to Canada If You Want To Find Some Guts in this Industry,“ He Said in A Call-Out to Director Abbasi in the Audence.
Politics ALSO OVERSHADOWED THE CSAS WHEN WET’SUWet’en Leader Molly Wickham, An Indigenous Activist, Came on Stage with Fellow Directors of YintahWHICH Won for Best Documentary and Follows a Decade-Long Fight to Protect Indigenous Lands from Fossil-Fuel Companies.
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Also Sunday Night, The Best Movie Director Prize Went to Andrew Rankin for Universal LanguageA Deadpan Comedy That Riffs On Iranian Cinema and Also Earned the Directors’ Fortnight Audence Award in Cannes. “We All Know What Political Moment We’re Living in. Every Day Are New Berlin Walls Shooting Up All AROUND US AND PITING US AGACHST EACH Other In Very Cruel Feries. And if The fact that kindness can be a radio gesture, and that’s really what we believe in now More than Than Ever, ”Rankin Said Who Accepting His Trophy.
Elsewhere, The Best Reality Series Award Went to Canada’s Drag RaceThe Canadian Spin-Off of the Global Format from Local Producer Blue Ant Media and for CTV. Series Showrunner Trevor Boris WHEN ACCEPTING The AWARD SAID HE SAW the REALITY SHOW as an “Island of Misfit Toys.” “There Are Many of Us Who Are Different and Don’t Really Fit in Because of Who We Love, or Because of Where We Come from. But On the Side Show, we’re normal.
The ctv and cw series Children Ruin Everything from New Metric Media Won for Best Comedy, and Cate Blanchett Picked Up The Best Lead Comedy Performance Prize for Her Star Turn in Guy Maddin’s Political Horror-Comedy Movie Rumurs. Supinder Wraich Won for Best Lead Performer in a TV Drama for Her Star Turn in Allegiance, A CBC Police Drama. An LAW & ORDER TOPRONTO: Criminal Intent Won for Best Drama Series After The Canadian Version of the LAW & ORDER Franchise Format Came Into the Csas with a field-leading 20 nominations.
Kiefer Sutherland Appeared on the Csas to Pay Tribute to His Late Father, Donald Sutherland, Who Passed Away in June 2024 After A Celebrated Career With Credits Like M*a*s*h*, Ordinary People an The Hunger Games. “Somehow this kid, and he was a kid from the maritimes, felt like he have something to say,” he said of donald Sutherland as a young man going to English. “HE Managed to Forge, Well, at Least in My Opinion, One of the Most Diverse, Prolific and Important Acting Careers in the History of Film,“ Kiefer Sutherland Summed Up.
In Other Prize-Giving, The Main Audence Award to W Network’s The Way Homeand the Kids Audence Award Went to Aptn’s Warrior Up! In Special Award Giving, Star Wars: The Acolyte and the Good Place Star Manny Jacinto Received the Radius Award on Sunday Night for His Global Impact As A Performer. “WHO KNEW that Apply to Random Auditions on Craigslist Weld End Up Here,” Jacinto told the Csas Audence in Toronto.
And Marsha Greene, Co-Creator and ShowRunner of the CBC and Bet+ Drama The Porter d Producer of the ABC Series 10 days in the Valley, ACCEPTED THE CHANGEMAKER FOR Calling Out Systemic Racism and Discrimination in Canadian TV. “We are in the time when people people are quesation of the validity and the nextness of this work. Some have Even Even Said Said Our Moment Is Over. Well, this is Not About a Moment. It is About a. Country That Prides Itself on It Diversity, and I Challenge All of Us As Canadians to Continue to Move Forward Town Town of An Industry Is Truley Inclusive, “Greene Side