A Canadian Screen Awards that brought marginalized voices to the fore and challenged the global political landscape saw The Apprentice , a film about a young Donald Trump , dominate the national film and TV awards on Sunday night.

Director Ali Abbasi’s Trump origin story won best movie, while Sebastian Stan, the Romanian-born American actor who plays the future U.S. president alongside Jeremy Strong as his consigliere Roy Cohn, earned top honors for best leading role.

Daniel Bekerman, co-producer of the Canada/Ireland/Denmark coproduction The Apprentice by director Ali Abbasi, said on stage in Toronto when accepting the prize “our movie shows how the young Donald Trump amassed wealth and power by finding a dilapidated building and slapping his name on it as president. We’ll see

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