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Big Irish Stars Due To Appear In Dublin This Weekend For The 2024 IFTA Awards!

Shannon Keenan
Shannon Keenan

01:47 19 Apr 2024


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Everything we know about the 2024 IFTA awards!

This Saturday the 20th of April will see the return of the 21st annual IFTA Awards, (Irish Film and Television Academy) to the Dublin Royal Convention Centre!

The ceremony will be hosted for the first time by Emmy-winning broadcaster Baz Ashmawy.

The awards are like the Irish Oscars, which celebrates the very best of Irish talent in the film and TV sector - With many Hollywood A-listers returning home for their nominations.

Irelands biggest stars like Paul Mescal, Andrew Scott, Saoirse Ronan, Cillian Murphy, Pierce Brosnan and Sharon Hogan to name a few are set to appear on the red carpet.

Check out the full list of nominees across 28 categories in Film and Drama below:

 

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Best Film

Double Blind

Flora and Son

Lies We Tell

LOLA

That They May Face The Rising Sun

Verdigris

 

Best Director – Film

Double Blind – Ian Hunt-Duffy

Flora and Son – John Carney

Lies We Tell – Lisa Mulcahy

LOLA – Andrew Legge

That They May Face The Rising Sun – Pat Collins

Verdigris – Patricia Kelly

 

Best Script – Film

Double Blind – Darach McGarrigle

Flora and Son – John Carney

Lies We Tell – Elisabeth Gooch

LOLA – Andrew Legge

That They May Face The Rising Sun – Éamon Little

Verdigris – Patricia Kelly

 

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Best Actor – Film

Andrew Scott – All Of Us Strangers

David Wilmot – Lies We Tell

Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer

Barry Keoghan – Saltburn

Barry Ward – That They May Face The Rising Sun

Pierce Brosnan – The Last Rifleman

 

Best Actress – Film

Jessie Buckley – Fingernails

Eve Hewson – Flora and Son

Saoirse Ronan – Foe

Agnes O’Casey – Lies We Tell

Bríd Brennan – My Sailor, My Love

Geraldine McAlinden – Verdigris

 

Best Supporting Actor – Film

Paul Mescal – All Of Us Strangers

Diarmuid Noyes – Double Blind

Chris Walley – Lies We Tell

Kenneth Branagh – Oppenheimer

Liam Carney – Sunlight

Lalor Roddy – That They May Face The Rising Sun

 

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Best Supporting Actress – Film

Bronagh Gallagher – Dance First

Catherine Walker – My Sailor, My Love

Alison Oliver – Saltburn

Ruth McCabe – That They May Face The Rising Sun

Agnes O’Casey – The Miracle Club

Maya O’Shea – Verdigris

 

Best Drama 

Blue Lights

Hidden Assets

Kin

Northern Lights

Obituary

The Woman in the Wall

 

Best Director – Drama

Happy Valley – Fergus O’Brien

Kin – Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor

Kin – Kate Dolan

Northern Lights – Tom Hall

Obituary – John Hayes

The Gone – Hannah Quinn

 

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Best Script – Drama

Blue Lights – Declan Lawn & Adam Patterson

Hidden Assets – Peter McKenna

Kin – Peter McKenna

Northern Lights – Stephen Jones

Obituary – Ray Lawlor

The Woman in the Wall – Joe Murtagh

 

Best Actor – Drama

Martin McCann – Blue Lights

Francis Magee – Kin

Sam Keeley – Kin

Michael Smiley – Obituary

Éanna Hardwicke – The Sixth Commandment

Daryl McCormack – The Woman in the Wall

 

Best Actress – Drama

Sharon Horgan – Best Interests

Clare Dunne – Kin

Niamh Algar – Malpractice

Elva Trill – Northern Lights

Siobhán Cullen – Obituary

Caitriona Balfe – Outlander

 

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Best Supporting Actor – Drama

Richard Dormer – Blue Lights

Jared Harris – Foundation

Aaron Monaghan – Hidden Assets

Aidan Gillen – Kin

Emmett J. Scanlan – Kin

Simon Delaney – The Woman in the Wall

 

Best Supporting Actress – Drama

Niamh Algar – Culprits

Cathy Belton – Hidden Assets

Maria Doyle Kennedy – Kin

Danielle Galligan – Obituary

Fionnula Flanagan – Sisters

Hilda Fay – The Woman in the Wall

 

Best International Film

All Of Us Strangers

Oppenheimer

Past Lives

Poor Things

Saltburn

The Holdovers

 

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Best International Actor

Ryan Gosling – Barbie

Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon

Bradley Cooper – Maestro

Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things

Willem Dafoe – Poor Things

Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers

 

Best International Film

Margot Robbie – Barbie

Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon

Carey Mulligan – Maestro

Annette Bening – Nyad

Greta Lee – Past Lives

Emma Stone – Poor Things

 

George Morrison Feature Documentary 

In The Shadow of Beirut

Joan Baez: I Am A Noise

Notes from Sheepland

Stolen

The Days of Trees

The Deepest Breath

 

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Live-Action Short Film

Calf

Mud Queen

Sound & Colour

The Golden West

Two for the Road

Waiting Day

 

Animated Short Film

Nana Dee

The Small Makings of a Storm

The Presenter

Wind & The Shadow

 

Cinematography

Double Blind – Narayan Van Maele

Kin – JJ Rolfe

Lies We Tell – Eleanor Bowman

Poor Things – Robbie Ryan

That They May Face The Rising Sun – Richard Kendrick

 

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Costume Design

Double Blind – Gwen Jeffares Hourie

Lies We Tell – Joanne O’Brien

LOLA – ​​Lara Campbell

That They May Face The Rising Sun – Louise Stanton

The Pope’s Exorcist – Lorna Marie Mugan

 

Production Design

A Haunting in Venice – John Paul Kelly

Double Blind – Steve Kingston

Lies We Tell – Caroline Hill

LOLA – Ferdia Murphy

That They May Face The Rising Sun – Padraig O’Neill

 

Hair & Make-Up

Double Blind – Jennia Readman, Madonna Bambino

Flora and Son – Lyndsey Herron, Barbara Conway

Lies We Tell – Helen O’Connor, Aitana Silvana

That They May Face The Rising Sun – Sandra Dunne, Edwina Kelly

The Pope’s Exorcist – Orla Carroll, Lynn Johnston

 

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Sound

Barbie – Nina Rice

Double Blind – Brendan Rehill, Rob Moore, Peter Blayney

Evil Dead Rise – Garret Farrell, Peter Albrechtsen, Myk Farmer

Lies We Tell – Aza Hand, Damien Lynch, Peter Nicell

Saltburn – Nina Rice, Nina Hartstone, Adam Scrivener

 

Original Music

Double Blind – Die Hexen

Flora and Son – Gary Clark, John Carney

Lies We Tell – Aza Hand

LOLA – Neil Hannon

That They May Face The Rising Sun – Irene Buckley, Linda Buckley

 

Editing

Double Blind – Colin Campbell

Lies We Tell – Weronika Kaminska

LOLA – Colin Campbell

Still: A Michael J Fox Movie – Michael Harte

The Last Rifleman – John Walters

 

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VFX

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves – Kev Cahill, Diana Giogiutti

Evil Dead Rise – Liam Neville, Declan Boyle

Paradise – Niall McEvoy, Liam Neville

The Nevers – Ed Bruce, Andrew Barry

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