The 6th Irish Film and Television Awards took place on 14 February 2009 at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, and was hosted by Ryan Tubridy

Ryan Tubridy

Ryan Tubridy , affectionately known as "Tubs", is an Irish broadcaster and writer, a presenter of live shows on radio and television in Ireland. He has been described as "one of Ireland's most gifted broadcasters"...

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Awards in Film

Film

• Hunger
  Hunger (2008 film)
  Hunger is a 2008 film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was written by Enda Walsh and Steve R. McQueen, who also directed. It was made by Blast! Films and commissioned by Channel 4 and Film4. It premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, winning the prestigious Caméra d'Or award for...
  
   (Winner)
  • 32A
    32A
    32A is a 2007 feature film, directed by Marian Quinn, from her own script. It was shot principally in Dublin, with additional footage in Roscommon and Sligo....
    
    
  • A Film with Me in It
    A Film with Me in It
    A Film With Me In It is a 2008 Irish black comedy film directed by Ian Fitzgibbon, written by and starring Mark Doherty.- Plot :Doherty plays an unsuccessful actor and clarinet player who ends up with a large number of dead bodies on his hands...
    
    
  • The Escapist
    The Escapist (2008 film)
    The Escapist is a 2008 drama thriller starring Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Liam Cunningham, Seu Jorge, Dominic Cooper, Steven Mackintosh, Stephen Farrelly and Damian Lewis. It is directed and co-written by Rupert Wyatt, and premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival to considerable acclaim...
    
    
  • Kisses

Director Film

• Lance Daly - Kisses (Winner)
  • Ian Fitzgibbon – A Film With Me In It
    A Film with Me in It
    A Film With Me In It is a 2008 Irish black comedy film directed by Ian Fitzgibbon, written by and starring Mark Doherty.- Plot :Doherty plays an unsuccessful actor and clarinet player who ends up with a large number of dead bodies on his hands...
    
    
  • Martin McDonagh
    Martin McDonagh
    Martin McDonagh is an Irish-British playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Although he has lived in London his entire life, he is considered one of the most important living Irish playwrights.-Life:...
    
     – In Bruges
  • Declan Recks – Eden

Script Film

• Martin McDonagh
  Martin McDonagh
  Martin McDonagh is an Irish-British playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Although he has lived in London his entire life, he is considered one of the most important living Irish playwrights.-Life:...
  
   - In Bruges (Winner)
  • Lance Daly – Kisses
  • Mark Doherty – A Film With Me In It
    A Film with Me in It
    A Film With Me In It is a 2008 Irish black comedy film directed by Ian Fitzgibbon, written by and starring Mark Doherty.- Plot :Doherty plays an unsuccessful actor and clarinet player who ends up with a large number of dead bodies on his hands...
    
    
  • Enda Walsh
    Enda Walsh
    Enda Walsh is an Irish playwright born in Dublin and currently living in London. Walsh attended the same secondary school where both Roddy Doyle and Paul Mercier taught. Having written for the Dublin Youth Theatre, he moved to Cork where he wrote Fishy Tales for the Graffiti Theatre Company,...
    
     – Hunger
    Hunger (2008 film)
    Hunger is a 2008 film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was written by Enda Walsh and Steve R. McQueen, who also directed. It was made by Blast! Films and commissioned by Channel 4 and Film4. It premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, winning the prestigious Caméra d'Or award for...
    
    

Actor in a Lead Role Film

• Michael Fassbender
  Michael Fassbender
  Michael Fassbender is an Irish-German actor. He is best known for playing Lt. Archie Hicox in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Magneto in the superhero blockbuster X-Men: First Class...
  
   - Hunger
  Hunger (2008 film)
  Hunger is a 2008 film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was written by Enda Walsh and Steve R. McQueen, who also directed. It was made by Blast! Films and commissioned by Channel 4 and Film4. It premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, winning the prestigious Caméra d'Or award for...
  
   (Winner)
  • Colin Farrell
    Colin Farrell
    Colin James Farrell is an Irish actor, who has appeared in such film as Tigerland, Miami Vice, Minority Report, Phone Booth, The Recruit, Alexander and S.W.A.T....
    
     – In Bruges
  • Brendan Gleeson
    Brendan Gleeson
    Brendan Gleeson is an Irish actor. His best-known films include Braveheart, Gangs of New York, In Bruges, 28 Days Later, the Harry Potter films, The Guard and the role of Michael Collins in The Treaty...
    
     – In Bruges
  • Dylan Moran
    Dylan Moran
    Dylan Moran is an Irish stand-up comedian, writer, actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his sardonic observational comedy, the UK television sitcom Black Books , and his work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run...
    
     – A Film With Me In It
    A Film with Me in It
    A Film With Me In It is a 2008 Irish black comedy film directed by Ian Fitzgibbon, written by and starring Mark Doherty.- Plot :Doherty plays an unsuccessful actor and clarinet player who ends up with a large number of dead bodies on his hands...
    
    

Actress in a Lead Role Film

• Eileen Walsh
  Eileen Walsh
  -Biography:Born and raised in Cork, Ireland, Walsh was raised in a Catholic household, and had no intention of becoming an actress, until she followed in the footsteps of her elder sister, who was also an actress, and young Eileen began to attend theatre workshops...
  
   - Eden (Winner)
  • Jenn Murray
    Jenn Murray
    Jenn Murray is an actress from Northern Ireland. Nominated for The 6th Annual Irish Film and Television Awards.-Filmography:-References:* *...
    
     – Dorothy
  • Kelly O'Neill – Kisses
  • Saoirse Ronan
    Saoirse Ronan
    Saoirse Una Ronan is an Irish film actress. She began her career as a child and came to international prominence in 2007 after co-starring in the film Atonement, which gained her nominations for a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.Ronan has since appeared in...
    
     – City of Ember

Actor in a Supporting Role Film

• Liam Cunningham – Hunger
  Hunger (2008 film)
  Hunger is a 2008 film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was written by Enda Walsh and Steve R. McQueen, who also directed. It was made by Blast! Films and commissioned by Channel 4 and Film4. It premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, winning the prestigious Caméra d'Or award for...
  
   (Winner)
  • Stuart Graham
    Stuart Graham
    Stuart Graham was a British former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He was the son of the 1949 500cc world champion, Leslie Graham. His best season was in 1967 when he won two Grand Prix races and finished the year in third place in both the 50cc and the 125cc world championships.-References:*...
    
     – Hunger
    Hunger (2008 film)
    Hunger is a 2008 film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was written by Enda Walsh and Steve R. McQueen, who also directed. It was made by Blast! Films and commissioned by Channel 4 and Film4. It premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, winning the prestigious Caméra d'Or award for...
    
    
  • Gerard McSorley
    Gerard McSorley
    Gerard McSorley is a theatre, television and an Irish film actor.-Early life:He was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, and after attending a Christian Brothers school in his hometown he attended St. Columb's College in Derry. He then attended Queen's University, Belfast, where he was taught by among...
    
     – Anton
  • Peter O'Toole
    Peter O'Toole
    Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole is an Irish actor of stage and screen. O'Toole achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia, and then went on to become a highly-honoured film and stage actor. He has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds the record for most...
    
     – Dean Spanley
    Dean Spanley
    Dean Spanley is a 2008 New Zealand and British comedy-drama film, with fantastic elements, from Miramax Films, Atlantic Film Group and General Film Corporation , directed by Fijian New Zealander Toa Fraser...
    
    

Actress in a Supporting Role Film

• Saoirse Ronan
  Saoirse Ronan
  Saoirse Una Ronan is an Irish film actress. She began her career as a child and came to international prominence in 2007 after co-starring in the film Atonement, which gained her nominations for a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.Ronan has since appeared in...
  
   – Death Defying Acts
  Death Defying Acts
  Death Defying Acts is a 2007 supernatural romantic thriller. The film is a UK-Australian co-production directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones. It concerns an episode in the life of Hungarian-American escapologist Harry Houdini at the height of his career in...
  
   (Winner)
  • Sarah Bolger
    Sarah Bolger
    Sarah Lee Bolger is an Irish actress. She is known for her role as Princess / Lady Mary Tudor on The Tudors and for her role as Mallory Grace in The Spiderwick Chronicles.-Early life:...
    
     – The Spiderwick Chronicles
    The Spiderwick Chronicles (film)
    The Spiderwick Chronicles is a 2008 fantasy film adaptation of Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi's bestselling series of the same name. Set in the Spiderwick Estate in New England, United States, it follows the adventures of Jared Grace and his family as they discover a field guide to faeries, battle...
    
    
  • Lesley Conroy – Eden
  • Ger Ryan
    Ger Ryan
    Ger Ryan is an Irish film and television actress, whose credits include Queer as Folk, Family, The War of the Buttons, The Van, Moll Flanders, Driftwood, A Love Divided and Intermission....
    
     – Dorothy
    Dorothy Mills
    Dorothy Mills is a 2008 film directed by Agnès Merlet. Starring Carice van Houten and Jenn Murray, the film is about a psychiatrist assigned to work on the case of a disturbed young girl.-Awards and nominations:...
    
    

George Morrison

George Morrison (documentary maker)

George Morrison is an Irish director of film documentaries. His works include Mise Éire and Saoirse?.Morrison was born in Tramore, Co. Waterford. His mother was an actress at Dublin's Gate Theatre, while his father worked as a neurological anaesthetist...

 Feature Documentary Award

• Waveriders
  Waveriders
  Waveriders is a 2009 documentary film. The film was produced by Margo Harkin and directed by Joel Conroy.- Plot :Waveriders focuses on the Irish roots of surfing...
  
  (Winner)
  • Gabriel Byrne: Stories From Home
  • Saviours
  • Seaview
    Seaview (film)
    Seaview is a 2008 documentary film directed by Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley. The film chronicles the lives of a group of asylum seekers living in the former Butlin's Holiday Camp at Mosney, Ireland. The film takes an innovative approach to the use to sound and image in telling the stories of the...
    
    

International Film

• In Bruges (Winner)
  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film)
    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2008 historical-drama film based on the novel of the same name by Irish writer John Boyne. Directed by Mark Herman and produced by David Heyman, it stars Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga and Rupert Friend.A Holocaust drama, the film...
    
    
  • Man On Wire
    Man on Wire
    Man on Wire is a 2008 British documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center. It is based on Philippe Petit's book, To Reach the Clouds, recently released in paperback with the new title...
    
    
  • Wall E

International Actor

• Robert Downey Jr – Iron Man
  Iron Man (film)
  Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Directed by Jon Favreau, the film stars Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark, an industrialist and master engineer who builds a powered exoskeleton and becomes the technologically advanced superhero, Iron...
  
   (Winner)
  • Casey Affleck
    Casey Affleck
    Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt , better known as Casey Affleck, is an American actor and film director. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, he played supporting roles in mainstream hits like Good Will Hunting and Ocean's Eleven as well as in critically acclaimed independent films such as...
    
     – Gone Baby Gone
    Gone Baby Gone
    Gone Baby Gone is a 2007 American crime drama-mystery film directed by Ben Affleck and starring his brother Casey Affleck. The screenplay by Ben Affleck and Aaron Stockard is based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island...
    
    
  • Josh Brolin
    Josh Brolin
    Josh James Brolin is an American actor. He has acted in theater, film and television roles since 1985, and won acting awards for his roles in the films W., No Country for Old Men, Milk and True Grit.-Early life:...
    
     – W.
    W. (film)
    W. is a 2008 American film based on the life and presidency of George W. Bush. It was produced and directed by Oliver Stone, written by Stanley Weiser, and stars Josh Brolin as Bush, with a cast that includes Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Scott...
    
    
  • Ralph Fiennes
    Ralph Fiennes
    Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an English actor and film director. He has appeared in such films as The English Patient, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, Strange Days, The Duchess and Schindler's List....
    
     – The Duchess
    The Duchess (film)
    The Duchess is a 2008 British drama film based on Amanda Foreman's biography of the 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. It was released in September 2008 in the UK...
    
    

Pantene Best International Actress Award – People's Choice

• Meryl Streep
  Meryl Streep
  Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television and film.Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville, before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season in 1977. In that same year, she made her film debut with...
  
   – Mamma Mia!
  Mamma Mia! (film)
  Mamma Mia! is a 2008 musical/romantic comedy film adapted from the 1999 West End/2001 Broadway musical of the same name, based on the songs of successful pop group ABBA, with additional music composed by ABBA member Benny Andersson...
  
   (Winner)
  • Angelina Jolie
    Angelina Jolie
    Angelina Jolie is an American actress. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011. Jolie is noted for promoting humanitarian causes as a Goodwill Ambassador for the...
    
     – Changeling
    Changeling (film)
    Changeling is a 2008 American drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by J. Michael Straczynski. Based on real-life events in 1928 Los Angeles, the film stars Angelina Jolie as a woman who is reunited with her missing son—only to realize he is an impostor. She confronts the city...
    
    
  • Kristin Scott Thomas
    Kristin Scott Thomas
    Kristin A. Scott Thomas, OBE is an English actress who has also acquired French nationality. She gained international recognition in the 1990s for her roles in Bitter Moon, Four Weddings and a Funeral and The English Patient....
    
     – I've Loved You So Long
    I've Loved You So Long
    I've Loved You So Long is a 2008 French-language drama film written and directed by Philippe Claudel. It tells the story of a woman struggling to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Emma Thompson
    Emma Thompson
    Emma Thompson is a British actress, comedian and screenwriter. Her first major film role was in the 1989 romantic comedy The Tall Guy. In 1992, Thompson won multiple acting awards, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, for her performance in the British drama Howards End...
    
     – Brideshead Revisited
    Brideshead Revisited (film)
    Brideshead Revisited is a 2008 British drama film directed by Julian Jarrold. The screenplay by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies is based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh, which previously had been adapted in 1981 as an eleven-episode television serial.-Plot:Although he aspires to...
    
    

Awards in Television Drama

Single Drama/Drama Serial

• Whistleblower
  Whistleblower (TV series)
  Whistleblower is a two-part IFTA-winning fact-based RTÉ drama which focuses on the Michael Neary scandal that erupted in the 1990s. Neary is a retired Irish consultant obstetrician/gynecologist who gained notoriety when it was discovered that he had performed what was considered an inordinate...
  
   (Winner)
  • George Gently
  • The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
    The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
    The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce is a 2008 Australian film directed by Michael James Rowland starring Irish actors Adrian Dunbar as Philip Conolly and Ciaran McMenamin as Alexander Pearce...
    
    
  • Little White Lie
    Little White Lie (TV drama)
    Little White Lie is a feature length IFTA-nominated Irish television romantic comedy drama broadcast on RTÉ One on 4 August 2008 at 21:30. It stars Andrew Scott and Elaine Cassidy. The drama follows the journey of a dejected actor as he searches for love after being discarded by his highflying...
    
    
  • School Run

Drama Series / Soap

• The Tudors
  The Tudors
  The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...
  
   (Winner)
  • The Clinic
    The Clinic (TV series)
    The Clinic is an award-winning Irish primetime television medical drama series produced by Parallel Film Productions for RTÉ. It debuted on RTÉ One in 2003 to positive reviews and proved to be one of the network's most popular shows. The show ran for seven seasons between September 2003 to November...
    
    
  • Fair City
    Fair City
    Fair City is an award-winning Irish television soap opera on RTÉ One. Produced by Radio Telefís Éireann, it was first broadcast on Monday, September 18, 1989...
    
    
  • Raw
    Raw (television series)
    Raw, an Irish drama television series for RTÉ. The show focuses on the staff at a Dublin restaurant. The first season featured six episodes shown on RTÉ Two in September 2008 and the second season of six episodes was shown on RTÉ One from 10 January 2010...
    
    
  • Ros na Rún
    Ros na Rún
    Ros na Rún is an Irish soap opera produced for Irish language TV channel TG4. It broadcasts for 35 weeks of the year, airing 2 episodes each week.It airs in Ireland, Scotland and the United States.-Show history:...
    
    

Director Television

• Ciaran Donnelly
  Ciaran Donnelly (director)
  Ciaran Donnelly is an Irish film and television director. His works include four episodes of the ITV comedy drama series Cold Feet , the crime drama series Donovan and the BBC One drama Spooks...
  
   - The Tudors
  The Tudors
  The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...
  
   (Winner)
  • Dermot Boyd
    Dermot Boyd
    Dermot Boyd is a Northern Irish-born television director. Programmes he has directed include: The Return, Four Fathers, Feather Boy, Johnny and the Bomb, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Rough Diamond, Whistleblower, Casualty, and Holby City.A further list of production credits can be found at the IMDb...
    
     – Whistleblower
    Whistleblower (TV series)
    Whistleblower is a two-part IFTA-winning fact-based RTÉ drama which focuses on the Michael Neary scandal that erupted in the 1990s. Neary is a retired Irish consultant obstetrician/gynecologist who gained notoriety when it was discovered that he had performed what was considered an inordinate...
    
    
  • Dearbhla Walsh
    Dearbhla Walsh
    Dearbhla Walsh is an Irish film and television director who has worked on drama series for several television channels in Ireland and the United Kingdom, including episodes of EastEnders, Shameless and The Tudors. She won the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or...
    
     – Little Dorrit
    Little Dorrit (TV serial)
    Little Dorrit is a 2008 British television serial directed by Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh, and Diarmuid Lawrence. The teleplay by Andrew Davies is based on the serial novel of the same title by Charles Dickens, originally published between 1855 and 1857....
    
    
  • Kieron J. Walsh – Raw
    Raw (television series)
    Raw, an Irish drama television series for RTÉ. The show focuses on the staff at a Dublin restaurant. The first season featured six episodes shown on RTÉ Two in September 2008 and the second season of six episodes was shown on RTÉ One from 10 January 2010...
    
    

Script Television

• Graham Linehan
  Graham Linehan
  Graham Linehan is an Irish television writer, actor, comedian and director who, often in partnership with Arthur Mathews, has written or co-written a number of popular television comedies...
  
   - The I.T. Crowd (Winner)
  • Stuart Carolan
    Stuart Carolan
    Stuart Carolan is an Irish playwright.He wrote for "Raw", and "Little White Lie", in 2008.He was 2007 Abbey Theatre's Writer-in-Association.In 2007, Defender of the Faith played Off Broadway, at the Irish Repertory Theatre, and in 2009 in Glasgow, Scotland.He works in Dublin.-Works:*, Abbey...
    
     & Barry Murphy – Little White Lie
    Little White Lie (TV drama)
    Little White Lie is a feature length IFTA-nominated Irish television romantic comedy drama broadcast on RTÉ One on 4 August 2008 at 21:30. It stars Andrew Scott and Elaine Cassidy. The drama follows the journey of a dejected actor as he searches for love after being discarded by his highflying...
    
    
  • Rob Heyland
    Rob Heyland
    Rob Heyland is a British actor turned television writer.His first TV role was as a police constable in a 1982 episode of The Professionals entitled Cry Wolf....
    
     – Whistleblower
    Whistleblower (TV series)
    Whistleblower is a two-part IFTA-winning fact-based RTÉ drama which focuses on the Michael Neary scandal that erupted in the 1990s. Neary is a retired Irish consultant obstetrician/gynecologist who gained notoriety when it was discovered that he had performed what was considered an inordinate...
    
    
  • Peter McKenna
    Peter McKenna
    Peter McKenna is a former Australian rules footballer, who played 180 games and kicked 838 goals with the Collingwood Football Club between 1965 and 1975, where he spent the majority of his career...
    
     – The Clinic
    The Clinic (TV series)
    The Clinic is an award-winning Irish primetime television medical drama series produced by Parallel Film Productions for RTÉ. It debuted on RTÉ One in 2003 to positive reviews and proved to be one of the network's most popular shows. The show ran for seven seasons between September 2003 to November...
    
    

Actor in a Lead Role Television

• Aidan Gillen
  Aidan Gillen
  Aidan Gillen is an Irish stage and screen actor and television presenter. He is known in Ireland for his role in Love/Hate, in the UK for his role in Queer as Folk and in the US for his role in HBO's television series The Wire in which he plays Tommy Carcetti and for his role in Game of Thrones as...
  
   - The Wire
  The WIRE
  the WIRE is the student-run College radio station at the University of Oklahoma, broadcasting in a freeform format. The WIRE serves the University of Oklahoma and surrounding communities, and is staffed by student DJs. The WIRE broadcasts at 1710 kHz AM in Norman, Oklahoma...
  
   (Winner)
  • Dominic Mafham
    Dominic Mafham
    Dominic Mafham is an English actor. He was born on 11 March 1968.He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.Dominic began his career at The Royal Shakespeare Company in 1990. He was with the RSC for four years....
    
     - The Clinic
    The Clinic (TV series)
    The Clinic is an award-winning Irish primetime television medical drama series produced by Parallel Film Productions for RTÉ. It debuted on RTÉ One in 2003 to positive reviews and proved to be one of the network's most popular shows. The show ran for seven seasons between September 2003 to November...
    
    
  • Jonathan Rhys Meyers – The Tudors
    The Tudors
    The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...
    
    
  • Stanley Townsend
    Stanley Townsend
    -Theatre:Townsend's work in theatre includes: Remember This, Guys and Dolls and Phedre at the National Theatre, London; The Alice Trilogy, Shining City , Under the Blue Sky and The Weir at the Royal Court, London; The Wake, Trinity for Two and Sacred Mysteries at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin; The...
    
     – Whistleblower
    Whistleblower (TV series)
    Whistleblower is a two-part IFTA-winning fact-based RTÉ drama which focuses on the Michael Neary scandal that erupted in the 1990s. Neary is a retired Irish consultant obstetrician/gynecologist who gained notoriety when it was discovered that he had performed what was considered an inordinate...
    
    

Actress in a Lead Role Television

• Charlene McKenna
  Charlene McKenna
  Charlene McKenna is an award-winning Irish actress. She became a household name and face in Ireland after starring as Jennifer in the television series Pure Mule in 2005. She has had numerous other roles in television dramas in Ireland, including Raw, Single-Handed 2 and Whistleblower...
  
   - Raw
  Raw (television series)
  Raw, an Irish drama television series for RTÉ. The show focuses on the staff at a Dublin restaurant. The first season featured six episodes shown on RTÉ Two in September 2008 and the second season of six episodes was shown on RTÉ One from 10 January 2010...
  
   (Winner)
  • Elaine Cassidy
    Elaine Cassidy
    Elaine Cassidy is an award-winning Irish actress and is best known for playing the lead character Abby Mills in the American CBS TV series Harper's Island, Felicia in Felicia's Journey opposite Bob Hoskins, Runt in Disco Pigs opposite Cillian Murphy, and Lydia in The Others.-Early life:Elaine...
    
     - Little White Lie
    Little White Lie (TV drama)
    Little White Lie is a feature length IFTA-nominated Irish television romantic comedy drama broadcast on RTÉ One on 4 August 2008 at 21:30. It stars Andrew Scott and Elaine Cassidy. The drama follows the journey of a dejected actor as he searches for love after being discarded by his highflying...
    
    
  • Charlene McKenna
    Charlene McKenna
    Charlene McKenna is an award-winning Irish actress. She became a household name and face in Ireland after starring as Jennifer in the television series Pure Mule in 2005. She has had numerous other roles in television dramas in Ireland, including Raw, Single-Handed 2 and Whistleblower...
    
     – Whistleblower
    Whistleblower (TV series)
    Whistleblower is a two-part IFTA-winning fact-based RTÉ drama which focuses on the Michael Neary scandal that erupted in the 1990s. Neary is a retired Irish consultant obstetrician/gynecologist who gained notoriety when it was discovered that he had performed what was considered an inordinate...
    
    
  • Deirdre O'Kane
    Deirdre O'Kane
    Deirdre O'Kane originally from Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, became a stand-up comic in 1996 and got into the finals of the BBC New Comedy Awards of that year. She has played at the Edinburgh Festival every year since including 2001 where she not only performed her own solo show, Deirdre O'Kane...
    
     – Bittersweet
    Bitter Sweet (TV drama)
    Bitter Sweet is an Irish television drama produced by Element Pictures for RTÉ. It follows the difficulties encountered by three female friends who undergo difficult changes to their respective lives. The drama was broadcast on RTÉ One on 23 March 2008, an Easter Sunday, at 21:30. It is written and...
    
    

Actor in a Supporting Role Television

• Peter O'Toole
  Peter O'Toole
  Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole is an Irish actor of stage and screen. O'Toole achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia, and then went on to become a highly-honoured film and stage actor. He has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds the record for most...
  
   - The Tudors
  The Tudors
  The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...
  
   (Winner)
  • Michael Fassbender
    Michael Fassbender
    Michael Fassbender is an Irish-German actor. He is best known for playing Lt. Archie Hicox in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Magneto in the superhero blockbuster X-Men: First Class...
    
     - The Devil's Whore
    The Devil's Whore
    The Devil's Whore is a four-part television series set during the English Civil War, produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4 in 2008. It centres on the adventures of the fictional Angelica Fanshawe, and the historical Leveller soldier Edward Sexby...
    
    
  • David Herlihy
    David Herlihy
    David Herlihy was an American historian who wrote on medieval and renaissance life. Particular topics include domestic life, especially the roles of women, and the changing structure of the family...
    
     - The Clinic
    The Clinic (TV series)
    The Clinic is an award-winning Irish primetime television medical drama series produced by Parallel Film Productions for RTÉ. It debuted on RTÉ One in 2003 to positive reviews and proved to be one of the network's most popular shows. The show ran for seven seasons between September 2003 to November...
    
    
  • John Kavanagh – George Gently

Actress in a Supporting Role Television

• Maria Doyle Kennedy - The Tudors
  The Tudors
  The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...
  
   (Winner)
  • Orla Brady
    Orla Brady
    -Early life and career:The second of four children born to Dublin publican Patrick Brady and his wife Catherine who had appeared in amateur productions at the Gate Theatre, Brady first became interested in an acting career after reading works by Germaine Greer and Simone de Beauvoir.Brady drifted...
    
     - Mistresses
  • Hilda Fay - Whistleblower
    Whistleblower (TV series)
    Whistleblower is a two-part IFTA-winning fact-based RTÉ drama which focuses on the Michael Neary scandal that erupted in the 1990s. Neary is a retired Irish consultant obstetrician/gynecologist who gained notoriety when it was discovered that he had performed what was considered an inordinate...
    
    
  • Amy Huberman
    Amy Huberman
    Amy O'Driscoll, professionally known as Amy Huberman, is an Irish actress and writer who has starred in numerous productions since beginning her career in 2002 on RTÉ's On Homeground.-Early life:...
    
     – The Clinic
    The Clinic (TV series)
    The Clinic is an award-winning Irish primetime television medical drama series produced by Parallel Film Productions for RTÉ. It debuted on RTÉ One in 2003 to positive reviews and proved to be one of the network's most popular shows. The show ran for seven seasons between September 2003 to November...
    
    

Craft / Technical Awards

Costume Design

• Joan Bergin - The Tudors
  The Tudors
  The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...
  
   (Winner)
  • Driscoll Calder - 32A
    32A
    32A is a 2007 feature film, directed by Marian Quinn, from her own script. It was shot principally in Dublin, with additional footage in Roscommon and Sligo....
    
    
  • Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh - Brideshead Revisited
    Brideshead Revisited (film)
    Brideshead Revisited is a 2008 British drama film directed by Julian Jarrold. The screenplay by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies is based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh, which previously had been adapted in 1981 as an eleven-episode television serial.-Plot:Although he aspires to...
    
    
  • Leonie Prendergast – Kisses
    Kisses
    Kisses is a 2008 Irish drama film directed by Lance Daly. The film is a coming of age drama about two ragamuffin preadolescents, next door neighbors each from dysfunctional families living in a poor area in the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland, who run away together one Christmas holiday.-Plot:Early in...
    
    

Director of Photography

• PJ Dillon - 32A
  32A
  32A is a 2007 feature film, directed by Marian Quinn, from her own script. It was shot principally in Dublin, with additional footage in Roscommon and Sligo....
  
   (Winner)
  • Seamus Deasy - A Film With Me In It
    A Film with Me in It
    A Film With Me In It is a 2008 Irish black comedy film directed by Ian Fitzgibbon, written by and starring Mark Doherty.- Plot :Doherty plays an unsuccessful actor and clarinet player who ends up with a large number of dead bodies on his hands...
    
    
  • Owen McPolin - Little Dorrit
    Little Dorrit (TV serial)
    Little Dorrit is a 2008 British television serial directed by Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh, and Diarmuid Lawrence. The teleplay by Andrew Davies is based on the serial novel of the same title by Charles Dickens, originally published between 1855 and 1857....
    
    
  • Fergal O'Hanlon
    Fergal O'Hanlon
    Feargal O'Hanlon Feargal O'Hanlon Feargal O'Hanlon (Irish: Feargal Ó hAnnluain (b. 2 February 1936, Ballybay, County Monaghan, Ireland – d. 1 January 1957, Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland) was a member/volunteer in the Pearse Column of the Irish Republican Army....
    
     – Anton

Editing

• J. Patrick Duffner - Kisses
  Kisses
  Kisses is a 2008 Irish drama film directed by Lance Daly. The film is a coming of age drama about two ragamuffin preadolescents, next door neighbors each from dysfunctional families living in a poor area in the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland, who run away together one Christmas holiday.-Plot:Early in...
  
   (Winner)
  • Shane Sutton
    Shane Sutton
    Shane Edwin Sutton OBE is a British Cycling coach, former Welsh national cycling coach and professional racing cyclist. Sutton was one of the four men to win gold for Australia at the 1978 Commonwealth Games along with his brother, Gary Sutton...
    
     - Fight or Flight
    Fight or Flight (documentary)
    Fight or Flight is a 2007 documentary film produced by Peter J McCarthy and directed by McCarthy and Shane Sutton. The film won "Best Foreign Documentary" at the Long Island Film Festival as well as "Best Documentary" at festivals in Hamburg, Toronto and California...
    
    
  • Ben Yeates - Raw
  • Gareth Young – Eden

Make Up & Hair – sponsored by M.A.C.

Make-up Art Cosmetics

Make-up Art Cosmetics, better known as M·A·C or MAC Cosmetics, is a manufacturer of cosmetics founded in Toronto, Canada and headquartered in New York City, New York.-History:...

 

• Sharon Doyle & Dee Corcoran - The Tudors
  The Tudors
  The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...
  
   (Winner)
  • Eileen Buggy & Morna Ferguson - George Gently
    George Gently
    Inspector George Gently is a British television series produced by Company Pictures for BBC One, set in the 1960s and based on the Inspector Gently novels by Alan Hunter and featuring Martin Shaw as the eponymous inspector, Lee Ingleby as Detective Sergeant John Bacchus and Simon Hubbard as PC...
    
    
  • Joni Galvin & Muriel Bell - Dorothy
  • Liz Byrne – Kisses

Original Score

• David Holmes
  David Holmes (musician)
  David Holmes is a Northern Irish DJ, musician and composer.-Career:Holmes began djing in Belfast from the age of 15. His first hit was the song "DeNiro", with Ashley Beedle, in 1992. In the early to mid 1990s he ran two club nights in the Belfast Art College known as Sugar Sweet and Shake Yer Brain...
  
   - Hunger
  Hunger (2008 film)
  Hunger is a 2008 film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was written by Enda Walsh and Steve R. McQueen, who also directed. It was made by Blast! Films and commissioned by Channel 4 and Film4. It premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, winning the prestigious Caméra d'Or award for...
  
   (Winner)
  • David Holmes
    David Holmes (musician)
    David Holmes is a Northern Irish DJ, musician and composer.-Career:Holmes began djing in Belfast from the age of 15. His first hit was the song "DeNiro", with Ashley Beedle, in 1992. In the early to mid 1990s he ran two club nights in the Belfast Art College known as Sugar Sweet and Shake Yer Brain...
    
     - Cherrybomb
  • Stephen McKeon
    Stephen McKeon
    Stephen McKeon is an Irish composer of film and television soundtrack music. He received an Irish Film and Television Award for the movie The Tiger's Tail and was nominated for Blind Flight. His other works include: The Nephew and Borstal Boy...
    
     - Niko and the Way to the Stars
  • Anna Rice
    Anna Rice
    Anna Rice is a female badminton player from Canada. She was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia and attended Handsworth Secondary School.-Career:...
    
     – Anton
    Anton (film)
    Anton is a 1973 Norwegian drama film written and directed by Per Blom, starring Bjørn Erik Jessen. 15-year-old Anton Olsson lives in a little village in rural Norway. As his father loses his grip on reality, Anton's mother, who left home when Anton was little, returns.-External links:* at...
    
    

Production Design

• Tom McCullagh - Hunger
  Hunger (2008 film)
  Hunger is a 2008 film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was written by Enda Walsh and Steve R. McQueen, who also directed. It was made by Blast! Films and commissioned by Channel 4 and Film4. It premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, winning the prestigious Caméra d'Or award for...
  
   (Winner)
  • Tom Conroy - The Tudors
    The Tudors
    The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...
    
    
  • John Paul Kelly
    John Paul Kelly
    John Paul Kelly is a former Irish professional footballer who played for Bohemian F.C. and Drogheda United.-Club career:...
    
     - The Other Boleyn Girl
  • David Wilson – Dorothy

Sound

• Ronan Hill & Mervyn Moore - Hunger
  Hunger (2008 film)
  Hunger is a 2008 film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was written by Enda Walsh and Steve R. McQueen, who also directed. It was made by Blast! Films and commissioned by Channel 4 and Film4. It premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, winning the prestigious Caméra d'Or award for...
  
   (Winner)
  • Brendan Deasy - A Film With Me In It
    A Film with Me in It
    A Film With Me In It is a 2008 Irish black comedy film directed by Ian Fitzgibbon, written by and starring Mark Doherty.- Plot :Doherty plays an unsuccessful actor and clarinet player who ends up with a large number of dead bodies on his hands...
    
    
  • John Fitzgerald, Patrick Drummond & Caoimhe Doyle - Niko and the Way to the Stars
  • Paul Maynes, Niall Brady & Garret Farrel – Waveriders
    Waveriders
    Waveriders is a 2009 documentary film. The film was produced by Margo Harkin and directed by Joel Conroy.- Plot :Waveriders focuses on the Irish roots of surfing...
    
    

Awards in Television

Children's / Youth Programme

• Aifric
  Aifric
  Aifric is an Irish-language TV series aimed at young teenagers, directed by Paul Mercier.The first of the weekly thirteen-part series began broadcasting on 31 October 2006, the date of TG4's tenth anniversary....
  
  (Winner)
  • Aisling's Diary
    Aisling's Diary
    Aisling's Diary is an Irish young person's programme aired on RTÉ produced by CampbellRyan Productions. The show was created by Nuno Bernardo....
    
    
  • Funky Fables
  • Quizone
    Quizone
    Quizone is an Irish IFTA nominated children's television quiz show, which is broadcast on RTÉ, the national broadcaster. The show is presented by Jamie Darling, who on the show, is referred to as "the referee" . And the narrator of the show is Jon Slattery. The Shows search rooms use the Quizone.tv...
    
    

Current Affairs

• Cocaine (Prime Time Investigates)
  Prime Time
  Prime Time is an Irish news analysis, current affairs and politics programme. It is broadcast on RTÉ One on Tuesday and Thursday nights between 21:30 and 22:10. It is currently presented by Miriam O'Callaghan, who has presented the programme since its commencement in 1996...
  
  (Winner)
  • A Lost Boy (Spotlight)
  • Slave Labour Ireland (Prime Time Investigates)
    Prime Time
    Prime Time is an Irish news analysis, current affairs and politics programme. It is broadcast on RTÉ One on Tuesday and Thursday nights between 21:30 and 22:10. It is currently presented by Miriam O'Callaghan, who has presented the programme since its commencement in 1996...
    
    
  • Teen Bullying (Prime Time Investigates)
    Prime Time
    Prime Time is an Irish news analysis, current affairs and politics programme. It is broadcast on RTÉ One on Tuesday and Thursday nights between 21:30 and 22:10. It is currently presented by Miriam O'Callaghan, who has presented the programme since its commencement in 1996...
    
    

Documentary Series

• Bertie
  Bertie (TV series)
  Bertie is an IFTA-winning four-part miniseries documenting the life of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, which was broadcast on Irish television channel, RTÉ One in 3 November 2008. The series examined in close detail how he operated as leader of the country and what drove him through his political...
  
  (Winner)
  • Death or Canada
    Death or Canada
    DEATH or CANADA staring Kieran 'Larry' O leary and Shane Gaffey is a Gemini and IFTA nominated two-part Canadian-Irish docudrama which was broadcast in Ireland on RTÉ One in November/December 2008, in the UK on The History Channel UK in January and February 2009 and in Canada on History Television...
    
    
  • How the Irish Have Sex
  • Mobs Mhericeá

Single Documentary

• Cromwell In Ireland (Winner)
  • Brian Keenan: Back to Beirut
  • Patrick McCabe: Blood Relations
  • Pimpernel sa Vatican

Entertainment Programme

• The Apprentice
  The Apprentice (Irish TV series)
  The Apprentice is an Irish reality television series, in which a group of aspiring young businessmen and women compete for the chance to win a job as "apprentice" to business magnate Bill Cullen....
  
  (Winner)
  • The Panel
  • The Podge and Rodge Show
    The Podge and Rodge Show
    The Podge and Rodge Show is an Irish chat show, broadcast and produced by RTÉ, featuring the popular Podge and Rodge as hosts...
    
    
  • Tubridy Tonight
    Tubridy Tonight
    Tubridy Tonight is an Irish chat show hosted by Ryan Tubridy that aired for five series on RTÉ One between 2004 and 2009. The programme featured guest interviews , audience participation and live music from both a guest music group and the house band...
    
    

Factual Programme

• In the Name of the Fada
  In the Name of the Fada
  In the Name of the Fada was a show that aired on RTÉ from 13 March to 17 April 2008, documenting Irish-American comedian Des Bishop and his pursuit of fluency in the Irish language. The show was a 6-part mini-series in which Bishop spends a year living in Tír an Fhia, which is one of many Gaeltacht...
  
  (Winner)
  • Ballet Chancers
    Ballet Chancers
    Ballet Chancers is an Irish television programme broadcast on RTÉ One in late 2008. Featuring the ballerina, Monica Loughman, it began on 16 November 2008. In the show Loughman attempts to turn six streetwise hip hop dancers into elegant ballet dancers over a period of four months...
    
    
  • Celebrity Bainisteoir
    Celebrity Bainisteoir
    Celebrity Bainisteoir is a prime-time reality programme produced for Radio Telefís Éireann, which was produced by Animo Television/Kite Entertainment...
    
    
  • Who Do You Think You Are?
    Who Do You Think You Are? (Irish TV series)
    Who Do You Think You Are? is a six-part Irish genealogy documentary series that first aired on RTÉ One in 2008. In each episode, a popular Irish personality embarks on a journey to trace their family tree...
    
    

Sport

• Troid Fhuilteach (A Bloody Canvas) (Winner)
  • Brief Encounters of the Sporting Mind
  • Euro 2008
  • Road to Croker... With Bertie Ahern

Others

Animation

• Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
  Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
  Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty is a six-minute-long CG/flash animated socially satirical black comedy short film, directed by Nicky Phelan and produced by Darragh O'Connell of Brown Bag Films in 2008. It was written by Kathleen O'Rourke...
  
  (Winner)
  • Days Like This
  • Niko and the Way to the Stars
  • On The Air: Hypnotised Hen

Short Film

• The Door (film)|The Door (Winner)
  • An Ranger
  • Martin
  • Of Best Intentions

Special Irish Language

• In the Name of the Fada
  In the Name of the Fada
  In the Name of the Fada was a show that aired on RTÉ from 13 March to 17 April 2008, documenting Irish-American comedian Des Bishop and his pursuit of fluency in the Irish language. The show was a 6-part mini-series in which Bishop spends a year living in Tír an Fhia, which is one of many Gaeltacht...
  
  (Winner)
  • Aifric
    Aifric
    Aifric is an Irish-language TV series aimed at young teenagers, directed by Paul Mercier.The first of the weekly thirteen-part series began broadcasting on 31 October 2006, the date of TG4's tenth anniversary....
    
    
  • Fairytale of Kathmandu
    Fairytale of Kathmandu
    Fairytale of Kathmandu is a 2007 documentary by Neasa Ní Chianáin.The documentary focused on visits by the poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh to Nepal during which he had close relationships with many young boys of 16 years old or younger...
    
    
  • Seacht

Rising Star Award, sponsored by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board

Irish Film Board

The Irish Film Board is Ireland’s national film agency and major film funding body. It was recommended for abolition by the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes in 2009.-Formative years:...

• Michael Fassbender
  Michael Fassbender
  Michael Fassbender is an Irish-German actor. He is best known for playing Lt. Archie Hicox in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Magneto in the superhero blockbuster X-Men: First Class...
  
   - Actor (Winner)
  • Sarah Bolger
    Sarah Bolger
    Sarah Lee Bolger is an Irish actress. She is known for her role as Princess / Lady Mary Tudor on The Tudors and for her role as Mallory Grace in The Spiderwick Chronicles.-Early life:...
    
     - Actor
  • Lance Daly - Writer/Director
  • Enda Walsh
    Enda Walsh
    Enda Walsh is an Irish playwright born in Dublin and currently living in London. Walsh attended the same secondary school where both Roddy Doyle and Paul Mercier taught. Having written for the Dublin Youth Theatre, he moved to Cork where he wrote Fishy Tales for the Graffiti Theatre Company,...
    
     - Writer

Industry Lifetime Contribution Award

• George Morrison
  George Morrison (documentary maker)
  George Morrison is an Irish director of film documentaries. His works include Mise Éire and Saoirse?.Morrison was born in Tramore, Co. Waterford. His mother was an actress at Dublin's Gate Theatre, while his father worked as a neurological anaesthetist...