Awards in film

Best Irish Film Jury Award

• Intermission
  Intermission (film)
  Intermission is a 2003 Irish comedy crime film directed by John Crowley which tells a story of a young couple and people surrounding them. The film is set in Dublin, Ireland and is filmed in a TV drama style with several storylines crossing over one another during the course of the film.Mark O'Rowe...
  
   (Winner)
  • The Actors
    The Actors
    The Actors is a 2003 film written and directed by Conor McPherson and starring Dylan Moran and Michael Caine. In supporting roles are Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson and Lena Headey ....
    
    
  • Chavez - Inside the Coup
  • Dead Bodies
    Dead Bodies
    Dead Bodies is a 2003 Irish drama film by Robert Quinn starring Andrew Scott, Katy Davis, Eamonn Owens, Darren Healy and Kelly Reilly. The screenplay was written by Derek Landy.-Awards:...
    
    
  • Song for a Raggy Boy
    Song For a Raggy Boy
    Song For a Raggy Boy is a 2003 film directed by Aisling Walsh. It is based on the book of the same name by Patrick Galvin and is based on true events.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Veronica Guerin
    Veronica Guerin (film)
    Veronica Guerin is a 2003 Irish biographical film directed by Joel Schumacher. The screenplay by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue focuses on Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her murder in 1996....
    
    

Best Film Director

• John Crowley
  John Crowley
  John Crowley is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer...
  
   for Intermission
  Intermission (film)
  Intermission is a 2003 Irish comedy crime film directed by John Crowley which tells a story of a young couple and people surrounding them. The film is set in Dublin, Ireland and is filmed in a TV drama style with several storylines crossing over one another during the course of the film.Mark O'Rowe...
  
   (Winner)
  • John Deery
    John Deery
    John Deery is an award-winning film and television drama director. Like many other directors, he started out as an actor. In between acting jobs he was a runner on commercials with some of the UK’s top commercial directors. He then became a third and first assistant director before going to the...
    
     for Conspiracy of Silence
    Conspiracy of Silence (film)
    Conspiracy of Silence is a drama film set in Ireland and inspired by real events. The film challenges celibacy and its implication for the Catholic Church in the 21st century....
    
    
  • Robert Quinn for Dead Bodies
    Dead Bodies
    Dead Bodies is a 2003 Irish drama film by Robert Quinn starring Andrew Scott, Katy Davis, Eamonn Owens, Darren Healy and Kelly Reilly. The screenplay was written by Derek Landy.-Awards:...
    
    
  • Liz Gill for Goldfish Memory
    Goldfish Memory
    Goldfish Memory is a feature film about everyday relationships, set and filmed in Dublin. It was written and directed by Elizabeth Gill.- Plot :...
    
    
  • Aisling Walsh
    Aisling Walsh
    Aisling Walsh is an Irish writer and director.-Early life:She was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1958 to Raphael Walsh, a furniture designer and manufacturer from Navan, County Meath...
    
      for Song for a Raggy Boy
    Song For a Raggy Boy
    Song For a Raggy Boy is a 2003 film directed by Aisling Walsh. It is based on the book of the same name by Patrick Galvin and is based on true events.-Plot:...
    
    

Best Short Film

• Meeting Che Guevara and the Man from Maybury Hill (Winner)
  • Eireville
  • The Last Time
  • No, No, No (film)|No, No, No
  • Strangers in the Night (film)|Strangers in the Night

Awards in acting

Best Actor in a Lead Role - Film (Jury Award)

• Andrew Scott
  Andrew Scott (actor)
  Andrew Scott is an Irish film, television, and stage actor. He received the 2005 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre for the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs production of A Girl in a Car with a Man and an IFTA award for the film Dead Bodies...
  
   for Dead Bodies
  Dead Bodies
  Dead Bodies is a 2003 Irish drama film by Robert Quinn starring Andrew Scott, Katy Davis, Eamonn Owens, Darren Healy and Kelly Reilly. The screenplay was written by Derek Landy.-Awards:...
  
   (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....
    
     for SWAT
  • Michael McElhatton
    Michael McElhatton
    Michael McElhatton is an Irish actor and writer.-Selected filmography:* A Tiger's Tail* Spin the Bottle* Intermission* The Actors* Blow Dry* Saltwater* Crushproof* I Went Down* Perrier's Bounty-Selected Stage Career:...
    
     for Spin the Bottle
    Spin the Bottle (2003 film)
    Spin the Bottle is a 2003 Irish film by director Ian Fitzgibbon. It was released in 2003.- Plot :The film is a story about a man named Rats who tries to form a band after being released from Mountjoy Prison to get money for a pilgrimage to Lourdes....
    
    
  • Cillian Murphy
    Cillian Murphy
    Cillian Murphy is an Irish film and theatre actor. He is often noted by critics for his chameleonic performances in diverse roles and distinctive blue eyes and general sex appeal....
    
     for 28 Days Later
    28 Days Later
    28 Days Later is an acclaimed 2002 British horror film directed by Danny Boyle. The screenplay was written by Alex Garland, and the film stars Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns, and Christopher Eccleston...
    
    
  • Aidan Quinn
    Aidan Quinn
    -Early life:Quinn was born in Chicago, Illinois to Irish parents. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic and raised in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois, as well as in Dublin and Birr, County Offaly in Ireland. His mother, Teresa, was a homemaker, and his father, Michael Quinn, was a professor of...
    
     for Song for a Raggy Boy
    Song For a Raggy Boy
    Song For a Raggy Boy is a 2003 film directed by Aisling Walsh. It is based on the book of the same name by Patrick Galvin and is based on true events.-Plot:...
    
    

Best Actor in a Leading Role - Television

• James Nesbitt
  James Nesbitt
  James Nesbitt is a Northern Irish actor. Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Nesbitt grew up in the nearby village of Broughshane, before moving to Coleraine, County Londonderry. He wanted to become a teacher like his father, so he began a degree in French at the University of Ulster...
  
   for Murphy's Law
  Murphy's Law (TV series)
  Murphy's Law is a BBC television drama, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Northern Ireland, starring James Nesbitt as an undercover police officer, Tommy Murphy. There were five series of the drama, shown on BBC One. The first two were composed of individual stories. Series three, four...
  
   (Winner)
  • Peadar Cox for 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:...
    
    
  • Simon Delaney
    Simon Delaney
    Simon Delaney is an Irish television and theatre director, whose works include the RTE series Bachelors Walk as one of three bachelors living together in a flat on the quays in Dublin....
    
     for Bachelors Walk
    Bachelors Walk
    Bachelors Walk was a comedy-drama based around three single men living in a house in Dublin’s Bachelors Walk. The drama was shot in and around Dublin. The programme was first broadcast on RTÉ on 1 October 2001...
    
    
  • Ciaran McMenamin
    Ciarán McMenamin
    Ciarán McMenamin is an Irish actor who is now living in South London. He is best known for playing Matt Anderson, replacing Jason Flemyng as lead on Primeval.- Early life :...
    
     for Any Time Now
    Any Time Now (TV series)
    Any Time Now is a 2002 co-produced six-part comedy-drama by RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland.The show initially aired on BBC One Northern Ireland and RTÉ One in 2002...
    
    

Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Film/TV

• David Wilmot
  David Wilmot (actor)
  David Wilmot is an award-winning Irish stage, screen, and television actor.Wilmot's theatre credits include Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, As You Like It with the Druid Theatre Company in Galway, and Juno and the Paycock in London's West End...
  
   for Intermission
  Intermission (film)
  Intermission is a 2003 Irish comedy crime film directed by John Crowley which tells a story of a young couple and people surrounding them. The film is set in Dublin, Ireland and is filmed in a TV drama style with several storylines crossing over one another during the course of the film.Mark O'Rowe...
  
   (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....
    
     for Intermission
    Intermission (film)
    Intermission is a 2003 Irish comedy crime film directed by John Crowley which tells a story of a young couple and people surrounding them. The film is set in Dublin, Ireland and is filmed in a TV drama style with several storylines crossing over one another during the course of the film.Mark O'Rowe...
    
    
  • Ciarán Hinds
    Ciarán Hinds
    Ciarán Hinds is an Irish film, television and stage actor. He has built up a reputation as a versatile character actor appearing in such high profile films as Road to Perdition, The Phantom of the Opera, Munich, There Will Be Blood and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. His television roles include...
    
     for Veronica Guerin
    Veronica Guerin (film)
    Veronica Guerin is a 2003 Irish biographical film directed by Joel Schumacher. The screenplay by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue focuses on Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her murder in 1996....
    
    
  • 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...
    
     for Veronica Guerin
    Veronica Guerin (film)
    Veronica Guerin is a 2003 Irish biographical film directed by Joel Schumacher. The screenplay by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue focuses on Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her murder in 1996....
    
    
  • Owen Roe for Any Time Now
    Any Time Now (TV series)
    Any Time Now is a 2002 co-produced six-part comedy-drama by RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland.The show initially aired on BBC One Northern Ireland and RTÉ One in 2002...
    
    

Best Actress in a Lead Role - Film

• Angeline Ball
  Angeline Ball
  Angeline Ball is an award-winning Irish actress who currently resides in London, England. She is a trained dancer in ballet, tap and modern dance. Her breakthrough role came in 1991 when she starred alongside Maria Doyle Kennedy and Bronagh Gallagher as back-up singer Imelda Quirke in Alan...
  
   for Bloom
  Bloom (film)
  Bloom is a 2003 Irish film written and directed by Sean Walsh, based on the novel Ulysses by James Joyce. The film premiered at the 2003 Taormina Film Festival. Angeline Ball won the award for "Best Actress in a Film" at the Irish Film and Television Awards...
  
   (Winner)
  • Bronagh Gallagher
    Bronagh Gallagher
    - External links :*...
    
     for Spin the Bottle
    Spin the Bottle (2003 film)
    Spin the Bottle is a 2003 Irish film by director Ian Fitzgibbon. It was released in 2003.- Plot :The film is a story about a man named Rats who tries to form a band after being released from Mountjoy Prison to get money for a pilgrimage to Lourdes....
    
    
  • Maria Doyle Kennedy
    Maria Doyle Kennedy
    Maria Doyle Kennedy is an award-winning Irish actress and singer. She is possibly best known for her roles as Natalie, in cult film The Commitments, Queen Katherine of Aragon in the award winning The Tudors and as the title character's wife Frances in The General.-Early life:She is an honours...
    
     for Mystics
  • Flora Montgomery
    Flora Montgomery
    Flora Anne Selina Montgomery is a Northern Irish actress.-Early life and family:She was born at her family's ancestral home in Greyabbey, Newtownards, Ards, County Down, Ulster, Northern Ireland, and educated at Rockport School, daughter of William Howard Clive Montgomery of Rosemount House and of...
    
     for Goldfish Memory
    Goldfish Memory
    Goldfish Memory is a feature film about everyday relationships, set and filmed in Dublin. It was written and directed by Elizabeth Gill.- Plot :...
    
    
  • Natascha McElhone
    Natascha McElhone
    Natascha McElhone is an English actress of stage, screen and television, best known for her roles in Ronin, The Truman Show and Solaris. McElhone also plays a leading role in the Showtime series Californication....
    
     for Solaris
    Solaris (2002 film)
    Solaris is a 2002 science fiction film and psychological drama directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney and Natascha McElhone...
    
    

Best Actress in a Leading Role - Television

• Angeline Ball
  Angeline Ball
  Angeline Ball is an award-winning Irish actress who currently resides in London, England. She is a trained dancer in ballet, tap and modern dance. Her breakthrough role came in 1991 when she starred alongside Maria Doyle Kennedy and Bronagh Gallagher as back-up singer Imelda Quirke in Alan...
  
   for Any Time Now
  Any Time Now (TV series)
  Any Time Now is a 2002 co-produced six-part comedy-drama by RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland.The show initially aired on BBC One Northern Ireland and RTÉ One in 2002...
  
   (Winner)
  • Dearbhla Molloy
    Dearbhla Molloy
    Dearbhla Molloy is an Irish actress of the stage and screen from Dublin.Molloy consolidated her stage reputation at both the Abbey and the Gate theatres, coming to England to tour with an Abbey production. She was invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company and has played Gertrude to Kenneth...
    
     for Home for Christmas
  • Joan Sheehy for 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:...
    
    

Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Film/TV

• Ruth McCabe for Any Time Now
  Any Time Now (TV series)
  Any Time Now is a 2002 co-produced six-part comedy-drama by RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland.The show initially aired on BBC One Northern Ireland and RTÉ One in 2002...
  
   (Winner)
  • Brenda Fricker
    Brenda Fricker
    Brenda Fricker is an Irish actress of theatre, film and television. She had appeared in more than 30 films and television roles...
    
     for Veronica Guerin
    Veronica Guerin (film)
    Veronica Guerin is a 2003 Irish biographical film directed by Joel Schumacher. The screenplay by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue focuses on Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her murder in 1996....
    
    
  • Fiona Glascott
    Fiona Glascott
    Fiona Glascott is an Irish actress. She was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in Film/TV for 2003's Goldfish Memory....
    
     for Goldfish Memory
    Goldfish Memory
    Goldfish Memory is a feature film about everyday relationships, set and filmed in Dublin. It was written and directed by Elizabeth Gill.- Plot :...
    
    
  • 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...
    
     for Intermission
    Intermission (film)
    Intermission is a 2003 Irish comedy crime film directed by John Crowley which tells a story of a young couple and people surrounding them. The film is set in Dublin, Ireland and is filmed in a TV drama style with several storylines crossing over one another during the course of the film.Mark O'Rowe...
    
    
  • 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....
    
     for Intermission
    Intermission (film)
    Intermission is a 2003 Irish comedy crime film directed by John Crowley which tells a story of a young couple and people surrounding them. The film is set in Dublin, Ireland and is filmed in a TV drama style with several storylines crossing over one another during the course of the film.Mark O'Rowe...
    
    

Awards in television

Best TV Drama

• Bachelors Walk
  Bachelors Walk
  Bachelors Walk was a comedy-drama based around three single men living in a house in Dublin’s Bachelors Walk. The drama was shot in and around Dublin. The programme was first broadcast on RTÉ on 1 October 2001...
  
   (Winner)
  • Any Time Now
    Any Time Now (TV series)
    Any Time Now is a 2002 co-produced six-part comedy-drama by RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland.The show initially aired on BBC One Northern Ireland and RTÉ One in 2002...
    
    
  • Home for Christmas
  • On Home Ground
  • Watermelon
    Watermelon (television film)
    Watermelon is a 2003 television film, directed by Kieron J. Walsh.The screenplay is by Colin Bateman. The film is inspired by the novel by Marian Keyes.It stars Anna Friel, Jamie Draven, Ciaran McMenamin, Sean McGinley, and Brenda Fricker....
    
    

Best Entertainment

• Amu Amigos "Amazon"
  Amú Amigos
  Amú Amigos is an Irish-language TV travel show with a mainly young audience. It got huge ratings and brought many non-Irish speakers to the channel for the first time. Hector's style is unique, as he travels to various countries, meeting and chatting with the locals in English/Spanish and then...
  
   (Winner)
  • Brian Kennedy On Song
  • Only Fools Buy Horses
  • Ryan Confidential
    Ryan Confidential
    Ryan Confidential was an Irish home-produced television programme broadcast on RTÉ One. It was presented by Gerry Ryan, until his unexpected death at the age of 53 on 30 April 2010. The programme was created by the producer David Blake Knox....
    
    - 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....
    
    
  • The Late Late Show
    The Late Late Show
    The Late Late Show, sometimes referred to as The Late Late, or in some cases by the acronym LLS, is the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster and the official flagship television programme of Irish broadcasting company RTÉ...
    
    special on Richard Harris
    Richard Harris
    Richard St John Harris was an Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer....
    
    

Best Lifestyle

• Amu Amigos "Amazon"
  Amú Amigos
  Amú Amigos is an Irish-language TV travel show with a mainly young audience. It got huge ratings and brought many non-Irish speakers to the channel for the first time. Hector's style is unique, as he travels to various countries, meeting and chatting with the locals in English/Spanish and then...
  
   (Winner)
  • Ask Anna
  • The Health Squad
  • Ireland AM
    Ireland AM
    Ireland AM is Ireland's only breakfast television programme. The show is broadcast live every weekday morning by TV3 and 3e.- Early years :...
    
    
  • Wedding Planners

Best Children's/Youth/Educational/Multicultural/Religious/Regional TV

• Sampler (Winner)
  • Cracking Crime
  • Ear to the Ground
    Ear to the Ground
    Ear to the Ground is a weekly television programme broadcast in Ireland on RTÉ One on Thursday evenings at 19:00. The show consists of reports about various countryside, rural environmental issues. It is currently in its sixteenth season and is produced by Independent Pictures. Ear to the Ground is...
    
    
  • Townlands: "Animal Rescue"
  • Twins

Best Sports TV

• The Rod Squad (Winner)
  • Breaking Ball
    Breaking ball
    In baseball, a breaking ball is a pitch that does not travel straight like a fastball as it approaches the batter. A pitcher who uses primarily breaking ball pitches is often referred to as a junkballer. A breaking ball will have some sideways or downward motion on it...
    
    
  • End to End: "Armagh Special"
  • La Ochra Gael
  • When Joe Met Sam

Best Current Affairs

• Prime Time: "Cardinal Secrets"
  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)
  • Prime Time: "Saturday Night Sunday Morning"
    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...
    
    
  • Crash
  • Prime Time: "Sue Nation"
    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...
    
    
  • Fine Gael: "A Family at War"
    Fine Gael
    Fine Gael is a centre-right to centrist political party in the Republic of Ireland. It is the single largest party in Ireland in the Oireachtas, in local government, and in terms of Members of the European Parliament. The party has a membership of over 35,000...
    
    

Awards across TV and film

Best Documentary

• Oilean Thorai (Winner)
  • A House Divided
  • Bang! You're Dead
  • Chavez - Inside the Coup
  • Living the Revolution
  • Sing On Forever
  • The Strange Case of the Irish Crown Jewels

Best Irish Language

• Amu Amigos "Amazon"
  Amú Amigos
  Amú Amigos is an Irish-language TV travel show with a mainly young audience. It got huge ratings and brought many non-Irish speakers to the channel for the first time. Hector's style is unique, as he travels to various countries, meeting and chatting with the locals in English/Spanish and then...
  
   (Winner)
  • An Charraig Stoite
  • Galtymore
  • Islandman
  • Oilean Thorai

Best Music in TV/Film

• John McPhillips
  John McPhillips
  -Career:He won the Best Music Award in TV/Film for Spin the Bottle at the 1st Irish Film and Television Awards in 2003.-External links:**-References:....
  
   for Spin the Bottle
  Spin the Bottle (2003 film)
  Spin the Bottle is a 2003 Irish film by director Ian Fitzgibbon. It was released in 2003.- Plot :The film is a story about a man named Rats who tries to form a band after being released from Mountjoy Prison to get money for a pilgrimage to Lourdes....
  
   (Winner)
  • Gavin Little for God's Kitchen
  • Ronan Johnstone for Home for Christmas
  • Niall Byrne for On Home Ground
  • ShinAwil Productions for You're A Star
    You're A Star
    You're a Star was a singing contest in Ireland,similar to th X Factor in the United Kingdom and American Idol in the USA created by Screentime ShinAwiL and Radio Telefís Éireann. It was shown weekly on RTÉ One over the winter months of each year...
    
    

Best Animation

• Escape (Winner)
  • The Birth of John the Baptist
  • The Butterfly Collector
  • The Depository
  • Pullin' the Devil by the Tail
    Pullin' the Devil by the Tail
    Pullin' the Devil by the Tail is a short stop motion animation film, made by Stephen McCollum in 2003 and had won many awards in Irish Festivals. In 2009 five follow-up episodes were released...
    
    

Best Script

• Mark O'Rowe
  Mark O'Rowe
  - Personal Background :Mark O'Rowe was born in 1970 in Dublin, Ireland, to parents Hugh and Patricia O'Rowe. He grew up in Tallaght, a working class suburb just south of Dublin, and he claims that much of the violence in his work stems from watching and rewatching a tremendous amount of violent,...
  
   for Intermission
  Intermission (film)
  Intermission is a 2003 Irish comedy crime film directed by John Crowley which tells a story of a young couple and people surrounding them. The film is set in Dublin, Ireland and is filmed in a TV drama style with several storylines crossing over one another during the course of the film.Mark O'Rowe...
  
   (Winner)
  • Conor McPherson
    Conor McPherson
    Conor McPherson is an Irish playwright and director.-Life and career:McPherson was born in Dublin, . He was educated at University College Dublin, McPherson began writing his first plays there as a member of UCD Dramsoc, the college's dramatic society, and went on to found Fly By Night Theatre...
    
     for The Actors
    The Actors
    The Actors is a 2003 film written and directed by Conor McPherson and starring Dylan Moran and Michael Caine. In supporting roles are Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson and Lena Headey ....
    
    
  • Derek Landy
    Derek Landy
    Derek Landy is an Irish author and screenwriter, famous for the Skulduggery Pleasant series of children's books.thumb|Derek Landy in Edinburgh, August 2011...
    
     for Dead Bodies
    Dead Bodies
    Dead Bodies is a 2003 Irish drama film by Robert Quinn starring Andrew Scott, Katy Davis, Eamonn Owens, Darren Healy and Kelly Reilly. The screenplay was written by Derek Landy.-Awards:...
    
    
  • Liz Gill for Goldfish Memory
    Goldfish Memory
    Goldfish Memory is a feature film about everyday relationships, set and filmed in Dublin. It was written and directed by Elizabeth Gill.- Plot :...
    
    
  • Ian Fitzgibbon for Spin the Bottle
    Spin the Bottle (2003 film)
    Spin the Bottle is a 2003 Irish film by director Ian Fitzgibbon. It was released in 2003.- Plot :The film is a story about a man named Rats who tries to form a band after being released from Mountjoy Prison to get money for a pilgrimage to Lourdes....
    
    

Best Cinematography / TV Photography

• Peter Robertson for Song for a Raggy Boy
  Song For a Raggy Boy
  Song For a Raggy Boy is a 2003 film directed by Aisling Walsh. It is based on the book of the same name by Patrick Galvin and is based on true events.-Plot:...
  
   (Winner)
  • Ciarán Tanham for Bloom
    Bloom (film)
    Bloom is a 2003 Irish film written and directed by Sean Walsh, based on the novel Ulysses by James Joyce. The film premiered at the 2003 Taormina Film Festival. Angeline Ball won the award for "Best Actress in a Film" at the Irish Film and Television Awards...
    
    
  • Donal Gilligan for Dead Bodies
    Dead Bodies
    Dead Bodies is a 2003 Irish drama film by Robert Quinn starring Andrew Scott, Katy Davis, Eamonn Owens, Darren Healy and Kelly Reilly. The screenplay was written by Derek Landy.-Awards:...
    
    
  • Ken Byrne for Goldfish Memory
    Goldfish Memory
    Goldfish Memory is a feature film about everyday relationships, set and filmed in Dublin. It was written and directed by Elizabeth Gill.- Plot :...
    
    
  • Brendan Galvin for Veronica Guerin
    Veronica Guerin (film)
    Veronica Guerin is a 2003 Irish biographical film directed by Joel Schumacher. The screenplay by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue focuses on Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her murder in 1996....
    
    

Best Editing

• Dermot Diskin for Dead Bodies
  Dead Bodies
  Dead Bodies is a 2003 Irish drama film by Robert Quinn starring Andrew Scott, Katy Davis, Eamonn Owens, Darren Healy and Kelly Reilly. The screenplay was written by Derek Landy.-Awards:...
  
   (Winner)
  • The Actors
    The Actors
    The Actors is a 2003 film written and directed by Conor McPherson and starring Dylan Moran and Michael Caine. In supporting roles are Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson and Lena Headey ....
    
    
  • Goldfish Memory
    Goldfish Memory
    Goldfish Memory is a feature film about everyday relationships, set and filmed in Dublin. It was written and directed by Elizabeth Gill.- Plot :...
    
    
  • Spin the Bottle
    Spin the Bottle (2003 film)
    Spin the Bottle is a 2003 Irish film by director Ian Fitzgibbon. It was released in 2003.- Plot :The film is a story about a man named Rats who tries to form a band after being released from Mountjoy Prison to get money for a pilgrimage to Lourdes....
    
    
  • The Strange Case of the Irish Crown Jewels

Best Hair / Make-up

• Linda Mooney & Carol Dunne for Watermelon
  Watermelon (television film)
  Watermelon is a 2003 television film, directed by Kieron J. Walsh.The screenplay is by Colin Bateman. The film is inspired by the novel by Marian Keyes.It stars Anna Friel, Jamie Draven, Ciaran McMenamin, Sean McGinley, and Brenda Fricker....
  
   (Winner)
  • Lynn Johnston & Lorraine Glynn for Intermission
    Intermission (film)
    Intermission is a 2003 Irish comedy crime film directed by John Crowley which tells a story of a young couple and people surrounding them. The film is set in Dublin, Ireland and is filmed in a TV drama style with several storylines crossing over one another during the course of the film.Mark O'Rowe...
    
    
  • Patsy Giles for Spin the Bottle
    Spin the Bottle (2003 film)
    Spin the Bottle is a 2003 Irish film by director Ian Fitzgibbon. It was released in 2003.- Plot :The film is a story about a man named Rats who tries to form a band after being released from Mountjoy Prison to get money for a pilgrimage to Lourdes....
    
    
  • Dee Corcoran & Ailbhe Lemass for Veronica Guerin
    Veronica Guerin (film)
    Veronica Guerin is a 2003 Irish biographical film directed by Joel Schumacher. The screenplay by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue focuses on Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her murder in 1996....
    
    

Best Costume Design

• Kathy Strachan for Spin the Bottle
  Spin the Bottle (2003 film)
  Spin the Bottle is a 2003 Irish film by director Ian Fitzgibbon. It was released in 2003.- Plot :The film is a story about a man named Rats who tries to form a band after being released from Mountjoy Prison to get money for a pilgrimage to Lourdes....
  
   (Winner)
  • Tara Van Zyl for Bloom
    Bloom (film)
    Bloom is a 2003 Irish film written and directed by Sean Walsh, based on the novel Ulysses by James Joyce. The film premiered at the 2003 Taormina Film Festival. Angeline Ball won the award for "Best Actress in a Film" at the Irish Film and Television Awards...
    
    
  • Lorna Marie Mugan for Intermission
    Intermission (film)
    Intermission is a 2003 Irish comedy crime film directed by John Crowley which tells a story of a young couple and people surrounding them. The film is set in Dublin, Ireland and is filmed in a TV drama style with several storylines crossing over one another during the course of the film.Mark O'Rowe...
    
    
  • Joan Bergin for Veronica Guerin
    Veronica Guerin (film)
    Veronica Guerin is a 2003 Irish biographical film directed by Joel Schumacher. The screenplay by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue focuses on Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her murder in 1996....
    
    
  • Emer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh for Watermelon
    Watermelon (television film)
    Watermelon is a 2003 television film, directed by Kieron J. Walsh.The screenplay is by Colin Bateman. The film is inspired by the novel by Marian Keyes.It stars Anna Friel, Jamie Draven, Ciaran McMenamin, Sean McGinley, and Brenda Fricker....
    
    

Best Art Direction

• Padraig O'Neill
  Padraig O'Neill
  Padraig O'Neill is a Gaelic football player from County Kildare, Ireland. He plays for the Kildare senior inter county football team and for his club St Laurence's.- External links :*...
  
   for Spin the Bottle
  Spin the Bottle (2003 film)
  Spin the Bottle is a 2003 Irish film by director Ian Fitzgibbon. It was released in 2003.- Plot :The film is a story about a man named Rats who tries to form a band after being released from Mountjoy Prison to get money for a pilgrimage to Lourdes....
  
   (Winner)
  • God's Kitchen for Paki Smith
  • Laurent Mellet for Headrush
    Headrush (film)
    Headrush is a 2003 Irish crime comedy, written and directed by Shimmy Marcus about two young guys, Charlie and T-Bag, who hope to solve all their problems by working for a notorious Underworld Criminal, The Uncle....
    
    
  • Mark Geraghty for Home for Christmas
  • Tom Conroy for Intermission
    Intermission (film)
    Intermission is a 2003 Irish comedy crime film directed by John Crowley which tells a story of a young couple and people surrounding them. The film is set in Dublin, Ireland and is filmed in a TV drama style with several storylines crossing over one another during the course of the film.Mark O'Rowe...
    
    

Best Sound / Sound Editing

• Daniel Birch for Dead Bodies
  Dead Bodies
  Dead Bodies is a 2003 Irish drama film by Robert Quinn starring Andrew Scott, Katy Davis, Eamonn Owens, Darren Healy and Kelly Reilly. The screenplay was written by Derek Landy.-Awards:...
  
   (Winner)
  • Sarah Gaines & Philippe Faujas for Goldfish Memory
    Goldfish Memory
    Goldfish Memory is a feature film about everyday relationships, set and filmed in Dublin. It was written and directed by Elizabeth Gill.- Plot :...
    
    
  • Paddy Gibbons for The Twilight Hour

Best New Talent

• Colin O'Donoghue
  Colin O'Donoghue
  -Early life:O'Donoghue was born and raised in Drogheda, County Louth, in a Roman Catholic family. He initally attended Dundalk Grammar School, and then the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. When he was 16, O'Donoghue went to Paris for a month to learn French....
  
   for Home for Christmas (Winner)
  • Jonathan Forbes
    Jonathan Forbes (actor)
    Jonathan Forbes is a British actor, notable for his roles in Hornblower, Endless Night and Conspiracy of Silence, along with a 2011 radio adaptation of The Lost World.-External links:...
    
     for Conspiracy of Silence
    Conspiracy of Silence (film)
    Conspiracy of Silence is a drama film set in Ireland and inspired by real events. The film challenges celibacy and its implication for the Catholic Church in the 21st century....
    
    
  • Sonya Supple Gildea for Bodyblow
  • Ian Thullier for Darkroom
  • Sean Walsh for Bloom
    Bloom (film)
    Bloom is a 2003 Irish film written and directed by Sean Walsh, based on the novel Ulysses by James Joyce. The film premiered at the 2003 Taormina Film Festival. Angeline Ball won the award for "Best Actress in a Film" at the Irish Film and Television Awards...
    
    
  • David Wilmot
    David Wilmot (actor)
    David Wilmot is an award-winning Irish stage, screen, and television actor.Wilmot's theatre credits include Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, As You Like It with the Druid Theatre Company in Galway, and Juno and the Paycock in London's West End...
    
     for Intermission
    Intermission (film)
    Intermission is a 2003 Irish comedy crime film directed by John Crowley which tells a story of a young couple and people surrounding them. The film is set in Dublin, Ireland and is filmed in a TV drama style with several storylines crossing over one another during the course of the film.Mark O'Rowe...
    
    

People's Choice Awards

Best Actor in a Film - Public Vote

• 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....
  
   (Winner)
  • Aidan Quinn
    Aidan Quinn
    -Early life:Quinn was born in Chicago, Illinois to Irish parents. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic and raised in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois, as well as in Dublin and Birr, County Offaly in Ireland. His mother, Teresa, was a homemaker, and his father, Michael Quinn, was a professor of...
    
    
  • Stuart Townsend
    Stuart Townsend
    Stuart Townsend is an Irish actor and director. His most notable portrayals are of the characters Lestat de Lioncourt in the 2002 film adaptation of Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned, and Dorian Gray in the 2003 film adaptation of Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.-Early life and...
    
    
  • Cillian Murphy
    Cillian Murphy
    Cillian Murphy is an Irish film and theatre actor. He is often noted by critics for his chameleonic performances in diverse roles and distinctive blue eyes and general sex appeal....
    
    
  • Pierce Brosnan
    Pierce Brosnan
    Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama Centre in London for three years...
    
    

UGC Cinemas Best Irish Film - Public Vote

• Veronica Guerin
  Veronica Guerin (film)
  Veronica Guerin is a 2003 Irish biographical film directed by Joel Schumacher. The screenplay by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue focuses on Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her murder in 1996....
  
   (Winner)
  • Evelyn
    Evelyn (film)
    Evelyn is a 2002 drama film, loosely based on the true story of Desmond Doyle and his fight against the Irish courts to be reunited with his children. The film stars Sophie Vavasseur in the title role, Pierce Brosnan as her father and Aidan Quinn, Julianna Margulies and Stephen Rea as supporters to...
    
    
  • Goldfish Memory
    Goldfish Memory
    Goldfish Memory is a feature film about everyday relationships, set and filmed in Dublin. It was written and directed by Elizabeth Gill.- Plot :...
    
    
  • The Actors
    The Actors
    The Actors is a 2003 film written and directed by Conor McPherson and starring Dylan Moran and Michael Caine. In supporting roles are Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson and Lena Headey ....
    
    
  • Intermission
    Intermission (film)
    Intermission is a 2003 Irish comedy crime film directed by John Crowley which tells a story of a young couple and people surrounding them. The film is set in Dublin, Ireland and is filmed in a TV drama style with several storylines crossing over one another during the course of the film.Mark O'Rowe...
    
    

Best TV Personality - Public Vote

• Miriam O'Callaghan
  Miriam O'Callaghan
  Miriam O'Callaghan is an Irish television current affairs broadcaster, chat show host and radio presenter with Raidió Teilifís Éireann . She has presented the leading current affairs show, Prime Time, since 1996, and her own chat show, Saturday Night with Miriam, since 2005...
  
   (Winner)
  • Patrick Kielty
    Patrick Kielty
    Patrick Kielty is an Irish comedian and television personality from Dundrum, Northern Ireland.-Background:He was affected by The Troubles in Northern Ireland. On 25 January 1988 his father, businessman Jack Kielty, was shot dead by the Ulster Defence Association /"Ulster Freedom Fighters" , a...
    
    
  • Grainne Seoige
    Gráinne Seoige
    Gráinne Seoige is an Irish television presenter, Gaeilgeoir, and "fashion icon",Gráinne Seoige is one of the few television presenters who has worked for all terrestrial channels in the Republic of Ireland at some point. She has worked as a news anchor on TG4, TV3 and Sky News Ireland...
    
    
  • Julian Simmonds
  • Paidi O'Lionard
  • Hector O'hEochagain
  • John Daly
    John Daly (TV presenter)
    John Daly was voted Northern Ireland's Top TV Star by readers of The Daily MirrorJohn hosts his own BBC Northern Ireland TV chat show, The John Daly Show.-External links:*...
    
    
  • Gerry Kelly
    Gerry Kelly
    Gerard "Gerry" Kelly is an Irish republican politician and former Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer who played a leading role in the negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement on 10 April 1998...