The 3rd Annual Irish Film & Television Awards 2005

Hosted by 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...

 on 5 November 2005 at the Royal Dublin Society

Royal Dublin Society

The Royal Dublin Society was founded on 25 June 1731 to "to promote and develop agriculture, arts, industry, and science in Ireland". The RDS is synonymous with its main premises in Ballsbridge in Dublin, Ireland...

, Dublin, Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

Awards in film

Best Film

• Pavee Lackeen (Winner)
  • Mickybo and Me
    Mickybo and Me
    Mickybo and Me is a 2004 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Terry Loane and based on the stage play Mojo Mickybo by Owen McCafferty...
    
    
  • The Mighty Celt
    The Mighty Celt
    The Mighty Celt is a 2005 drama film set in Northern Ireland, written and directed by Pearse Elliott. It stars Gillian Anderson, Robert Carlyle, Sean McGinley, Ken Stott and Tyrone McKenna. It is centred around greyhound racing in a Catholic community after the intercommunal "Troubles" have ended...
    
    
  • Tara Road
    Tara Road (film)
    Tara Road is a film based on the novel of the same name by Maeve Binchy.-Plot:Two women trade houses without ever having met. They're both looking for an escape from their problems, but by running away, both come to discover a great deal about themselves.Ria Lynch is to married Danny Lynch and they...
    
    
  • Trouble With Sex
    Trouble With Sex
    Trouble with Sex is a 2005 Irish drama film set in Dublin and co-written and directed by Fintan Connolly. It stars Aidan Gillen and Renée Weldon, who won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Trouble With Sex. The film got poor reviews and was...
    
    

Best Short Fiction Award

• 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:...
  
   for Six Shooter
  Six Shooter (film)
  Six Shooter is an Irish 2005 live action short film starring Brendan Gleeson and Rúaidhrí Conroy.-Plot:Donnelly's wife has just died in an accident and he goes home on a train afterwards. There he finds a seat by a kid and the two strike a conversation...
  
  (Winner)
  • Rory Bresnihan & John Butler for George
  • Ronan Burke and Rob Burke for Jellybaby
  • Ken Wardrop for Ouch

Best Animation Award Winner

• Cúilín Dualach (Winner)
  • Agricultural Report
  • Dick Terrapin
  • Not There Yet

Best Director

• Terry George
  Terry George
  Terry George is an Irish screenwriter and director. Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland much of his film work involves the Troubles in Northern Ireland...
  
   for Hotel Rwanda
  Hotel Rwanda
  Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 American drama film directed by Terry George. It was adapted from a screenplay written by both George and Keir Pearson. Based on real life events which took place in Rwanda during the spring of 1994, the film stars Don Cheadle as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina, who attempts to...
  
  (Winner)
  • Anthony Byrne for Short Order
    Short Order
    Short Order is a 2005 Irish drama film written and directed by Anthony Byrne. It was released in Ireland on 1 March, 2005. It was later released as Life Is a Buffet in the United States on 16 May, 2008.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Fintan Connolly
    Fintan Connolly
    Fintan Connolly is an Irish film director, screenwriter and producer living in Dublin.Most of his work has been in television documentaries, where he explores social issues in Ireland through a series of interviews....
    
     for Trouble With Sex
    Trouble With Sex
    Trouble with Sex is a 2005 Irish drama film set in Dublin and co-written and directed by Fintan Connolly. It stars Aidan Gillen and Renée Weldon, who won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Trouble With Sex. The film got poor reviews and was...
    
    
  • Perry Ogden for Pavee Lackeen

Best Cinematography

• Seamus Deasy]] for The Mighty Celt
  The Mighty Celt
  The Mighty Celt is a 2005 drama film set in Northern Ireland, written and directed by Pearse Elliott. It stars Gillian Anderson, Robert Carlyle, Sean McGinley, Ken Stott and Tyrone McKenna. It is centred around greyhound racing in a Catholic community after the intercommunal "Troubles" have ended...
  
  (Winner)
  • Brendan Galvin for The Flight of the Phoenix
    Flight of the Phoenix (2004 film)
    Flight of the Phoenix is a 2004 remake of a 1965 film, both based on the 1964 novel The Flight of the Phoenix, by Elleston Trevor, about a group of people who survive a plane crash in the Gobi Desert and must build a new plane out of the old one to escape. The film stars Dennis Quaid, Tyrese...
    
    
  • Seamus McGarvey
    Seamus McGarvey
    Seamus McGarvey BSC, born 29 June 1967 in Armagh, Northern Ireland, began his career as a still photographer before attending film school at the University of Westminster in London....
    
     for Sahara
    Sahara (2005 film)
    Sahara is a 2005 action-comedy adventure film directed by Breck Eisner and based on the best-selling book of the same name by Clive Cussler...
    
    
  • Owen McPolin for Trouble With Sex
    Trouble With Sex
    Trouble with Sex is a 2005 Irish drama film set in Dublin and co-written and directed by Fintan Connolly. It stars Aidan Gillen and Renée Weldon, who won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Trouble With Sex. The film got poor reviews and was...
    
    

Best Music

• Gregory Magee for Winter's End
  Winter's End
  "Winter's End" is the sixteenth episode of season one of the CBS drama Jericho.-Synopsis:Fuel supplies are low, and the town generator is on its last tank of gas. The new wind turbine arrives from New Bern and is quickly set up. Mayor Anderson asks if Jericho can buy several more turbines...
  
  (Winner)
  • Niall Byrne for Short Order
    Short Order
    Short Order is a 2005 Irish drama film written and directed by Anthony Byrne. It was released in Ireland on 1 March, 2005. It was later released as Life Is a Buffet in the United States on 16 May, 2008.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Niall Byrne for Trouble With Sex
    Trouble With Sex
    Trouble with Sex is a 2005 Irish drama film set in Dublin and co-written and directed by Fintan Connolly. It stars Aidan Gillen and Renée Weldon, who won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Trouble With Sex. The film got poor reviews and was...
    
    
  • Fiachra Trench
    Fiachra Trench
    Fiachra Terence Wilbrah Trench is a musician and composer from Drogheda, County Louth in Ireland....
    
     for The Boys & Girl From County Clare
    The Boys from County Clare
    The Boys From County Clare is a 2003 Irish comedy/drama film about a céilí band from Liverpool that travels to Ireland to compete in a céilí competition in County Clare...
    
    

Best Script

• Anthony Byrne for Short Order
  Short Order
  Short Order is a 2005 Irish drama film written and directed by Anthony Byrne. It was released in Ireland on 1 March, 2005. It was later released as Life Is a Buffet in the United States on 16 May, 2008.-Plot:...
  
  (Winner)
  • Pearse Elliott for The Mighty Celt
    The Mighty Celt
    The Mighty Celt is a 2005 drama film set in Northern Ireland, written and directed by Pearse Elliott. It stars Gillian Anderson, Robert Carlyle, Sean McGinley, Ken Stott and Tyrone McKenna. It is centred around greyhound racing in a Catholic community after the intercommunal "Troubles" have ended...
    
    
  • Terry George
    Terry George
    Terry George is an Irish screenwriter and director. Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland much of his film work involves the Troubles in Northern Ireland...
    
     for Hotel Rwanda
    Hotel Rwanda
    Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 American drama film directed by Terry George. It was adapted from a screenplay written by both George and Keir Pearson. Based on real life events which took place in Rwanda during the spring of 1994, the film stars Don Cheadle as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina, who attempts to...
    
    
  • Terry Loane for Mickybo and Me
    Mickybo and Me
    Mickybo and Me is a 2004 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Terry Loane and based on the stage play Mojo Mickybo by Owen McCafferty...
    
    

Best Production Design

• Eleanor Wood & Laura Bowe for Short Order
  Short Order
  Short Order is a 2005 Irish drama film written and directed by Anthony Byrne. It was released in Ireland on 1 March, 2005. It was later released as Life Is a Buffet in the United States on 16 May, 2008.-Plot:...
  
  (Winner)
  • Laurent Mellet for Trouble With Sex
    Trouble With Sex
    Trouble with Sex is a 2005 Irish drama film set in Dublin and co-written and directed by Fintan Connolly. It stars Aidan Gillen and Renée Weldon, who won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Trouble With Sex. The film got poor reviews and was...
    
    
  • Tom McCullagh for Mickybo and Me
    Mickybo and Me
    Mickybo and Me is a 2004 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Terry Loane and based on the stage play Mojo Mickybo by Owen McCafferty...
    
    
  • Anna Rackard for Boy Eats Girl
    Boy Eats Girl
    Boy Eats Girl is a 2005 horror film directed by Stephen Bradley and starring Samantha Mumba, produced and shot in Ireland. The plot tells of a teenage boy who comes back to life as a zombie, similar to the plot of the American film My Boyfriend's Back....
    
    

Best Costume Design

• Hazel Webb-Crozier
  Hazel Webb-Crozier
  Hazel Webb-Crozier is an award winning international costume designer from Belfast, Northern Ireland.Since 1990, Hazel has been involved with costume design for the British and Irish film and television industries and in 2005 won her first IFTA for her work on Mickybo and Me, a film telling the...
  
   for Mickybo and Me
  Mickybo and Me
  Mickybo and Me is a 2004 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Terry Loane and based on the stage play Mojo Mickybo by Owen McCafferty...
  
  (Winner)
  • Susan Scott for Boy Eats Girl
    Boy Eats Girl
    Boy Eats Girl is a 2005 horror film directed by Stephen Bradley and starring Samantha Mumba, produced and shot in Ireland. The plot tells of a teenage boy who comes back to life as a zombie, similar to the plot of the American film My Boyfriend's Back....
    
    
  • Marian Smyth for Trouble With Sex
    Trouble With Sex
    Trouble with Sex is a 2005 Irish drama film set in Dublin and co-written and directed by Fintan Connolly. It stars Aidan Gillen and Renée Weldon, who won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Trouble With Sex. The film got poor reviews and was...
    
    
  • Judith Williams for Short Order
    Short Order
    Short Order is a 2005 Irish drama film written and directed by Anthony Byrne. It was released in Ireland on 1 March, 2005. It was later released as Life Is a Buffet in the United States on 16 May, 2008.-Plot:...
    
    

Awards across TV and film

Best Documentary in the English Language

• John McGahern: A Private World (Winner)
  • Macintyre's Underworld: Gangsters
  • Haughey
    Haughey (TV series)
    Haughey is a four-part mini-series documenting the life of former Taoiseach Charles Haughey which was first broadcast on Irish television channel, RTÉ One in June and July 2005...
    
    
  • My Name Is Paul

Best Documentary in the Irish Language

• Concerto - Do Chaitlín Maude (Winner)
  • An Bathadh Mór
  • Cosc Ar Ghnéas
  • Iran: An Bealach In Airde

Best Editing in Film / TV Drama

• Emer Reynolds for Shameless (Winner)
  • J. Patrick Duffner for Short Order
    Short Order
    Short Order is a 2005 Irish drama film written and directed by Anthony Byrne. It was released in Ireland on 1 March, 2005. It was later released as Life Is a Buffet in the United States on 16 May, 2008.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Ray Roantree for Trouble With Sex
    Trouble With Sex
    Trouble with Sex is a 2005 Irish drama film set in Dublin and co-written and directed by Fintan Connolly. It stars Aidan Gillen and Renée Weldon, who won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Trouble With Sex. The film got poor reviews and was...
    
    
  • Ben Yates for Love Is the Drug
    Love is the Drug (TV series)
    Love is the Drug was a short lived drama based in Drogheda, Co. Louth and it ran on RTÉ Two for their 2004 season....
    
    

Best Sound in Film / TV Drama Award Winner

• Patrick Drummond, Tom Johnson, John Fitzgerald & Stuart Bruce for Boy Eats Girl
  Boy Eats Girl
  Boy Eats Girl is a 2005 horror film directed by Stephen Bradley and starring Samantha Mumba, produced and shot in Ireland. The plot tells of a teenage boy who comes back to life as a zombie, similar to the plot of the American film My Boyfriend's Back....
  
  (Winner)
  • Philippe Faujas, Niall Brady & Ken Galvin for Pure Mule
    Pure Mule
    Pure Mule was an Irish six-part drama mini-series aimed at a young audience and broadcast on RTÉ Two as part of RTÉ's autumn schedule in 2005, shot and screened in 2004–2005 in County Offaly....
    
    
  • Ray Cross, Nikki Moss, John Fitzgerald John Fitzgerald & Peter Blayney for Short Order
    Short Order
    Short Order is a 2005 Irish drama film written and directed by Anthony Byrne. It was released in Ireland on 1 March, 2005. It was later released as Life Is a Buffet in the United States on 16 May, 2008.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Karl Merre, Nicky Moss & Ken Galvinfod for Showbands

Awards in television

Best TV Drama / Drama Series

• Love Is the Drug
  Love is the Drug (TV series)
  Love is the Drug was a short lived drama based in Drogheda, Co. Louth and it ran on RTÉ Two for their 2004 season....
  
   (Winner)
  • 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...
    
    
  • Pure Mule
    Pure Mule
    Pure Mule was an Irish six-part drama mini-series aimed at a young audience and broadcast on RTÉ Two as part of RTÉ's autumn schedule in 2005, shot and screened in 2004–2005 in County Offaly....
    
    
  • Showbands

Best Current Affairs Programme

• Prime Time Investigates: "Home Truths"
  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 Investigates: "The Money Pit"
    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...
    
    
  • [Insight: "When Hospitals Kill"
  • Spotlight: "Dirty Secrets"

Best News Programme

• BBC Newsline
  BBC Newsline
  BBC Newsline is the BBC's regional television news service for Northern Ireland. The programme is broadcast on BBC One from BBC Northern Ireland's headquarters in Broadcasting House, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast....
  
  (Winner)
  • Nuacht TG4
    Nuacht TG4
    Nuacht TG4 is a daily half-hour Irish language TV news bulletin produced by RTÉ News and Current Affairs for the Irish language Television station TG4. The programme is broadcast weekday evenings at 19:00, live from the studios of TG4 in Baile na hAbhann, County Galway...
    
    
  • RTÉ News
    RTÉ News
    RTÉ News and Current Affairs , is a major division of Raidió Teilifís Éireann responsible for news programming on television, radio and online within the Republic of Ireland. It is, by far, the largest and most popular news source in Ireland - with 77% of the Irish public regarding it as their main...
    
    
  • Sky News Ireland
    Sky News Ireland
    Sky News Ireland was a television news channel which broadcast in the Republic of Ireland. Sky News International is now available throughout Ireland...
    
    

Best Children's / Youth Programme

• PicMe (Winner)
  • GFI: Go For It|Go For It
  • 'The Island of Inis Cool: Terraglyph
  • What's The Story?

Best Entertainment Award Winner

• Stew (Winner)
  • Killinaskully
    Killinaskully
    Killinaskully was an Irish television comedy which details the bizarre goings-on in a fictitious Irish village called Killinaskully located in the hills of Ireland. It was actually filmed on location in the villages of Killoscully and Ballinahinch in County Tipperary, the title being a fusion of...
    
    
  • The Panel
  • Wild Trials

Best Lifestyle Programme

• Show Me The Money (Winner)
  • Neelo: "KKK"
  • Mother Knows Best
  • The Snip

Best Sports Feature

• Marooned (Winner)
  • Coach
  • The Crossing
  • Final Words: Hurling '04

Best Director TV Drama / Drama Series

• Declan Recks for Pure Mule
  Pure Mule
  Pure Mule was an Irish six-part drama mini-series aimed at a young audience and broadcast on RTÉ Two as part of RTÉ's autumn schedule in 2005, shot and screened in 2004–2005 in County Offaly....
  
  (Winner)
  • 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 Fingersmith
  • Charlie McCarthy for Pure Mule
    Pure Mule
    Pure Mule was an Irish six-part drama mini-series aimed at a young audience and broadcast on RTÉ Two as part of RTÉ's autumn schedule in 2005, shot and screened in 2004–2005 in County Offaly....
    
    
  • 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...
    
     for Shameless

Awards in acting

Best Actor in Leading Role - Film

• Liam Neeson
  Liam Neeson
  Liam John Neeson, OBE is an Irish actor who has been nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards.He has starred in a number of notable roles including Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Peyton Westlake in Darkman, Jean Valjean in Les...
  
   for Kinsey
  Kinsey (film)
  Kinsey is a 2004 biographical film written and directed by Bill Condon. It describes the life of Alfred Kinsey , a pioneer in the area of sexology. His 1948 publication, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was one of the first recorded works that tried to scientifically address and investigate...
  
  (Winner)
  • Gabriel Byrne
    Gabriel Byrne
    Gabriel James Byrne is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined Londo's Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's screen debut came in the Irish soap opera The Riordans and the...
    
     for Wah-Wah
    Wah-Wah
    Wah-Wah is a 2005 drama film, written and directed by British actor Richard E. Grant and loosely based on his childhood in Swaziland. Filmed and set in Swaziland, the film was premiered at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival and also opened the Edinburgh Festival to critical acclaim...
    
    
  • 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 Red Eye
    Red Eye (film)
    Red Eye is a 2005 thriller film directed by Wes Craven and starring Rachel McAdams as a hotel manager ensnared in an assassination plot by a terrorist while aboard a red-eye flight to Miami. The film score was composed and conducted by Marco Beltrami.-Plot:Lisa Reisert fears flying...
    
    
  • 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 Convicted
    Return to Sender (film)
    Return to Sender is a 2004 film written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade and directed by Bille August. It is also known under the title Convicted.The film stars Aidan Quinn and Connie Nielsen....
    
    

Best Actress in a Leading Role - Film

• Renee Weldon for Trouble With Sex
  Trouble With Sex
  Trouble with Sex is a 2005 Irish drama film set in Dublin and co-written and directed by Fintan Connolly. It stars Aidan Gillen and Renée Weldon, who won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Trouble With Sex. The film got poor reviews and was...
  
  (Winner)
  • Andrea Corr
    Andrea Corr
    Andrea Jane Corr is an Irish musician, songwriter and actress. Corr debuted in 1990 as the lead singer of the Celtic folk rock and pop rock group The Corrs along with her three elder siblings Caroline, Sharon, and Jim...
    
     for The Boys & Girl From County Clare
    The Boys from County Clare
    The Boys From County Clare is a 2003 Irish comedy/drama film about a céilí band from Liverpool that travels to Ireland to compete in a céilí competition in County Clare...
    
    
  • Jillian Bradbury for Winter's End
  • Winnie Maughan for Pavee Lackeen
  • Renee Weldon for Trouble With Sex
    Trouble With Sex
    Trouble with Sex is a 2005 Irish drama film set in Dublin and co-written and directed by Fintan Connolly. It stars Aidan Gillen and Renée Weldon, who won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Trouble With Sex. The film got poor reviews and was...
    
    

Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Film

• David Kelly
  David Kelly (actor)
  David Kelly is an Irish actor, who has been in regular film and television work since the 1950s.-Acting career:Playing everything from Beckett to Shakespeare, he has appeared in Theatre, TV and film constantly since 1959...
  
   for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)
  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 film adaptation of the 1964 book of the same name by Roald Dahl. The film was directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka...
  
  (Winner)
  • Seán McGinley
    Seán McGinley
    Seán McGinley is an Irish film and television actor.-Early life:McGinley was born in Pettigo, County Donegal, Ireland where his father was a customs officer, and raised in nearby Ballyshannon...
    
     for On a Clear Day
  • 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 Batman Begins
    Batman Begins
    Batman Begins is a 2005 American superhero action film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Christian Bale as Batman, along with Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Ken Watanabe, Tom Wilkinson,...
    
    
  • Tagdh Murphy for Boy Eats Girl
    Boy Eats Girl
    Boy Eats Girl is a 2005 horror film directed by Stephen Bradley and starring Samantha Mumba, produced and shot in Ireland. The plot tells of a teenage boy who comes back to life as a zombie, similar to the plot of the American film My Boyfriend's Back....
    
    

Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Film

• Charlotte Bradley for The Boys & Girl From County Clare
  The Boys from County Clare
  The Boys From County Clare is a 2003 Irish comedy/drama film about a céilí band from Liverpool that travels to Ireland to compete in a céilí competition in County Clare...
  
  (Winner)
  • Nora Jane Noone
    Nora Jane Noone
    Nora-Jane Noone is an Irish film and television actress best known for her role in The Magdalene Sisters, where she played Bernadette.-Early life:...
    
     for The Descent
    The Descent
    The Descent is a 2005 British horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film follows six women who, having entered an unmapped cave system, become trapped, and are hunted by subterranean flesh-eating humanoids....
    
    
  • 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 Boy Eats Girl
    Boy Eats Girl
    Boy Eats Girl is a 2005 horror film directed by Stephen Bradley and starring Samantha Mumba, produced and shot in Ireland. The plot tells of a teenage boy who comes back to life as a zombie, similar to the plot of the American film My Boyfriend's Back....
    
    
  • Tatianna Ouliankina for Short Order
    Short Order
    Short Order is a 2005 Irish drama film written and directed by Anthony Byrne. It was released in Ireland on 1 March, 2005. It was later released as Life Is a Buffet in the United States on 16 May, 2008.-Plot:...
    
    

Best Actor - Television

• Tom Murphy for Pure Mule
  Pure Mule
  Pure Mule was an Irish six-part drama mini-series aimed at a young audience and broadcast on RTÉ Two as part of RTÉ's autumn schedule in 2005, shot and screened in 2004–2005 in County Offaly....
  
  (Winner)
  • Allen Leech
    Allen Leech
    Allen Leech is an Irish stage, television and film actor, best known for his role as Marcus Agrippa in the 2007 HBO television series Rome, and his role as chauffeur Tom Branson in ITV 2010 television series Downton Abbey....
    
     for Love Is the Drug
    Love is the Drug (TV series)
    Love is the Drug was a short lived drama based in Drogheda, Co. Louth and it ran on RTÉ Two for their 2004 season....
    
    
  • Finbar Lynch for Proof 2
  • 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...
    
    

Best Actress - Television

• Dawn Bradfield for Pure Mule
  Pure Mule
  Pure Mule was an Irish six-part drama mini-series aimed at a young audience and broadcast on RTÉ Two as part of RTÉ's autumn schedule in 2005, shot and screened in 2004–2005 in County Offaly....
  
  (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...
    
     for Fingersmith
    Fingersmith
    A fingersmith or finger smith is a person of extreme talent in any skill involving the use of hands. This term is most often used to refer to a talented pickpocket who has never been caught....
    
    
  • Anne Marie Duff for Shameless
  • Aisling O'Sullivan for 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...
    
    

Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Television

• Garrett Lombard for Pure Mule
  Pure Mule
  Pure Mule was an Irish six-part drama mini-series aimed at a young audience and broadcast on RTÉ Two as part of RTÉ's autumn schedule in 2005, shot and screened in 2004–2005 in County Offaly....
  
  (Winner)
  • Gary Lydon for 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 Lynch
    John Lynch (actor)
    John Lynch is an Irish actor from Northern Ireland.-Biography:John Lynch was born in the United Kingdom and moved to his father's native home in Corrinshego, County Armagh, near Newry, County Down in Northern Ireland as a child. He attended St Colman's College, Newry, a Catholic school...
    
     for The Baby War
  • Chris O'Dowd
    Chris O'Dowd
    Chris O'Dowd is an Irish comedian and actor. He is best known for playing Roy Trenneman in British sitcom The IT Crowd...
    
     for 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...
    
    

Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Television

• 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...
  
   for Pure Mule
  Pure Mule
  Pure Mule was an Irish six-part drama mini-series aimed at a young audience and broadcast on RTÉ Two as part of RTÉ's autumn schedule in 2005, shot and screened in 2004–2005 in County Offaly....
  
  (Winner)
  • Eva Birthistle
    Eva Birthistle
    Eva Birthistle is an Irish actress, best known for her role in Ae Fond Kiss. She won the London Film Critics Circle British Actress of the Year award in 2004 and has twice won the IFTA Best Actress in a Leading Role award.-Biography:...
    
     for The Baby War
  • Tine Kellegher for Showbands
  • Eleanor Methevan for Love Is the Drug
    Love is the Drug (TV series)
    Love is the Drug was a short lived drama based in Drogheda, Co. Louth and it ran on RTÉ Two for their 2004 season....
    
    

People's Choice Awards

O2 TV Personality of the Year

• Mark Cagney
  Mark Cagney
  Mark Cagney was born in Cork, Ireland. Cagney was one of eight children in the family; he left home at age 15 because of difficulties with his father, who he described as a "remarkable man": an inventor, a musician, a welder, a mechanic, and a lecturer in electronics. Cagney learned how to take...
  
   (Winner)
  • Aoife Ní Thuairisg
  • Stephen Nolan
    Stephen Nolan
    Stephen Nolan, born Belfast in 1973, is a radio and television presenter for BBC Northern Ireland and BBC Radio Five Live. He was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and Queen's University Belfast where he studied French and Business Studies....
    
    
  • Gráinne 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...
    
    
  • Pat Shortt
    Pat Shortt
    Pat Shortt is an actor, comedian and entertainer. In 2007, he starred in the film Garage, directed by Lenny Abrahamson for which he won the Best Actor award at the 2008 IFTAs...
    
    

AIB Best Irish Film

• Inside I'm Dancing
  Inside I'm Dancing
  Inside I'm Dancing, also released under the title Rory O'Shea Was Here, is a 2004 Irish film directed by Damien O'Donnell and starring James McAvoy, Steven Robertson, Romola Garai, and Brenda Fricker...
  
  (Winner)
  • Adam and Paul
    Adam and Paul
    Adam and Paul is a 2004 Irish film centred around a day in the life of two Dublin drug addicts, Adam and Paul. Adam is the taller and slightly smarter of the two while Paul is his sidekick...
    
    
  • 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....
    
    
  • Mickybo and Me
    Mickybo and Me
    Mickybo and Me is a 2004 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Terry Loane and based on the stage play Mojo Mickybo by Owen McCafferty...
    
    

Jameson Best International Film

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)
  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 film adaptation of the 1964 book of the same name by Roald Dahl. The film was directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka...
  
  (Winner)
  • Batman Begins
    Batman Begins
    Batman Begins is a 2005 American superhero action film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Christian Bale as Batman, along with Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Ken Watanabe, Tom Wilkinson,...
    
    
  • Crash
    Crash (2004 film)
    Crash is a 2004 American drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis. The film is about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles, California. A self-described "passion piece" for Haggis, Crash was inspired by a real life incident in which his Porsche was carjacked outside a video...
    
    
  • Sin City
    Sin City (film)
    Sin City, also known as Frank Miller's Sin City, is a 2005 crime thriller film written, produced and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez...
    
    

Avica Best International Actor

• Mickey Rourke
  Mickey Rourke
  Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke, Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter and retired boxer, who has appeared primarily as a leading man in action, drama, and thriller films....
  
   for Sin City
  Sin City (film)
  Sin City, also known as Frank Miller's Sin City, is a 2005 crime thriller film written, produced and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez...
  
  (Winner)
  • Christian Bale
    Christian Bale
    Christian Charles Philip Bale is an English actor. Best known for his roles in American films, Bale has starred in both big budget Hollywood films and the smaller projects from independent producers and art houses....
    
     for Batman Begins
    Batman Begins
    Batman Begins is a 2005 American superhero action film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Christian Bale as Batman, along with Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Ken Watanabe, Tom Wilkinson,...
    
    
  • Johnny Depp
    Johnny Depp
    John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II is an American actor, producer and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor. Depp rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol...
    
     for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 film adaptation of the 1964 book of the same name by Roald Dahl. The film was directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka...
    
    
  • Brad Pitt
    Brad Pitt
    William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received two Academy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one...
    
     for Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)
    Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 2005 American romantic comedy action film directed by Doug Liman and written by Simon Kinberg. The original music score was composed by John Powell...
    
    

Pantene Best International Actress

• Gillian Anderson
  Gillian Anderson
  Gillian Leigh Anderson is an American actress.After beginning her career in theatre, Anderson achieved international recognition for her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on the American television series The X-Files. During the show's nine seasons, Anderson won Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen...
  
   for The Mighty Celt
  The Mighty Celt
  The Mighty Celt is a 2005 drama film set in Northern Ireland, written and directed by Pearse Elliott. It stars Gillian Anderson, Robert Carlyle, Sean McGinley, Ken Stott and Tyrone McKenna. It is centred around greyhound racing in a Catholic community after the intercommunal "Troubles" have ended...
  
  (Winner)
  • Drew Barrymore
    Drew Barrymore
    Drew Blyth Barrymore is an American actress, film director, screenwriter, producer and model. She is a member of the Barrymore family of American actors and granddaughter of John Barrymore. She first appeared in an advertisement when she was 11 months old. Barrymore made her film debut in Altered...
    
     for The Perfect Catch
    Fever Pitch (2005 film)
    Fever Pitch, which was released as The Perfect Catch outside of the United States and Canada, is a 2005 Farrelly brothers romantic comedy film. It is a remake of a 1997 British film of the same name. Both films are loosely based on the Nick Hornby book of the same name, a best-selling memoir in...
    
    
  • Dakota Fanning
    Dakota Fanning
    Hannah Dakota Fanning , better known as Dakota Fanning, is an American actress. Fanning's breakthrough performance was in I Am Sam in 2001. As a child actress, she appeared in high-profile films such as Man on Fire, War of the Worlds, and Charlotte's Web...
    
     for War of the Worlds
    War of the Worlds (2005 film)
    War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction film adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel of the same name, directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp. It is one of three film adaptations of War of the Worlds released that year, alongside The Asylum's version and...
    
    
  • Natalie Portman
    Natalie Portman
    Natalie Hershlag , better known by her stage name Natalie Portman, is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was as an orphan taken in by a hitman in the 1994 French action film Léon, but major success came when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel...
    
     for Garden State
    Garden State (film)
    Garden State is a 2004 comedy-drama film written by, directed by, and starring Zach Braff, with Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, and Sir Ian Holm. The film centers on Andrew Largeman , a 26-year-old actor/waiter who returns to his hometown in New Jersey after his mother dies...