The 4th Annual Irish Film and Television Awards

Irish Film and Television Awards

The Irish Film and Television Awards were first awarded in 2003. Its sole aim is to celebrate Ireland's notably talented film and television community...

 took place in 2007 and were 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"...

 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...

 Main Hall, 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...

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Film

Best Film

• The Wind That Shakes the Barley
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War...
  
  (Winner)
  • Breakfast on Pluto
    Breakfast on Pluto (film)
    Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe...
    
    
  • The Front Line
    The Front Line (2006 film)
    The Front Line is a 2006 Irish crime drama film. The film revolves around a Congolese immigrant working in a bank in Dublin city whose family is kidnapped by a gang of criminals who force him to be the inside man on their robbery of the bank. The film is directed by David Gleeson....
    
    
  • Middletown
  • Small Engine Repair

Best International Film

• Little Miss Sunshine
  Little Miss Sunshine
  Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American comedy-drama film. The road movie's plot follows a family's trip to a children's beauty pageant.Little Miss Sunshine was the directorial film debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer...
  
  (Winner)
  • Babel
  • Casino Royale
    Casino Royale (2006 film)
    Casino Royale is the twenty-first film in the James Bond film series and the first to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond...
    
    
  • The Departed
    The Departed
    The Departed is a 2006 American crime thriller film, fashioned as a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. The film was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan...
    
    
  • United 93
    United 93 (film)
    United 93 is a 2006 fact-based historical drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Paul Greengrass that chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked during the September 11 attacks...
    
    

Best Director

• Neil Jordan
  Neil Jordan
  Neil Patrick Jordan is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won an Academy Award for The Crying Game.- Early life :...
  
   (Winner)
  • John Boorman
    John Boorman
    John Boorman is a British filmmaker who is a long time resident of Ireland and is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General and The Tailor of Panama.-Early life:Boorman was born in Shepperton, Surrey,...
    
    
  • David Gleeson
    David Gleeson
    David Gleeson is an Irish film director and writer.- Gleeson :Gleeson is third generation cinema. His grandfather opened up a theater in the early forties and his father carried on in the same business, opening up several more screens across the south west of Ireland...
    
    
  • Brian Kirk
    Brian Kirk
    Brian Kirk is an Irish television director who has most recently directed episodes of Game of Thrones, FX's The Riches and Showtime's Brotherhood and The Tudors...
    
    

Best Script

• Neil Jordan
  Neil Jordan
  Neil Patrick Jordan is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won an Academy Award for The Crying Game.- Early life :...
  
   & Pat McCabe for Breakfast on Pluto
  Breakfast on Pluto (film)
  Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe...
  
  (Winner)
  • Daragh Carville for Middletown
  • David Gleeson
    David Gleeson
    David Gleeson is an Irish film director and writer.- Gleeson :Gleeson is third generation cinema. His grandfather opened up a theater in the early forties and his father carried on in the same business, opening up several more screens across the south west of Ireland...
    
     for The Front Line
    The Front Line (2006 film)
    The Front Line is a 2006 Irish crime drama film. The film revolves around a Congolese immigrant working in a bank in Dublin city whose family is kidnapped by a gang of criminals who force him to be the inside man on their robbery of the bank. The film is directed by David Gleeson....
    
    
  • Niall Heery for Small Engine Repair

Best Cinematography

• Seamus Deasy for The Tiger's Tail
  The Tiger's Tail
  The Tiger's Tail is a 2006 Irish film directed by John Boorman. It stars Brendan Gleeson and Kim Cattrall. The story focuses on the modern Celtic Tiger Irish economy of the late 20th century.-Plot:...
  
  (Winner)
  • 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 World Trade Center
    World Trade Center (film)
    World Trade Center is a 2006 American disaster-drama film directed by Oliver Stone and based on the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center. It stars Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Michael Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon. The film was shot from October 19, 2005 - February 10, 2006...
    
    
  • Declan Quinn
    Declan Quinn
    Declan Quinn is an Irish-American cinematographer and a three-time winner of the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography.Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Quinn is one of five children. His four siblings, the most famous of whom is Aidan, are actors...
    
     for Breakfast on Pluto
    Breakfast on Pluto (film)
    Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe...
    
    
  • Robbie Ryan for Isolation

Best Music

• 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...
  
   for The Tiger's Tail
  The Tiger's Tail
  The Tiger's Tail is a 2006 Irish film directed by John Boorman. It stars Brendan Gleeson and Kim Cattrall. The story focuses on the modern Celtic Tiger Irish economy of the late 20th century.-Plot:...
  
  (Winner)
  • Niall Byrne for Small Engine Repair
  • Patrick Cassidy
    Patrick Cassidy (composer)
    Patrick Cassidy is an Irish classical composer.Largely self taught, with no formal music education, he has worked in many various formats, including TV and films. In 2004, he cowrote the album Immortal Memory with Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance...
    
     for The Front Line
    The Front Line (2006 film)
    The Front Line is a 2006 Irish crime drama film. The film revolves around a Congolese immigrant working in a bank in Dublin city whose family is kidnapped by a gang of criminals who force him to be the inside man on their robbery of the bank. The film is directed by David Gleeson....
    
    
  • Glen Hansard
    Glen Hansard
    Glen Hansard is the Academy Award–winning principal songwriter and vocalist/guitarist for Irish group The Frames and one half of folk rock duo, The Swell Season...
    
     for Once
    Once (film)
    Once is a 2006 Irish musical film written and directed by John Carney. Set in Dublin, this naturalistic drama stars musicians Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová as musicians...
    
    

Best Production Design

• Mark Geraghty for Get Rich or Die Tryin' (Winner)
  • Tom Conroy for Breakfast on Pluto
    Breakfast on Pluto (film)
    Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe...
    
    
  • Ashleigh Jeffers for Middletown
  • Mark Lowry for Small Engine Repair

Best Costume Design

• Consolata Boyle for The Queen
  The Queen (film)
  The Queen is a 2006 British drama film directed by Stephen Frears, written by Peter Morgan, and starring Helen Mirren as the title role, HM Queen Elizabeth II...
  
  (Winner)
  • Joan Bergin for The Prestige
    The Prestige (film)
    The Prestige is a 2006 mystery thriller film written, directed and co-produced by Christopher Nolan, with a screenplay adapted from Christopher Priest's 1995 novel of the same name. The story follows Robert Angier and Alfred Borden, rival stage magicians in London at the end of the 19th century...
    
    
  • Eimer Ni Mhaldomhnaigh for Breakfast on Pluto
    Breakfast on Pluto (film)
    Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe...
    
    
  • Maeve Patterson for The Tiger's Tail
    The Tiger's Tail
    The Tiger's Tail is a 2006 Irish film directed by John Boorman. It stars Brendan Gleeson and Kim Cattrall. The story focuses on the modern Celtic Tiger Irish economy of the late 20th century.-Plot:...
    
    

Best Hair & Makeup

• Lorraine Glynn, Lynn Johnson for Breakfast on Pluto
  Breakfast on Pluto (film)
  Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe...
  
  (Winner)
  • Martina McCarthy, Denise Watson for The Tiger's Tail
    The Tiger's Tail
    The Tiger's Tail is a 2006 Irish film directed by John Boorman. It stars Brendan Gleeson and Kim Cattrall. The story focuses on the modern Celtic Tiger Irish economy of the late 20th century.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Morna Ferguson, Lorraine Glynn for Middletown

Awards in acting

Best Actor in a Lead Role - Film

• 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 Breakfast on Pluto
  Breakfast on Pluto (film)
  Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe...
  
  (Winner)
  • 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...
    
     for The Matador
    The Matador
    The Matador is a 2005 American dark comedy film written and directed by Richard Shepard and starring Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear.As of February 12, 2006, the film grossed a total of $10.5 million in the American box office...
    
    
  • 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 Miami Vice
    Miami Vice (film)
    Miami Vice is a 2006 American crime drama film about two Miami police detectives, Crockett and Tubbs, who go undercover to fight drug trafficking operations. The film is a loose adaptation of the 1980s TV series of the same name, written, produced, and directed by Michael Mann...
    
    
  • 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...
    
     for Studs
  • 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 The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
    The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War...
    
    

Best Actress in a Lead Role - Film

• 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 Middletown
  • Gemma Doorly for A Song For Rebecca
  • Pauline McGlynn for Gypo
    Gypo
    Gypo may refer to:* Gypo a 2005 British independent film from Jan Dunn.* a pejorative alteration of Gypsy...
    
    
  • Ruth Negga
    Ruth Negga
    Ruth Negga is an Ethiopian-Irish actress who has starred in Irish films such as Capital Letters , Isolation and Breakfast On Pluto...
    
     for Isolation

Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Film

• Liam Cunningham for The Wind That Shakes the Barley
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War...
  
  (Winner)
  • Pádraic Delaney
    Pádraic Delaney
    Pádraic Delaney is an Irish actor best known for playing Teddy O'Donovan in the Ken Loach film The Wind That Shakes the Barley, for which he earned an IFTA nomination as well as being named Irish Shooting Star for the 2007 Berlin Film Festival...
    
     for The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
    The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War...
    
    
  • 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 Middletown
  • Stephen Rea
    Stephen Rea
    Stephen Rea is an Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in high profile films such as V for Vendetta, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire and Breakfast on Pluto...
    
     for Breakfast on Pluto
    Breakfast on Pluto (film)
    Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe...
    
    

Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Film

• Fionnula Flanagan for Transamerica
  Transamerica (film)
  Transamerica is a 2005 independent comedy-drama film produced by IFC Films and The Weinstein Company. The film tells the story of Bree, a transsexual woman , who goes on a road trip with her long-lost son Toby ....
  
  (Winner)
  • Sinéad Cusack
    Sinéad Cusack
    Sinéad Moira Cusack is an Irish stage, television and film actress. She has received two Tony Award nominations: once for Best Leading Actress in Much Ado About Nothing , and again for Best Featured Actress in Rock 'n' Roll .-Background:...
    
     for The Tiger's Tail
    The Tiger's Tail
    The Tiger's Tail is a 2006 Irish film directed by John Boorman. It stars Brendan Gleeson and Kim Cattrall. The story focuses on the modern Celtic Tiger Irish economy of the late 20th century.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Orla Fitzgerald
    Orla Fitzgerald
    Orla Fitzgerald is an Irish actress.She received two nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Best Breakthrough Artist at the 4th annual Irish Film and Television Awards for her work in The Wind That Shakes the Barley.She was also nominated for Best Actress at the Stage Awards for the Edinburgh...
    
     for The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
    The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War...
    
    
  • Ruth Negga
    Ruth Negga
    Ruth Negga is an Ethiopian-Irish actress who has starred in Irish films such as Capital Letters , Isolation and Breakfast On Pluto...
    
     for Breakfast on Pluto
    Breakfast on Pluto (film)
    Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe...
    
    

Best Actor in a Lead Role - Television

• 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 Rome
  Rome (TV series)
  Rome is a British-American–Italian historical drama television series created by Bruno Heller, John Milius and William J. MacDonald. The show's two seasons premiered in 2005 and 2007, and were later released on DVD. Rome is set in the 1st century BC, during Ancient Rome's transition from Republic...
  
  (Winner)
  • Liam Cunningham for Showbands
  • 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 Hide & Seek
  • 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 in a Lead Role - Television

• 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 Stardust
  Stardust (TV miniseries)
  Stardust is a 2006 miniseries produced for RTÉ by Brackside Merlin Films. The first episode surrounds the night a fire broke out at the Stardust Disco in North Dublin on 13 February, 1981, in which 48 people died. The second episode depicts the search for answers and justice by families and...
  
  (Winner)
  • Ruth Bradley
    Ruth Bradley
    -Career:Bradley's first screen appearance were in 2002 in Ultimate Force and Sinners .Since then she has had recurring roles in The Clinic , Love Is the Drug , Legend , The Innocence Project , Plus One and Love/Hate .She...
    
     for Legend
  • Anne-Marie Duff
    Anne-Marie Duff
    Anne-Marie Duff is an English actress best known for playing Fiona Gallagher in Shameless, and Elizabeth I in The Virgin Queen.-Early life:...
    
     for The Virgin Queen
  • 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

• 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...
  
  (Winner)
  • Liam Cunningham 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...
    
    
  • 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 Legend
  • Christopher O'Dowd for Showbands

Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Television

• Ruth Bradley
  Ruth Bradley
  -Career:Bradley's first screen appearance were in 2002 in Ultimate Force and Sinners .Since then she has had recurring roles in The Clinic , Love Is the Drug , Legend , The Innocence Project , Plus One and Love/Hate .She...
  
   for Stardust
  Stardust (TV miniseries)
  Stardust is a 2006 miniseries produced for RTÉ by Brackside Merlin Films. The first episode surrounds the night a fire broke out at the Stardust Disco in North Dublin on 13 February, 1981, in which 48 people died. The second episode depicts the search for answers and justice by families and...
  
  (Winner)
  • Leigh Arnold
    Leigh Arnold
    Leigh Arnold is an Irish-born actress. A native of Foxrock, County Dublin, Arnold is known for her role of Dr Cloadagh Delaney in Irish TV series The Clinic.-Early life:...
    
     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...
    
    
  • Gemma Craven
    Gemma Craven
    Gemma Craven is an award-winning Irish actress.She is possibly best known for her role in the Irish TV drama The Clinic as Dr...
    
     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...
    
    
  • Tina Kellegher
    Tina Kellegher
    Tina Kellegher is an Irish actress, born in Dublin in 1967. She is best known for her role as Niamh Quigley in BBC television series Ballykissangel. She is also a well-known voice on BBC Radio 4, having played policewoman Tina Mahon in the first four series of Baldi. She is married to Gordon...
    
     for Showbands

Awards in television

Best Single Drama/Drama Serial

• Stardust
  Stardust (TV miniseries)
  Stardust is a 2006 miniseries produced for RTÉ by Brackside Merlin Films. The first episode surrounds the night a fire broke out at the Stardust Disco in North Dublin on 13 February, 1981, in which 48 people died. The second episode depicts the search for answers and justice by families and...
  
   (Winner)
  • Fallout
    Fallout (RTÉ drama)
    Fallout is a RTÉ two-part fictional drama, made in the style of a documentary. It deals with the nuclear fallout following a hypothetical disaster in the Sellafield Nuclear Reprocessing Plant in Cumbria on the British coast of the Irish Sea...
    
    
  • Hide & Seek
  • Legend

Best Drama Series/Soap

• 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...
  
   (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...
    
    
  • 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:...
    
    
  • Showbands

Best Current Affairs/News Programme

• Prime Time Investigates: "Sex Traffic"
  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)
  • BBC Newsline Special: "Death of George Best"
    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....
    
    
  • Prime Time Investigates: "A National Emergency"
    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...
    
    
  • Prime Time Investigates: "Homelessness"
    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...
    
    

Best Children's/Youth

• 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)
  • Dustin's Daily News
    Dustin's Daily News
    Dustin's Daily News is an Irish television chat/comedy show, broadcast on RTÉ Two. The show is hosted by Dustin the Turkey of The Den, with his assistant Sinéad Ni Churnain as a co-host. Two series have been produced. The first series began on 19 September 2005 and ran until 29 April 2006...
    
    
  • Trí Shúle an Chait
  • The Ugly Duckling & Me

Best Entertainment

• Naked Camera
  Naked Camera
  Naked Camera is an Irish hidden camera comedy television show which began airing on RTÉ Two in 2005. It is set and filmed in the Republic of Ireland, mostly in Dublin. Its concept is similar to that of the UK show Trigger Happy TV but can be seen as a descendent of the candid camera elements in...
  
  (Winner)
  • Jokerman: Tommy Tiernan in America
    Jokerman: Tommy Tiernan in America
    Jokerman: Tommy Tiernan in America is the fourth DVD release from Tommy Tiernan and was filmed over a 2 year period. It follows Tommy's attempt to be successful in America. It was filmed in comedy clubs in New York, Washington, D.C., and other places from Omaha to Sacramento...
    
    
  • The Panel
  • The Podge & Rodge Show

Best Factual Entertainment

• In Search of the Pope's Children
  In Search of the Pope's Children
  In Search of the Pope's Children is an Irish television programme based on the book The Pope's Children, aired by the state broadcaster RTÉ and British broadcaster BBC Four. The programme is a three-part true lives documentary, presented by economist David McWilliams. The show comments on the Irish...
  
  (Winner)
  • Des Bishop: Joy in the Hood
    Joy in the Hood
    Joy in the Hood is an Irish comedy series featuring Des Bishop. Aired in 2005 on Ireland's channel RTÉ Two as a part of its Monday-night comedy slot, it showed Bishop's antics as he travelled to impoverished areas of Ireland, such as Ballymun in Dublin, Southill in Limerick and Knocknaheeny in Cork...
    
    
  • Rip-Off Republic
    Rip-Off Republic
    Rip-Off Republic was an RTÉ television show highlighting the cost of living and working in Ireland. It was presented by Eddie Hobbs and was broadcast on Mondays at 21:30 on RTÉ One during late August and early September 2005. The series was a phenomenon that attracted the largest TV audience in...
    
    
  • Wild Trials

Best Sports Feature

• Mícheál: The Sound of Sunday (Winner)
  • Brian Kerr's World Cup Story
  • The Dubs: Story of A Season
  • Leagues Apart with Ardal O'Hanlon

Best Single Documentary

• Flann O'Brien: The Lives of Brian (Winner)
  • The Brothers
  • The Ghosts of Duffy's Cut
  • No Go: The Free Derry Story
  • Tails from America

Best Documentary Series

• The Legend of Liam Clancy (Winner)
  • The Family Silver: "Bawnmore"]]
  • Junior Doctors
  • Made in America (TV series)|Made in America

Best Irish Language

• Maírtín Ó Cadhain: Rí an Fhocail (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....
    
    
  • An Gealigoir Nocht
  • 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:...
    
    

Awards across film and television

The IFB & NIFTC Breakthrough Talent Award

• Niall Heery (writer/director) for Small Engine Repair (Winner)
  • Pádraic Delaney
    Pádraic Delaney
    Pádraic Delaney is an Irish actor best known for playing Teddy O'Donovan in the Ken Loach film The Wind That Shakes the Barley, for which he earned an IFTA nomination as well as being named Irish Shooting Star for the 2007 Berlin Film Festival...
    
     (actor) for The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
    The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War...
    
    
  • Orla Fitzgerald
    Orla Fitzgerald
    Orla Fitzgerald is an Irish actress.She received two nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Best Breakthrough Artist at the 4th annual Irish Film and Television Awards for her work in The Wind That Shakes the Barley.She was also nominated for Best Actress at the Stage Awards for the Edinburgh...
    
     (actress) for The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
    The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War...
    
    
  • Domhnall Gleeson
    Domhnall Gleeson
    Domhnall Gleeson is an Irish actor, director and writer from Dublin. He has acted on both stage and screen, picking up a Tony Award nomination in 2006 for his part in the Broadway production The Lieutenant of Inishmore...
    
     (actor) for Studs
  • Brian Kirk
    Brian Kirk
    Brian Kirk is an Irish television director who has most recently directed episodes of Game of Thrones, FX's The Riches and Showtime's Brotherhood and The Tudors...
    
     (director) for Middletown
  • Lucy Kennedy
    Lucy Kennedy
    Lucy Kennedy is an award-winning Irish presenter of radio and television. Along with Bazil Ashmawy she currently co-presents the radio show Weekend Breakfast with Baz & Lucy on RTÉ 2fm. She has been described as "one of Ireland's most familiar faces"....
    
     (TV presenter) for 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...
    
    

Best Editing in Film / TV Drama

• Stephen O'Connell for Stardust
  Stardust (TV miniseries)
  Stardust is a 2006 miniseries produced for RTÉ by Brackside Merlin Films. The first episode surrounds the night a fire broke out at the Stardust Disco in North Dublin on 13 February, 1981, in which 48 people died. The second episode depicts the search for answers and justice by families and...
  
  (Winner)
  • Dermot Diskinfor Showbands
  • Cúán MacConghail for Studs
  • Ray Roantree for Fallout
    Fallout (RTÉ drama)
    Fallout is a RTÉ two-part fictional drama, made in the style of a documentary. It deals with the nuclear fallout following a hypothetical disaster in the Sellafield Nuclear Reprocessing Plant in Cumbria on the British coast of the Irish Sea...
    
    

Best Sound in Film / TV Drama

• Peter Blayney, Patrick Drummond, John Fitzgerald, Mervyn Moore for Lassie
  Lassie (2005 film)
  Lassie is a 2005 family-based film directed by Charles Sturridge. When a family hits financial crisis, they have no choice but to sell Lassie...
  
  (Winner)
  • Michelle Cunniffe, John Fitzgeral, Nikki Moss, Simon Willis for Middletown
  • Sarah Gaines, Peter Blayney, Jon Stevenson & Dan Birch for Stardust
    Stardust (TV miniseries)
    Stardust is a 2006 miniseries produced for RTÉ by Brackside Merlin Films. The first episode surrounds the night a fire broke out at the Stardust Disco in North Dublin on 13 February, 1981, in which 48 people died. The second episode depicts the search for answers and justice by families and...
    
    
  • Brendan Deasy for The Tiger's Tail
    The Tiger's Tail
    The Tiger's Tail is a 2006 Irish film directed by John Boorman. It stars Brendan Gleeson and Kim Cattrall. The story focuses on the modern Celtic Tiger Irish economy of the late 20th century.-Plot:...
    
    

Best Short Film

• Joyriders (Winner)
  • Bongo Bong
  • The Faeries of Blackheath Woods
  • The White Dress

Best Short Animation

• Horn Ok Please
  Horn Ok Please
  Horn Ok Please is a Bollywood romantic comedy film directed by Rakesh Sarang. The film stars Muzammil Ibrahim and Nana Patekar in lead roles. The film was set to be released in 2009, but unfortunately the director wanted it to come out lately so the film did get released, but only in India yet...
  
  (Winner)
  • Badly Drawn Roy
  • The Faeries of Blackheath Woods
  • The White Dress

People's choice awards

AIB Best Irish Film People's Choice

• The Wind That Shakes the Barley
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War...
  
  (Winner)
  • Breakfast on Pluto
    Breakfast on Pluto (film)
    Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe...
    
    
  • Lassie
    Lassie (2005 film)
    Lassie is a 2005 family-based film directed by Charles Sturridge. When a family hits financial crisis, they have no choice but to sell Lassie...
    
    
  • Studs

Pantene Best International Actress People's Choice

• Helen Mirren
  Helen Mirren
  Dame Helen Mirren, DBE is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards.-Early life and family:...
  
   for The Queen
  The Queen (film)
  The Queen is a 2006 British drama film directed by Stephen Frears, written by Peter Morgan, and starring Helen Mirren as the title role, HM Queen Elizabeth II...
  
  (Winner)
  • Penélope Cruz
    Penélope Cruz
    Penélope Cruz Sánchez is a Spanish actress. Signed by an agent at age 15, she made her acting debut at 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón, jamón , to critical acclaim...
    
     for Volver
    Volver
    Volver is a 2006 Spanish dramatic comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Headed by actress Penélope Cruz, the film features an ensemble cast starring Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, and Chus Lampreave...
    
    
  • Eva Green
    Eva Green
    Eva Gaëlle Green is a French actress and model.Green performed in theatre before making her film debut in The Dreamers , which generated controversy over her numerous nude scenes. She achieved greater fame for her parts in Kingdom of Heaven , and in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale, for...
    
     for Casino Royale
    Casino Royale (2006 film)
    Casino Royale is the twenty-first film in the James Bond film series and the first to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond...
    
    
  • Kate Winslet
    Kate Winslet
    Kate Elizabeth Winslet is an English actress and occasional singer. She has received multiple awards and nominations. She was the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader...
    
     for The Holiday
    The Holiday
    The Holiday is a 2006 American romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Nancy Meyers. Distributed by Columbia Pictures and Universal Studios, it stars Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as two lovelorn women from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, who temporarily exchange homes to...
    
    

Best International Actor People's Choice

• Leonardo DiCaprio
  Leonardo DiCaprio
  Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. He has received many awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator , and has been nominated by the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television...
  
   for The Departed
  The Departed
  The Departed is a 2006 American crime thriller film, fashioned as a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. The film was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan...
  
  (Winner)
  • Sacha Baron Cohen
    Sacha Baron Cohen
    Sacha Noam Baron Cohen is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and voice artist. He is most widely known for his portrayal of three unorthodox fictional characters: Ali G, Borat, and Brüno...
    
     for Borat
    Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
    Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, often referred to simply as Borat, is a 2006 mockumentary comedy film directed by Larry Charles and distributed by 20th Century Fox...
    
    
  • Daniel Craig
    Daniel Craig
    Daniel Wroughton Craig is an English actor. His early film roles include Elizabeth, The Power of One, A Kid in King Arthur's Court and the television episodes Sharpe's Eagle, Zorro and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Daredevils of the Desert...
    
     for Casino Royale
    Casino Royale (2006 film)
    Casino Royale is the twenty-first film in the James Bond film series and the first to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond...
    
    
  • Ian McKellen
    Ian McKellen
    Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE is an English actor. He has received a Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, and five Emmy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction...
    
     for X-Men: The Last Stand
    X-Men: The Last Stand
    X-Men: The Last Stand is a 2006 superhero film and the third in the X-Men series. It was directed by Brett Ratner and stars an ensemble cast including Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Kelsey Grammer, Anna Paquin, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones,...
    
    

TV Personality of the Year

• Bill O'Herlihy
  Bill O'Herlihy
  Bill O'Herlihy is an Irish sports broadcaster with Raidió Teilifís Éireann . He also heads one of Ireland's largest public relations firms.-Bill's life:...
  
   (Winner)
  • Eamonn Holmes
    Eamonn Holmes
    Eamonn Holmes is an Northern Irish journalist and broadcaster. He is known for his work on UK and Irish television, notably presenting GMTV and This Morning. He is married to TV presenter Ruth Langsford.-Education:...
    
    
  • Gerry Kelly
    Gerry Kelly (broadcaster)
    Gerry Kelly is a broadcaster from Northern Ireland. He is best known for his presenting career at UTV.-Broadcasting career:...
    
    
  • Taragh Loughrey Grant
  • Daithí O'Sé