Irish Film Awards 2007 Winners
Even though it failed to get nominated in the best director (Ken Loach) and best screenplay (Paul Haverty) categories, 2006 Cannes winner The Wind That Shakes the Barley was chosen best Irish film at the 2007 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards ceremony held in Dublin.
Starring Cillian Murphy (above, left), The Wind That Shakes the Barley follows members of the Irish Republican Army as they fight the British in the early 20th century. Liam Cunningham, as a train driver who becomes an activist, was chosen best supporting actor.
Cillian Murphy, for his part, was the winner of the best actor award for his role as a transvestite cabaret singer in Neil Jordan’s sociopolitical comedy-drama Breakfast on Pluto (above). [...]
by Andre Soares | February 10, 2007
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Tags: Breakfast on Pluto, Cillian Murphy, Eva Birthistle, Film Awards, Irish Film Awards, Ken Loach, Liam Cunningham, The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Irish Film Awards 2007: Nominations
The nominees for the 2007 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards have been announced.
Neil Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto, the tale of an Irish transvestite cabaret singer in the London of the 1960s and 1970s, dominated the list with a total of 10 nominations, including best film, best director, best actor (Cillian Murphy, above, with Gavin Friday) and best screenplay (Jordan and Pat McCabe).
Other top nominees were Brian Kirk’s Middletown, about a borderline-fanatical Catholic priest who believes it’s his mission to save the souls of a small Irish town (9 nods); veteran John Boorman’s The Tiger’s Tail, about a businessman (best actor nominee Brendan Gleeson, above, with Kim Cattrall) stalked by his down-and-out twin (7 nods); and Ken Loach’s [...]
by Andre Soares | January 9, 2007
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Tags: Breakfast on Pluto, Brendan Gleeson, Cillian Murphy, Film Awards, John Boorman, Ken Loach, Kim Cattrall, Neil Jordan, The Tiger's Tail, The Wind That Shakes the Barley
