Cillian Murphy Articles

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 [...]

2007 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards 2007 Irish Film Award Nominations 2007 Irish Film Award Winners: Royal Dublin Society on February 9, 2007 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes the Barley   AWARDS IN FILM Best Film Breakfast on Pluto (Parallel Film Productions Ltd.) The Front Line (Wide Eye Films) Middletown (Chapter Four) Small Engine Repair [...]

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 [...]

2005 Irish Film Awards 2005 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards winners: November 5, 2005 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Perry Ogden’s Pavee Lackeen takes a look at poverty in modern Ireland as seen through the eyes of a young girl and her family   FILM AWARDS Best Film Mickybo & Me The Mighty Celt * Pavee Lackeen Tara Road Trouble with [...]