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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Irish Film Awards 2007

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 (Subotica Entertainment)
* The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Sixteen Films & Element Films)
Best International Film
Babel (Paramount Pictures)
Casino Royale (Sony Pictures)
The Departed (Entertainment Films)
* Little Miss Sunshine (20th Century Fox)
United 93 (Universal Pictures)
Best Director
John Boorman – The Tiger’s Tail (Merlin Films)
David Gleeson – The Front Line (Wide Eye Films)
* Neil Jordan – Breakfast on Pluto (Parallel Film Productions Ltd.)
Brian Kirk – Middletown (Chapter Four)
Best [...]

by Andre Soares | February 10, 2007   
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London Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 London Film Critics’ Circle Awards
2005 London Film Critics’ Circle Award winners: February 9, 2005.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Thomas Haden Church, Paul Giamatti in Sideways
 

Best Film
The Aviator – Martin Scorsese
The Motorcycle Diaries – Walter Salles
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Michel Gondry
House of Flying Daggers – Zhang Yimou
* Sideways – Alexander Payne
Best British Film
Ae Fond Kiss . . . – Ken Loach
Finding Neverland – Marc Foster
My Summer of Love – Pawel Pwawlikowski
Shaun of the Dead – Edgar Wright
* Vera Drake – Mike Leigh
Best Foreign-Language Film
* The Motorcycle Diaries – Walter Salles
A Very Long Engagement – Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Bad Education – Pedro Almodóvar
House of Flying Daggers – Zhang Yimou
The Return [...]

by Andre Soares | February 9, 2005   
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