Eva Birthistle 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 [...]

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 [...]