Irish Film Awards 2005
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 Sex
Best Director
Anthony Byrne — Short Order
Fintan Connolly — Trouble with Sex
* Terry George — Hotel Rwanda
Perry Ogden — Pavee Lackeen
Best Actor
Gabriel Byrne – Wah-Wah
Cillian Murphy – Red Eye
* Liam Neeson – Kinsey
Aidan Quinn – Convicted
Best Actress
Andrea Corr – The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Jillian Bradbury – Winter’s End
Winnie Maughan – Pavee Lackeen
* [...]
by Andre Soares | November 5, 2005
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HOTEL RWANDA – Don Cheadle
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Direction: Terry George
Screenplay: Keir Pearson and Terry George
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix, Desmond Dube, Neil McCarthy, Jean Reno
In the second quarter of 1994, while much of the world was gearing up to the World Cup to be held in Los Angeles, one of history’s deadliest wholesale slaughters of human beings was taking place in Central Africa. Following the death of Rwanda’s President Juvenal Habyarimana, an ethnic Hutu whose plane was shot down above the Kigali airport on April 6, 1994, the Hutu powers-that-be decided it was time to eliminate the Tutsi minority who were blamed for the crash. What followed in the next three months was an orgy of hackings and shootings throughout [...]
by Andre Soares | November 20, 2004
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Tags: African Cinema, Don Cheadle, Film Reviews, Hotel Rwanda, Keir Pearson, Oscar 2004, Oscar Movies, Paul Rusesabagina, Political Movies, Sophie Okonedo, Terry George, Three-Star Movies, Three-Star Oscar Nominees
