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)
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by Andre Soares | February 10, 2007   
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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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