16th Irish Film & Television Awards

The 16th Irish Film & Television Academy Awards took place on 18 October 2020. Because no ceremony was held in 2019, this ceremony honoured films and television drama released in both 2018 and 2019. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no physical ceremony took place; instead, there was a "virtual ceremony" hosted by Deirdre O’Kane.[2]

The nominations for the IFTAs were announced by the Irish Film and Television Academy on 14 July 2020.[3][4] People presenting awards included President Michael D. Higgins, Martin Scorsese, Daisy Ridley and Liam Neeson. It aired on Virgin Media One.[5][6][7]

Below are the winners and nominees. Winners are at the top of each list, in bold type.

Film

Best film (2019)

Films released in 2018.

Best film (2020)

Films released in 2019. (Arracht went on general release in 2020, but it premiered at a festival in 2019.)

Director

  • Paddy Breathnach – Rosie
  • Nora Twomey – The Breadwinner
  • Lance Daly – Black ’47
  • Tomás Ó Súilleabháin – Arracht
  • Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman – Extra Ordinary
  • Lee Cronin – The Hole in the Ground
  • Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn – Ordinary Love

Script

Actress in a leading role

Actor in a leading role

Actress in a supporting role

Actor in a supporting role

George Morrison Feature Documentary

Short film – Live action

  • Welcome To A Bright White Limbo
  • Bainne
  • Ciúnas (Silence)
  • Detainment
  • El Hor
  • Here’s Looking at you Kid!
  • Inhale
  • Sister This
  • The Grass Ceiling
  • The Vasectomy Doctor

Animated short

  • The Dream Report
  • Outside the Box
  • Streets of Fury
  • The Bird & the Whale
  • The Overcoat

Irish Film Board Rising Star Award

Television drama

Drama

  • Blood (Channel 5 / Virgin Media One)
  • Death and Nightingales (RTÉ / BBC)
  • Dublin Murders (RTÉ / BBC)
  • Vikings (History [Canada])

Director

Script

Actress in a leading role

  • Niamh Algar – The Virtues
  • Caitriona Balfe – Outlander
  • Jessie Buckley – The Woman in White
  • Sarah Greene – Dublin Murders
  • Ruth Negga – Preacher
  • Ann Skelly – Death and Nightingales

Actor in a leading role

Actress in a supporting role

Actor in a supporting role

Craft

Original music

  • KÍLA – Arracht
  • Stephen McKeon – The Hole in the Ground
  • Stephen Rennicks – The Little Stranger
  • Brian Byrne – Black ’47
  • Ray Harman – Blood
  • Stephen Rennicks – Rosie

Editing

Production Design

Cinematography

  • Piers McGrail – Never Grow Old
  • Tom Comerford – The Hole in the Ground
  • Andrew McConnel – Gaza
  • Kate McCullough – Arracht
  • Robbie Ryan – Marriage Story
  • Cathal Watters – Rosie

Costume Design

  • Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh – The Rhythm Section
  • Joan Bergin – The Catcher was a Spy
  • Clodagh Deegan – Arracht
  • Triona Lillis – Float Like A Butterfly
  • Susan O’Connor Cave – Vikings
  • Louise Stanton – Rosie

Makeup & Hair

  • Linda Gannon & Liz Byrne – Black ’47
  • Niamh O’Loan – Arracht
  • Louise Myler – Finky
  • Polly McKay – Ordinary Love
  • Dee Corcoran & Tom McInerney – Vikings
  • Eileen Buggy & Jennifer Hegarty – Vita & Virginia

Sound

  • Brendan Rehill, Alan Scully and Peter Blayney – Arracht
  • Fionáin Higgins & Robert Flanagan – Black ’47
  • Ronan Hill, Danny Crowley & Simon Kerr – Game of Thrones
  • Aza Hand, Karen O’Mahony and Patrick Drummond – Never Grow Old
  • Hugh Fox & Niall Brady – Rosie
  • Steve Fanagan & Niall Brady – The Little Stranger

VFX

  • Ed Bruce and Nicholas Murphy – We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  • Jim O’Hagan and Ronan Gantly – Game of Thrones
  • Ed Bruce – The Favourite
  • Ed Bruce and Jim O’Hagan – The Irishman

References

  1. ^ "IFTA | Irish Film & Television Academy | Irish Film & Television Awards". www.ifta.ie.
  2. ^ Clarke, Donald. "Iftas: Normal People arrives too late for 'virtual' awards". The Irish Times.
  3. ^ "Famine drama Arracht leads IFTA Awards shortlist". 14 July 2020 – via www.rte.ie.
  4. ^ Duffy, Rónán. "Here is the full list of nominees for this year's (virtual) IFTAs". TheJournal.ie.
  5. ^ "IFTA Awards Film and Drama 2020". ifta.ie. Archived from the original on 15 October 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  6. ^ Clarke, Sophie (18 October 2020). "All the winners at the virtual IFTA Awards". Goss.ie.
  7. ^ Clarke, Donald. "Iftas 2020: Wins for Aisling Franciosi, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, and unstoppable Jessie Buckley". The Irish Times.
  8. ^ "IFTA Announces Screen Ireland Rising Star Award Nominees". www.screenireland.ie.

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Years indicate the years of release, not the date of the ceremony; e.g. "2008" indicates a ceremony that took place in 2009, honouring films and television released in 2008.