The 20th Irish Film & Television Academy Awards, also called the IFTA Film & Drama Awards 2024 or the 21st Anniversary IFTA Awards, took place on 20 April 2024. The ceremony was hosted by Baz Ashmawy at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre. It honoured Irish films and television drama released between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2023. The nominations were announced on 14 March 2024. The Rising Star nominees were announced on 9 April 2024.
After the nominations were announced, Academy CEO Áine Moriarty said: "What an incredible showcase of nominees shortlisted for Irish Academy Awards this year. Irish talents are proving themselves to be amongst the best in the world, both in front and behind the camera, delivering such high standards of acting, filmmaking, and storytelling. We in the Irish Academy, are proud to showcase this industry's great work and to reward their achievements. Congratulations to all the nominees."
The ceremony was broadcast on RTÉ. Highlights were broadcast on RTÉ2 on 22 April 2024.
Film
Best Film That They May Face the Rising Sun Double Blind Flora and Son Lies We Tell LOLA Verdigris
Best Director Lisa Mulcahy – Lies We Tell John Carney – Flora and Son Pat Collins – That They May Face the Rising Sun Ian Hunt-Duffy – Double Blind Patricia Kelly – Verdigris Andrew Legge – LOLA
Best Script Elisabeth Gooch – Lies We Tell John Carney – Flora and Son Patricia Kelly – Verdigris Andrew Legge – LOLA Éamon Little – That They May Face the Rising Sun Darach McGarrigle – Double Blind
Best Actress in a Lead Role Agnes O'Casey – Lies We Tell Bríd Brennan – My Sailor, My Love Jessie Buckley – Fingernails Eve Hewson – Flora and Son Geraldine McAlinden – Verdigris Saoirse Ronan – Foe
Best Actor in a Lead Role Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer Pierce Brosnan – The Last Rifleman Barry Keoghan – Saltburn Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers Barry Ward – That They May Face the Rising Sun David Wilmot – Lies We Tell
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Alison Oliver – Saltburn Bronagh Gallagher – Dance First Ruth McCabe – That They May Face the Rising Sun Agnes O'Casey – The Miracle Club Maya O'Shea – Verdigris Catherine Walker – My Sailor, My Love
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Paul Mescal – All of Us Strangers Kenneth Branagh – Oppenheimer Liam Carney – Sunlight Diarmuid Noyes – Double Blind Lalor Roddy – That They May Face the Rising Sun Chris Walley – Lies We Tell
Best George Morrison Feature Documentary The Days of Trees The Deepest Breath In the Shadow of Beirut Joan Baez: I Am a Noise Notes from Sheepland Stolen
Best Live Action Short Calf Mud Queen Sound & Colour The Golden West Two for the Road Waiting Day
Best Animated Short Wind & The Shadow Nana Dee The Presenter The Small Makings of a Storm
Television
Best Drama Kin Blue Lights Hidden Assets Northern Lights Obituary The Woman in the Wall
Best Director Kate Dolan – Kin Joe and Christine Lawlor – Kin Tom Hall – Northern Lights John Hayes – Obituary Fergus O'Brien – Happy Valley Hannah Quinn – The Gone
Best Script Peter McKenna – Kin Stephen Jones – Northern Lights Ray Lawlor – Obituary Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson – Blue Lights Peter McKenna – Hidden Assets Joe Murtagh – The Woman in the Wall
Best Actress in a Lead Role Clare Dunne – Kin Niamh Algar – Malpractice Caitríona Balfe – Outlander Siobhán Cullen – Obituary Sharon Horgan – Best Interests Elva Trill – Northern Lights
Best Actor in a Lead Role Éanna Hardwicke – The Sixth Commandment Sam Keeley – Kin Francis Magee – Kin Martin McCann – Blue Lights Daryl McCormack – The Woman in the Wall Michael Smiley – Obituary
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Maria Doyle Kennedy – Kin Niamh Algar – Culprits Cathy Belton – Hidden Assets Hilda Fay – The Woman in the Wall Fionnula Flanagan – Sisters Danielle Galligan – Obituary
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Richard Dormer – Blue Lights Simon Delaney – The Woman in the Wall Aidan Gillen – Kin Jared Harris – Foundation Aaron Monaghan – Hidden Assets Emmett J. Scanlan – Kin
Craft
Best Cinematography Robbie Ryan – Poor Things Eleanor Bowman – Lies We Tell Richard Kendrick – That They May Face the Rising Sun JJ Rolfe – Kin Narayan Van Maele – Double Blind
Best Costume Design Lara Campbell – LOLA Gwen Jeffares-Hourie – Double Blind Lorna Marie Mugan – The Pope's Exorcist Joanne O'Brien – Lies We Tell Louise Stanton – That They May Face the Rising Sun
Best Editing Michael Harte – Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie Colin Campbell – Double Blind Colin Campbell – LOLA Weronika Kaminska – Lies We Tell John Walters – The Last Rifleman
Best Hair & Make-Up Orla Carroll and Lynn Johnston – The Pope's Exorcist Sandra Dunne and Edwina Kelly – That They May Face the Rising Sun Lyndsey Herron and Barbara Conway – Flora and Son Helen O'Connor and Aitana Silvana – Lies We Tell Jennie Readman and Madonna Bambino – Double Blind
Best Original Music Neil Hannon – LOLA Irene Buckley and Linda Buckley – That They May Face the Rising Sun Gary Clark and John Carney – Flora and Son Die Hexen – Double Blind Aza Hand – Lies We Tell
Best Production Design John Paul Kelly – A Haunting in Venice Caroline Hill – Lies We Tell Steve Kingston – Double Blind Ferdia Murphy – LOLA Padraig O'Neill – That They May Face the Rising Sun
Best Sound Nina Rice – Barbie Garret Farrell, Peter Albrechtsen, and Myk Farmer – Evil Dead Rise Aza Hand, Damien Lynch, and Peter Nicell – Lies We Tell Brendan Rehill, Rob Moore, and Peter Blayney – Double Blind Nina Rice, Nina Hartstone, and Adam Scrivener – Saltburn
Best VFX Kev Cahill and Ben Snow – Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Ed Bruce and Andrew Barry – The Nevers Niall McEvoy and Liam Neville – Paradise Liam Neville and Declan Boyle – Evil Dead Rise
International
Best International Film Oppenheimer All of Us Strangers Past Lives Poor Things Saltburn The Holdovers
Best International Actress Emma Stone – Poor Things Annette Bening – Nyad Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon Greta Lee – Past Lives Carey Mulligan – Maestro Margot Robbie – Barbie
Best International Actor Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers Bradley Cooper – Maestro Willem Dafoe – Poor Things Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon Ryan Gosling – Barbie Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things
Special
Rising Star Siobhán Cullen Kwaku Fortune Ian Hunt-Duffy Agnes O'Casey Alison Oliver
Irish Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement Stephen Rea
Notes
See also 2023 in Irish television 77th British Academy Film Awards 2024 British Academy Television Awards
References
External links Awards at the Irish Film & Television Academy official website