8th Irish Film & Television Awards

8th Irish Film & Television Awards
Date12 February 2011
SiteConvention Centre Dublin
Hosted bySimon Delaney
Highlights
Best FilmAs If I Am Not There
Best ActorMartin McCann
Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne
Best ActressAmy Huberman
Rewind
Most awardsAs If I Am Not There (3)
The Tudors (3)
Most nominationsLove/Hate (10)

The 8th Irish Film & Television Awards were held on 12 February 2011 in the Convention Centre, Dublin.[1][2][3]

It was hosted by actor Simon Delaney and honoured Irish film and television released in 2010.[4] The Awards show was broadcast live on RTÉ One television in Ireland.[5]

Irish producer Morgan O'Sullivan was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Industry Award.[6] The Bosnian war drama As If I Am Not There won the best film, script and director awards. Martin McCann scooped the lead actor award for his performance in Swansong – Story of Occi Byrne while Amy Huberman received the lead actress award for Rewind.[7] Pierce Brosnan and Saoirse Ronan both won awards for their supporting roles in the international features The Ghost and The Way Back respectively, while Stephen Rea and Ruth McCabe received IFTAs for their performances in the television drama Single Handed. In television drama, the fourth and final season of The Tudors was named best drama series/soap which followed awards for the series' craft team in costume design Joan Bergin and make-up and Hair. Live Aid biopic When Harvey Met Bob received the IFTA for single drama/ drama serial and its star Domhnall Gleeson was announced the winner of the rising star award and lead actor television awards. In the international categories, David Fincher's The Social Network won the IFTA for international film with its star Jesse Eisenberg winning for best international actor. Annette Bening received the international actress award for her performance in The Kids Are All Right. The Republic of Telly's premiere of the Rubberbandits' Horse Outside took the people's choice award for best TV moment of the year.[8][9] The late Gerry Ryan was honoured when his daughter accepted an award on his behalf for Operation Transformation, which won Best Factual Programme.[10][11][12]

Awards

Awards in Film

Best Film

Director in Film

  • Juanita Wilson – As If I Am Not There (Winner)
    • PJ Dillon – Rewind
    • Tom Hall – Sensation
    • Ian Power – The Runway

Script Film

Actor in a lead role – Film

Actor in a Supporting Role – Film

Actress in a Supporting Role – Film

Feature Documentary

  • The Pipe (Winner)
    • Burma Soldier
    • Pyjama Girls
    • What We Leave in Our Wake

International Categories

Best International Film

International Actor

International Actress

Television Drama Categories

Single Drama / Drama Serial

Drama Series / Soap

Director Television

Writer Television

Actor in a Lead Role – Television

Actor in a Supporting Role – Television

Actress in a Supporting Role – Television

Craft / Technical Categories

Costume Design

  • Joan Bergin – The Tudors (Winner)
    • Consolata Boyle – Tamara Drewe
    • Joan O'Cleary – Swansong – Story of Occi Byrne
    • Susan Scott – Cup Cake

Director of Photography

  • PJ Dillon – The Runway (Winner)

Editing

  • Emer Reynolds – My Brothers (Winner)
    • Dermot Diskin – Love/Hate
    • Guy Montgomery – Parked
    • Nathan Nugent – As If I Am Not There

Make Up & Hair

  • Tom McInerney, Dee Corcoran – The Tudors (Winner)
    • Gill Brennan – Swansong – Story of Occi Byrne
    • Caroline McCurdy – Na Cloigne
    • Louise Myler – Parked

Original Score

Production Design

  • Ray Ball – The Runway

Sound

  • Karl Merren, Ken Galvin, Peter Blayney – The Silence
    • Daniel Birch, Robert Flanagan – Circus Fantasticus
    • Robert Flanagan, Michelle Cunniffe, Fiadhnait McCann – Essential Killing
    • Patrick Hanlon, Ken Galvin, Niall Brady – Rewind

Television Categories

Children's / Youth Programme

Current Affairs

Documentary Series

  • Freefall: The Night The Banks Failed (Winner)

Documentary

  • Voices From The Grave (Winner)
    • Children in Charge: Ireland's Young Carers
    • TK Whitaker – Seirbhíseach an Stait
    • Vanished in the Mountains: Ireland's Missing Women

Entertainment Programme

Factual Programme

Sports Programme

  • In Sunshine Or in Shadow
    • Graeme McDowell's Major Moment
    • Gualainn le Gualainn
    • World Cup Live

Other Categories

There was a single award for lead actress; the Irish Film and Television Academy claimed that they had "not received sufficient submissions" to have separate awards.[13]

Actress in a lead role – Film/TV

Short Film

  • Small Change (Winner)
    • Deep End Dance
    • Noreen
    • Pentecos

Rising Star Award

Special Irish Language Award

Animation

Outstanding Contribution to Industry

  • Morgan O'Sullivan[14]

References

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