16th Irish Film & Television Awards

The 16th Irish Film & Television Academy Awards will take place in September 2020. Because no ceremony was held in 2019, this ceremony will honour films and television drama released in both 2018 and 2019. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no physical ceremony will take place; instead, there will be a "virtual ceremony."[1]

16th Irish Film & Television Awards
Date	September 2020 (2020-09)
Highlights
Most nominations	Arracht (11)

The nominations for the IFTAs were announced by the Irish Film and Television Academy on 14 July 2020.[2][3]

Film

Best film (2019)

Films released in 2018.

• Black ’47
• Float Like a Butterfly
• Rosie
• The Dig
• The Hole in the Ground

Best film (2020)

Films released in 2019. (Arracht has yet to receive a general release due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it premiered at a festival in 2019.)

• A Bump Along the Way
• Arracht
• Calm with Horses
• Extra Ordinary
• Ordinary Love

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

• Roddy Doyle – Rosie
• Owen McCafferty – Ordinary Love
• Joe Murtagh – Calm with Horses
• Mark O'Halloran – Rialto
• Tomás Ó Súilleabháin – Arracht
• Carmel Winters – Float Like a Butterfly

Actress in a leading role

• Jessie Buckley – Wild Rose
• Aisling Franciosi – The Nightingale
• Bronagh Gallagher – A Bump Along The Way
• Sarah Greene – Rosie
• Seána Kerslake – The Hole in the Ground
• Saoirse Ronan – Little Women

Actor in a leading role

• Dara Devaney – Finky
• Moe Dunford – The Dig
• Liam Neeson – Ordinary Love
• Dónall Ó Héalaí – Arracht
• Tom Vaughan-Lawlor – Rialto
• Barry Ward – Extra Ordinary

Actress in a supporting role

• Niamh Algar – Calm With Horses
• Caitriona Balfe – Le Mans '66 (Ford v Ferrari)
• Seána Kerslake – Dublin Oldschool
• Charlie Murphy – Dark Lies the Island
• Emily Taaffe – The Dig
• Catherine Walker – We Ourselves

Actor in a supporting role

• Lorcan Cranitch – The Dig
• Dara Devaney – Arracht
• Barry Keoghan – Calm With Horses
• Ian Lloyd Anderson – Dublin Oldschool
• Stephen Rea – Black ’47

George Morrison Feature Documentary

• Gaza
• I, Dolours
• Katie
• The Image You Missed
• The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid
• When All is Ruin Once Again

Short film – Live action

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

Animated short

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

Television drama

Drama

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

Director

• Anthony Byrne – Peaky Blinders
• John Hayes – Dublin Murders
• Lisa Mulcahy – Blood
• Hannah Quinn – Blood
• Aisling Walsh – Elizabeth Is Missing
• Dearbhla Walsh – The Handmaid’s Tale

Script

• Ronan Bennett – Top Boy
• Daragh Carville – The Bay
• Mark O'Connor – Darklands
• Mark O'Rowe – Temple

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

• Richard Dormer – Fortitude
• Adrian Dunbar – Line Of Duty
• Brendan Gleeson – Mr. Mercedes
• Cillian Murphy – Peaky Blinders
• Chris O'Dowd – Get Shorty
• Andrew Scott – Black Mirror ("Smithereens")

Actress in a supporting role

• Niamh Algar – Pure
• Helen Behan – The Virtues
• Ruth Bradley – Guilt
• Jessie Buckley – Chernobyl
• Ingrid Craigie – Blood
• Fiona Shaw – Killing Eve

Actor in a supporting role

• Liam Cunningham – Game of Thrones
• Barry Keoghan – Chernobyl
• Owen McDonnell – Killing Eve
• Cillian O’Gairbhi – Blood
• Mark O'Halloran – The Virtues
• Tom Vaughan-Lawlor – Dublin Murders

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

• Colin Campbell – The Hole in the Ground
• Dermot Diskin – Never Grow Old
• Michael Harte – Three Identical Strangers
• Tony Kearns – Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
• Mick Mahon – Gaza
• Úna Ní Dhonghaíle – Rosie

Production Design

• Tom Conroy – The Rhythm Section
• Damien Creagh – Calm With Horses
• Conor Dennison – The Hole in the Ground
• John Leslie – Never Grow Old
• Padraig O’Neil – Arracht
• Anna Rackard – The Trial of Christine Keeler

Cinematography

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

Costume Design

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

Makeup & Hair

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

Sound

• Brendan Rehill & Alan Scully – 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

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

References

1. Clarke, Donald. "Iftas: Normal People arrives too late for 'virtual' awards". The Irish Times.
2. "Famine drama Arracht leads IFTA Awards shortlist". July 14, 2020 – via www.rte.ie. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
3. Duffy, Rónán. "Here is the full list of nominees for this year's (virtual) IFTAs". TheJournal.ie.

External links

• Awards at the Irish Film and Television Academy official website