IFTA Film & Drama Awards Ceremony Winners 2018

15th February 2018

Congratulations to the nominees and winners of the IFTA Film & Drama Awards, hosted by the Irish Film & Television Academy in Dublin this evening.

Industry guests were welcomed by Academy CEO Áine Moriarty, and Deirdre O’Kane MC’d the Event, at the Round Room of the Mansion House. Gabriel Byrne received the Irish Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins. Ros Hubbard, legendary casting director, received the Spotlight Casting Director Award. Jacob McCarthy (The Drummer and the Keeper) won the Irish Film Board’s Rising Star Award.

The show will be broadcast on RTÉ One on Saturday 17th February at 10.45pm.

The full list of winners is below.

Winners of the IFTA Film & Drama Awards 2018

FEATURE FILM
Michael Inside

DIRECTOR FILM
Aisling Walsh, Maudie

SCRIPTWRITER FILM
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE - FILM
John Connors, Cardboard Gangsters

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE - FILM
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE - FILM
Barry Keoghan, The Killing of a Sacred Deer

ACTRESS SUPPORTING ROLE - FILM
Victoria Smurfit, The Lears

GEORGE MORRISON FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
The Farthest

IRISH FILM BOARD RISING STAR
Jacob McCarthy, The Drummer and the Keeper

SPOTLIGHT CASTING DIRECTOR AWARD
Ros Hubbard

SHORT FILM – LIVE ACTION
Wave

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Late Afternoon

INTERNATIONAL FILM
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

INTERNATIONAL ACTOR
Ethan Hawke, Maudie

INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

DRAMA
Game of Thrones

DIRECTOR – DRAMA
Dearbhla Walsh, Fargo

SCRIPTWRITER – DRAMA
Conor McPherson, Paula

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE - DRAMA
Cillian Murphy, Peaky Blinders

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE - DRAMA
Caitriona Balfe, Outlander

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE - DRAMA
Liam Cunningham, Game of Thrones

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE - DRAMA
Charlie Murphy, Peaky Blinders

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Seamus McGarvey, The Greatest Showman

COSTUME DESIGN
Consolata Boyle, Victoria and Abdul

EDITING
Una Ni DhonghaIle, Three Girls

MAKEUP & HAIR
Clare Lambe & Sevlene Roddy, Into the Badlands

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Stephen McKeon, Pilgrimage

PRODUCTION DESIGN
John Hand, Maudie

SOUND
Steve Fanagan, Kieran Horgan, The Farthest

VFX
Tailored Films & Bowsie Workshop, The Lodgers

Photographs Issued by Darren Kinsella Photography

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