Irish Screen Stars set to Descend on Dublin This Friday 20th for the Irish Academy Awards Ceremony
Irish Screen Stars will arrive back home to Dublin this weekend for the Irish Academy Awards hosted by Kevin McGahern this Friday 20th February. The IFTA Awards Ceremony is set to be a spectacular home gathering of Irish actors and filmmakers, to celebrate the enormous success of Irish creative talent and to recognise achievements both in front and behind the camera. Ciarán Hinds will receive the IFTA Lifetime Achievement Award surrounded by his family, friends, and industry peers.
The Awards take place on Friday 20th February at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre and will be broadcast on RTE One this Saturday 21st February at 10.50pm.
Irish Screen Stars already confirmed to attend include Oscar-nominated Jessie Buckley (nominated for her award-winning performance in Hamnet), as well as Cillian Murphy (Steve), Steve Coogan (Saipan), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Golden Globe-winning star of The Tudors), Aidan Quinn (The Walsh Sisters), Alison Oliver (star of Wuthering Heights and Task), Anthony Boyle, Danielle Galligan, Jack Gleeson, Fionn O’Shea (House of Guinness; Niamh Algar (The Iris Affair), Lola Petticrew (Trespasses), Louisa Harland (The Walsh Sisters), Jamie-Lee O’Donnell (Leonard & Hungry Paul), Siobhán Cullen (Obituary), Genevieve O’Reilly (Andor), Lisa McGee and Roisin Gallagher (How To Get To Heaven From Belfast).
Also up for Awards on the night are Fionnula Flanagan (Four Mothers), Ruth Bradley (Slow Horses), Nora-Jane Noone, Cathy Belton, Aaron Monaghan and Dónall Ó Héalaí (Hidden Assets), Carrie Crowley (Aontas), Martin McCann and Katherine Devlin (Blue Lights), Alex Murphy and Chris Walley (The Young Offenders), Colin Farrell (Ballad of a Small Player), Paul Mescal (Hamnet), Kerry Condon (F1, Train Dreams), Daniel Power, Diarmuid Noyes, Emma Willis and Jamie Forde (Christy), Caitriona Balfe (Outlander) and Carolyn Bracken (Horseshoe) among others.
Other guests in attendance will include Irish filmmaking royalty Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan; Sarah Bolger, star of Mayans MC and The Tudors; IFTA-winning KIN actress Clare Dunne; Aisha Tyler, Friends star and filmmaker; award-winning actress Amy Huberman; Maria Doyle Kennedy, KIN actor and musician; Stephen Rea, Oscar-nominated actor and former IFTA Lifetime Achievement recipient; Ardal O’Hanlon, award-winning actor and comedian; Hamnet and Industry actor David Wilmot; Caroline Morahan, actress and presenter; IFTA-winning Love/Hate actor Peter Coonan; Kneecap actress Simone Kirby; India Mullen, star of These Sacred Vows; Smother and The Rainmaker actress Gemma Leah Devereaux; Trespasses actor Tom Cullen; Seamus O’Hara, star of An Irish Goodbye and Blue Lights; House of the Dragon actor Clinton Liberty; and Hidden Assets actor Steve Wall.
The Irish Academy Awards are funded by Screen Ireland and Coimisiún na Meán. Redbreast are this year’s Official Spirit Partner and Sculpted by Aimee are this year’s Official Makeup Partner.
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