2024 Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) Awards: ‘That They May Face The Rising Sun’ Is Best Film, Cillian Murphy Best Actor, Paul Mescal Best Supporting
23.04.2024 - 06:13
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The 21st Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) Awards, which highlight Irish filmmakers, television creators and performers, saw Pat Collins’ That They May Face The Rising Sun win Best Film in an upset. Despite earning a second-best 11 nominations, the top award was its only win.
Lies We Tell all with three wins: for Director Lisa Mulcahy, Lead Actress Agnes O’Casey, and Best Script. It came in with 13nominations.
Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy repeated his Best Actor win at the Academy Awards for Oppenheimer with a win for Lead Actor. In the supporting categories, Paul Mescal won for All of Us Strangers and Alison Oliver topped all for Saltburn.
Oppenheimer was named Best International Film, Emma Stone was Best Actress, and Paul Giamatti won International Actor for The Holdovers.
In the television drama categories, Kin was the winner for series, directing, script, lead actress Clare Dune, and supporting actress Maria Doyle Kennedy.
Filmmaker Neil Jordan presented Irish actor Stephen Rea with the Irish Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contribution to the Irish and international screen industry, across both film and television. Siobhán Cullen was the winner of this year’s Screen Ireland IFTA Rising Star Award.
The ceremony was held at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre and hosted for the first time by Emmy-winning broadcaster Baz Ashmawy.
The complete list of winners:
Film Categories
Best Film
Double Blind
Flora and Son
Lies We Tell
LOLA
That They May Face The Rising Sun – WINNER
Verdigris
Director – Film
Double Blind – Ian Hunt-Duffy
Flora and Son – John Carney
Lies We Tell – Lisa Mulcahy – WINNER
LOLA – Andrew Legge
That They May Face The Rising Sun – Pat Collins
Verdigris – Patricia Kelly
Script – Film
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