“Kneecap” — the Irish-language tune biopic that changed into one of the crucial buzziest indie motion pictures of 2024 and is now tipped for each Oscar and BAFTA popularity — has, possibly unsurprisingly, emerged a long way forward of the pack of nominees for the 2025 Irish Movie & TV Academy (IFTA) awards.
Wealthy Peppiatt’s raucous comedy, about (and starring) the Belfast rap trio of the similar identify, has landed an astonishing 17 nominations for the awards, together with very best movie, director, 3 of the six slots for lead actor, 3 of the six for supporting actress and one for Michael Fassbender within the supporting actor class.
“Small Issues Like Those,” the significantly quieter Irish drama fronted (and produced) via Cillian Murphy has 9 nominations, together with lead actor for Murphy, who gained the award final yr for “Oppenheimer.”
Having been co-produced via Irish corporate Adapted Movies, Ali Abbasi’s Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice” could also be within the combine, with 4 nominations.
At the TV facet, “Say Not anything,” Disney+’s seriously lauded miniseries about Northern Eire throughout the Troubles, leads the best way with 10 nominations, adopted via the second one season of “Dangerous Sisters,” with 8.
Different names within the operating come with Paul Mescal (“Gladiator 2”), Saoirse Ronan (“The Outrun”), Barry Keoghan (“Chicken”), Colin Farrell (“The Penguin”).
“The 2025 nominees shortlisted for Irish Academy Awards this yr is an improbable exhibit of ability and skill in entrance and in the back of the digicam,” stated Academy CEO, Áine Moriarty. “There’s completely certainly that Irish skill is among the most efficient on this planet, handing over such top requirements of performing, filmmaking, and storytelling. The Irish Academy is proud to exhibit this business’s nice paintings and to praise their achievements.”
The IFTA awards rite Award will happen on Feb. 14, 2025 on the Dublin Royal Conference Centre.
See the overall listing of nominees under:
FILM CATEGORIES
BEST FILM
“Kathleen Is Right here”
“King Frankie”
“Kneecap”
“Small Issues Like Those”
“Spilt Milk”
“The Apprentice”
DIRECTOR – FILM
Eva Birthistle – “Kathleen Is Right here”
John Crowley – “We Are living in Time”
Brian Durnin – “Spilt Milk”
Damian McCarthy – “Oddity”
Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor – “Baltimore”
Wealthy Peppiatt – “Kneecap”
SCRIPT – FILM
Eva Birthistle – “Kathleen Is Right here”
Cara Loftus – “Spilt Milk”
Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor – “Baltimore”
Wealthy Peppiatt – “Kneecap”
Stephen Shields – “Abigail”
Enda Walsh – “Small Issues Like Those”
LEAD ACTOR – FILM
Peter Coonan – “King Frankie”
Paul Mescal – “Gladiator II”
Cillian Murphy – “Small Issues Like Those”
Naoise Ó Caireallain – “Kneecap”
J.J. Ó Dochartaigh – “Kneecap”
Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh – “Kneecap”
LEAD ACTRESS – FILM
Carolyn Bracken – “Oddity”
Jessie Buckley – “Depraved Little Letters”
Hazel Doupe – “Kathleen Is Right here”
Saoirse Ronan – “The Outrun”
Eileen Walsh – “Small Issues Like Those”
Alisha Weir – “Abigail”
SUPPORTING ACTOR – FILM
Peter Coonan – “Kathleen Is Right here”
Michael Fassbender – “Kneecap”
Barry Keoghan – “Chicken”
Brían F. O’Byrne – “Conclave”
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor – “Baltimore”
Steve Wall – “Oddity”
SUPPORTING ACTRESS – FILM
Zara Devlin – “Small Issues Like Those”
Clare Dunne – “Kathleen Is Right here”
Fionnuala Flaherty – “Kneecap”
Simone Kirby – “Kneecap”
Saoirse Ronan – “Blitz”
Jessica Reynolds – “Kneecap”
DRAMA CATEGORIES
BEST DRAMA
Dangerous Sisters
Say Not anything
The Dry
Bodkin
Blue Lighting fixtures
Crá
DIRECTOR – DRAMA
Paddy Breathnach – “The Dry”
Brian Kirk – “The Day of the Jackal”
Michael Lennox – “Say Not anything”
Lisa Mulcahy – “Sanctuary”
Hannah Quinn – “The Boy That By no means Was once”
Dearbhla Walsh – “Dangerous Sisters”
SCRIPT – DRAMA
Baz Ashmawy – “Faithless”
Ronan Bennett – “The Day of the Jackal”
Nancy Harris – “The Dry”
Sharon Horgan – “Dangerous Sisters”
Adam Patterson, Declan Garden – “Blue Lighting fixtures”
Kirsten Sheridan, Joshua Zetumer – “Say Not anything”
LEAD ACTOR – DRAMA
Anthony Boyle – “Say Not anything”
Colin Farrell – “The Penguin”
Michael Fassbender – “The Company”
Ciarán Hinds – “The Dry”
Andrew Scott – “Ripley”
Aidan Turner – “Competitors”
LEAD ACTRESS – DRAMA
Elaine Cassidy – “Sanctuary”
Nicola Coughlan – “Bridgerton”
Siobhán Cullen – “Bodkin”
Roisin Gallagher- “The Dry”
Sharon Horgan – “Dangerous Sisters”
Lola Petticrew – “Say Not anything”
SUPPORTING ACTOR – DRAMA
Anthony Boyle – “Masters of the Air”
Liam Cunningham – “3 Frame Downside”
Michael Smiley – “Dangerous Sisters”
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor – “Say Not anything”
Chris Walley – “Bodkin”
David Wilmot – “Bodkin”
SUPPORTING ACTRESS – DRAMA
Siobhán Cullen – “The Dry”
Hazel Doupe – “Say Not anything”
Eve Hewson – “Dangerous Sisters”
Ruth Negga – “Presumed Blameless”
Fiona Shaw – “Dangerous Sisters”
Victoria Smurfit – “Competitors”
INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARD CATEGORIES
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
“Anora”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Section Two”
“The Brutalist”
“The Outrun”
“The Substance”
BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR
Adrien Brody – “The Brutalist”
Timothee Chalamet – “A Whole Unknown”
Kieran Culkin – “A Actual Ache”
Ralph Fiennes – “Conclave”
Sebastian Stan – “The Apprentice”
Denzel Washington – “Gladiator II”
BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS
Cynthia Erivo – “Depraved”
Angelina Jolie – “Maria”
Mikey Madison – “Anora”
Demi Moore – “The Substance”
Florence Pugh – “We Are living in Time”
Emily Watson – “Small Issues Like Those”
OTHER AWARD CATEGORIES
GEORGE MORRISON FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
“Face Down: The Disappearance of Thomas Niedermayer”
“Don’t Fail to remember to Take note”
“Blue Highway: The Edna O’Brien Tale”
“The Residences”
“Mrs Robinson”
“Brendan Gleeson’s Farewell to Hughes’s”
LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM
“Clodagh”
“Farmers!?”
“Room Taken”
“Turnaround”
“Two Moms”
“We Beg to Range”
“Spouse of the Long term”
“Wrecker”
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
“Dembaya”
“Each and every Different Weekend”
“Homebird”
“Nightpay”
CRAFT CATEGORIES
CASTING
“Baltimore” – Emma Gunnery
“Bodkin” – Louise Kiely
“Kneecap” – Carla Stronge
“Say Not anything” – Lucy Amos, Nina Gold
“Small Issues Like Those” – Maureen Hughes
CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Chicken” – Robbie Ryan
“Fréwaka” – Narayan Van Maele
“Kneecap” – Ryan Kernaghan
“Say Not anything” – Stephen Murphy
“The Penguin” – Darran Tiernan
COSTUME DESIGN
“Abigail” – Gwen Jeffares Hourie
“Area of the Dragon” – Caroline McCall
“Kneecap” – Zjena Glamocanin
“Spilt Milk” – Gwen Jeffares Hourie
“Vikings Valhalla” – Susan O’Connor-Cave
PRODUCTION DESIGN
“Abigail” – Susie Cullen
“Bodkin” – Paki Smith
“Kneecap” – Nicola Moroney
“The Vacationer” – Philip Murphy
“Vikings Valhalla” – Tom Conroy
HAIR & MAKE-UP
“Abigail” – Linda Gannon, Liz Byrne
“Kneecap” – Liz Boston
“Small Issues Like Those” – Lorraine Glynn, Lynn Johnston
“The Apprentice” – Sandra Kelly, Tom McInerney
“Vikings Valhalla” – Joe Whelan, Tom McInerney
SOUND
“Abigail” – Hugh Fox
“Blackshore” – John ‘Bob’ Brennan, Mark Henry, Fionan Higgins
“Kneecap” – Aza Hand, Brendan Rehill, Chris Woodcock
“Oddity” – Aza Hand, Hugo Parvery
“Small Issues Like Those” – Hugh Fox, Senjan Jansen
ORIGINAL MUSIC
“Fréwaka” – Die Hexen
“The Apprentice” – David Holmes
“The Dry” – Sarah Lynch
“The Magic Reindeer: Saving Santa’s Sleigh” – Eimear Noone, Craig Stuart Garfinkle
“The Tune Cycle” – Ray Harman
EDITING
“Dangerous Sisters” – Derek Holland
“Kathleen Is Right here” – Colin Campbell
“Kneecap” – Julian Ulrichs & Chris Gill
“Paddington in Peru” – Úna Ní Dhonghaíle
“Say Not anything” – Edel McDonnell
VFX
“3 Frame Downside” – Ed Bruce, Liam Neville
“Bodkin” – John Kennedy, Lisa Maher
“Sanctuary” – Dan Cullen
“Shögun” – Ed Bruce, Andrew Barry
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