Cillian Murphy, ‘Kin’ Season 2 Among Irish Film & Television Awards Winners

Cillian Murphy, Kin season two and Paul Mescal were among the winners of the Irish Film & Television Awards 2024, which were handed out during a ceremony in Dublin on Saturday.

Lies We Tell, about an orphaned teenage heiress in 19th-century Ireland who is forced to embrace the dark legacy of her family, led the nominations for the movie portion of the awards with 13 and went home with three. It was followed by That They May Face the Rising Sun, which took home the best film prize, and Double Blind, with 11 each. Rising Sun is an adaptation of John McGahern’s novel about passion, war and migration, while Double Blind is a horror film about an experimental drug trial that goes wrong.

Among the lead acting nominees were such big names as Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Andrew Scott, Pierce Brosnan, Saoirse Ronan, Eve Hewson and Jessie Buckley. Murphy took home the best actor award for his portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer, which also won him the Oscar.

The best supporting film actor category, meanwhile, included Kenneth Branagh and Mescal, who took home the award for his role in All of Us Strangers. In the best international acting categories, the likes of Ryan Gosling, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bradley Cooper, Margot Robbie, Lily Gladstone and Emma Stone competed for an IFTA. Stone won best actress in an international film for Poor Things, while Paul Giamatti received the best actor award for The Holdovers.

On the TV side, crime series Kin led the drama nominations with 11 and won almost every category it received nods for. Oscar-nominated Irish actor Stephen Rea (The Crying Game, Michael Collins, Greta) was honored with the Irish Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement for his “outstanding contribution to the Irish and international screen industry.” Obituary star Siobhán Cullen received the rising star award.

The awards ceremony took place at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre, hosted by Baz Ashmawy, one of Ireland’s most popular TV personalities.

Below is the full list of winners, highlighted in bold, for the 21st annual IFTAs.

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
Double Blind – Darach McGarrigle
Flora and Son – John Carney
Lies We Tell – Elisabeth Gooch (WINNER)
LOLA – Andrew Legge
That They May Face The Rising Sun – Éamon Little
Verdigris – Patricia Kelly

LEAD ACTOR – FILM
Andrew Scott – All Of Us Strangers
David Wilmot – Lies We Tell
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Barry Keoghan – Saltburn
Barry Ward – That They May Face The Rising Sun
Pierce Brosnan – The Last Rifleman

LEAD ACTRESS – FILM
Jessie Buckley – Fingernails
Eve Hewson – Flora and Son
Saoirse Ronan – Foe
Agnes O’Casey – Lies We Tell (WINNER)
Bríd Brennan – My Sailor, My Love
Geraldine McAlinden – Verdigris

SUPPORTING ACTOR – FILM
Paul Mescal – All Of Us Strangers (WINNER)
Diarmuid Noyes – Double Blind
Chris Walley – Lies We Tell
Kenneth Branagh – Oppenheimer
Liam Carney – Sunlight
Lalor Roddy – That They May Face The Rising Sun

SUPPORTING ACTRESS – FILM
Bronagh Gallagher – Dance First
Catherine Walker – My Sailor, My Love
Alison Oliver – Saltburn (WINNER)
Ruth McCabe – That They May Face The Rising Sun
Agnes O’Casey – The Miracle Club
Maya O’Shea – Verdigris

DRAMA CATEGORIES
BEST DRAMA
Blue Lights
Hidden Assets
Kin (WINNER)
Northern Lights
Obituary
The Woman in the Wall

DIRECTOR – DRAMA
Happy Valley – Fergus O’Brien
Kin – Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor
Kin – Kate Dolan (WINNER)
Northern Lights – Tom Hall
Obituary – John Hayes
The Gone – Hannah Quinn

SCRIPT – DRAMA
Blue Lights – Declan Lawn & Adam Patterson
Hidden Assets – Peter McKenna
Kin – Peter McKenna (WINNER)
Northern Lights – Stephen Jones
Obituary – Ray Lawlor
The Woman in the Wall – Joe Murtagh

LEAD ACTOR – DRAMA
Martin McCann – Blue Lights
Francis Magee – Kin
Sam Keeley – Kin
Michael Smiley – Obituary
Éanna Hardwicke – The Sixth Commandment (WINNER)
Daryl McCormack – The Woman in the Wall

LEAD ACTRESS – DRAMA
Sharon Horgan – Best Interests
Clare Dunne – Kin (WINNER)
Niamh Algar – Malpractice
Elva Trill – Northern Lights
Siobhán Cullen – Obituary
Caitriona Balfe – Outlander

SUPPORTING ACTOR – DRAMA
Richard Dormer – Blue Lights (WINNER)
Jared Harris – Foundation
Aaron Monaghan – Hidden Assets
Aidan Gillen – Kin
Emmett J. Scanlan – Kin
Simon Delaney – The Woman in the Wall

SUPPORTING ACTRESS – DRAMA
Niamh Algar – Culprits
Cathy Belton – Hidden Assets
Maria Doyle Kennedy – Kin (WINNER)
Danielle Galligan – Obituary
Fionnula Flanagan – Sisters
Hilda Fay – The Woman in the Wall

INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARD CATEGORIES
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
All Of Us Strangers
Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Past Lives
Poor Things
Saltburn
The Holdovers

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR
Ryan Gosling – Barbie
Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things
Willem Dafoe – Poor Things
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers (WINNER)

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS
Margot Robbie – Barbie
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Carey Mulligan – Maestro
Annette Bening – Nyad
Greta Lee – Past Lives
Emma Stone – Poor Things (WINNER)

GEORGE MORRISON FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
In The Shadow of Beirut
Joan Baez: I Am A Noise
Notes from Sheepland
Stolen
The Days of Trees (WINNER)
The Deepest Breath

LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM
Calf (WINNER)
Mud Queen
Sound & Colour
The Golden West
Two for the Road
Waiting Day

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Nana Dee
The Small Makings of a Storm
The Presenter
Wind & The Shadow (WINNER)

CRAFT CATEGORIES
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Double Blind – Narayan Van Maele
Kin – JJ Rolfe
Lies We Tell – Eleanor Bowman
Poor Things – Robbie Ryan (WINNER)
That They May Face The Rising Sun – Richard Kendrick

COSTUME DESIGN
Double Blind – Gwen Jeffares Hourie
Lies We Tell – Joanne O’Brien
LOLA – Lara Campbell (WINNER)
That They May Face The Rising Sun – Louise Stanton
The Pope’s Exorcist – Lorna Marie Mugan

PRODUCTION DESIGN
A Haunting in Venice – John Paul Kelly (WINNER)
Double Blind – Steve Kingston
Lies We Tell – Caroline Hill
LOLA – Ferdia Murphy
That They May Face The Rising Sun – Padraig O’Neill

HAIR & MAKE-UP
Double Blind – Jennia Readman, Madonna Bambino
Flora and Son – Lyndsey Herron, Barbara Conway
Lies We Tell – Helen O’Connor, Aitana Silvana
That They May Face The Rising Sun – Sandra Dunne, Edwina Kelly
The Pope’s Exorcist – Orla Carroll, Lynn Johnston (WINNER)

SOUND
Barbie – Nina Rice (WINNER)
Double Blind – Brendan Rehill, Rob Moore, Peter Blayney
Evil Dead Rise – Garret Farrell, Peter Albrechtsen, Myk Farmer
Lies We Tell – Aza Hand, Damien Lynch, Peter Nicell
Saltburn – Nina Rice, Nina Hartstone, Adam Scrivener

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Double Blind – Die Hexen
Flora and Son – Gary Clark, John Carney
Lies We Tell – Aza Hand
LOLA – Neil Hannon (WINNER)
That They May Face The Rising Sun – Irene Buckley, Linda Buckley

EDITING
Double Blind – Colin Campbell
Lies We Tell – Weronika Kaminska
LOLA – Colin Campbell
Still: A Michael J Fox Movie – Michael Harte (WINNER)
The Last Rifleman – John Walters

VFX
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves – Kev Cahill, Diana Giogiutti (WINNER)
Evil Dead Rise – Liam Neville, Declan Boyle
Paradise – Niall McEvoy, Liam Neville
The Nevers – Ed Bruce, Andrew Barry