IFTA's 2010

Elmo

FILM CATEGORIES

Film
Eamon - Seamus Byrne (Zanita Films)
The Eclipse - Robert Walpole, Rebecca O'Flanagan (Treasure Entertainment)
Ondine - Neil Jordan, James Flynn (Octagon Films)
The Secret of Kells - Paul Young (Cartoon Saloon)
Zonad - Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, John McDonnell (Element Pictures)

Director Film
John Carney, Kieran Carney - Zonad (Element Pictures)
Neil Jordan - Ondine (Octagon Films)
Conor McPherson - The Eclipse (Treasure Entertainment)
Jim Sheridan - Brothers (Lionsgate)

Script Film
John Carney, Kieran Carney - Zonad (Element Pictures)
Margaret Corkery - Eamon (Zanita Films)
Neil Jordan - Ondine (Octagon Films)
Billy Roche, Conor McPherson - The Eclipse (Treasure Entertainment)

Actor in a Lead Role - Film
Colin Farrell - Ondine (Octagon Films)
Darren Healy - Savage (SP Films)
Ciarán Hinds - The Eclipse (Treasure Entertainment)
Stephen Rea - Nothing Personal (Fastnet Films)

Actress in a Lead Role - Film
Janice Byrne - Zonad (Element Pictures)
Amy Kirwan - Eamon (Zanita Films)
Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones (Paramount)
Jade Yourell - Happy Ever Afters (Newgrange Pictures)

Actor in a Supporting Role - Film
Simon Delaney - Happy Ever Afters (Newgrange Pictures)
Michael Fassbender - Fish Tank (Artificial Eye)
Michael Gambon - Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince (Warner Bros)
Aidan Quinn - The Eclipse (Treasure Entertainment)

Actress in a Supporting Role - Film
Anne Marie Duff - Nowhere Boy
Dervla Kirwan - Ondine (Octagon Films)
Nora Jane Noone - Savage (SP Films)
Ger Ryan - Happy Ever Afters (Newgrange Pictures)

Feature Documentary
The Bass Player: A Song for Dad - Niall McKay (Media Factory)
Colony - Morgan Bushe, Macdara Kelleher (Fastnet Films)
His & Hers - Andrew Freedman (Venom Film)
The Yellow Bittern - The Life & Times of Liam Clancy - Alan Gilsenan (Crossing the Line Films)

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORIES

International Film
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Let the Right One In
UP

Pantene Best International Actress Award - People's Choice*
Marion Cotillard - Nine
Penélope Cruz - Broken Embraces
Anna Kendrick - Up In The Air
Meryl Streep - It's Complicated

International Actor
Sam Rockwell - Moon
Vincent Cassell - Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Robert Downey Jr. - Sherlock Holmes
Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones

*Nominees have been selected by the Irish Film & Television Academy Members, Winner will be decided via a public vote.

TELEVISION DRAMA CATEGORIES

Single Drama / Drama Serial
Belonging to Laura - Martina Niland, David Collins (Accomplice Television)
Best: His Mother's Son - Colin Barr (BBC NI)
Father & Son - Michael Casey (Green Park Films)
Five Minutes of Heaven - Eoin O'Callaghan (Big Fish Films)
Rásaí na Gaillimhe - (Great Western Films)

Drama Series / Soap
The Clinic - Mary Callery (Parallel Films)
Fair City - Brigie De Courcy (RTÉ)
Pure Mule - The Last Weekend - David Collins & Peter Norris (Accomplice Television)
Ros na Rún - (Eo Teilifís / Tyrone Productions)
The Tudors - Morgan O'Sullivan (World 2000 Entertainment)

Director Television
Ciaran Donnelly - The Tudors (World 2000 Entertainment)
Thaddeus O'Sullivan - Churchill: Into the Storm (Scott Free Films / Rainmark Films)
Robert Quinn - Rásaí na Gaillimhe (Great Western Films)
Declan Recks - Pure Mule - The Last Weekend (Accomplice Television)#

Script Television
Frank Deasy - Father & Son (Green Park Films)
Frank McGuinness - A Short Stay in Switzerland (BBC)
Eugene O'Brien - Pure Mule - The Last Weekend (Accomplice Television)
James Phelan - Rásaí na Gaillimhe (Great Western Films)

Actor in a Lead Role - Television
Gabriel Byrne - In Treatment (TV3)
Brendan Gleeson - Churchill: Into the Storm (Scott Free Films, Rainmark Films)
Liam Neeson - Five Minutes of Heaven (Big Fish Films)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers - The Tudors (World 2000 Entertainment)

Actress in a Lead Role - Television
Ruth Bradley - Rásaí na Gaillimhe (Great Western Films)
Elaine Cassidy - Harpers Island (Junction Films)
Michelle Fairley - Best: His Mother's Son (BBC NI)
Charlene McKenna - Pure Mule - The Last Weekend (Accomplice Television)

Actor in a Supporting Role - Television
Declan Conlon - Fair City (RTÉ)
Diarmuid Noyes - Pure Mule - The Last Weekend (Accomplice Television)
Stephen Rea - Father & Son (Octagon Films)
Owen Roe - Val Falvey, T.D. (Grand Pictures)

Actress in a Supporting Role - Television
Sarah Bolger - The Tudors (World 2000 Entertainment)
Dawn Bradfield - Pure Mule - The Last Weekend (Accomplice Television)
Amy Huberman - The Clinic (Parallel Film Productions for RTÉ)
Tatianna Uliankina - Belonging to Laura (Accomplice Television)

CRAFT / TECHNICAL CATEGORIES

Costume Design
Joan Bergin - The Tudors (World 2000 Entertainment)
Consolata Boyle - Chéri (Pathé)
Alison Byrne - Cracks (Optimum Releasing)
Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh - Ondine (Octagon Films)

Director of Photography
Tom Comerford - Savage (SP Films)
Suzie Lavelle - One Hundred Mornings (Blinder Films)
Ivan McCullough - The Eclipse (Treasure Entertainment)
Ruairí O'Brien - Five Minutes of Heaven (Big Fish Films)

Editing
Mairead McIvor - Savage (SP Films)
Emer Reynolds - The Eclipse (Treasure Entertainment)
Isobel Stephenson - Pure Mule - The Last Weekend (Accomplice Television)
Ken Wardrop - His & Hers (Venom Film)

Make Up & Hair (Sponsored by MAC)
Five Minutes of Heaven - Pamela Smyth (Big Fish Films)
The Take - Lorraine Glynn, Morna Ferguson (Company Pictures)
The Tudors - Sharon Doyle, Dee Corcoran (World 2000 Entertainment)
Zonad - Eileen Buggy, Barbara Conway (Element Pictures)

Original Score
Brian Byrne - Zonad (Element Pictures)
Neil Hannon - Wide Open Spaces (Grand Pictures)
The Henry Girls - A Shine Of Rainbows (Sepia Films)
Stephen McKeon - Savage (SP Films)

Production Design
Tom Conroy - The Tudors (World 2000 Entertainment)
Susie Cullen - The Take (Company Pictures)
Ashleigh Jeffers - Occupation (Kudos Film and Television)
Anna Rackard - Ondine (Octagon Films)

Sound
The Eclipse - Ronan Hill, Jon Stevenson, John Fitzgerald (Treasure Entertainment)
Five Minutes of Heaven - Ronan Hill, Jon Stevenson, John Fitzgerald (Big Fish Films)
Ondine - Brendan Deasy, Tom Johnson, Sarah Gaines (Octagon Films)
Savage - Patrick Hanlon, John Fitzgerald, Fiadhnait McCann (SP Films)

TELEVISION CATEGORIES

Children's / Youth Programme
Aisling's Diary - Triona Campbell (CR Entertainment)
Ballybraddan - Gerard O'Rourke (Monster Animation)
On The Block - Tory Island - Hilary O'Donovan (Macalla Teo)
Seacht - Louise McCreesh & Colin O'Donnell (Stirling Film and Television)

Current Affairs
The Frontline - David Nally (RTÉ)
Paul Williams Investigates: The Battle for the Gasfield - Paul Williams (Praxis Pictures)
Prime Time Investigates: Travellers - On the Edge - David Doran (RTÉ)
Spotlight: Stem Cell Tourists - Darragh Macintyre (BBC NI)

Documentary Series
Blood of the Irish - Brian Hayes (Crossing the Line Films)
Bóthar go dtí an White House - Dathai Keane (Abú Media)
I See A Darkness - Alan Gilsenan (Yellow Asylum Films)
Teorainn (Border) - Fiona Keane (DoubleBand Films)

Single Documentary
Abuse of Trust: Sins of the Fathers - Jerome Hughes
The Forgotten Irish - Ronan O Muirthile (Animo TV)
The House - Tanya Doyle (Marmalade Films)
Seamus Heaney: Out Of The Marvellous - Charlie McCarthy (Icebox Films)

Entertainment Programme
The All Ireland Talent Show - Noeleen Golding (Tyrone Productions)
The Apprentice - (Screentime ShinAwil)
The Savage Eye - (Blinder Films)
Xposé - The Stephen Gately Tribute - Debbie O'Donnell (TV3)

News Programme
BBC Newsline - Angelina Fusco (BBC NI)
City Channel News - Jennifer O'Leary (City Channel)
TV3 News at 5.30 - Conor Tiernan (TV3)

Factual Programme
Celebrity Bainisteoir - Darren Smith (Kite Entertainment)
Killers - O'Reilly - Sarah Share (Coco Television)
Nightly News with Vincent Browne - Tom Fabozzi (TV3)
Welcome to my World - Trisha Canning (Loosehorse)

Sports
GAA Beo - (Nemeton TV)
Grand Slam Journey - Dave Berry (RTÉ)
Pride of The Parish - Cormac Hargaden (Loosehorse)
Shay Elliot - Cycle of Betrayal - Martin Dwan (Zampano Productions)

OTHERS

Special Irish Language Award
CSÍ - Kevin Cummins (RTÉ)
Rásaí na Gaillimhe - (Great Western Films)
Ros na Rún - (Eo Teilifís / Tyrone Productions)
Seacht - Louise McCreesh & Colin O'Donnell (Stirling Film and Television)

Animation
Hasan Everywhere - Andrew Kavanagh (Kavaleer Productions)
The Polish Language - Alice Lyons
The Secret of Kells - Tomm Moore (Cartoon Saloon)
Trolley Boy - Teemu Auersalo (Still Films)

Short Film
If I Should Fall Behind - Morgan Bushe (Fastnet Films)
Moore Street Masala - David O'Sullivan (Fish Films)
Runners - Rob Burke, Ronan Burke - (Black Sheep Productions)
Sunshower - Liam Gavin (Samson Films)

Elmo

Some of these nominations are all over the place. Best Factual Celebrity Bainisteoir? Seacht in Youth/Children's????

Allot of nods to TV3. While I accept that the Apprentice is good, I would question all but one of their nominations and that one is The Forgotten Irish. They actually had a number of better shows than the ones suggested.

Who comes up with these nomination lists? City Channel News??????

Meeja Ireland

Elmo wrote: »

Some of these nominations are all over the place. Best Factual Celebrity Bainisteoir? Seacht in Youth/Children's????

Allot of nods to TV3. While I accept that the Apprentice is good, I would question all but one of their nominations and that one is The Forgotten Irish.

Who comes up with these nomination lists?

I think the various companies put forward their choices. These go onto a longlist, which is voted on by the members of IFTA. The top four from each category then go through to the shortlist.

There are a couple of categories with five on the shortlist, which I would guess is because of a tie in the longlist voting.

I agree with you about The Forgotten Irish. It was a wonderful programme. I'm also pleased to see Ballybraddan on the childrens' shortlist. It didn't make much of a splash, but it was consistently funny and real. One of the best things RTE did last year.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Nice to see Rasai na Gaillimhe got nominated a couple of times... It's an excellent show...

Elmo

CaptainNegative wrote: »

Nice to see Rasai na Gaillimhe got nominated a couple of times... It's an excellent show...

Owen Roe - Val Falvey, T.D. (Grand Pictures)

And he should be nominated for Rasai Na Gaillimhe.

JonathanAnon

Elmo wrote: »

Owen Roe - Val Falvey, T.D. (Grand Pictures)

best actor in the role of saviour for an embarrassingly bad show.

he is very good to be fair in a crap show.

Elmo

JonathanAnon wrote: »

best actor in the role of saviour for an embarrassingly bad show.

he is very good to be fair in a crap show.

But he should be nominated in a better role in a better show.

hick

first embarrassing snub of the ifta's award goes to .....Merryl Streep!

Elmo

FILM CATEGORIES
Best Film
The Eclipse - Robert Walpole, Rebecca O'Flanagan (Treasure Entertainment)

Director Film
Jim Sheridan - Brothers (Lionsgate)

Script Film
Billy Roche, Conor McPherson - The Eclipse (Treasure Entertainment)

Actor in a Lead Role - Film
Colin Farrell - Ondine (Octagon Films)

Actress in a Lead Role - Film
Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones (Paramount)

Actor in a Supporting Role - Film
Aidan Quinn - The Eclipse (Treasure Entertainment)

Actress in a Supporting Role - Film
Dervla Kirwan - Ondine (Octagon Films)

Feature Documentary
His & Hers - Andrew Freedman (Venom Film)

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORIES
Best International Film
The Hurt Locker

Pantene Best International Actress Award - People's Choice *
Meryl Streep - It's Complicated

Best International Actor *
Robert Downey Jr. - Sherlock Holmes

TELEVISION DRAMA CATEGORIES
Single Drama / Drama Serial
Five Minutes of Heaven - Eoin O'Callaghan (Big Fish Films/Ruby Films in assoc. with Element Pictures Ltd)

Drama Series / Soap
The Clinic - Mary Callery (Parallel Films)

Director Television
Thaddeus O'Sullivan - Into the Storm (Scott Free Films / Rainmark Films)

Script Television
Frank Deasy - Father & Son (Octagon Films / Left Bank Pictures)

Actor in a Lead Role - Television
Brendan Gleeson - Into the Storm (Scott Free Films, Rainmark Films)

Actress in a Lead Role - Television
Elaine Cassidy - Harper's Island (CBS Paramount Network TV & Junction Entertainment)

Actor in a Supporting Role - Television
Stephen Rea - Father & Son (Octagon Films / Left Bank Pictures)

Actress in a Supporting Role - Television
Sarah Bolger - The Tudors (World 2000 Entertainment)

CRAFT / TECHNICAL CATEGORIES
Costume Design
Consolata Boyle - Chéri (Pathé)

Editing
Mairead McIvor - Savage (SP Films)

Make Up & Hair (Sponsored by MAC)
The Take - Lorraine Glynn, Morna Ferguson (Company Pictures)

Original Score
Brian Byrne - Zonad (Element Pictures)

Production Design
Anna Rackard - Ondine (Octagon Films)

Sound
Ondine - Brendan Deasy, Tom Johnson, Sarah Gaines (Octagon Films)

TELEVISION CATEGORIES
Children's / Youth Programme
On The Block - Tory Island - Hilary O'Donovan (Macalla Teo)

Current Affairs
The Frontline - David Nally (RTÉ)

Documentary Series
Blood of the Irish - Brian Hayes (Crossing the Line Films)

Single Documentary
Seamus Heaney: Out Of The Marvellous - Charlie McCarthy (Icebox Films)

Entertainment Programme
The Apprentice - Larry Bass (Screentime ShinAwil)

News Programme
TV3 News at 5.30 - Conor Tiernan (TV3)

Factual Programme
Nightly News with Vincent Browne - Tom Fabozzi (TV3)

Sports
Grand Slam Journey - Dave Berry (RTÉ)

OTHERS
Special Irish Language Award
Rásaí na Gaillimhe - Aoife Fagan, Tricia Perrot, Eoin Holmes (Great Western Films)

Animation
The Secret of Kells - Tomm Moore (Cartoon Saloon)

Short Film
Runners - Rob Burke, Ronan Burke - (Black Sheep Productions)

Rising Star Award, sponsored by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board
Tomm Moore - Director/Producer

Lifetime Achievement Award
John Boorman

itsbillythehick

I can safely attest that Zonad was robbed blind at this awards show. The film is an instant classic. I know it looks dumb as a post in the ads, but it's a really smart comedy, with a surprisingly filthy mind (the ads neglect to mention that Zonad shags every female in the village). It's gonna get a lot of notices when it comes out on dvd and will go straight in among the irish film canon once people see it on tv (i don't think many are going to fork out to see it in cinema)

The Eclipse on the other hand was slow, maudlin and boring.

And another thing: The Eclipse premiered on TV, Five Minutes of Heavan premiered in theatres. How the fridge did weren't they nominated in the opposite categories? it makes no sense!

Elmo

itsbillythehick wrote: »

I can safely attest that Zonad was robbed blind at this awards show. The film is an instant classic. I know it looks dumb as a post in the ads, but it's a really smart comedy, with a surprisingly filthy mind (the ads neglect to mention that Zonad shags every female in the village). It's gonna get a lot of notices when it comes out on dvd and will go straight in among the irish film canon once people see it on tv (i don't think many are going to fork out to see it in cinema)

The Eclipse on the other hand was slow, maudlin and boring.

And another thing: The Eclipse premiered on TV, Five Minutes of Heavan premiered in theatres. How the fridge did weren't they nominated in the opposite categories? it makes no sense!

First good review of Zonad that I have read.

Also agree that the categories were all over the place.

itsbillythehick

Elmo wrote: »

First good review of Zonad that I have read.

here's a few more.

http://www.movies.ie/features/Zonad
http://entertainment.ie/movie_reviews/Zonad/6897.htm
http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2010/02/01/Review-of-ZONAD
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940695.html?categoryid=31&cs=1

I'm realising that if i weren't me i might think I was working for Zonad's marketing division. I'm not, I'm just a big fan of the film. It's getting compared to Father Ted a lot, and it's a justified comparison.

Elmo

itsbillythehick wrote: »

I'm realising that if i weren't me i might think I was working for Zonad's marketing division. I'm not, I'm just a big fan of the film. It's getting compared to Father Ted a lot, and it's a justified comparison.

Sunday Business Posts reviewer compared it to Fr. Ted

If there is a joke here, I didn’t get it, no matter how many times it was repeated. There’s nothing wrong with poking fun at ourselves if the jabs are accurate. The model to follow is the one established by Father Ted, which used the mechanics of the sitcom farce to say something about who the Irish are, who we were and who we might become if we’re not careful. There is nothing like that in Zonad because there is nothing at all in it.

But I will go have a look.

itsbillythehick

the fact that it's set in ireland barely matters, it's actually done in the style of a fifties communist-paranoia-alien-movie. the only difference is they dink guiness and and occasionally say Feck. Other than that it could be set in Provence.

Elmo

itsbillythehick wrote: »

the fact that it's set in ireland barely matters, it's actually done in the style of a fifties communist-paranoia-alien-movie. the only difference is they dink guiness and and occasionally say Feck. Other than that it could be set in Provence.

So do you think that Fr. Ted could be recreated in America?

itsbillythehick

simply for the style of comedy I'd say not. I mean people debate all the time whether or not RTE could have made the show. The cast and production team were almost uniformly irish, but it was made for channel 4. Logic says that if the same team had worked for RTE it'd be the same show, but RTE's terrible track record with sitcoms says otherwise. Could Americans have written the show, parts of it. They would never in a million years have come up with the Craggy Island Chinatown, or Eoin MacLove, or the lovely girls contest, or, being honest, Father Jack. The parts that ring truest could not have been written by someone not intimately familiar with Ireland.

What I meant was that the comedy does not rely on Irishness, it's just probably just slightly funnier for the sake of it. It does go some way to play like an American movie from the 50s, everyone dresses in the style, the characters include a ridiculously German scientist, a ridiculously American teenager (played by the ridiculously mid-twenites Rory Keenan) and a ridiculously English butler. Since the style is mostly pastiche of America written in a very unAmerican style, yes, it could have been easily tailored to be set in France or Germany or Sweden.

The only character that I think would not work if he hadn't been Irish is Don Wycherley's Garda. He goes a little mad with power while keeping a bizarre "cheers, boss" friendliness.

Thing about all these people who hate all Irish movies is that they probably wouldn't hate them if they were made with familiar American talent. If Zach Galifianakis or Seth Rogen or Jack Black were cast as Zonad people would be far more forgiving (and if i'm being honest, they'd also probably be far funnier than Simon Delany, who doesn't quite do justice to the material). It's not a perfect movie, but people need to give it the same chance they'd give The Hangover or The 40-Year-Old Virgin.

Billy86

itsbillythehick wrote: »

And another thing: The Eclipse premiered on TV, Five Minutes of Heavan premiered in theatres. How the fridge did weren't they nominated in the opposite categories? it makes no sense!

It has to do with a financing agreement RTE have with soem films - they give extra cash, but get to show a premiere on TV shortly before the film goes to theatres. Did the same for Once, I think.

I couldn't stand Zonad to be honest, though Delaney to be fair did manage to carry the film quite well more or less on his own for the first half of it or so; I will have to disagree with the above poster on that. It has been getting some rave reviews in America I hear, but you would have to wonder how much of that has to do with their love-in of John Carney after Once was such a hit. Also might have to do with the fact that it is set in what is far more a rural American town of the 1950s, and not an Irish one.

I can't make much sense of the American-type setting, either. If they did it to be confusing or offbeat comical, it didn't work. But there is also the chance that it could have been a critique on Ireland being too 'Americanised' and trying to take certain aspects of The Butcher Boy (nuclear bomb, communists, etc) further to show this (e.g. along the lines of 'we have forgotten where we came from'). Although if that was the intention, I again think it fell short.