The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) has announced the 2024 IFTA Nominations for the Irish Academy Awards across 28 categories in Film & Drama.
Across all film categories including craft and technical, Lies We Tell lead with 13 nominations, followed by That They May Face The Rising Sun and Double Blind with 11 nominations each, then LOLA with 7 nominations, Flora and Son received 6 nominations and Verdigris received nominations in 5 categories.
Irish actors Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers), Barry Keoghan (Saltburn) and Oscar winner Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) picked up nominations for Lead Actor while Paul Mescal (All of Us Strangers) and Kenneth Branagh landed nods in Supporting Actor (Oppenheimer). Jesse Buckley (Fingernails) and Saoirse Ronan (Foe) were among the Lead Actress nominees with Saltburn’s Alison Oliver in Supporting Actress among that film’s four mentions.
Multiple Oscar winner Poor Things led the International film award categories with five, including Academy Award winner Emma Stone, Academy Award nominee Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe. All of Us Strangers, Barbie and Best Picture Oscar winner Oppenheimer earned three nominations each. Oscar nominees Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers), Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon), Ryan Gosling (Barbie), Annette Bening (Nyad), Bradley Cooper (Maestro) and Carey Mulligan (Maestro) grabbed nominations as did Greta Lee (Past Lives), Margot Robbie (Barbie) and Leonardo DiCaprio (Killers of the Flower Moon).
Last week, IFTA announced that legendary actorStephen Rea (Academy Award nominee for 1992’s The Crying Game) will be presented with the Irish Academy Award for his Lifetime Achievement, and for his outstanding contribution to the Irish and international screen industry.
Winners will be announced at the 21st Anniversary IFTA Awards Ceremony taking place on Saturday, April 20 at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre. The Awards will be hosted for the first time by Emmy-winning broadcaster Baz Ashmawy.
Here is the complete list of nominations.
Film Categories
Best Film
Double Blind
Flora and Son
Lies We Tell
LOLA
That They May Face The Rising Sun
Verdigris
Director – Film
Double Blind – Ian Hunt-Duffy
Flora and Son – John Carney
Lies We Tell – Lisa Mulcahy
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
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
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
Bríd Brennan – My Sailor, My Love
Geraldine McAlinden – Verdigris
Supporting Actor – Film
Paul Mescal – All Of Us Strangers
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
Ruth McCabe – That They May Face The Rising Sun
Agnes O’Casey – The Miracle Club
Maya O’Shea – Verdigris
International Film Award Categories
Best International Film
All Of Us Strangers
Oppenheimer
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
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
Other Award Categories
George Morrison Feature Documentary
In The Shadow of Beirut
Joan Baez: I Am A Noise
Notes from Sheepland
Stolen
The Days of Trees
The Deepest Breath
Live-action Short Film
Calf
Mud Queen
Sound & Colour
The Golden West
Two for the Road
Waiting Day
Animation Short Film
Nana Dee
The Small Makings of a Storm
The Presenter
Wind & The Shadow
Craft Categories
Cinematography
Double Blind – Narayan Van Maele
Kin – JJ Rolfe
Lies We Tell – Eleanor Bowman
Poor Things – Robbie Ryan
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
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
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
Sound
Barbie – Nina Rice
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
That They May Face The Rising Sun – Irene Buckley, Linda Buckley
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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.