5th Irish Film & Television Awards

The 5th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards took place on 17 February 2008 at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, honouring Irish film and television released in 2007.[1][2][3]

Film

Film

  • Garage
    • Becoming Jane
    • Closing the Ring
    • Kings
    • Shrooms

International Film

Director Film

  • Lenny Abrahamson – Garage
    • Paddy Breathnach – Shrooms
    • Tom Collins – Kings
    • John Crowley – Boy A
    • Robert Quinn – Cré na Cille

Script Film

  • Mark O'Halloran – Garage
    • Tom Collins – Kings
    • Mark O'Rowe – Boy A
    • Stuart Townsend – Battle in Seattle

Actor in a Lead Role Film

  • Pat Shortt – Garage
    • Gabriel Byrne – Jindabyne
    • Colm Meaney – Kings
    • Cillian Murphy – Sunshine
    • Hugh O'Conor – Speed Dating

Actor in a Supporting Role Film

Actress in a Supporting Role Film

International Actor

Television

Single Drama / Drama Serial

  • The Running Mate
    • Damage
    • My Boy Jack
    • Prosperity

Drama Series / Soap

Director Television

Script Television

  • Mark O'Halloran – Prosperity
    • Marcus Fleming – The Running Mate
    • Daniel O'Hara – Paddy C.Courtney – Paddywhackery
    • Aisling Walsh – Damage

Actor in a Lead Role Television

Actor in a Supporting Role Television

Actress in a Lead Role Film/Television

Actress in a Supporting Role Television

Craft

Costume Design

Director of Photography

Editing

  • Dermot Diskin – Kings
    • Stephen O'Connell – Damage
    • Isobel Stephenson – Garage
    • Gareth Young – The Running Mate

Hair & Makeup

  • Jennifer Hegarty, Dee Corcoran – The Tudors
    • Kings – Muriel Bell, Pamela Smyth
    • My Boy Jack – Morna Ferguson, Lorraine Glynn
    • Prosperity – Tom McInerney, Sandra Kelly

Original Score

Production Design

Sound

  • Ken Galvin, Ronan Hill, Dominic Weaver – Kings
    • Becoming Jane – Nick Adams, Tom Johnson, Mervyn Moore
    • Garage – Niall Brady, John Fitzgerald, Robert Flanagan
    • My Boy Jack – Brendan Deasy, Ken Galvin, Nikki Moss

Other television

Children's / Youth Programme

Current Affairs Programme

  • Prime Time Investigates – Not Seen, Not Heard
    • Election 2007 – Results Coverage
    • Time Investigates – Buyer Beware
    • Prime Time Investigates – Not Seen, Not Heard
    • Spotlight: The Pitbull Sting

Documentary Series

  • The Hospice
    • Imeacht Na N'Iarlaí /Flight of The Earls
    • Mobs Mheirceá
    • Scannal
    • Surgeons

Single Documentary

  • At Home with the Clearys
    • Arts Lives: The Undertaking
    • Bloody Sunday – A Derry Diary
    • Get Collins
    • Ireland's Nazis
    • Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

Entertainment

Factual Entertainment

  • Diarmuid's Pony Kids
    • Families in Trouble
    • Hector – Mo Rogha San Oz
    • No Experience Required

News Programme

Sport

  • Tall, Dark & Ó hAilpín

Other awards

Special Irish Language Award

  • Kings
    • Aifric
    • Cré na Cille
    • Paddywhackery

Irish Film Board Rising Star 2008

Animation

Short Film

  • New Boy
    • Deep Breaths
    • Hesitation
    • No Regrets
    • The Wednesdays

Pantene People's Choice Award for Best International Actress

Sony Bravia TV Personality of the Year

Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema

References

  1. ^ "Rhys Myers drama dominates IFTAs". Irish Examiner. 17 February 2008.
  2. ^ "Russo for the IFTAs - Movie News • Movies.ie - Irish Cinema Site". 11 February 2008.
  3. ^ "Kings, Garage rule IFTAs". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema.
  4. ^ "Dublin prepares for IFTA's". Breaking News. 17 February 2008.
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