The 17th Irish Film & Television Academy Awards took place in July 2021. The ceremony honoured Irish films and television drama released between 1 February 2020 and 31 May 2021.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8]
The nominees were announced on 15 June 2021. Normal People [ 9] Normal People won nine prizes.[ 10] [ 11] [ 12]
Film
Best film
Offices of Cartoon Saloon , creators of Best Film winner Wolfwalkers
Director
Script
Cathy Brady – Wildfire
Clare Dunne and Malcolm Campbell – Herself (winner) David Freyne – Dating Amber
Paddy Slattery – Broken Law
Will Collins – Wolfwalkers
Actress in a leading role
Nika McGuigan , Best Actress IFTA winner
Actor in a leading role
Gabriel Byrne , Best Actor IFTA winner
Actress in a supporting role
Sharon Horgan , Best Supporting Actress IFTA winner
Actor in a supporting role
George Morrison Feature Documentary
Breaking Out (winner) Finding Jack Charlton Henry Glassie: Field Work Phil Lynott: Songs for While I'm Away The 8th Tomorrow is Saturday [ 13]
Five Letters to the Stranger Who Will Dissect My Brain Flicker Kathleen Was Here My Other Suit Is Human Rough (winner) The Invisible Boy
Animated short
Gunter Falls in Love Her Song (winner) The Dead Hands of Dublin The Voyage Zog and the Flying Doctors
Rising Star Award
Television drama
Drama
Director
Script
Actress in a leading role
Dervla Kirwan , who won an IFTA for Best Actress (TV Drama)
Actor in a leading role
Paul Mescal , who won an IFTA for Best Actor (TV Drama)
Actress in a supporting role
Actor in a supporting role
Craft
Score
Editing
Production Design
John Leslie – Son
Lucy van Lonkhuyzen – Normal People (winner) Philip Murphy – Vivarium
Ray Ball – Sea Fever
Tamara Conboy – Herself
Cinematography
Cathal Watters – Smother
Ciaran Tanham – Dead Still
James Mather – Here are the Young Men
Kate McCullough – Normal People (winner) Suzie Lavelle – Normal People
Costume
Aisling Wallace Byrne – Here are the Young Men
Joan O'Clery – Dating Amber
Leonie Prendergast – Gretel & Hansel (winner) Lorna Marie Mugan – Normal People
Triona Lillis – Smother
Jennie Readman and Niamh O'Loan – Vivarium
Linda Gannon Foster and Jennifer Hegarty – Dead Still
Linda Gannon Foster and Liz Byrne – Gretel & Hansel (winner) Sandra Kelly and Sharon Doyle – Normal People
Siobhan Harper-Ryan – I Hate Suzie
Sound Design
Aza Hand and Patrick Drummond – Son
Hugh Fox, Fionán Higgins & Mark Henry – Smother
Kieran Horgan & Brendan Rehill – Phil Lynott: Songs for While I'm Away
Patrick Drummond, Aza Hand, Katie O'Mahony & Adrian Conway – Here are the Young Men
Steve Fanagan, Niall Brady & Niall O Sullivan – Normal People (winner)
VFX
References
^ "IFTA - Irish Film & Television Academy - Irish Film & Television Awards - Archived 2021-09-30" . www.archivebay.com .^ "IFTA Film & Drama Awards 2021, Rules and Guidelines for Submissions" (PDF) . Irish Film & Television Academy . Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2022 .^ Clarke, Donald. "Iftas: Normal People arrives too late for 'virtual' awards" . The Irish Times . ^ "IFTAs see record number of female nominations" . www.irishexaminer.com . 14 July 2020.^ "IFTA nominations announced for the IFTA Film & Drama Awards 2020 | The Irish Film & Television Network" . www.iftn.ie .^ "Famine drama Arracht leads IFTA Awards shortlist" . 14 July 2020 – via www.rte.ie.^ Duffy, Rónán. "Here is the full list of nominees for this year's (virtual) IFTAs" . TheJournal.ie . ^ "Nominations for the 2019/2020 IFTAs have been announced" . 14 July 2020.^ Clarke, Donald. "Iftas 2021: Normal People, Smother and Dating Amber top nominations" . The Irish Times . ^ McCarthy, Esther (5 July 2021). " . Screen . ^ Grater, Tom (4 July 2021). " . ^ "Normal People the big winner at virtual IFTA Awards" . RTE News . 4 July 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2021 .^ McCarthy, Esther (15 June 2021). " . Screen . ^ Malone, Michael (5 July 2021). "Nicola Coughlan wins Rising Star Award at IFTAs" . ^ a b "Eve Hewson and Nicola Coughlan go head to head as nominees for the IFTA Rising Star Award" . Irishmirror.ie. 29 June 2021.^ "IFTAs 2021: Normal People leads IFTAs nominations with 15" . independent .
External links
Awards Ceremonies Years indicate the years of release, not the date of the ceremony; e.g. "2008" indicates a ceremony that took place in 2009, honouring films and television released in 2008.
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