17th Irish Film & Television Awards

17th Irish Film & Television Awards
Date	4 July 2021 (2021-07-04)
Site	Virtual ceremony
Hosted by	Gráinne Seoige
Highlights
Best Film	Wolfwalkers
Best Direction	Cathy Brady Wildfire
Best Actor	Gabriel Byrne Death of a Ladies' Man
Best Actress	Nika McGuigan Wildfire
Most awards	Normal People (9)
Most nominations	Normal People (15)
Television coverage
Channel	Virgin Media One
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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 received an unprecedented fifteen nominations.^[9] At the ceremony in July 2021, Normal People won nine prizes.^[10][11][12]

Film[]

Best film[]

• Broken Law
• Dating Amber
• Herself
• Vivarium
• Wildfire
• Wolfwalkers (winner)

Director[]

• Cathy Brady – Wildfire (winner)
• David Freyne – Dating Amber
• Lorcan Finnegan – Vivarium
• Paddy Slattery – Broken Law
• Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart – Wolfwalkers

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[]

• Jessie Buckley – I'm Thinking of Ending Things
• Clare Dunne – Herself
• Lola Petticrew – Dating Amber
• Nika McGuigan – Wildfire (posthumous) (winner)
• Nora-Jane Noone – Wildfire

Actor in a leading role[]

• Ciarán Hinds – The Man In The Hat
• Fionn O'Shea – Dating Amber
• Gabriel Byrne – Death of a Ladies' Man (winner)
• Moe Dunford – Knuckledust
• Tristan Heanue – Broken Law

Actress in a supporting role[]

• Ally Ní Charáin – Broken Law
• Kathy Kiera Clarke – A Bend in the River
• Molly McCann – Herself
• Saoirse Ronan – Ammonite
• Sharon Horgan – Dating Amber (winner)

Actor in a supporting role[]

• Barry Ward – Dating Amber (winner)
• Brian Gleeson – Death of a Ladies' Man
• Colm Meaney – Pixie
• Conleth Hill – Herself
• Ned Dennehy –

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]

Short film – Live action[]

• 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[]

• Nicola Coughlan (winner)^[14]

Television drama[]

Drama[]

• Blood, series 2 (Channel 5 / Virgin Media One)
• Line of Duty, series 6 (BBC One)
• Normal People (RTÉ One / BBC Three) (winner)
• Dead Still (Acorn TV)
• Smother (RTÉ One)
• Vikings, series 6 (History [Canada])

Director[]

• Dearbhla Walsh – Fargo
• Dathaí Keane – Smother
• Imogen Murphy – Dead Still
• Lenny Abrahamson – Normal People (winner)
• Steve St. Leger – Vikings

Script[]

• Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn – The Salisbury Poisonings
• Kate O'Riordan – Smother
• Lisa McGee –
• John Morton – Dead Still
• Sally Rooney – Normal People (winner)

Actress in a leading role[]

• Niamh Algar – Raised by Wolves
• Aisling Franciosi – Black Narcissus
• Dervla Kirwan – Smother (winner)
• Eve Hewson – Behind Her Eyes
• Catherine Walker – The Deceived

Actor in a leading role[]

• Adrian Dunbar – Line of Duty
• James Nesbitt – Bloodlands
• Brendan Gleeson – The Comey Rule
• Michael Smiley – Dead Still
• Paul Mescal – Normal People (winner)

Actress in a supporting role[]

• Fiona Shaw – Killing Eve
• Gemma-Leah Devereux – Smother
• Nicola Coughlan – Bridgerton
• Sarah Greene – Normal People (winner)
• Seána Kerslake – Smother

Actor in a supporting role[]

• Andrew Scott – His Dark Materials
• Colm Meaney – Gangs of London
• Desmond Eastwood – Normal People
• Éanna Hardwicke – Smother
• Fionn O'Shea – Normal People (winner)

Craft[]

Score[]

• Aza Hand – Son (winner)
• Colm Mac Con Iomaire – A Bend in the River
• John McPhillips – Smother
• Stephen Rennicks – Normal People
• Ray Harman – Blood

Editing[]

• Colin Campbell – Here are the Young Men
• Gráinne Gavigan – Dead Still
• Nathan Nugent – Normal People
• Tony Cranstoun – Vivarium
• Úna Ní Dhonghaíle – Misbehaviour (winner)

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

Makeup & Hair[]

• 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[]

• Jim O’Hagan and Ed Bruce – WandaVision
• Ed Bruce – Shadow and Bone
• Ed Bruce – Kidding (winner)^[15]

References[]

External links[]

• Awards at the Irish Film and Television Academy official website