Aisling Walsh’s Maudie has received six 2018 Irish Film and Television Academy award nominations, with Emer Reynolds’ The Farthest closely behind with five.
Huge congrats to all the nominees but especially these two filmmakers for their incredible work.
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Here is the full list of#IFTA2018 nominees
FILM NOMINATIONS
Feature film
Cardboard Gangsters
Handsome Devil
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Maudie
Michael Inside
Song of Granite
Director
Frank Berry for Michael Inside
John Butler for Handsome Devil
Martin McDonagh for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Mark O’Connor for Cardboard Gangsters
Aisling Walsh for Maudie
Scriptwriter
Frank Berry for Michael Inside
Stephen Burke for Maze
John Butler for Handsome Devil
Nick Kelly for The Drummer and The Keeper
Martin McDonagh for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Actor in a leading role
John Connors in Cardboard Gangsters
Colin Farrell in The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Dafhyd Flynn in Michael Inside
Fionn O’Shea in Handsome Devil
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor in Maze
Actress in a leading role
Sarah Bolger in Halal Daddy
Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird
Ann Skelly in Kissing Candice
Actor in a supporting role
Barry Keoghan in The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Jacob McCarthy in The Drummer and The Keeper
Andrew Scott in Handsome Devil
Fionn Walton in Cardboard Gangsters
Barry Ward in Maze
Actress in a supporting role
Niamh Algar in The Drummer and The Keeper
Sarah Carroll in The Limit Of
Deirdre O’Kane in Halal Daddy
Victoria Smurfit in The Lears
Fionna Hewitt Twamley in Cardboard Gangsters
George Morrison feature documentary
The 34th
A Cambodian Spring
The Farthest
No Stone Unturned
The Silver Branch
Live-action short
Cry Rosa
For You
The Secret Market
The Tattoo
Time Traveller
Wave
Animated short
An Béal Bocht
Angela’s Christmas
Departure
Late Afternoon
International film
Dunkirk
Lady Bird
Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
International actor
Timothee Chamelet in Call Me By Your Name
Ethan Hawke in Maudie
Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour
Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
International actress
Sally Hawkins in Maudie
Sally Hawkins in Shape of Water
Nicole Kidman in The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
DRAMA NOMINATIONS
Drama
Acceptable Risk
Game of Thrones
Line of Duty
Paula
Striking Out
Vikings
Director
David Caffrey for Peaky Blinders
Rob Quinn for Ackley Bridge
Steve Saint Leger for Vikings
Dearbhla Walsh for Fargo
Scriptwriter
Ronan Bennett for Gunpowder
Malcolm Campbell for Ackley Bridge
Conor McPherson for Paula
Antoine O’Flatharta for Grace Harte
Actor in a leading role
Richard Dormer in Rellik
Adrian Dunbar in Line Of Duty
Brendan Gleeson in Mr Mercedes
Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders
Chris O’Dowd in Get Shorty
Actress in a leading role
Caitriona Balfe in Outlander
Elaine Cassidy in Acceptable Risk
Denise Gough in Paula
Amy Huberman in Striking Out
Ruth Negga in Preacher
Actor in a supporting role
Liam Cunningham in Game of Thrones
Moe Dunford in Vikings
Aidan Gillen in Game of Thrones
Owen McDonnell in Paula
Jason O’Mara in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Actress in a supporting role
Angeline Ball in Acceptable Risk
Eva Birthistle in The Last Kingdom
Jessie Buckley in Taboo
Charlie Murphy in Peaky Blinders
Genevieve O’Reilly in Tin Star
CRAFT AND TECHNICAL NOMINATIONS
Cinematography
Tom Comerford for Pilgrimage
Richard Kendrick for Song of Granite
Seamus McGarvey for The Greatest Showman
Cathal Watters for Peaky Blinders
Costume design
Consolata Boyle for Victoria and Abdul
Sarajane Ffrench O’Carroll for The Lodgers
Susan O’Connor Cave for Vikings
Leonie Prendergast for Pilgrimage
Editing
Tony Cranstoun for The Farthest
Dermot Diskin for Peaky Blinders
Uná Ní Dhonghaíle for Three Girls
Tadhg O’Sullivan for Song of Granite
Make-up and hair
Julie-Ann Ryan and Niamh Glynn for The Cured
Clare Lambe and Sevlene Roddy for Into the Badlands
Lorraine Glynn and Sonya Dolan for The Man Who Invented Christmas
Dee Corcoran and Tom McInerney for Vikings
Original music
Ray Harman for The Farthest
Stephen McKeon for Pilgrimage
Stephen Rennicks for Maze
John Gerard Walsh for The Drummer and The Keeper
Production design
Stephen Daly for Into the Badlands
Joe Fallover for The Lodgers
Mark Geraghty for Vikings
John Hand for Maudie
Sound
Steve Fanagan and Kieran Horgan for The Farthest
Ronan Hill, Onnalee Blank and Mathew Waters for Game of Thrones
Karl Merren and Brendan Deasy for Into the Badlands
Marco Dolle, Steve Munro and Garret Farrell for Maudie
VFX
Tim Chauncey for The Ash Lad: In the Hall of the Mountain King
Ian Benjamin Kenny and Enda O’Connor for The Farthest
Ed Bruce and Nicholas Murphy, Screenscene for Game of Thrones
Tailored Films and Bowsie Workshop for The Lodgers
