# 7th Irish Film & Television Awards

The 7th Irish Film & Television Awards took place on 20 February 2010 in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin. It was hosted by Victoria Smurfit and honoured Irish film and television released in 2009.

## Awards in film

Best Film
* The Eclipse (Winner)
** Ondine
** The Secret of Kells
** Zonad
** Eamon
Director in Film
* Jim Sheridan – Brothers (Winner)
** Neil Jordan – Ondine
** John Carney, Kieran Carney – Zonad
** Conor McPherson – The Eclipse
Script Film
* Conor McPherson, Billy Roache – The Eclipse (Winner)
** Neil Jordan – Ondine
** John Carney, Kieran Carney – Zonad
** Margaret Corkery – Eamon
Actor in a lead role
* Colin Farrell – Ondine (Winner)
** Ciarán Hinds – The Eclipse
** Darren Healy – Savage
** Stephen Rea – Nothing personal
Actress in a lead role
* Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones (Winner)
** Janice Byrne – Zonad
** Amy Kirwan – Eamon
** Jade Yourell – Happy Ever Afters
Actor in a Supporting Role Film
* Aidan Quinn – The Eclipse (Winner)
** Simon Delaney – Happy Ever Afters
** Michael Fassbender – Fish Tank
** Michael Gambon – Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince
Actress in a Supporting Role Film
* Dervla Kirwan – Ondine (Winner)
** Anne Marie Duff – Nowhere Boy
** Nora-Jane Noone – Savage
** Ger Ryan – Happy Ever Afters
Feature Documentary
* His & Hers (Winner)
** The Bass Player: A song for dad
** Colony
** The Yellow Bittern

### International film

Best International Film
* The Hurt Locker (Winner)
** Avatar
** Let the Right One In
** Up
Best International Actress
* Meryl Streep – It's Complicated
** Marion Cotillard – Nine
** Penélope Cruz – Broken Embraces
** Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
Best International Actor
* Robert Downey Jr. – Sherlock Holmes
** Sam Rockwell – Moon
** Vincent Cassel – Mesrine: Killer Instinct
** Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones

## Craft / technical categories (film and television)

Costume Design
* Consolata Boyle – Chéri (Winner)
** Joan Bergin – The Tudors
** Allison Byrne – Cracks
** Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh – Ondine
Director of Photography
* Suzie Lavelle – One Hundred Mornings (Winner)
** Tom Comerford – Savage
** Ivan McCullough – The Eclipse
** Ruairí O'Brien – Five Minutes of Heaven
Editing
* Mairead McIvor – Savage (Winner)
** Emer Reynolds – The Eclipse
** Isobel Stephenson – Pure Mule – The Last Weekend
** Ken Wardrop – His & Hers
Make Up & Hair
* The Take – Lorraine Glynn, Morna Ferguson
** Five Minutes of Heaven – Pamela Smyth
** The Tudors – Sharon Doyle, Dee Corcoran
** Zonad – Eileen Buggy, Barbara Conway
Original Score
* Brian Byrne – Zonad
** Neil Hannon – Wide Open Spaces
** The Henry Girls – A Shine of Rainbows
** Stephen McKeon – Savage
Production Design
* Anna Rackard – Ondine (Winner)
** Tom Conroy – The Tudors
** Susie Cullen – The Take
** Ashleigh Jeffers – Occupation
Sound
* Ondine – Brendan Deasy, Tom Johnson, Sarah Gaines (Winner)
** The Eclipse – Ronan Hill, Jon Stevenson, John Fitzgerald
** Five Minutes of Heaven – Ronan Hill, Jon Stevenson, John Fitzgerald
** Savage – Patrick Hanlon, John Fitzgerald, Fiadhnait McCann

## Television drama categories

Single Drama / Drama Serial
* Five Minutes of Heaven Winner
** Belonging to Laura
** Best: His Mother's Son
** Father & Son
** Rásaí na Gaillimhe
Drama Series / Soap
* The Clinic Winner
** Fair City
** Pure Mule – The Last Weekend
** Ros na Rún
** The Tudors
Director Television
* Thaddeus O'Sullivan – Into the Storm (Winner)
** Ciaran Donnelly – The Tudors
** Robert Quinn – Rásaí na Gaillimhe
** Declan Recks – Pure Mule – The Last Weekend
Script Television
* Frank Deasy – Father & Son (Winner)
** Frank McGuinness – A Short Stay in Switzerland
** Eugene O'Brien – Pure Mule – The Last Weekend
** James Phelan – Rásaí na Gaillimhe
Actor in a Lead Role – Television
** Brendan Gleeson – Into the Storm (Winner)
* Gabriel Byrne – In Treatment
* Liam Neeson – Five Minutes of Heaven
* Jonathan Rhys Meyers – The Tudors
Actress in a Lead Role – Television
* Elaine Cassidy – Harper's Island (Winner)
** Ruth Bradley – Rásaí na Gaillimhe
** Michelle Fairley – Best: His Mother's Son
** Charlene McKenna – Pure Mule – The Last Weekend
Actor in a Supporting Role – Television
* Stephen Rea – Father & Son (Winner)
** Declan Conlon – Fair City
** Diarmuid Noyes – Pure Mule – The Last Weekend
** Owen Roe – Val Falvey, T.D.
Actress in a Supporting Role – Television
* Sarah Bolger – The Tudors (Winner)
** Dawn Bradfield – Pure Mule – The Last Weekend
** Amy Huberman – The Clinic
** Tatiana Ouliankina – Belonging to Laura

## Television categories

Children's / Youth Programme
* On The Block – Tory Island (Winner)
** Aisling's Diary
** Ballybraddan
** Seacht
Current Affairs
* The Frontline (Winner)
** Paul Williams Investigates: The Battle for the Gasfield
** Prime Time Investigates: Travellers – On the Edge
** Spotlight: Stem Cell Tourists
Documentary Series
* Blood of the Irish (Winner)
** Bóthar go dtí an White House
** I See A Darkness
** Teorainn
Single Documentary
* Seamus Heaney: Out Of The Marvellous (Winner)
** Abuse of Trust: Sins of the Fathers
** The Forgotten Irish
** The House
Entertainment Programme
* Apprentice (Winner)
** The All Ireland Talent Show
** The Savage Eye
** Xposé – The Stephen Gately Tribute
News Programme
* TV3 News at 5.30 (Winner)
** BBC Newsline
** City Channel News
Factual Programme
* Nightly News with Vincent Browne (Winner)
** Celebrity Bainisteoir
** Killers – O'Reilly
** Welcome to my World
Sports
* Grand Slam Journey (Winner)
** GAA Beo
** Pride of The Parish
** Shay Elliot

## Others

Special Irish Language Award
* Rásaí na Gaillimhe (Winner)
** CSÍ
** Ros na Rún
** Seacht
Animation
* The Secret of Kells (Winner)
** Hasan Everywhere
** The Polish Language
** Trolley Boy
Short Film
* Runners (Winner)
** If I Should Fall Behind
** Moore Street Masala
** Sunshower
Rising Star Award
* Tomm Moore
** Margaret Corkery
** Darren Healy
** Brendan Muldowney
** Robert Sheehan
** Ken Wardrop
Lifetime Achievement Award
* John Boorman