# 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.

## Film

Film
* Garage
** Becoming Jane
** Closing the Ring
** Kings
** Shrooms
International Film
* The Lives of Others
** Atonement
** The Bourne Ultimatum
** La Vie en Rose
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
* Brendan Conroy – Kings
** Donal O'Kelly – Kings
** Conor J. Ryan – Garage
** Don Wycherley – Speed Dating
Actress in a Supporting Role Film
* Saoirse Ronan – Atonement
** Elaine Cassidy – And When Did You Last See Your Father?
** Anne Marie Duff – Garage
** Gail Fitzpatrick – Strength and Honour
International Actor
* Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
** George Clooney – Michael Clayton
** James McAvoy – Atonement
** Ulrich Mühe – The Lives of Others

## Television

Single Drama / Drama Serial
* The Running Mate
** Damage
** My Boy Jack
** Prosperity
Drama Series / Soap
* The Tudors
** The Clinic
** Ros na Rún
** Single-Handed
Director Television
* Lenny Abrahamson – Prosperity
** Brian Kirk – The Tudors
** Paul Mercier – Aifric
** Declan Recks – The Running Mate
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
* Jonathan Rhys Meyers – The Tudors
** Denis Conway – The Running Mate
** Michael Gambon – Celebration
** Don Wycherley – The Running Mate
Actor in a Supporting Role Television
* Nick Dunning – The Tudors
** Leroy Harris – Prosperity
** Eamonn Hunt – The Running Mate
** Gary Lydon – The Clinic
Actress in a Lead Role Film/Television
* Aisling O'Sullivan – The Clinic
** Clíona Ní Chiosáin – Aifric
** Fionnula Flanagan – Brotherhood
** Bríd Ní Neachtáin – Cré na Cille
** Siobhan Shanahan – Prosperity
Actress in a Supporting Role Television
* Maria Doyle Kennedy – The Tudors
** Dawn Bradfield – The Clinic
** Fionnula Flanagan – Paddywhackery
** Amy Huberman – The Clinic

## Craft

Costume Design
* Joan Bergin – The Tudors
** Maggie Donnelly – Kings
** Lorna Marie Mugan – My Boy Jack
** Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh – Becoming Jane
Director of Photography
* Seamus McGarvey – Atonement
** PJ Dillon – Kings
** Seamus McGarvey – Atonement
** Peter Robertson – Garage
** Ciaran Tanham – Northanger Abbey
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
* Pol Brennan – Kings
** Jim Lockhart – Cré na Cille
** Stephen McKeon – The Running Mate
** Stephen Rennicks – Garage
Production Design
* Tom Conroy – The Tudors
** David Craig – Kings
** Tom Mc Cullagh – Closing the Ring
** Padraig O'Neill – Garage
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
* Skunk Fu!
** Aifric
** The Café
** Cúla Cairde
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
* The Podge & Rodge Show
** Dan & Becs
** Killinaskully
** Naked Camera
Factual Entertainment
* Diarmuid's Pony Kids
** Families in Trouble
** Hector – Mo Rogha San Oz
** No Experience Required
News Programme
* BBC Newsline
** Nuacht RTÉ/TG4
** RTÉ News
** TV3 News @ 5.30
Sport
* Tall, Dark & Ó hAilpín
** 20 Moments That Shook Irish Sport
** Red Mist
** Rugby World Cup 2007
** Six Nations: Ireland's v England

## Other awards

Special Irish Language Award
* Kings
** Aifric
** Cré na Cille
** Paddywhackery
Irish Film Board Rising Star 2008
* Saoirse Ronan – Actress
** Cecelia Ahern – Writer
** Mark Mahon – Producer
** Martin McCann – Actor
** Marian Quinn – Director
Animation
* Skunk Fu!
** Ding Dong Denny O'Reilly's History of Ireland
** The Ugly Duckling and Me
** Wobblyland
Short Film
* New Boy
** Deep Breaths
** Hesitation
** No Regrets
** The Wednesdays
Pantene People's Choice Award for Best International Actress
* Hilary Swank – P.S. I Love You
** Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth: The Golden Age
** Jodie Foster – The Brave One
** Keira Knightley – Atonement
Sony Bravia TV Personality of the Year
* Kathryn Thomas – RTÉ
** Stephen Nolan
** Michelle Doherty – Channel 6
** Kathy Hoffman – City Channel
** Paul Dempsey – Setanta Sports
** Síle Ní Bhraonáin – TG4
** Lorraine Keane – TV3
* Julian Simmons – UTV
Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema
* Mel Gibson