Question: John Michael McDonagh wrote and directed The Guard which was nominated for a BAFTA, and replaced this film as the most successful independent Irish film of all time?

Context articles: How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate
John Michael McDonagh
Calvary (film)
W.C. (film)
What Richard Did
Scott Belshaw
The Guard (2011 film)
War on Everyone
Irish Film Institute
Ned Kelly (2003 film)

How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate is a 1998 independent Irish film directed by Graham Jones, in which six teenagers devise a plan to cheat in their Leaving Certificate final school examinations.
 The film was shot in black and white on Super 16mm.
 After being hailed by critics it was blown up to 35mm for theatrical distribution.
 Many well known Irish faces made cameo appearances and some commentators regard the 2004 American film, "The Perfect Score", as a remake.
John Michael McDonagh is a screenwriter and film director with British and Irish nationality.
 He wrote and directed "The Guard" (2011) and "Calvary" (2014), both films starring Brendan Gleeson, receiving a BAFTA Award nomination for the former.
 He was born in London in 1967.
 He is the older brother of playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh.
Calvary is a 2014 Irish drama film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh.
 It stars Brendan Gleeson, Chris O'Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran and Isaach de Bankolé.
 The film began production in September 2012 and was released in April 2014 in Ireland and the United Kingdom, in July in Australia and August 2014 in the United States.
 The film was screened at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.
W.C. is an independent Irish film about two toilet attendants working in a jazz bar.
 The film premiered at the 2007 Dublin Film Festival and has screened at numerous other international film festivals worldwide, it won the Best Foreign Film award at the 2009 Las Vegas Film Festival and Best Film at the Waterford Film Festival.
 The film was released theatrically in 2009.
What Richard Did is a 2012 Irish film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Malcolm Campbell.
 The film is loosely based on Kevin Power's "Bad Day in Blackrock", a fictionalised novel inspired by the real-life death of Brian Murphy in 2000.
 It won the best Irish film of the year award at the 10th Irish Film & Television Awards and was the most commercially successful Irish film of 2012.
At amateur level, Belshaw fought for the Lisburn ABC in Lisburn and won five Irish titles and a number of Ulster championship titles.
 It was during his amateur days that Belshaw perfected his unorthodox style of fighting, known in some circles as the angry dancing Andrew 'Andy' Fyfe technique.
 After what Belshaw considered a poor decision during a quarter final fight of the 2006 Irish seniors championship when he was disqualified for holding despite being ten points up in a fight with Michael McDonagh, Belshaw left the amateur ranks and decided to become a professional with Frank Maloney.
The Guard is a 2011 Irish buddy cop comedy film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, starring Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong and Liam Cunningham.
 It is the most successful independent Irish film of all time in terms of Irish box-office receipts, overtaking "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" (2006), which previously held this status.
War on Everyone is a 2016 British black comedy buddy cop film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh.
 The film stars Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña, and Theo James.
 Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, it was screened in the Panorama section of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.
 The film was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 7 October 2016 through Icon Film Distribution.
The Irish Film Institute (formerly the Irish Film Centre), also known as the IFI, is both an arthouse cinema and a national body that supports Irish Film heritage.
 The IFI presents film festivals, retrospectives and curated seasons, along with independent, Irish and foreign language films overlooked by commercial multiplexes at its cinemas in the Temple Bar quarter of Dublin.
 It maintains an archive of Irish films and provides education in film culture.
Ned Kelly is a 2003 Australian historical drama film based on Robert Drewe's 1991 novel "Our Sunshine".
 Directed by Gregor Jordan, the film's adapted screenplay was written by John Michael McDonagh.
 The film dramatises the life of Ned Kelly, a legendary bushranger and outlaw who was active mostly in Victoria, the colony of his birth.
 In the film, Kelly, his brother Dan, and two other associates—Steve Hart and Joe Byrne—form a gang of Irish Australians in response to Irish and English tensions that arose in 19th century Australia.
 Heath Ledger stars in the title role, with Orlando Bloom, Naomi Watts and Geoffrey Rush.