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17th Irish Film & Television Awards
Date4 July 2021 (2021-07-04)
SiteVirtual ceremony
Hosted byGráinne Seoige
Highlights
Best FilmWolfwalkers
Best DirectionCathy Brady
Wildfire
Best ActorGabriel Byrne
Death of a Ladies' Man
Best ActressNika McGuigan
Wildfire
Most awardsNormal People (9)
Most nominationsNormal People (15)
Television coverage
ChannelVirgin Media One

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

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Best film

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Offices of Cartoon Saloon, creators of Best Film winner Wolfwalkers

Director

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Script

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  • 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

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Nika McGuigan, Best Actress IFTA winner

Actor in a leading role

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Gabriel Byrne, Best Actor IFTA winner

Actress in a supporting role

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Sharon Horgan, Best Supporting Actress IFTA winner

Actor in a supporting role

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George Morrison Feature Documentary

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Gunter Falls in Love
  • Her Song (winner)
  • The Dead Hands of Dublin
  • The Voyage
  • Zog and the Flying Doctors

Rising Star Award

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Television drama

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Drama

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Director

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Script

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Actress in a leading role

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Dervla Kirwan, who won an IFTA for Best Actress (TV Drama)

Actor in a leading role

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Paul Mescal, who won an IFTA for Best Actor (TV Drama)

Actress in a supporting role

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Actor in a supporting role

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Craft

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Score

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Editing

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Production Design

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  • John Leslie – Son
  • Lucy van Lonkhuyzen – Normal People (winner)
  • Philip Murphy – Vivarium
  • Ray Ball – Sea Fever
  • Tamara Conboy – Herself

Cinematography

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  • Cathal Watters – Smother
  • Ciaran Tanham – Dead Still
  • James Mather – Here are the Young Men
  • Kate McCullough – Normal People (winner)
  • Suzie Lavelle – Normal People

Costume

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ "IFTA - Irish Film & Television Academy - Irish Film & Television Awards - Archived 2021-09-30". www.archivebay.com.
  2. ^ "IFTA Film & Drama Awards 2021, Rules and Guidelines for Submissions" (PDF). Irish Film & Television Academy. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  3. ^ Clarke, Donald. "Iftas: Normal People arrives too late for 'virtual' awards". The Irish Times.
  4. ^ "IFTAs see record number of female nominations". www.irishexaminer.com. 14 July 2020.
  5. ^ "IFTA nominations announced for the IFTA Film & Drama Awards 2020 | The Irish Film & Television Network". www.iftn.ie.
  6. ^ "Famine drama Arracht leads IFTA Awards shortlist". 14 July 2020 – via www.rte.ie.
  7. ^ Duffy, Rónán. "Here is the full list of nominees for this year's (virtual) IFTAs". TheJournal.ie.
  8. ^ "Nominations for the 2019/2020 IFTAs have been announced". 14 July 2020.
  9. ^ Clarke, Donald. "Iftas 2021: Normal People, Smother and Dating Amber top nominations". The Irish Times.
  10. ^ McCarthy, Esther (5 July 2021). "'Wolfwalkers', 'Normal People' win top prizes at Irish Film and Television Awards". Screen.
  11. ^ Grater, Tom (4 July 2021). "'Normal People' & 'Wolfwalkers' Triumph At Irish Film & TV Awards".
  12. ^ "Normal People the big winner at virtual IFTA Awards". RTE News. 4 July 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  13. ^ McCarthy, Esther (15 June 2021). "'Dating Amber', 'Normal People' head Irish Film and Television Awards nominations". Screen.
  14. ^ Malone, Michael (5 July 2021). "Nicola Coughlan wins Rising Star Award at IFTAs".
  15. ^ a b "Eve Hewson and Nicola Coughlan go head to head as nominees for the IFTA Rising Star Award". Irishmirror.ie. 29 June 2021.
  16. ^ "IFTAs 2021: Normal People leads IFTAs nominations with 15". independent.
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