List of Irish Academy Award winners and nominees explained

This is a list of Irish Academy Award winners and nominees. It includes people from the Republic of Ireland and from Northern Ireland. It does not include members of the Irish diaspora unless they were born in Ireland or hold Irish citizenship.

Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Picture
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1989	Noel Pearson	My Left Foot			^[1]
1993	Jim Sheridan	In the Name of the Father			^[2]
2008	Redmond Morris	The Reader		Shared with Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack and Donna Gigliotti.	^[3]
2015	Ed Guiney	Room			^[4]
2017	Martin McDonagh	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri		Shared with Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin.
2018	Ed Guiney	The Favourite		Shared with Ceci Dempsey, Lee Magiday, and Yorgos Lanthimos.	^[5]
2021	Kenneth Branagh	Belfast		Shared with Laura Berwick, Becca Kovacik, and Tamar Thomas.	^[6]
2022	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin		Shared with Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin.	^[7] ^[8]
2023	Ed Guiney Andrew Lowe	Poor Things		Shared with Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone.

Best Director

Academy Award for Best Director
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1928	Herbert Brenon	Sorrell and Son			^[9]
1989	Kenneth Branagh	Henry V			^[10]
	Jim Sheridan	My Left Foot
1992	Neil Jordan	The Crying Game			^[11]
1993	Jim Sheridan	In the Name of the Father
2015	Lenny Abrahamson	Room
2021	Kenneth Branagh	Belfast
2022	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Actor

Academy Award for Best Actor
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1944	Barry Fitzgerald	Going My Way		The only person to be nominated in two different acting categories for the same role in the same movie in the same year.	^[12] ^[13]
1949	Richard Todd	The Hasty Heart			^[14]
1954	Dan O'Herlihy	Robinson Crusoe			^[15]
1963	Richard Harris	This Sporting Life			^[16] ^[17]
1989	Kenneth Branagh	Henry V
	Daniel Day-Lewis	My Left Foot		Day-Lewis is an English-born actor with joint British/Irish citizenship.
1990	Richard Harris	The Field			^[18]
1992	Stephen Rea	The Crying Game
1993	Daniel Day-Lewis	In the Name of the Father
	Liam Neeson	Schindler's List
2002	Daniel Day-Lewis	Gangs of New York			^[19]
2007		There Will Be Blood			^[20]
2012		Lincoln			^[21]
2015	Michael Fassbender	Steve Jobs		Born in Germany; holds both Irish and German citizenship.^[22] ^[23]
2017	Daniel Day-Lewis	Phantom Thread			^[24]
2022	Colin Farrell	The Banshees of Inisherin
	Paul Mescal	Aftersun
2023	Cillian Murphy	Oppenheimer		Murphy is the first Irish-born performer to win Best Actor.^[25]	^[26]

Best Actress

Academy Award for Best Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
2015	Saoirse Ronan	Brooklyn		At age 21, Ronan became eighth-youngest nominee at that time in the category.^[27]	^[28]
2016	Ruth Negga	Loving		First black Irish actress to be nominated in any category.	^[29]
2017	Saoirse Ronan	Lady Bird			^[30]
2019		Little Women		At age 25 and six months of age, Ronan became the second youngest person to score four Academy Award nominations in both acting categories (Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress).^[31]	^[32]

Best Supporting Actor

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1944	Barry Fitzgerald	Going My Way		The only person to be nominated in two different acting categories for the same role in the same movie in the same year.
2011	Kenneth Branagh	My Week with Marilyn			^[33]
2013	Michael Fassbender	12 Years a Slave			^[34]
2021	Ciarán Hinds	Belfast
2022	Brendan Gleeson	The Banshees of Inisherin
	Barry Keoghan

Best Supporting Actress

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1939	Geraldine Fitzgerald	Wuthering Heights			^[35]
1941	Sara Allgood	How Green Was My Valley			^[36]
	Patricia Collinge	The Little Foxes
1989	Brenda Fricker	My Left Foot
2007	Saoirse Ronan	Atonement		At age 13, Ronan became the seventh-youngest nominee at that time in the category.^[37]	^[38]
2021	Jessie Buckley	The Lost Daughter
2022	Kerry Condon	The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Original Screenplay

Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1992	Neil Jordan	The Crying Game
2003	Jim Sheridan Kirsten Sheridan Naomi Sheridan	In America		Father-daughters team.	^[39]
2004	Terry George	Hotel Rwanda		Shared with Keir Pearson.	^[40]
2008	Martin McDonagh	In Bruges		Born in England to Irish parents, McDonagh holds both British and Irish citizenship.^[41]
2017		Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2021	Kenneth Branagh	Belfast
2022	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Adapted Screenplay

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Source Material	Status	Notes	Ref.
1938	George Bernard Shaw	Pygmalion	Based on the play of the same name by Shaw.		Shared with Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis, and W. P. Lipscomb.	^[42]
1966	Bill Naughton	Alfie	Based on the play of the same name by Naughton.			^[43]
1989		My Left Foot	Based on the autobiography of the same name by Christy Brown.
1993	Terry George Jim Sheridan	In the Name of the Father	Based on the book Proved Innocent by Gerry Conlon.
1996	Kenneth Branagh	Hamlet	Based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare.			^[44]
2015	Emma Donoghue	Room	Based on the novel of the same name by Donoghue.

Best Animated Feature

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
2009	Tomm Moore	The Secret of Kells			^[45]
2014	Tomm Moore Paul Young	Song of the Sea			^[46]
2017	Nora Twomey	The Breadwinner		Shared nomination with Anthony Leo.	^[47]
2021	Tomm Moore Paul Young	Wolfwalkers		Shared with Ross Stewart and Stéphan Roelants.	^[48]

Best International Feature Film

See also: List of Irish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
2022		The Quiet Girl		In the Irish language.

Best Documentary Short

Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1961	Tom Hayes Jim O'Connor	Cradle of Genius			^[49]
1965	Patrick Carey	Yeats Country		Shared with Joe Mendoza.	^[50]
1970	Patrick Carey Vivien Carey	Oisin			^[51]
1973		Louis Marcus	Children at Work		Original title: Páistí ag obair Irish-language film	^[52]
2005		Corinne Marrinan			Born in the United States; holds both Irish and American citizenship.^[53] Shared with Eric Simonson.	^[54]

Best Live Action Short

Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1975		Louis Marcus	Conquest of Light			^[55]
1992	Kenneth Branagh	Swan Song		Shared with David Parfitt.
1997	Tim Loane Pearse Moore Dave Duggan	Dance Lexie Dance			^[56]
2004	Gary McKendry	Everything in This Country Must
2005	Martin McDonagh	Six Shooter
2008	Steph Green	New Boy		Shared with Tamara Anghie.
2009	James Flynn Juanita Wilson	The Door		Husband-wife team.
2010	Michael Creagh	The Crush			^[57]
2011	Peter McDonald Eimear O'Kane	Pentecost
		The Shore		Father-daughter team.
2014	Ronan Blaney Michael Lennox	Boogaloo and Graham
2015	Benjamin Cleary	Stutterer		Shared with Shan Christopher Ogilvie and Serena Armitage.	^[58]
2018	Vincent Lambe Darren Mahon	Detainment
2022	Ross White	An Irish Goodbye		Shared with Tom Berkeley, a native of Gloucester based in Belfast.^[59]

Best Animated Short

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1996	Tyron Montgomery	Quest		Shared with Thomas Stellmach
2001	Seamus Byrne Ruairí Robinson	Fifty Percent Grey			^[60]
	Cathal Gaffney Darragh O'Connell	Give Up Yer Aul Sins
2009		Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
2012		Head Over Heels		Shared with Timothy Reckart.
2018	Louise Bagnall	Late Afternoon		Shared with Nuria González Blanco.

Best Original Song

Academy Award for Best Original Song
Year	Name	Film	Song	Status	Notes	Ref.
2001	Enya Nicky Ryan Roma Ryan		"May It Be"			^[61]
2002	U2	Gangs of New York	"The Hands That Built America"			^[62]
2007		Once	"Falling Slowly"		Shared with Markéta Irglová.
2013	Bono (lyrics) U2 (music)		"Ordinary Love"
2021	Van Morrison	Belfast	"Down to Joy"

Best Sound

Academy Award for Best Sound
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
2001	Peter J. Devlin	Pearl Harbor		Shared with Kevin O'Connell and Greg P. Russell.
2007		Transformers
2009		Star Trek		Shared with Anna Behlmer and Andy Nelson.
2011				Shared with Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, and Gary Summers.
2018		Black Panther		Shared with Steve Boeddeker and Brandon Proctor.

Best Production Design

Academy Award for Best Production Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1963	Josie MacAvin (set decorator)	Tom Jones		Nominated in the Color category. Shared with Jocelyn Herbert (set decorator); Ralph W. Brinton and Ted Marshall (art directors).
1965		The Spy Who Came in from the Cold		Nominated in the Black-and-White category. Shared with Ted Marshall (set decorator); Tambi Larsen and Hal Pereira (art directors).
1985		Out of Africa		Shared with Stephen B. Grimes (art director).	^[63]

Best Cinematography

Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
2007	Seamus McGarvey	Atonement
2012		Anna Karenina			^[64]
2018	Robbie Ryan	The Favourite
2023		Poor Things

Best Film Editing

Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
2022	Jonathan Redmond	Elvis		Shared with Matt Villa.	^[65]

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1982	Michèle Burke	Quest for Fire		Original title: La Guerre du feu French-language film. Shared with Sarah Monzani.	^[66]
1986		The Clan of the Cave Bear		Shared with Michael Westmore.	^[67]
1990		Cyrano de Bergerac		French-language film. Shared with Jean-Pierre Eychenne.
1992		Bram Stoker's Dracula		Shared with Greg Cannom and Matthew W. Mungle.
1999				Shared with Mike Smithson.	^[68]
2000		The Cell		Shared with Edouard F. Henriques.	^[69]
2011	Lynn Johnston	Albert Nobbs		Shared with Martial Corneville and Matthew W. Mungle.

Best Costume Design

Academy Award for Best Costume Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
2006	Consolata Boyle	The Queen			^[70]
2016		Florence Foster Jenkins
2017		Victoria & Abdul

Best Visual Effects

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
2009	Richard Baneham	Avatar		Shared with Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, and Andrew R. Jones.	^[71]
2022				Shared with Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett.

See also

• Cinema of Ireland
• List of Irish actors
• List of Irish films
• Irish Film & Television Awards
• List of Irish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Notes and References

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