Irish Film & Television Awards Nominations 2026: Complete list of nominees explored

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The Irish Film & Television Awards, aka IFTA, unveiled their nominations for the year’s awards. The winners for the Irish Film & Television Awards will be announced on February 20. The award ceremony is set to take place at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre.

The popular Irish movie, Christy, bagged most nominations at the year’s Irish Film & Television Awards. Christy earned a total of 14 nominations. Furthermore, movies like One Battle After Another, Sentimental Value, Hamnet, Sinners, Bugonia, and more have been nominated under the International categories of the Irish Film & Television Awards.


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Here’s the complete rundown of nominations for the Irish Film & Television Awards:

Irish Film & Television Awards for FILM CATEGORIES

BEST FILM

  • Aontas
  • Blue Moon
  • Christy
  • Four Mothers
  • Saipan
  • Steve

DIRECTOR – FILM

  • Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn – Saipan
  • Brendan Canty – Christy
  • Myrid Carten – A Want in Her
  • Lorcan Finnegan – The Surfer
  • Ruán Magan – Báite
  • Edwin Mullane, Adam O’Keeffe – Horseshoe

SCRIPT FILM

  • Sarah Gordon, Damian McCann – Aontas
  • Maggie O’Farrell, Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
  • Alan O’Gorman – Christy
  • Sheena Lambert – Báite
  • Darren Thornton, Colin Thornton – Four Mothers
  • Enda Walsh – Die My Love

LEAD ACTOR – FILM

  • Steve Coogan – Saipan
  • Daniel Day-Lewis – Anemone
  • Colin Farrell – Ballad of a Small Player
  • Éanna Hardwicke – Saipan
  • Cillian Murphy – Steve
  • Daniel Power – Christy

LEAD ACTRESS – FILM

  • Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
  • Carolyn Bracken – Horseshoe
  • Carrie Crowley – Aontas
  • Fionnula Flanagan – Four Mothers
  • Eleanor O’Brien – Báite
  • Fiona Shaw – Hot Milk

SUPPORTING ACTOR – FILM

  • Liam Cunningham – Palestine 36
  • Jamie Forde – Christy
  • Paul Mescal – Hamnet
  • Diarmuid Noyes – Christy
  • Seán T. Ó Meallaigh – Aontas
  • Andrew Scott – Blue Moon

SUPPORTING ACTRESS – FILM

  • Brid Brennan – Aontas
  • Kerry Condon – F1
  • Sarah Greene – Trad
  • Dearbhla Molloy – Four Mothers
  • Kerry Condon – Train Dreams
  • Emma Willis – Christy

Irish Film & Television Awards for DRAMA CATEGORIES

BEST DRAMA

  • Blue Lights
  • Leonard and Hungry Paul
  • Trespasses
  • The Walsh Sisters
  • Wednesday S2
  • The Young Offenders

DIRECTOR DRAMA

  • Rachel Carey – Obituary
  • Megan K Fox – Video Nasty
  • Oonagh Kearney – The Au Pair
  • Mia Mullarkey – Hidden Assets
  • Hugh O’Conor – Showkids
  • Aisling Walsh – Miss Austen

SCRIPT DRAMA

  • Peter Foott – The Young Offenders Ailbhe Keogan –Trespasses
  • Declan Lawn, Adam Patterson – Blue Lights
  • Cara Loftus – Hidden Assets
  • Stefanie Preissner – The Walsh Sisters
  • Hugh Travers – Video Nasty

LEAD ACTOR – DRAMA

  • Anthony Boyle – House of Guinness
  • Pierce Brosnan – MobLand
  • Domhnall Gleeson – The Paper
  • Martin McCann – Blue Lights
  • Aaron Monaghan – Hidden Assets
  • Alex Murphy – The Young Offenders

LEAD ACTRESS – DRAMA

  • Niamh Algar – The Iris Affair
  • Caitriona Balfe – Outlander
  • Siobhán Cullen – Obituary
  • Louisa Harland – The Walsh Sisters
  • Nora-Jane Noone – Hidden Assets
  • Lola Petticrew – Trespasses

SUPPORTING ACTOR – DRAMA

  • Jack Gleeson – House of Guinness
  • Cal O’Driscoll – Video Nasty
  • Dónall Ó Héalai – Hidden Assets
  • Fionn O’Shea – House of Guinness
  • Aidan Quinn – The Walsh Sisters
  • Chris Walley – The Young Offenders

SUPPORTING ACTRESS – DRAMA

  • Cathy Belton – Hidden Assets
  • Ruth Bradley – Slow Horses
  • Katherine Devlin – Blue Lights
  • Danielle Galligan – House of Guinness
  • Alison Oliver – Task
  • Genevieve O’Reilly – Andor

Irish Film & Television Awards for INTERNATIONAL CATEGORIES

INTERNATIONAL FILM

  • Bugonia
  • Hamnet
  • One Battle After Another
  • Palestine ’36
  • Sentimental Value
  • Sinners

INTERNATIONAL ACTOR

  • Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
  • Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
  • Michael B Jordan – Sinners
  • James McArdle – Four Mothers
  • Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
  • Jesse Plemons – Bugonia

INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS

  • Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
  • Jennifer Lawrence – Die My Love
  • Margaret Qualley – Blue Moon
  • Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
  • Emma Stone – Bugonia
  • Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another

Irish Film & Television Awards for DOCUMENTARY & SHORT FILM CATEGORIES

GEORGE MORRISON FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

  • A Want in Her
  • The Essence of Eva
  • Listen To The Land Speak
  • Sanatorium
  • Testimony
  • Útoipe Cheilteach

Redbreast SHORT FILM AWARD

  • The Ban
  • No Mean City
  • No Time Wasters
  • Nostalgie
  • Punt
  • Three Keenings

ANIMATED SHORT

  • Éiru
  • Inside, The Valley Sings
  • Rerooted
  • Retirement Plan

CRAFT CATEGORIES

CINEMATOGRAPHY

  • Bugonia – Robbie Ryan
  • Christy – Colm Hogan
  • Die My Love – Seamus McGarvey
  • Saipan – Piers McGrail
  • Severance – Suzie Lavelle

CASTING

  • Christy – Amy Rowan
  • Four Mothers – Louise Kiely
  • The Rainmaker – Emma Gunnery
  • Ready Or Not – Maureen Hughes
  • Saipan – Aine O’Sullivan

COSTUME DESIGN

  • Blue Moon – Consolata Boyle
  • Christy – Hannah Bury
  • Four Mothers – Joan O’Cleary Saipan – Lara Campbell
  • Video Nasty – Joanne O’Brien

EDITING

  • Blue Lights – Helen Sheridan
  • Christy – Allyn Quigley
  • House of Guinness – Ben Yeates
  • Saipan – John Murphy, Gavin Buckley
  • The Surfer – Tony Cranstoun

Sculpted by Aimee MAKE-UP & HAIR

  • Blue Moon – Linda Gannon, Liz Byrne
  • Christy – Jennie Readman, Edwina Kelly
  • Saipan – Polly McKay
  • Trespasses – Natalie Reid
  • Wednesday – Lynn Johnston

ORIGINAL MUSIC

  • Aontas – Daithí Ó Drónaí
  • Báite – Eimear Noone, Craig Stuart Garfinkle
  • Christy – Daithí Ó Drónaí
  • Saipan – David Holmes, Brian Irvine
  • Video Nasty – Die Hexen

PRODUCTION DESIGN

  • Blue Moon – Susie Cullen, Kevin Downey
  • Christy – Martin Goulding
  • Saipan – John Leslie
  • Wednesday – Philip Murphy, Neville Gaynor
  • Video Nasty – Tara O’Reilly

SOUND

  • Anemone – Steve Fanagan
  • Blue Moon – Hugh Fox
  • Saipan – Tim Harrison, Andrew Graham, Paul Maynes
  • The Surfer – Aza Hand
  • Video Nasty – Patrick Downey

VFX

  • Anemone – Tom Fagan
  • Foundation – Ed Bruce, Andrew Barry
  • House of Guinness – Eoin O’Sullivan, David Sewell
  • One Battle After Another – Ed Bruce, Amrei Bronnenmayer

For the second year in a row, the Irish Film & Television Awards ceremony will be hosted by comedian and broadcaster Kevin McGahern. The awards ceremony will be held on February 20.


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Edited by Priscillah Mueni