Gaiety School Graduates nominated for IFTA Awards
Friday, October 2nd, 2015 at 3:19 pm | News & Events
It as with baited breath we awaited the Irish Film and TV Award nominations this morning. With our graduates cleaning up in the Film category earlier this year, we were curious to see if we’d recognise many names popping up in the Television round! Not ones to disappoint, once again our graduates have come through with Deirdre O’Kane (class of 1986) and Jane McGrath (class of 2009) battling it out in the Best Female performance Category. With Deirdre nominated for Moone Boy and Jane for Red Rock, we’ve no doubt it will be a close call – we’ll be rooting for them both! We’ve no doubt the announcements this morning have made a ripple through the rest of our alumni body, with so many of our past students starring in TV shows that appear across the many categories.
The awards will be held on the 22nd of October. Here’s the full list of nominations!
Comedy
Irish Pictorial Weekly
Moone Boy
Mrs Browns Boys
The Savage Eye
Entertainment
50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy
The Imelda May Show
Ireland AM
The Voice of Ireland
Factual
Lords & Ladles – Mind the Gap Films
Nationwide – Fr Browne’s Forgotten War – RTE
The Zoo – Moondance Productions
Wild Ireland -Big Mountain Productions
Live Event
FleadhTV – Gifted Empire
Referendum 2015: RTÉ Live Results Coverage- RTÉ
St Patrick’s Day Concert – BBCNI
Vincent Browne in the George – TV3
Reality & Constructed Factual
A Sporting Chance
Bressies Teenage Kicks
Connected
WWOOFail California
Soap
Fair City – RTE
Red Rock – TV3
Animation
Bing -Brown Bag Films
Lily’s Driftwood Bay – SixteenSouth
Nelly and Nora- Geronimo Productions
Puffin Rock – Cartoon Saloon
Childrens and Young People’s
Our Farm – GMarsh TV Productions
Saol faoi Shráid – Meangadh Fíbín
Shutterbugs – Crossing the Line
Two Tube – RTÉ
Female Performance
Cathy Belton – Red Rock
Sharon Horgan – Catastrophe
Jane McGrath – Red Rock
Deirdre O’Kane – Moone Boy
Martina Stanley – Fair City
Director – Soap and Comedy
Gary Agnew – Fair City
Lisa Mulcahy – Red Rock
Damien O’Donnell – The Savage Eye
Chris O’Dowd – Moone Boy
Director – television
Darragh Byrne – O Se: A Legacy
Liam McGrath – Dolores Keane: A Storm in the Heart
Maurice Sweeney – Brendan Behan – The Roaring Boy
Patrick Timmons Ward – The Notorious
Editing – Television
Zaini Darragh – Des Bishop Breaking China
Mick Mahon – After Braveheart
Mick Mahon – Rough Rider
Brenda Morrissey – OCD & Me
Current Affairs
A Secret Buried: The Mother and Baby Scandal
Above The Law
Inside Bungalow 3 – RTÉ Investigations Unit
Panorama: Britain’s Secret Terror Deal
Documentary Series
Bliain In Inis Mor – Power Pictures
Darndale – The Edge of Town – Motive Television
The High Hopes Choir -Tyrone Productions
The Shelbourne -Waddell Media
Documentary Single
Close to Evil – Praxis Pictures
Dolores Keane: A Storm in the Heart – Scratch Films Ltd
It Came from Connemara!! – RTÉ
Man on Bridge – El Zorrero Films
News
BBC Newsline – The Death of Ian Paisley -BBCNI
RTÉ Six One News Graham Dwyer – RTÉ
TG4 Naucht -TG4
TV3 530 News: The Resignation of Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan-TV3
UTV Ireland Live -UTV Ireland
Specialist Factual
A Parting Gift – Loosehorse
Áille an Uafáis/A Terrible Beauty – Tile Films
Brendan Behan – The Roaring Boy – Below The Radar TV
Cumann na mBan – Mná na Réabhlóide – Genefile
The Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne: Stephen Fry – RTÉ
Sports
Arkle – The Legend Lives On -Touchline Media
GAA USA -Sónta Films
The Notorious – Motive Television
Second Captains Live -Second Captains
Irish Language
Aille an Ufais n
An Bronntanas
Ar Intinn Eile
Corp is Anam
Katie
Male performance
Sean Mahon – Red Rock
Enda Oates – Fair City
Brendan O’Carroll – Mrs Browns Boys
Chris O’Dowd – Moone Boy
Andy Quirke – Damo and Ivor
Writer – soap and Comedy
Sharon Horgan – Catastrophe
Peter McKenna – Red Rock
Barry Murphy – Irish Pictorial Weekly
Chris O’Dowd & Nick Vincent Murphy – Moone Boy
Camera – Television
Eleanor Bowman – OCD & Me
Michael O’Donovan – The Long Walk
Colm Whelan – Áille an Ufáis /A Terrible Beauty
Ciaran Tanham – Red Rock
Sound – Television
After Braveheart
Ceoilchuairt
Dolphins – Ireland’s Ocean
My Fathers War