The 1st Annual Irish Film & Television Awards was hosted by James Nesbitt on 1 November 2003, honouring Irish film and television released in 2003.
Awards in film
Best Irish Film Jury Award
Intermission (Winner) The Actors Chávez: Inside the Coup Dead Bodies Song for a Raggy Boy Veronica Guerin
Best Film Director
John Crowley for Intermission (Winner) John Deery for Conspiracy of Silence Robert Quinn for Dead Bodies Liz Gill for Goldfish Memory Aisling Walsh for Song for a Raggy Boy
Best Short Film
Meeting Che Guevara and the Man from Maybury Hill (Winner) Eireville The Last Time No, No, No Strangers in the Night
Awards in acting
Best Actor in a Lead Role – Film (Jury Award) Andrew Scott for Dead Bodies (Winner) Colin Farrell for SWAT Michael McElhatton for Spin the Bottle Cillian Murphy for 28 Days Later Aidan Quinn for Song for a Raggy Boy
Best Actor in a Leading Role – Television
James Nesbitt for Murphy's Law (Winner) Peadar Cox for Ros na Rún Simon Delaney for Bachelors Walk Ciarán McMenamin for Any Time Now
Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Film/TV
David Wilmot for Intermission (Winner) Colin Farrell for Intermission Ciarán Hinds for Veronica Guerin Gerard McSorley for Veronica Guerin Owen Roe for Any Time Now
Best Actress in a Lead Role – Film
Angeline Ball for Bloom (Winner) Bronagh Gallagher for Spin the Bottle Maria Doyle Kennedy for Mystics Flora Montgomery for Goldfish Memory Natascha McElhone for Solaris
Best Actress in a Leading Role – Television
Angeline Ball for Any Time Now (Winner) Dearbhla Molloy for Home for Christmas Joan Sheehy for Ros na Rún
Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Film/TV
Ruth McCabe for Any Time Now (Winner) Brenda Fricker for Veronica Guerin Fiona Glascott for Goldfish Memory Deirdre O'Kane for Intermission Ger Ryan for Intermission
Awards in television
Best TV Drama
Bachelors Walk (Winner) Any Time Now Home for Christmas On Home Ground Watermelon
Best Entertainment
Amu Amigos "Amazon" (Winner) Brian Kennedy on Song Only Fools Buy Horses Ryan Confidential – Colin Farrell The Late Late Show special on Richard Harris
Best Lifestyle
Amu Amigos "Amazon" (Winner) Ask Anna The Health Squad Ireland AM Wedding Planners
Best Children's/Youth/Educational/Multicultural/Religious/Regional TV
Sampler (Winner) Cracking Crime Ear to the Ground Townlands: "Animal Rescue" Twins
Best Sports TV
The Rod Squad (Winner) Breaking Ball End to End: "Armagh Special" La Ochra Gael When Joe Met Sam
Best Current Affairs
Prime Time: "Cardinal Secrets" (Winner) Prime Time: "Saturday Night Sunday Morning" Crash Prime Time: "Sue Nation" Fine Gael: "A Family at War"
Awards across TV and film
Best Documentary
Oileán Thoraí (Winner) A House Divided Bang! You're Dead Chavez - Inside the Coup Living the Revolution Sing on Forever The Strange Case of the Irish Crown Jewels
Best Irish Language
Amu Amigos "Amazon" (Winner) An Charraig Stoite Galtymore Islandman Oilean Thorai
Best Music in TV/Film
John McPhillips for Spin the Bottle (Winner) Gavin Little for God's Kitchen Ronan Johnstone for Home for Christmas Niall Byrne for On Home Ground ShinAwil Productions for You're A Star
Best Animation
Escape (Winner) The Birth of John the Baptist The Butterfly Collector The Depository Pullin' the Devil by the Tail
Best Script
Mark O'Rowe for Intermission (Winner) Conor McPherson for The Actors Derek Landy for Dead Bodies Liz Gill for Goldfish Memory Ian Fitzgibbon for Spin the Bottle
Best Cinematography / TV Photography
Peter Robertson for Song for a Raggy Boy (Winner) Ciarán Tanham for Bloom Donal Gilligan for Dead Bodies Ken Byrne for Goldfish Memory Brendan Galvin for Veronica Guerin
Best Editing
Dermot Diskin for Dead Bodies (Winner) The Actors Goldfish Memory Spin the Bottle The Strange Case of the Irish Crown Jewels
Best Hair / Make-up
Linda Mooney & Carol Dunne for Watermelon (Winner) Lynn Johnston & Lorraine Glynn for Intermission Patsy Giles for Spin the Bottle Dee Corcoran & Ailbhe Lemass for Veronica Guerin
Best Costume Design
Kathy Strachan for Spin the Bottle (Winner) Tara Van Zyl for Bloom Lorna Marie Mugan for Intermission Joan Bergin for Veronica Guerin Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh for Watermelon
Best Art Direction
Padraig O'Neill for Spin the Bottle (Winner) God's Kitchen for Paki Smith Laurent Mellet for Headrush Mark Geraghty for Home for Christmas Tom Conroy for Intermission