15th Irish Film & Television Awards

The 15th Irish Film & Television Academy Awards took place at the Mansion House on 15 February 2018 in Dublin, honoured Irish film and television drama released in 2017. Deirdre O'Kane host the film awards ceremony.

The nominations for the IFTA Film & Drama Awards were announced by the Irish Film and Television Academy. Winners are denoted by bold letters.

Film

Feature film

Michael Inside

Cardboard Gangsters

Handsome Devil

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Maudie

Song of Granite

Director

Aisling Walsh – Maudie

Frank Berry – Michael Inside

John Butler – Handsome Devil

Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Mark O Connor – Cardboard Gangsters

Scriptwriter

Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Frank Berry – Michael Inside

Stephen Burke – Maze

John Butler – Handsome Devil

Nick Kelly – The Drummer and The Keeper

Actor in a leading role

John Connors – Cardboard Gangsters

Colin Farrell – The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Dafhyd Flynn – Michael Inside

Fionn O'Shea – Handsome Devil

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor – Maze

Actress in a leading role

Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird

Sarah Bolger – Halal Daddy

Ann Skelly – Kissing Candice

Actor in a supporting role

Barry Keoghan – The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Jacob McCarthy – The Drummer and The Keeper

Andrew Scott – Handsome Devil

Fionn Walton – Cardboard Gangsters

Barry Ward – Maze

Actress in a supporting role

Victoria Smurfit – The Lears

Niamh Algar – The Drummer and The Keeper

Sarah Carroll – The Limit Of

Deirdre O Kane – Halal Daddy

Fionna Hewitt Twamley – Cardboard Gangsters

George Morrison Feature Documentary

The Farthest

The 34th

A Cambodian Spring

No Stone Unturned

The Silver Branch

Short film – Live action

Wave

Cry Rosa

For You

Lily

The Secret Market

The Tattoo

Time Traveller

Animated short film

Late Afternoon

An Beal Bocht

Angela's Christmas

Departure

Craft

Original music

Stephen McKeon – Pilgrimage

Ray Harman – The Farthest

Stephen Rennicks – Maze

John Gerard Walsh – The Drummer and The Keeper

Editing

Una Ni DhonghaIle – Three Girls

Tony Cranstoun – The Farthest

Dermot Diskin – Peaky Blinders

Tadhg O Sullivan – Song of Granite

Production Design

John Hand – Maudie

Stephen Daly – Into the Badlands

Joe Fallover – The Lodgers

Mark Geraghty – Vikings

Cinematography

Seamus McGarvey – The Greatest Showman

Tom Comerford – Pilgrimage

Richard Kendrick – Song of Granite

Cathal Watters – Peaky Blinders

Costume Design

Consolata Boyle – Victoria and Abdul

Sarajane Ffrench O Carroll – The Lodgers

Susan O Connor Cave – Vikings

Leonie Prendergast – Pilgrimage

Make Up/Hair

Clare Lambe & Sevlene Roddy – Into the Badlands

Julie-Ann Ryan & Niamh Glynn – The Cured

Lorraine Glynn & Sonya Dolan – The Man Who Invented Christmas

Dee Corcoran & Tom McInerney – Vikings

Sound

Steve Fanagan, Kieran Horgan – The Farthest

Ronan Hill, Onnalee Blank, Mathew Waters – Game of Thrones

Karl Merren, Brendan Deasy – Into the Badlands

Marco Dolle, Steve Munro, Garret Farrel – Maudie

VFX

Tailored Films & Bowsie Workshop – The Lodgers

Tim Chauncey – The Ash Lad: In the Hall of the Mountain King

Ian Benjamin Kenny, Enda O Connor – The Farthest

Ed Bruce & Nicholas Murphy, Screenscene – Game of Thrones

International categories

International film

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Dunkirk

Lady Bird

The Shape of Water

International actor

Ethan Hawke – Maudie

Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name

Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour

Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

International actress

Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Sally Hawkins – Maudie

Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water

Nicole Kidman – The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Television drama

Drama

Game of Thrones

Acceptable Risk

Line of Duty

Paula

Striking Out

Vikings