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KNEECAP for The Oscars

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KNEECAP has been selected to represent Ireland in the Oscar International Feature Film category at the upcoming 97th annual Academy Awards. Set in West Belfast in 2019, it chronicles how fate brings the trio together and how they then go on to ‘change the sound of Irish music forever’. KNEECAP film received its World Premiere at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in January this year, where it won a NEXT Audience Award, the first Irish language film to win at the festival and lands in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on August 8.

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POOR THINGS makes Irish Oscar history

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POOR THINGS has set an Oscar record and become the most Academy Award nominated Irish-produced film of all time after it received 11 nods at today’s announcement for the 2024 awards. The film, which stars Emma Stone and was directed by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, received 11 Academy Award nominations – Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Original Score, Best Hair and Make Up, and Best Supporting Actor, and Best Costume Design. POOR THINGS was produced and developed by Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe and the team at Dublin-based Element Pictures.

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Martin named Outstanding Newcomer 2023

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AN IRISH GOODBYE star James Martin has been named as Outstanding Newcomer at the Royal Television Society (RTS) Ireland Awards 2023. Oscar sensation James Martin received the award this year, with the RTS describing him as “an actor who has made his mark on both Irish and international audiences this year, through his excellent portrayal of his characters on screen”.

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Ireland at the Oscars 2023

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It’s a huge year for Ireland at the Oscars: from acting to directing to visual effects, Irish films, film-makers and stars have received 14 nominations. A quarter of the acting nominees – Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Paul Mescal and Barry Keoghan – are Irish. And THE QUIET GIRL is the first Irish-language film to be nominated for an Oscar. JJ Abrams put it succinctly: “Seven million people on that island and all of them are nominated.”

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AN IRISH GOODBYE: a tale of grief

An Irish Goodbye

It’s safe to say that actor James Martin is looking forward to his upcoming trip to Hollywood. The star of AN IRISH GOODBYE, the short film that has already won a Bafta and is now gunning for an Oscar, has an extra reason to celebrate. Sunday’s ceremony falls on his birthday. Martin, who has also starred in BBC One film UPs and DOWNs and ITV’s MARCELLA, plays Lorcan in Ross White and Tom Berkeley’s film about two estranged brothers thrown together again after their mother’s untimely death.

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THE QUIET GIRL now in NA theatres

The Quiet Girl

At this year’s Academy Awards, THE QUIET GIRL stands on the verge of making history, potentially becoming the first ever Irish language film to bag an Oscar. Based on Booker-prize nominated author Claire Keegan’s novella FOSTER, the Irish adaption explores how Cait is sent from her family in rural Ireland to stay with relations in Ring, County Waterford, an Irish-speaking area, in 1981.

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Ireland rolls into Hollywood

Ireland has 14 Oscar nominations this season! THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN earned nine nods; Irish-language film THE QUIET GIRL has earned a place among the international feature film nominees; and AN IRISH GOODBYE is a live action short film nominee. Nominations were bestowed on Paul Mescal (AFTERSUN); the  cast of THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN along with “Elvis” film editor Jonathan Redmond and Richard Baneham, visual effects supervisor for AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER.

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Ireland at the Oscars

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Ireland has scooped a record 14 Oscar nominations, prompting jokes that the ceremony should be relocated from Los Angeles to Dublin. Martin McDonagh’s film THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN got nine nods, Paul Mescal was nominated for best actor for AFTERSUN, and THE QUIET GIRL made history by becoming the first Irish-language film to be nominated in the best international feature film category.

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