List of Irish Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Irish Academy Award winners and nominees. It includes people from the Republic of Ireland and from Northern Ireland. It does not include members of the Irish diaspora unless they were born in Ireland or hold Irish citizenship.

Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Picture
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1989	Noel Pearson	My Left Foot	Nominated		[1]
1993	Jim Sheridan	In the Name of the Father	Nominated		[2]
2008	Redmond Morris	The Reader	Nominated	Shared with Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack and Donna Gigliotti.	[3]
2015	Ed Guiney	Room	Nominated		[4]
2017	Martin McDonagh	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Nominated	Shared with Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin.	[5]
2018	Ed Guiney	The Favourite	Nominated	Shared with Ceci Dempsey, Lee Magiday, and Yorgos Lanthimos.	[6]
2021	Kenneth Branagh	Belfast	Nominated	Shared with Laura Berwick, Becca Kovacik, and Tamar Thomas.	[7]
2022	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin	Nominated	Shared with Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin.	[8][9]
2023	Ed Guiney Andrew Lowe	Poor Things	Nominated	Shared with Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone.	[10]

Best Director

Academy Award for Best Director
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1928	Herbert Brenon	Sorrell and Son	Nominated		[11]
1989	Kenneth Branagh	Henry V	Nominated		[12]
	Jim Sheridan	My Left Foot	Nominated		[1]
1992	Neil Jordan	The Crying Game	Nominated		[13]
1993	Jim Sheridan	In the Name of the Father	Nominated		[2]
2015	Lenny Abrahamson	Room	Nominated		[4]
2021	Kenneth Branagh	Belfast	Nominated		[7]
2022	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin	Nominated		[8]

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Academy Award for Best Actor
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1944	Barry Fitzgerald	Going My Way	Nominated	The only person to be nominated in two different acting categories for the same role in the same movie in the same year.	[14][15]
1949	Richard Todd	The Hasty Heart	Nominated		[16]
1954	Dan O'Herlihy	Robinson Crusoe	Nominated		[17]
1963	Richard Harris	This Sporting Life	Nominated		[18][19]
1989	Kenneth Branagh	Henry V	Nominated		[1]
	Daniel Day-Lewis	My Left Foot	Won	Day-Lewis is an English-born actor with joint British/Irish citizenship.
1990	Richard Harris	The Field	Nominated		[20]
1992	Stephen Rea	The Crying Game	Nominated		[13]
1993	Daniel Day-Lewis	In the Name of the Father	Nominated		[2][19]
	Liam Neeson	Schindler's List	Nominated
2002	Daniel Day-Lewis	Gangs of New York	Nominated		[21]
2007		There Will Be Blood	Won		[22]
2012		Lincoln	Won		[23]
2015	Michael Fassbender	Steve Jobs	Nominated	Born in Germany; holds both Irish and German citizenship.[24][25]	[4][19]
2017	Daniel Day-Lewis	Phantom Thread	Nominated		[26]
2022	Colin Farrell	The Banshees of Inisherin	Nominated		[8]
	Paul Mescal	Aftersun	Nominated
2023	Cillian Murphy	Oppenheimer	Won	Murphy is the first Irish-born performer to win Best Actor.[27]	[10]

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Academy Award for Best Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
2015	Saoirse Ronan	Brooklyn	Nominated	At age 21, Ronan became eighth-youngest nominee at that time in the category.[28]	[4][29]
2016	Ruth Negga	Loving	Nominated	First black Irish actress to be nominated in any category.	[30][29]
2017	Saoirse Ronan	Lady Bird	Nominated		[31]
2019		Little Women	Nominated	At age 25 and six months of age, Ronan became the second youngest person to score four Academy Award nominations in both acting categories (Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress).[32]	[5]

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1944	Barry Fitzgerald	Going My Way	Won	The only person to be nominated in two different acting categories for the same role in the same movie in the same year.	[14][15]
2011	Kenneth Branagh	My Week with Marilyn	Nominated		[33]
2013	Michael Fassbender	12 Years a Slave	Nominated		[34]
2021	Ciarán Hinds	Belfast	Nominated		[7]
2022	Brendan Gleeson	The Banshees of Inisherin	Nominated		[8][9]
	Barry Keoghan		Nominated

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1939	Geraldine Fitzgerald	Wuthering Heights	Nominated		[35]
1941	Sara Allgood	How Green Was My Valley	Nominated		[36]
	Patricia Collinge	The Little Foxes	Nominated
1989	Brenda Fricker	My Left Foot	Won		[1][15]
2007	Saoirse Ronan	Atonement	Nominated	At age 13, Ronan became the seventh-youngest nominee at that time in the category.[37]	[38]
2021	Jessie Buckley	The Lost Daughter	Nominated		[7]
2022	Kerry Condon	The Banshees of Inisherin	Nominated		[8]

Best Original Screenplay

Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1992	Neil Jordan	The Crying Game	Won		[13][15]
2003	Jim Sheridan Kirsten Sheridan Naomi Sheridan	In America	Nominated	Father-daughters team.	[39]
2004	Terry George	Hotel Rwanda	Nominated	Shared with Keir Pearson.	[40]
2008	Martin McDonagh	In Bruges	Nominated	Born in England to Irish parents, McDonagh holds both British and Irish citizenship.[41]	[42]
2017		Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Nominated		[31][15]
2021	Kenneth Branagh	Belfast	Won		[7]
2022	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin	Nominated		[8]

Best Adapted Screenplay

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Source Material	Status	Notes	Ref.
1938	George Bernard Shaw	Pygmalion	Based on the play of the same name by Shaw.	Won	Shared with Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis, and W. P. Lipscomb.	[43][15]
1966	Bill Naughton	Alfie	Based on the play of the same name by Naughton.	Nominated		[44]
1989	Shane Connaughton Jim Sheridan	My Left Foot	Based on the autobiography of the same name by Christy Brown.	Nominated		[1]
1993	Terry George Jim Sheridan	In the Name of the Father	Based on the book Proved Innocent by Gerry Conlon.	Nominated		[2]
1996	Kenneth Branagh	Hamlet	Based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare.	Nominated		[45]
2015	Emma Donoghue	Room	Based on the novel of the same name by Donoghue.	Nominated		[4]

Best Animated Feature

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
2009	Tomm Moore	The Secret of Kells	Nominated		[42]
2014	Tomm Moore Paul Young	Song of the Sea	Nominated		[46]
2017	Nora Twomey	The Breadwinner	Nominated	Shared nomination with Anthony Leo.	[47]
2021	Tomm Moore Paul Young	Wolfwalkers	Nominated	Shared with Ross Stewart and Stéphan Roelants.	[48]

Best International Feature Film

See also: List of Irish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
2022	Colm Bairéad	The Quiet Girl	Nominated	In the Irish language.	[8]

Best Documentary Short

Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1961	Tom Hayes Jim O'Connor	Cradle of Genius	Nominated		[49]
1965	Patrick Carey	Yeats Country	Nominated	Shared with Joe Mendoza.	[50]
1970	Patrick Carey Vivien Carey	Oisin	Nominated		[51]
1973	Louis Marcus	Children at Work	Nominated	Original title: Páistí ag obair Irish-language film	[52]
2005	Corinne Marrinan	A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin	Won	Born in the United States; holds both Irish and American citizenship.[53] Shared with Eric Simonson.	[54]

Best Live Action Short

Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1975	Louis Marcus	Conquest of Light	Nominated		[55]
1992	Kenneth Branagh	Swan Song	Nominated	Shared with David Parfitt.	[13]
1997	Tim Loane Pearse Moore Dave Duggan	Dance Lexie Dance	Nominated		[56]
2004	Gary McKendry	Everything in This Country Must	Nominated		[40]
2005	Martin McDonagh	Six Shooter	Won		[40]
2008	Steph Green	New Boy	Nominated	Shared with Tamara Anghie.	[3]
2009	James Flynn Juanita Wilson	The Door	Nominated	Husband-wife team.	[42]
2010	Michael Creagh	The Crush	Nominated		[57]
2011	Peter McDonald Eimear O'Kane	Pentecost	Nominated		[33]
	Oorlagh George Terry George	The Shore	Won	Father-daughter team.	[33][15]
2014	Ronan Blaney Michael Lennox	Boogaloo and Graham	Nominated		[46]
2015	Benjamin Cleary	Stutterer	Won	Shared with Shan Christopher Ogilvie and Serena Armitage.	[58]
2018	Vincent Lambe Darren Mahon	Detainment	Nominated		[6]
2022	Ross White	An Irish Goodbye	Won	Shared with Tom Berkeley, a native of Gloucester based in Belfast.[59]	[8]

Best Animated Short

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1996	Tyron Montgomery	Quest	Won	Shared with Thomas Stellmach	[45]
2001	Seamus Byrne Ruairí Robinson	Fifty Percent Grey	Nominated		[60]
	Cathal Gaffney Darragh O'Connell	Give Up Yer Aul Sins	Nominated
2009	Darragh O'Connell Nicky Phelan	Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty	Nominated		[42]
2012	Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly	Head Over Heels	Nominated	Shared with Timothy Reckart.	[61]
2018	Louise Bagnall	Late Afternoon	Nominated	Shared with Nuria González Blanco.	[6]

Best Original Song

Academy Award for Best Original Song
Year	Name	Film	Song	Status	Notes	Ref.
2001	Enya Nicky Ryan Roma Ryan	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	"May It Be"	Nominated		[60][62]
2002	U2	Gangs of New York	"The Hands That Built America"	Nominated		[63]
2007	Glen Hansard	Once	"Falling Slowly"	Won	Shared with Markéta Irglová.	[38][15]
2013	Bono (lyrics) U2 (music)	Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom	"Ordinary Love"	Nominated		[34]
2021	Van Morrison	Belfast	"Down to Joy"	Nominated		[7]

Best Sound

Academy Award for Best Sound
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
2001	Peter J. Devlin	Pearl Harbor	Nominated	Shared with Kevin O'Connell and Greg P. Russell.	[60][62]
2007		Transformers	Nominated		[38]
2009		Star Trek	Nominated	Shared with Anna Behlmer and Andy Nelson.	[42]
2011		Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Nominated	Shared with Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, and Gary Summers.	[33]
2018		Black Panther	Nominated	Shared with Steve Boeddeker and Brandon Proctor.	[6]

Best Production Design

Academy Award for Best Production Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1963	Josie MacAvin (set decorator)	Tom Jones	Nominated	Nominated in the Color category. Shared with Jocelyn Herbert (set decorator); Ralph W. Brinton and Ted Marshall (art directors).	[18]
1965		The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	Nominated	Nominated in the Black-and-White category. Shared with Ted Marshall (set decorator); Tambi Larsen and Hal Pereira (art directors).	[50]
1985		Out of Africa	Won	Shared with Stephen B. Grimes (art director).	[64][15]

Best Cinematography

Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
2007	Seamus McGarvey	Atonement	Nominated		[38]
2012		Anna Karenina	Nominated		[61]
2018	Robbie Ryan	The Favourite	Nominated		[6]
2023		Poor Things	Nominated		[10]

Best Film Editing

Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
2022	Jonathan Redmond	Elvis	Nominated	Shared with Matt Villa.	[65][9]

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
1982	Michèle Burke	Quest for Fire	Won	Original title: La Guerre du feu French-language film. Shared with Sarah Monzani.	[66][15]
1986		The Clan of the Cave Bear	Nominated	Shared with Michael Westmore.	[67]
1990		Cyrano de Bergerac	Nominated	French-language film. Shared with Jean-Pierre Eychenne.	[20]
1992		Bram Stoker's Dracula	Won	Shared with Greg Cannom and Matthew W. Mungle.	[13][15]
1999		Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	Nominated	Shared with Mike Smithson.	[68]
2000		The Cell	Nominated	Shared with Edouard F. Henriques.	[69]
2011	Lynn Johnston	Albert Nobbs	Nominated	Shared with Martial Corneville and Matthew W. Mungle.	[33]

Best Costume Design

Academy Award for Best Costume Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
2006	Consolata Boyle	The Queen	Nominated		[70]
2016		Florence Foster Jenkins	Nominated		[30]
2017		Victoria & Abdul	Nominated		[31]

Best Visual Effects

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Year	Name	Film	Status	Notes	Ref.
2009	Richard Baneham	Avatar	Won	Shared with Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, and Andrew R. Jones.	[71]
2022		Avatar: The Way of Water	Won	Shared with Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett.	[8][9]

Nominations and winners

No. of wins	No. of nominations
21	104

See also

• Cinema of Ireland
• List of Irish actors
• List of Irish films
• Irish Film & Television Awards
• List of Irish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
• List of British Academy Award nominees and winners

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