Kneecap, the Irish hip-hop comedy that includes Michael Fassbender, is main the nominations for the film portion of the Irish Movie & Tv Awards 2025, unveiled Tuesday. Wealthy Peppiatt’s comedy that follows the West Belfast hip-hop trio of the identical title on their mission to save lots of their mom tongue earned 17 nominations, together with for greatest movie, director, script, lead actor (a class through which all three members, specifically Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and JJ Ó Dochartaigh are within the working) and supporting actor for Fassbender.
Michael Fassbender can also be nominated within the lead actor in a TV drama class for his function in The Company.
Saoirse Ronan is one other double 2025 IFTAs nominee. She is in competition for the main movie actress honor for her work in The Outrun, in addition to for her supporting actress function in Steve McQueen’s Blitz.
Behind Kneecap within the movie part, Tim Mielants’ historic drama Small Issues Like These earned 9 nominations, together with for Cillian Murphy, who’s within the working for the very best movie actor honor. His competitors consists of Paul Mescal, who earned a nom for Gladiator II, the three Kneecap guys and Peter Coonan (King Frankie).
Among the many different huge names on the lookout for IFTAs appearing honors are the likes of Colin Farrell, who’s nominated in the very best TV drama actor class for The Penguin in a showdown that additionally consists of the likes of Fassbender (The Company), Andrew Scott for Ripley, Ciarán Hinds (The Dry) and Rivals star Aidan Turner. In the meantime, Jessie Buckley is up for the lead movie actress honor for Depraved Little Letters, whereas Barry Keoghan is in competition for the very best movie supporting actor honor for his work in Chicken.
Nicola Coughlan is up for the very best TV lead actress award for Bridgerton, along with the likes of Sharon Horgan, nominated for Dangerous Sisters. And the very best feminine drama lead actress race additionally options a lot star energy as Eve Hewson and Fiona Shaw are each nominated for his or her roles in Dangerous Sisters, whereas Ruth Negga earned a nom for Presumed Harmless.
Dangerous Sisters earned eight TV nominations total, simply behind Irish Troubles drama Say Nothing with 10.
Within the worldwide movie awards classes, the nominated films are Anora, Conclave, Dune: Half Two, The Brutalist, The Outrun and The Substance. And the worldwide appearing nominees embrace such huge names as Adrien Brody, Ralph Fiennes, Sebastian Stan, Denzel Washington, Cynthia Erivo, Angelina Jolie, Mikey Madison and Demi Moore.
The IFTAs ceremony will likely be going down Feb. 14 on the Dublin Royal Conference Centre. Additionally on that evening, Colm Meaney (Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology, Star Trek: Deep Area 9, Within the Land of Saints & Sinners) will obtain the Irish Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement for his “excellent contribution to the Irish and worldwide display screen trade.”
A full listing of nominations for the IFTAs 2025 follows.
BEST FILM
Kathleen Is Right here
King Frankie
Kneecap
Small Issues Like These
Spilt Milk
The Apprentice
DIRECTOR – FILM
Eva Birthistle – Kathleen Is Right here
John Crowley – We Stay in Time
Brian Durnin – Spilt Milk
Damian McCarthy – Oddity
Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor – Baltimore
Wealthy Peppiatt – Kneecap
SCRIPT – FILM
Eva Birthistle – Kathleen Is Right here
Cara Loftus – Spilt Milk
Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor – Baltimore
Wealthy Peppiatt – Kneecap
Stephen Shields – Abigail
Enda Walsh – Small Issues Like These
LEAD ACTOR – FILM
Peter Coonan – King Frankie
Paul Mescal – Gladiator II
Cillian Murphy – Small Issues Like These
Naoise Ó Caireallain – Kneecap
J.J. Ó Dochartaigh – Kneecap
Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh – Kneecap
LEAD ACTRESS – FILM
Carolyn Bracken – Oddity
Jessie Buckley – Depraved Little Letters
Hazel Doupe – Kathleen Is Right here
Saoirse Ronan – The Outrun
Eileen Walsh – Small Issues Like These
Alisha Weir – Abigail
SUPPORTING ACTOR – FILM
Peter Coonan – Kathleen Is Right here
Michael Fassbender – Kneecap
Barry Keoghan – Chicken
Brían F. O’Byrne – Conclave
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor – Baltimore
Steve Wall – Oddity
SUPPORTING ACTRESS – FILM
Zara Devlin – Small Issues Like These
Clare Dunne – Kathleen Is Right here
Fionnuala Flaherty – Kneecap
Simone Kirby – Kneecap
Saoirse Ronan – Blitz
Jessica Reynolds – Kneecap
BEST DRAMA – TV
Dangerous Sisters
Say Nothing
The Dry
Bodkin
Blue Lights
Crá
DIRECTOR, DRAMA – TV
Paddy Breathnach – The Dry
Brian Kirk – The Day of the Jackal
Michael Lennox – Say Nothing
Lisa Mulcahy – Sanctuary
Hannah Quinn – The Boy That By no means Was
Dearbhla Walsh – Dangerous Sisters
SCRIPT, DRAMA (TV)
Baz Ashmawy – Faithless
Ronan Bennett – The Day of the Jackal
Nancy Harris – The Dry
Sharon Horgan – Dangerous Sisters
Adam Patterson, Declan Garden – Blue Lights
Kirsten Sheridan, Joshua Zetumer – Say Nothing
LEAD ACTOR, DRAMA – TV
Anthony Boyle – Say Nothing
Colin Farrell – The Penguin
Michael Fassbender – The Company
Ciarán Hinds – The Dry
Andrew Scott – Ripley
Aidan Turner – Rivals
LEAD ACTRESS, DRAMA – TV
Elaine Cassidy – Sanctuary
Nicola Coughlan – Bridgerton
Siobhán Cullen – Bodkin
Roisin Gallagher – The Dry
Sharon Horgan – Dangerous Sisters
Lola Petticrew – Say Nothing
SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA – TV
Anthony Boyle – Masters of the Air
Liam Cunningham – 3 Physique Drawback
Michael Smiley – Dangerous Sisters
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor – Say Nothing
Chris Walley – Bodkin
David Wilmot – Bodkin
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA – TV
Siobhán Cullen – The Dry
Hazel Doupe – Say Nothing
Eve Hewson – Dangerous Sisters
Ruth Negga – Presumed Harmless
Fiona Shaw – Dangerous Sisters
Victoria Smurfit – Rivals
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Anora
Conclave
Dune Half Two
The Brutalist
The Outrun
The Substance
BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Timothee Chalamet – A Full Unknown
Kieran Culkin – A Actual Ache
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II
BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS
Cynthia Erivo – Depraved
Angelina Jolie – Maria
Mikey Madison – Anora
Demi Moore – The Substance
Florence Pugh – We Stay in Time
Emily Watson – Small Issues Like These
GEORGE MORRISON FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Face Down: The Disappearance of Thomas Niedermayer
Don’t Neglect to Bear in mind
Blue Street: The Edna O’Brien Story
The Flats
Mrs Robinson
Brendan Gleeson’s Farewell to Hughes’s
LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM
Clodagh
Farmers!?
Room Taken
Turnaround
Two Moms
We Beg to Differ
Spouse of the Future
Wrecker
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Dembaya
Each Different Weekend
Homebird
Nightpay
CASTING
Baltimore – Emma Gunnery
Bodkin – Louise Kiely
Kneecap – Carla Stronge
Say Nothing – Lucy Amos, Nina Gold
Small Issues Like These – Maureen Hughes
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Chicken – Robbie Ryan
Fréwaka – Narayan Van Maele
Kneecap – Ryan Kernaghan
Say Nothing – Stephen Murphy
The Penguin – Darran Tiernan
COSTUME DESIGN
Abigail – Gwen Jeffares Hourie
Home of the Dragon – Caroline McCall
Kneecap – Zjena Glamocanin
Spilt Milk – Gwen Jeffares Hourie
Vikings Valhalla – Susan O’Connor-Cave
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Abigail – Susie Cullen
Bodkin – Paki Smith
Kneecap – Nicola Moroney
The Vacationer – Philip Murphy
Vikings Valhalla – Tom Conroy
HAIR & MAKEUP
Abigail – Linda Gannon, Liz Byrne
Kneecap – Liz Boston
Small Issues Like These – Lorraine Glynn, Lynn Johnston
The Apprentice – Sandra Kelly, Tom McInerney
Vikings Valhalla – Joe Whelan, Tom McInerney
SOUND
Abigail – Hugh Fox
Blackshore – John ‘Bob’ Brennan, Mark Henry, Fionan Higgins
Kneecap – Aza Hand, Brendan Rehill, Chris Woodcock
Oddity – Aza Hand, Hugo Parvery
Small Issues Like These – Hugh Fox, Senjan Jansen
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Fréwaka – Die Hexen
The Apprentice – David Holmes
The Dry – Sarah Lynch
The Magic Reindeer: Saving Santa’s Sleigh – Eimear Noone, Craig Stuart Garfinkle
The Music Cycle – Ray Harman
EDITING
Dangerous Sisters – Derek Holland
Kathleen Is Right here – Colin Campbell
Kneecap – Julian Ulrichs & Chris Gill
Paddington in Peru – Úna Ní Dhonghaíle
Say Nothing – Edel McDonnell
VFX
3 Physique Drawback – Ed Bruce, Liam Neville
Bodkin – John Kennedy, Lisa Maher
Sanctuary – Dan Cullen
Shogun – Ed Bruce, Andrew Barry