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The IFTA's 2026 - Full List Of Winners!

Shannon Keenan
Shannon Keenan

12:23 23 Feb 2026


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And the winners are...

The 23rd annual IFTA Awards (Irish Film and Television Academy) took place in Dublin, on Friday (20th February) and the winners have been crowned!

The ceremony is Ireland's own Oscars, celebrating the very best of Irish talent in film and TV across 29 categories from the past year.

The Awards was hosted by Kevin McGahern, with Jessie Buckley, Louisa Harland and Anthony Boyle to name a few amung the winners.

See the full list of winners below:

RISING STAR

Carolyn Bracken (Actor – Horseshoe, Oddity)
Brendan Canty (Director – Christy, Gealtra)
Myrid Carten (Director – A Want in Her)
Louisa Harland (Actor – The Walsh Sisters, Derry Girls) – WINNER

BEST FILM

Aontas
Blue Moon
Christy – WINNER
Four Mothers
Saipan
Steve

DIRECTOR – FILM

Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn – Saipan
Brendan Canty – Christy – WINNER
Myrid Carten – A Want in Her
Lorcan Finnegan – The Surfer
Ruán Magan – Báite
Edwin Mullane, Adam O’Keeffe – Horseshoe

SCRIPT FILM

Sarah Gordon, Damian McCann – Aontas
Maggie O’Farrell, Chloé Zhao – Hamnet – WINNER
Alan O’Gorman – Christy
Sheena Lambert – Báite
Darren Thornton, Colin Thornton – Four Mothers
Enda Walsh – Die My Love

LEAD ACTOR – FILM

Steve Coogan – Saipan
Daniel Day-Lewis – Anemone
Colin Farrell – Ballad of a Small Player
Éanna Hardwicke – Saipan – WINNER
Cillian Murphy – Steve
Daniel Power – Christy

Jessie Buckley – Hamnet – WINNER
Carolyn Bracken – Horseshoe
Carrie Crowley – Aontas
Fionnula Flanagan – Four Mothers
Eleanor O’Brien – Báite
Fiona Shaw – Hot Milk

SUPPORTING ACTOR – FILM

Liam Cunningham – Palestine 36
Jamie Forde – Christy
Paul Mescal – Hamnet – WINNER
Diarmuid Noyes – Christy
Seán T. Ó Meallaigh – Aontas
Andrew Scott – Blue Moon

SUPPORTING ACTRESS – FILM

Brid Brennan – Aontas
Kerry Condon – F1 – WINNER
Sarah Greene – Trad
Dearbhla Molloy – Four Mothers
Kerry Condon – Train Dreams
Emma Willis – Christy

DRAMA CATEGORIES

BEST DRAMA

Blue Lights – WINNER
Leonard and Hungry Paul
Trespasses
The Walsh Sisters
Wednesday S2
The Young Offenders

DIRECTOR DRAMA

Rachel Carey – Obituary – WINNER
Megan K Fox – Video Nasty
Oonagh Kearney – The Au Pair
Mia Mullarkey – Hidden Assets
Hugh O’Conor – Showkids
Aisling Walsh – Miss Austen

SCRIPT DRAMA

Peter Foott – The Young Offenders
Ailbhe Keogan – Trespasses – WINNER
Declan Lawn, Adam Patterson – Blue Lights
Cara Loftus – Hidden Assets
Stefanie Preissner – The Walsh Sisters
Hugh Travers – Video Nasty

LEAD ACTOR – DRAMA

Anthony Boyle – House of Guinness – WINNER
Pierce Brosnan – MobLand
Domhnall Gleeson – The Paper
Martin McCann – Blue Lights
Aaron Monaghan – Hidden Assets
Alex Murphy – The Young Offenders

LEAD ACTRESS – DRAMA

Niamh Algar – The Iris Affair
Caitriona Balfe – Outlander
Siobhán Cullen – Obituary
Louisa Harland – The Walsh Sisters
Nora-Jane Noone – Hidden Assets
Lola Petticrew – Trespasses – WINNER

SUPPORTING ACTOR – DRAMA

Jack Gleeson – House of Guinness
Cal O’Driscoll – Video Nasty
Dónall Ó Héalai – Hidden Assets
Fionn O’Shea – House of Guinness
Aidan Quinn – The Walsh Sisters
Chris Walley – The Young Offenders – WINNER

SUPPORTING ACTRESS – DRAMA

Cathy Belton – Hidden Assets
Ruth Bradley – Slow Horses
Katherine Devlin – Blue Lights
Danielle Galligan – House of Guinness
Alison Oliver – Task – WINNER
Genevieve O’Reilly – Andor

INTERNATIONAL CATEGORIES

INTERNATIONAL FILM

Bugonia
Hamnet – WINNER
One Battle After Another
Palestine ’36
Sentimental Value
Sinners

INTERNATIONAL ACTOR

Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another – WINNER
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Michael B Jordan – Sinners
James McArdle – Four Mothers
Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Jesse Plemons – Bugonia

INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS

Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
Jennifer Lawrence – Die My Love
Margaret Qualley – Blue Moon
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
Emma Stone – Bugonia – WINNER
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another

DOCUMENTARY & SHORT FILM CATEGORIES

GEORGE MORRISON FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

A Want in Her – WINNER
The Essence of Eva
Listen To The Land Speak
Sanatorium
Testimony
Útoipe Cheilteach

SHORT FILM AWARD

The Ban
No Mean City
No Time Wasters
Nostalgie – WINNER
Punt
Three Keenings

ANIMATED SHORT

Éiru
Inside, The Valley Sings
Rerooted
Retirement Plan – WINNER

CRAFT CATEGORIES

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Bugonia – Robbie Ryan
Christy – Colm Hogan
Die My Love – Seamus McGarvey – WINNER
Saipan – Piers McGrail
Severance – Suzie Lavelle

CASTING

Christy – Amy Rowan – WINNER
Four Mothers – Louise Kiely
The Rainmaker – Emma Gunnery
Ready Or Not – Maureen Hughes
Saipan – Aine O’Sullivan

COSTUME DESIGN

Blue Moon – Consolata Boyle – WINNER
Christy – Hannah Bury
Four Mothers – Joan O’Cleary
Saipan – Lara Campbell
Video Nasty – Joanne O’Brien

MAKE-UP & HAIR

Blue Moon – Linda Gannon, Liz Byrne
Christy – Jennie Readman, Edwina Kelly
Saipan – Polly McKay
Trespasses – Natalie Reid – WINNER
Wednesday – Lynn Johnston

ORIGINAL MUSIC

Aontas – Daithí Ó Drónaí
Báite – Eimear Noone, Craig Stuart Garfinkle – WINNER
Christy – Daithí Ó Drónaí
Saipan – David Holmes, Brian Irvine
Video Nasty – Die Hexen

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Blue Moon – Susie Cullen, Kevin Downey
Christy – Martin Goulding
Saipan – John Leslie
Wednesday – Philip Murphy, Neville Gaynor – WINNER
Video Nasty – Tara O’Reilly

SOUND

Anemone – Steve Fanagan – WINNER
Blue Moon – Hugh Fox
Saipan – Tim Harrison, Andrew Graham, Paul Maynes
The Surfer – Aza Hand
Video Nasty – Patrick Downey

VFX

Anemone – Tom Fagan
Foundation – Ed Bruce, Andrew Barry
House of Guinness – Eoin O’Sullivan, David Sewell
One Battle After Another – Ed Bruce, Amrei Bronnenmayer

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