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Acclaimed Irish feature What Richard Did from director Lenny Abrahamson has been nominated for 10 Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTA) ahead of its release across Britain this weekend.
The IFTA nominees were announced yesterday (January 10) with What Richard Did receiving nominations for Best Film, Script, Best Director and more.
Lead actor Jack Reynor, recently confirmed for his first Hollywood starring role in Michael Bay’s fourth Transformers film, has been nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role, along with lead actress Roisin Murphy.
RTÉ gangland drama Love/ Hate dominated the television categories with 11 nominations.
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Writer Stuart Carolan and director David Caffrey have been nominated for the second time in the Script and Director categories, while lead actors Robert Sheehan, Tom Vaughan Lawlor and Charlie Murphy have all received nominations.
The TV series also earned supporting actors nominations for Susan Loughnane and Peter Coonan.
In What Richard Did Jack Reynor plays wealthy Dublin student Richard Karlsen, whose life with girlfriend Lara, played by Murphy, is turned upside down after one fateful night.
Directed by triple IFTA-winning (Adam and Paul, Garage, Prosperity) filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson, What Richard Did was produced by Ed Guiney for Dublin-based Element Pictures from a script by Shameless scriptwriter Malcolm Campbell.
Speaking after the nominations were announced yesterday, Jack Reynor said he was “delighted to be nominated alongside such admirable Irish actors. It's a massive honour for me.”
Director Lenny Abrahamson and producer Ed Guiney received the news in New Mexico yesterday, where they are working on Abrahamson’s next feature Frank, which stars Golden Globe nominee Michael Fassbender, Oscar nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Variety’s Actor to Watch Domhnall Gleeson.
Lenny Abrahamson said of the IFTA nominations: “It's a really great conclusion to the Irish life of the film to have it nominated in so many categories. It's a real testament to the quality of the people I worked with on this film".
Ed Guiney of Element Pictures added: “What Richard Did is our third collaboration with Lenny and we are so pleased that his brilliant work as well as Malcolm Campbell's great script and our wonderful cast and crew have been recognized in this way.”
What Richard Did was the best performing Irish film in the Irish box office in 2012.
IFTA will celebrate its 10th anniversary with the 2013 awards ceremony in Dublin on February 9.
The full list of nominees for the major categories in the 2013 IFTA Awards are:
FILM
Death of a Superhero (Michael Garland, Astrid Kahmke, Bavaria Pictures, Grand Pictures)
Good Vibrations (Chris Martin, Andrew Eaton, Canderblinks Films)
Grabbers (David Collins, Martina Niland, Forward Films, High Treason Productions, Samson Films)
Shadow Dancer (Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Element Pictures)
What Richard Did (Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Element Pictures)
DIRECTOR FILM
Lenny Abrahamson, What Richard Did (Element Pictures)
Pat Collins, Silence (South Wind Blows and Harvest Films)
Ian Fitzgibbon, Death of a Superhero (Bavaria Pictures, Grand Pictures)
Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths (Blueprint Pictures)
SCRIPT FILM
Malcolm Campbell, What Richard Did (Element Pictures)
Kevin Lehane, Grabbers (Forward Films, High Treason Productions, Samson Films)
Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths (Blueprint Pictures)
Kieron J Walsh, Jump (Hotshot Films)
ACTOR FILM
Richard Dormer, Good Vibrations (Canderblinks Films)
Colin Farrell, Seven Psychopaths (Blueprint Pictures)
Martin McCann, Jump (Hotshot Films)
Jack Reynor, What Richard Did (Element Pictures)
ACTRESS FILM
Ruth Bradley, Grabbers (Forward Films, High Treason Productions, Samson Films)
Anne Marie Duff, Sanctuary (Venom Films)
Roisin Murphy, What Richard Did (Element Pictures)
Seana Kerslake, Dollhouse (The Factory)
SUPPORTING ACTOR FILM
Domhnall Gleeson, Anna Karenina (Universal Pictures)
Ciaran Hinds, The Woman in Black (Hammer Film Productions)
Michael McElhatton, Death of a Superhero (Bavaria Pictures, Grand Pictures)
David Wilmot, Shadow Dancer (Element Pictures)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS FILM
Brid Brennan, Shadow Dancer (Element Pictures)
Bronagh Gallagher, Grabbers (Forward Films, High Treason Productions, Samson Films)
Charlene McKenna, Jump (Hotshot Films)
Gabrielle Reidy, What Richard Did (Element Pictures)
GEORGE MORRISON FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Barbaric Genius
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Skin in the Game
SHORT FILM
The Girl with the Mechanical Maiden
Fear of Flying
Morning
Rhinos
ANIMATION
After You
Fear of Flying
Macropolis
Peter Rabbit’s Christmas Tale
TELEVISION DRAMA
The Borgias (Neil Jordan, Jordan Flynn, Octagon Films)
Game of Thrones (HBO)
Love/Hate (Suzanne McAuley, Steve Matthews, Octagon Films)
Titanic: Blood and Steel (Paul Myler, Roberto Minni, Ciaran Donnelly, Epos Films)
DIRECTOR TV DRAMA
David Caffrey, Love Hate (Octagon Films)
Ciaran Donnelly, Titanic: Blood and Steel (Epos Films)
Declan Lowney, Moone Boy (Grand Pictures, Baby Cow Productions, Hot Cod Productions and Sprout Pictures for Sky 1)
Aisling Walsh, Loving Miss Hatto (Left Bank Pictures)
SCRIPT DRAMA
Stuart Carolan, Love/Hate (Octagon Films)
Colin Heber-Percy & Lyall Watson, Saving the Titanic (Tile Films)
Neil Jordan, The Borgias (Octagon Films)
Chris O’Dowd & Nick Vincent Murphy, Moone Boy (Grand Pictures, Baby Cow Productions, Hot Cod Productions and Sprout Pictures for Sky 1)
ACTOR TV
Gabriel Byrne, Secret State – Company Pictures
Colm Meaney, Hell on Wheels (Endemol)
Robert Sheehan, Love/Hate (Octagon Films)
Tom Vaughan Lawlor, Love/Hate (Octagon Films)
ACTRESS TV
Orla Brady, Sinbad (Possible Pictures)
Carrie Crowley, Rasai na Gaillimhe (Great Western Films)
Amy Huberman, Threesome (Big Talk Productions)
Charlie Murphy, Love/Hate (Octagon Films)
SUPPORTING ACTOR TV
Peter Coonan, Love/Hate (Octagon Films)
Allen Leech, Downton Abbey (Carnival Films)
Chris O’Dowd, Moone Boy (Grand Pictures, Baby Cow Productions, Hot Cod Productions and Sprout Pictures for Sky 1)
Andrew Scott, Sherlock (Hartswood Films)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS TV
Cathy Belton, Roy (Jam Media)
Susan Loughnane, Love/Hate (Octagon Films)
Ruth Negga, Secret State (Channel 4)
Deirdre O’Kane, Moone Boy (Grand Pictures, Baby Cow Productions, Hot Cod Productions and Sprout Pictures for Sky 1)
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