1st Irish Film & Television Awards

Best Irish Film Jury Award

• Intermission (Winner)
  • The Actors
  • Chávez: Inside the Coup
  • Dead Bodies
  • Song for a Raggy Boy
  • Veronica Guerin

Best Film Director

• John Crowley for Intermission (Winner)
  • John Deery for Conspiracy of Silence
  • Robert Quinn for Dead Bodies
  • Liz Gill for Goldfish Memory
  • Aisling Walsh for Song for a Raggy Boy

Best Short Film

• Meeting Che Guevara and the Man from Maybury Hill (Winner)
  • Eireville
  • The Last Time
  • No, No, No
  • Strangers in the Night

Best Actor in a Lead Role – Film (Jury Award)

• Andrew Scott for Dead Bodies (Winner)
  • Colin Farrell for SWAT
  • Michael McElhatton for Spin the Bottle
  • Cillian Murphy for 28 Days Later
  • Aidan Quinn for Song for a Raggy Boy

Best Actor in a Leading Role – Television

• James Nesbitt for Murphy's Law (Winner)
  • Peadar Cox for Ros na Rún
  • Simon Delaney for Bachelors Walk
  • Ciarán McMenamin for Any Time Now

Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Film/TV

• David Wilmot for Intermission (Winner)
  • Colin Farrell for Intermission
  • Ciarán Hinds for Veronica Guerin
  • Gerard McSorley for Veronica Guerin
  • Owen Roe for Any Time Now

Best Actress in a Lead Role – Film

• Angeline Ball for Bloom (Winner)
  • Bronagh Gallagher for Spin the Bottle
  • Maria Doyle Kennedy for Mystics
  • Flora Montgomery for Goldfish Memory
  • Natascha McElhone for Solaris

Best Actress in a Leading Role – Television

• Angeline Ball for Any Time Now (Winner)
  • Dearbhla Molloy for Home for Christmas
  • Joan Sheehy for Ros na Rún

Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Film/TV

• Ruth McCabe for Any Time Now (Winner)
  • Brenda Fricker for Veronica Guerin
  • Fiona Glascott for Goldfish Memory
  • Deirdre O'Kane for Intermission
  • Ger Ryan for Intermission

Best TV Drama

• Bachelors Walk (Winner)
  • Any Time Now
  • Home for Christmas
  • On Home Ground
  • Watermelon

Best Entertainment

• Amu Amigos "Amazon" (Winner)
  • Brian Kennedy on Song
  • Only Fools Buy Horses
  • Ryan Confidential – Colin Farrell
  • The Late Late Show special on Richard Harris

Best Lifestyle

• Amu Amigos "Amazon" (Winner)
  • Ask Anna
  • The Health Squad
  • Ireland AM
  • Wedding Planners

Best Children's/Youth/Educational/Multicultural/Religious/Regional TV

• Sampler (Winner)
  • Cracking Crime
  • Ear to the Ground
  • Townlands: "Animal Rescue"
  • Twins

Best Sports TV

• The Rod Squad (Winner)
  • Breaking Ball
  • End to End: "Armagh Special"
  • La Ochra Gael
  • When Joe Met Sam

Best Current Affairs

• Prime Time: "Cardinal Secrets" (Winner)
  • Prime Time: "Saturday Night Sunday Morning"
  • Crash
  • Prime Time: "Sue Nation"
  • Fine Gael: "A Family at War"

Best Documentary

• Oileán Thoraí (Winner)
  • A House Divided
  • Bang! You're Dead
  • Chavez - Inside the Coup
  • Living the Revolution
  • Sing on Forever
  • The Strange Case of the Irish Crown Jewels

Best Irish Language

• Amu Amigos "Amazon" (Winner)
  • An Charraig Stoite
  • Galtymore
  • Islandman
  • Oilean Thorai

Best Music in TV/Film

• John McPhillips for Spin the Bottle (Winner)
  • Gavin Little for God's Kitchen
  • Ronan Johnstone for Home for Christmas
  • Niall Byrne for On Home Ground
  • ShinAwil Productions for You're A Star

Best Animation

• Escape (Winner)
  • The Birth of John the Baptist
  • The Butterfly Collector
  • The Depository
  • Pullin' the Devil by the Tail

Best Script

• Mark O'Rowe for Intermission (Winner)
  • Conor McPherson for The Actors
  • Derek Landy for Dead Bodies
  • Liz Gill for Goldfish Memory
  • Ian Fitzgibbon for Spin the Bottle

Best Cinematography / TV Photography

• Peter Robertson for Song for a Raggy Boy (Winner)
  • Ciarán Tanham for Bloom
  • Donal Gilligan for Dead Bodies
  • Ken Byrne for Goldfish Memory
  • Brendan Galvin for Veronica Guerin

Best Editing

• Dermot Diskin for Dead Bodies (Winner)
  • The Actors
  • Goldfish Memory
  • Spin the Bottle
  • The Strange Case of the Irish Crown Jewels

Best Hair / Make-up

• Linda Mooney & Carol Dunne for Watermelon (Winner)
  • Lynn Johnston & Lorraine Glynn for Intermission
  • Patsy Giles for Spin the Bottle
  • Dee Corcoran & Ailbhe Lemass for Veronica Guerin

Best Costume Design

• Kathy Strachan for Spin the Bottle (Winner)
  • Tara Van Zyl for Bloom
  • Lorna Marie Mugan for Intermission
  • Joan Bergin for Veronica Guerin
  • Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh for Watermelon

Best Art Direction

• Padraig O'Neill for Spin the Bottle (Winner)
  • God's Kitchen for Paki Smith
  • Laurent Mellet for Headrush
  • Mark Geraghty for Home for Christmas
  • Tom Conroy for Intermission

Best Sound / Sound Editing

• Daniel Birch for Dead Bodies (Winner)
  • Sarah Gaines & Philippe Faujas for Goldfish Memory
  • Paddy Gibbons for The Twilight Hour

Best New Talent

• Colin O'Donoghue for Home for Christmas (Winner)
  • Jonathan Forbes for Conspiracy of Silence
  • Sonya Supple Gildea for Bodyblow
  • Ian Thullier for Darkroom
  • Sean Walsh for Bloom
  • David Wilmot for Intermission

Best Actor in a Film – Public Vote

• Colin Farrell (Winner)
  • Aidan Quinn
  • Stuart Townsend
  • Cillian Murphy
  • Pierce Brosnan

UGC Cinemas Best Irish Film – Public Vote

• Veronica Guerin (Winner)
  • Evelyn
  • Goldfish Memory
  • The Actors
  • Intermission

Best TV Personality – Public Vote

• Miriam O'Callaghan (Winner)
  • Patrick Kielty
  • Grainne Seoige
  • Julian Simmonds
  • Paidi O'Lionard
  • Hector O'hEochagain
  • John Daly
  • Gerry Kelly