4th Irish Film & Television Awards

4th Irish Film & Television Awards
Date	10 February 2007
Site	Royal Dublin Society
Host	Ryan Tubridy
Highlights
Best Film	The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Best Actor	Cillian Murphy Breakfast on Pluto
Best Actress	Eva Birthistle Middletown
Most awards	Breakfast on Pluto (4) Stardust (4)
Most nominations	Breakfast on Pluto (10)

The 4th Irish Film & Television Awards took place in 2007 and were hosted by Ryan Tubridy at the Royal Dublin Society Main Hall, Dublin.

Awards in film

Best Film The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Winner) Breakfast on Pluto The Front Line Middletown Small Engine Repair Best International Film Little Miss Sunshine (Winner) Babel Casino Royale The Departed United 93 Best Director Neil Jordan — Breakfast on Pluto (Winner) John Boorman — In My Country David Gleeson — The Front Line Brian Kirk — Middletown Best Script Neil Jordan & Pat McCabe for Breakfast on Pluto (Winner) Daragh Carville for Middletown David Gleeson for The Front Line Niall Heery for Small Engine Repair

Best Cinematography Seamus Deasy for The Tiger's Tail (Winner) Seamus McGarvey for World Trade Center Declan Quinn for Breakfast on Pluto Robbie Ryan for Isolation Best Music Stephen McKeon for The Tiger's Tail (Winner) Niall Byrne for Small Engine Repair Patrick Cassidy for The Front Line Glen Hansard for Once Best Production Design Mark Geraghty for Get Rich or Die Tryin' (Winner) Tom Conroy for Breakfast on Pluto Ashleigh Jeffers for Middletown Mark Lowry for Small Engine Repair Best Costume Design Consolata Boyle for The Queen (Winner) Joan Bergin for The Prestige Eimer Ni Mhaldomhnaigh for Breakfast on Pluto Maeve Patterson for The Tiger's Tail Best Hair & Makeup Lorraine Glynn, Lynn Johnson for Breakfast on Pluto (Winner) Martina McCarthy, Denise Watson for The Tiger's Tail Morna Ferguson, Lorraine Glynn for Middletown

Awards in acting

Best Actor in a Lead Role – Film Cillian Murphy for Breakfast on Pluto (Winner) Pierce Brosnan for The Matador Colin Farrell for Miami Vice Brendan Gleeson for Studs Cillian Murphy for The Wind That Shakes the Barley Best Actress in a Lead Role – Film Eva Birthistle for Middletown Gemma Doorly for A Song For Rebecca Pauline McLynn for Gypo Ruth Negga for Isolation Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Film Liam Cunningham for The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Winner) Pádraic Delaney for The Wind That Shakes the Barley Gerard McSorley for Middletown Stephen Rea for Breakfast on Pluto Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Film Fionnula Flanagan for Transamerica (Winner) Sinéad Cusack for The Tiger's Tail Orla Fitzgerald for The Wind That Shakes the Barley Ruth Negga for Breakfast on Pluto

Best Actor in a Lead Role – Television Ciarán Hinds for Rome (Winner) Liam Cunningham for Showbands Michael McElhatton for Hide & Seek James Nesbitt for Murphy's Law Best Actress in a Lead Role – Television Ger Ryan for Stardust (Winner) Ruth Bradley for Legend Anne-Marie Duff for The Virgin Queen Aisling O'Sullivan for The Clinic Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Television Gary Lydon for The Clinic (Winner) Liam Cunningham for Murphy's Law Allen Leech for Legend Christopher O'Dowd for Showbands Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Television Ruth Bradley for Stardust (Winner) Leigh Arnold for The Clinic Gemma Craven for The Clinic Tina Kellegher for Showbands

Awards in television

Best Single Drama/Drama Serial Stardust (Winner) Fallout Hide & Seek Legend Best Drama Series/Soap The Clinic (Winner) Murphy's Law Ros na Rún Showbands Best Current Affairs/News Programme Prime Time Investigates: "Sex Traffic" (Winner) BBC Newsline Special: "Death of George Best" Prime Time Investigates: "A National Emergency" Prime Time Investigates: "Homelessness" Best Children's/Youth Aifric (Winner) Dustin's Daily News Trí Shúle an Chait The Ugly Duckling & Me Best Entertainment Naked Camera (Winner) Jokerman: Tommy Tiernan in America The Panel The Podge & Rodge Show

Best Factual Entertainment In Search of the Pope's Children (Winner) Des Bishop: Joy in the Hood Rip-Off Republic Wild Trials Best Sports Feature Mícheál: The Sound of Sunday (Winner) Brian Kerr's World Cup Story The Dubs: Story of A Season Leagues Apart with Ardal O'Hanlon Best Single Documentary Flann O'Brien: The Lives of Brian (Winner) The Brothers The Ghosts of Duffy's Cut No Go: The Free Derry Story Tails from America Best Documentary Series The Legend of Liam Clancy (Winner) The Family Silver: "Bawnmore" Junior Doctors Made in America (TV series)|Made in America Best Irish Language Maírtín Ó Cadhain: Rí an Fhocail (Winner) Aifric An Gealigoir Nocht Ros na Rún

Awards across film and television

The IFB & NIFTC Breakthrough Talent Award Niall Heery (writer/director) for Small Engine Repair (Winner) Pádraic Delaney (actor) for The Wind That Shakes the Barley Orla Fitzgerald (actress) for The Wind That Shakes the Barley Domhnall Gleeson (actor) for Studs Brian Kirk (director) for Middletown Lucy Kennedy (TV presenter) for The Podge and Rodge Show Best Editing in Film / TV Drama Stephen O'Connell for Stardust (Winner) Dermot Diskinfor Showbands Cúán MacConghail for Studs Ray Roantree for Fallout Best Sound in Film / TV Drama Peter Blayney, Patrick Drummond, John Fitzgerald, Mervyn Moore for Lassie (Winner) Michelle Cunniffe, John Fitzgeral, Nikki Moss, Simon Willis for Middletown Sarah Gaines, Peter Blayney, Jon Stevenson & Dan Birch for Stardust Brendan Deasy for The Tiger's Tail

Best Short Film Joyriders (Winner) Bongo Bong The Faeries of Blackheath Woods The White Dress Best Short Animation Horn Ok Please (Winner) Badly Drawn Roy The Faeries of Blackheath Woods The White Dress

People's choice awards

AIB Best Irish Film People's Choice The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Winner) Breakfast on Pluto Lassie Studs Pantene Best International Actress People's Choice Helen Mirren for The Queen (Winner) Penélope Cruz for Volver Eva Green for Casino Royale Kate Winslet for The Holiday

Best International Actor People's Choice Leonardo DiCaprio for The Departed (Winner) Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat Daniel Craig for Casino Royale Ian McKellen for X-Men: The Last Stand TV Personality of the Year Bill O'Herlihy (Winner) Eamonn Holmes Gerry Kelly Taragh Loughrey Grant Daithí O'Sé

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Awarded to Gay Byrne

IFTA Industry Contribution Award

• Awarded to Nuala Moiselle

References

• "The 4th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards Winners". Irish Film and Television Academy. Retrieved 17 January 2009.
• "Irish Film and Television Awards: 2007". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 17 January 2009.