Belfast and An Cailín Ciúin are craft winners at the European Film Awards

Irish productions Belfast and An Cailín Ciúin are among the eight winners of the Excellence Awards for arts and craft, which will be presented at the European Film Awards on December 10th in Reykjavík.

Kenneth Branagh's Belfast won the prizes for Production Design (Jim Clay) and Costume Design (Charlotte Walter).

Kate McCullough, who is known for the BBC Three/Hulu series Normal People, won the Cinematography award for her work on the Irish language feature An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl).

Writer/director Kenneth Branagh on the set of Belfast, a Focus Features release. Credit Rob Youngson/Focus Features.

The acclaimed film has also been selected by the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) as Ireland's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at next year's Oscars.

Also taking home two awards will be the German war drama All Quiet on the Western Front, which has won the prizes for Make-Up and Hair (Heike Merker), as well as Visual Effects (Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller and Markus Frank).

EO won European Score (Paweł Mykietyn), Burning Days the Editing award (Özcan Vardar and Eytan İpeker), and The Hole will be presented with the Sound prize (Simone Paolo Olivero, Paolo Benvenuti, Benni Atria, Marco Saitta, Ansgar Frerich and Florian Holzner).

Cait (Catherine Clinch) is greeted by the woman of the house Eibhlin (Carrie Crowley) after a long journey in An Cailín Ciúin.

At this year's ceremony in Reykjavík, Branagh is also nominated in the European Screenwriter category for Belfast, while Irish actor Paul Mescal is in the run for European Actor for his performance in the father-daughter drama Aftersun.

Presented annually since 1988 by the European Film Academy, the European Film Awards recognise excellence in European cinema and filmmaking. Out of the 19 categories, Best Film is considered the most important, and the host city changes annually.

To date, The Favourite (2019) has received the most awards with eight wins, followed by Good Bye, Lenin! (2003), The Ghost Writer (2010), The Square (2017), and Cold War (2018 and 2019), all of which won six European Film Awards in their respective years.

As a response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Russian films have been excluded from the European Film Awards in December 2022.

The eight winners of the Excellence Awards have been unveiled! ✨ The winners in the categories honouring the different arts and crafts will receive their awards at the #europeanfilmawards ceremony on 10 December in Reykjavík. 👉https://t.co/nA4VRx9BlM#monthofeuropeanfilm pic.twitter.com/2TqKJwv3fm

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