Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards Announced

The Dublin Film Critics Circle (DFCC) have revealed their annual awards list. Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story has been named best film of 2019 in the 13th poll from DFCC.

Baumbach's study of a bitter divorce between two bohemians scored near-unprecedented success across the categories. Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson triumphed as, respectively, best actor and best actress. Baumbach took the prize for best screenplay.

In another sign that Netflix is increasingly making the running at awards season, Martin Scorsese's The Irishman was comfortably ahead of the following pack in second place of the best film category. In addition, the iconic filmmaker swept the award for best director.

The DFCC also awarded two breakthrough awards. Irish actress Aisling Franciosci won the prize for her performance in Jennifer Kent's The Nightingale and Kantemir Balagov, whose Russian film Beanpole astonished towards the end of the year was named best breakthrough director.

Irish films are notable for therein absence from the Top 10. Other than Franciosci, it is only in the Best Actress category that Irish names feature at all, with Jessie Buckley (No.5) and Saoirse Ronan (No.7).

The Irish production company Element Pictures gets a nod with the selection of The Favourite at No.7 in the best films category.

While it was hardly a vintage year, the directors of Float Like A Butterfly (Carmel Winters), Papi Chulo (John Butler), Metal Heart (Hugh O'Conor) and The Hole in the Ground (Lee Cronin) might have hoped for some form of recognition.

Check out the complete Dublin Film Critics Circle awards list below:

Best Film

1. Marriage Story
2. The Irishman
3. Pain and Glory
4. Joker
5. Booksmart
6. Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood
7. The Favourite
8. Hustlers/High Life
9. The Souvenir
10. Ash is Purest White/Monos

Best Director

1. Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
2. Pedro Almodóvar, Pain and Glory
3. Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
4. Olivia Wilde, Booksmart
5. Todd Phillips, Joker
6. Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
7. Jordan Peele, Us
8. Claire Denis, High Life
9. Lorene Scafaria, Hustlers
10. Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood

Best Actor

1. Adam Driver, Marriage Story
2. Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
3. Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
4. Robert De Niro, The Irishman
5. Christian Bale, Vice
6. Taron Egerton, Rocketman
7. Brad Pitt, Ad Astra
8. Robert Pattinson, High Life/Stephan James, If Beale Street Could Talk
9. Steve Coogan, Stan and Ollie
10. Felix Maritaud, Savage

Best Actress

1. Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
2. Lupita Nyong'o, Us
3. Olivia Colman, The Favourite
4. Renee Zellweger, Judy
5. Jessie Buckley, Wild Rose
6. Florence Pugh, Midsommar
7. Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
8. Awkwafina, The Farewell
9. Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
10. Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Kindergarten Teacher

Best Screenplay

1. Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
2. Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, Katie Silberman, Booksmart
3. Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood
4. Rian Johnson, Knives Out
5. Steven Zaillian, The Irishman
6. Joanna Hogg, The Souvenir
7. Lulu Wang, The Farewell
8. Pedro Almodóvar, Pain and Glory
9. Jordan Peele, Us
10. Lorene Scafaria, Hustlers

Best Cinematography

1. Hoyte van Hoytema, Ad Astra
2. James Laxton, If Beale Street Could Talk
3. Lawrence Sher, Joker
4. Robert Richardson, Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood
5. Pawel Pogorzelski, Midsommar
6. Rodrigo Prieto, The Irishman
7. Robbie Ryan, Marriage Story
8. Robbie Ryan, The Favourite
9. Adam Newport-Berra, The Last Black Man in San Francisco
10. Jasper Wolf, Monos

Best Irish Film

1. Extra Ordinary
2. The Hole in the Ground
3. A Bump Along the Way
4. Ordinary Love
5. Gaza
6. Papi Chulo
7. The Dig
8. The Favourite
9. Greta
10. Float Like a Butterfly

Best Documentary

1. Apollo 11
2. Diego Maradona
3. Gaza
4. Minding the Gap
5. For Sama
6. Amazing Grace
7. An Engineer Imagines
8. Shooting the Mafia
9. The Man Who Wanted to Fly
10. Land Without God