The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) has announced this year's nominees for the Irish Academy Awards spanning 28 categories in film and drama.

Nominations have been shortlisted by Irish Academy Members as well as specialist Jury panels of industry experts.

Award winners will be announced at the 21st annual IFTA awards ceremony on Saturday 20th April at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre. The Awards will be hosted for the first time by Emmy-winning broadcaster Baz Ashmawy.

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This year’s ceremony will welcome guests across Irish and international film sectors to mark the incredible achievements of the Irish screen industry, at home and abroad. Actors, filmmakers and guest presenters will join in the celebrations and help grant due recognition for Irish talent and storytelling, and to reward excellence in film and television.

Lisa Mulcahy’s Lies We Tell, an adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic Uncle Silas, leads the nominations with 13 nods.

Pat Collins’s highly-anticipated and acclaimed interpretation of John McGahern’s That They May Face The Rising Sun and Ian Hunt-Duffy’s Double Blind, a nail-biting horror set in a remote silo, follow close behind with 11 mentions. Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, which secured four Academy Awards for Dublin’s Element Pictures last weekend, will compete in the international categories.

“What an incredible showcase of Nominees shortlisted for Irish Academy Awards this year," says Academy CEO Áine Moriarty. "Irish talents are proving themselves to be amongst the best in the world, both in front and behind the camera, delivering such high standards of acting, filmmaking, and storytelling. We in the Irish Academy, are proud to showcase this industry’s great work and to reward their achievements. Congratulations to all the Nominees - so well deserved!”

Six Irish nominees will compete for Best Film, including Double Blind, Flora and Son, Lies We Tell, LOLA, That They May Face The Rising Sun and Verdigris. 

The Lead Actor in Film category is a showcase of superb Irish acting talents with Andrew Scott in All Of Us Strangers, David Wilmot in Lies We Tell, Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer, Barry Keoghan in Saltburn, Barry Ward in That They May Face The Rising Sun and Pierce Brosnan in The Last Rifleman.

The talent on display across the Lead Actress in Film category boasts an impressive mix of leading ladies that include: Jessie Buckley in Fingernails, Eve Hewson in Flora and Son, Saoirse Ronan in Foe, Agnes O’Casey in Lies We Tell, Bríd Brennan in My Sailor, My Love and Geraldine McAlinden in Verdigris.

Please see below for a full list of nominees across the Irish and international film and television industries:

FILM CATEGORIES

BEST FILM
Double Blind
Flora and Son
Lies We Tell
LOLA
That They May Face The Rising Sun
Verdigris

DIRECTOR - FILM
Double Blind  -  Ian Hunt-Duffy
Flora and Son - John Carney
Lies We Tell - Lisa Mulcahy
LOLA - Andrew Legge
That They May Face The Rising Sun - Pat Collins
Verdigris - Patricia Kelly

SCRIPT - FILM
Double Blind  -  Darach McGarrigle
Flora and Son - John Carney
Lies We Tell - Elisabeth Gooch
LOLA - Andrew Legge
That They May Face The Rising Sun - Éamon Little
Verdigris - Patricia Kelly

LEAD ACTOR - FILM
Andrew Scott - All Of Us Strangers
David Wilmot - Lies We Tell
Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
Barry Keoghan - Saltburn
Barry Ward - That They May Face The Rising Sun
Pierce Brosnan - The Last Rifleman

LEAD ACTRESS - FILM
Jessie Buckley - Fingernails
Eve Hewson - Flora and Son
Saoirse Ronan - Foe
Agnes O’Casey - Lies We Tell
Bríd Brennan - My Sailor, My Love
Geraldine McAlinden – Verdigris

SUPPORTING ACTOR -  FILM
Paul Mescal - All Of Us Strangers
Diarmuid Noyes - Double Blind
Chris Walley - Lies We Tell
Kenneth Branagh - Oppenheimer
Liam Carney - Sunlight
Lalor Roddy - That They May Face The Rising Sun

SUPPORTING ACTRESS - FILM
Bronagh Gallagher - Dance First
Catherine Walker - My Sailor, My Love
Alison Oliver - Saltburn
Ruth McCabe - That They May Face The Rising Sun
Agnes O’Casey - The Miracle Club
Maya O’Shea - Verdigris

DRAMA CATEGORIES

BEST DRAMA
Blue Lights
Hidden Assets
Kin
Northern Lights
Obituary
The Woman in the Wall

DIRECTOR - DRAMA
Happy Valley - Fergus O’Brien
Kin - Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor
Kin - Kate Dolan
Northern Lights - Tom Hall
Obituary - John Hayes
The Gone - Hannah Quinn

SCRIPT - DRAMA
Blue Lights - Declan Lawn & Adam Patterson
Hidden Assets - Peter McKenna
Kin - Peter McKenna
Northern Lights - Stephen Jones
Obituary - Ray Lawlor
The Woman in the Wall - Joe Murtagh

LEAD ACTOR - DRAMA
Martin McCann - Blue Lights 
Francis Magee - Kin
Sam Keeley - Kin 
Michael Smiley - Obituary
Éanna Hardwicke - The Sixth Commandment
Daryl McCormack - The Woman in the Wall

LEAD ACTRESS - DRAMA
Sharon Horgan - Best Interests
Clare Dunne - Kin 
Niamh Algar - Malpractice
Elva Trill - Northern Lights
Siobhán Cullen - Obituary
Caitriona Balfe - Outlander

SUPPORTING ACTOR - DRAMA
Richard Dormer - Blue Lights
Jared Harris - Foundation
Aaron Monaghan - Hidden Assets
Aidan Gillen - Kin
Emmett J. Scanlan - Kin
Simon Delaney - The Woman in the Wall

SUPPORTING ACTRESS - DRAMA
Niamh Algar - Culprits
Cathy Belton -  Hidden Assets
Maria Doyle Kennedy - Kin
Danielle Galligan - Obituary
Fionnula Flanagan - Sisters
Hilda Fay - The Woman in the Wall

INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARD CATEGORIES

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
All Of Us Strangers
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
Saltburn
The Holdovers

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR
Ryan Gosling - Barbie
Leonardo DiCaprio - Killers of the Flower Moon
Bradley Cooper - Maestro
Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things
Willem Dafoe - Poor Things
Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS
Margot Robbie - Barbie
Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
Carey Mulligan - Maestro
Annette Bening - Nyad
Greta Lee - Past Lives
Emma Stone - Poor Things

OTHER AWARD CATEGORIES

GEORGE MORRISON FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
In The Shadow of Beirut
Joan Baez: I Am A Noise
Notes from Sheepland
Stolen
The Days of Trees
The Deepest Breath

LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM
Calf
Mud Queen
Sound & Colour
The Golden West
Two for the Road
Waiting Day

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Nana Dee
The Small Makings of a Storm
The Presenter
Wind & The Shadow

CRAFT CATEGORIES

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Double Blind - Narayan Van Maele
Kin - JJ Rolfe
Lies We Tell - Eleanor Bowman
Poor Things - Robbie Ryan
That They May Face The Rising Sun - Richard Kendrick

COSTUME DESIGN
Double Blind - Gwen Jeffares Hourie
Lies We Tell - Joanne O'Brien
LOLA - ​​Lara Campbell
That They May Face The Rising Sun - Louise Stanton
The Pope’s Exorcist - Lorna Marie Mugan

PRODUCTION DESIGN
A Haunting in Venice - John Paul Kelly
Double Blind - Steve Kingston
Lies We Tell - Caroline Hill
LOLA - Ferdia Murphy
That They May Face The Rising Sun - Padraig O’Neill

HAIR & MAKE-UP
Double Blind - Jennia Readman, Madonna Bambino
Flora and Son - Lyndsey Herron, Barbara Conway
Lies We Tell - Helen O'Connor, Aitana Silvana
That They May Face The Rising Sun - Sandra Dunne, Edwina Kelly
The Pope’s Exorcist - Orla Carroll, Lynn Johnston

SOUND
Barbie - Nina Rice
Double Blind - Brendan Rehill, Rob Moore, Peter Blayney
Evil Dead Rise - Garret Farrell, Peter Albrechtsen, Myk Farmer
Lies We Tell - Aza Hand, Damien Lynch, Peter Nicell
Saltburn - Nina Rice, Nina Hartstone, Adam Scrivener

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Double Blind - Die Hexen
Flora and Son - Gary Clark, John Carney
Lies We Tell - Aza Hand
LOLA - Neil Hannon
That They May Face The Rising Sun - Irene Buckley, Linda Buckley

EDITING
Double Blind - Colin Campbell
Lies We Tell - Weronika Kaminska
LOLA - Colin Campbell
Still: A Michael J Fox Movie - Michael Harte
The Last Rifleman - John Walters

VFX
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves - Kev Cahill, Diana Giogiutti
Evil Dead Rise - Liam Neville, Declan Boyle
Paradise - Niall McEvoy, Liam Neville
The Nevers - Ed Bruce, Andrew Barry