8th Irish Film and Television Awards

The 8th Irish Film & Television Awards were held on 12 February 2011 in the Convention Centre, Dublin.

Contents

• Awards in Film
• International Categories
• Television Drama Categories
• Craft Technical Categories
• Television Categories
• Other Categories
• Outstanding Contribution to Industry
• References

It was hosted by actor Simon Delaney. The Awards show was broadcast live on RTÉ One television in Ireland.

Irish producer Morgan O'Sullivan was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Industry Award. The Bosnian war drama As If I Am Not There won the best film, script and director awards. Martin McCann scooped the lead actor award for his performance in Swansong – Story of Occi Byrne while Amy Huberman received the lead actress award for Rewind. Pierce Brosnan and Saoirse Ronan both won awards for their supporting roles in the international features The Ghost and The Way Back respectively, while Stephen Rea and Ruth McCabe received IFTAs for their performances in the television drama Single Handed. In television drama, the fourth and final series of The Tudors was named best drama series/soap which followed awards for the series' craft team in costume design Joan Bergin and make-up and Hair. Live Aid biopic When Harvey Met Bob received the IFTA for single drama/ drama serial and its star Domhnall Gleeson was announced the winner of the rising star award and lead actor television awards. In the international categories, David Fincher's The Social Network won the IFTA for international film with its star Jesse Eisenberg winning for best international actor. Annette Bening received the international actress award for her performance in The Kids Are All Right. The Republic of Telly's premiere of the Rubberbandits' Horse Outside took the people's choice award for best TV moment of the year. The late Gerry Ryan was honoured when his daughter accepted an award on his behalf for Operation Transformation, which won Best Factual Programme.