Occupation Film director | ||
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Born 1943 (age 73–74) Ardmore, County Waterford, Ireland Spouse Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (m. 1990) Nominations Golden Lion, Grand Jury Prize, Silver Lion for Best Director Children Declan O'Connor, Jack O'Connor Awards British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama Movies Sweet November, Inventing the Abbotts, Circle of Friends, The January Man, Dancing at Lughnasa Similar Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Greg Germann, Liam Aiken, Herman Raucher, Jason Kravits | ||
Pat O'Connor (born 1943 in Ardmore, County Waterford, Ireland) is a BAFTA-winning Irish film director.
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In 1982, O'Connor won a Jacob's Award for his direction of the RTÉ TV adaptation of William Trevor's short story, Ballroom of Romance starring Cyril Cusack and Brenda Fricker. It was shot near the village of Ballycroy, County Mayo. He subsequently won the BAFTA award for "Best Television Single Drama, 1983," for the same work. He also directed Trevor's One of Ourselves for BBC TV, again starring Cyril Cusack, and filmed in Cappoquin and Lismore, Co. Waterford.
O'Connor has been married since 1990 to Oscar-nominated actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, with whom he has two sons. He directed Mastrantonio in another William Trevor film adaptation, Fools of Fortune as well as The January Man.