"An Irish Person" Awards

This year I managed to recognise 49 films with at least one nomination. Only one film scored double digit nominations from me, many films received single nominations showing how wide spread the quality of films was this year. My top 10 goes to show how varied cinema was this year.

1. Sorry, Baby

2. Sinners

3. Hamnet

4. Black Bag

5. Train Dreams

6. One Battle After Another

7. The Testament of Ann Lee

8. The Wedding Banquet

9. The Mastermind

10. The Voice of Hind Rajab

To all of you who even took time to read any of these posts I appreciate it. Goodbye to you all and I'll see you again next year to celebrate the best in film.

OUTSTANDING PICTURE:

Black Bag (Produced by Casey Silver & Gregory Jacobs)

Hamnet (Produced by Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg & Sam Mendes)

Sinners (Produced by Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian & Ryan Coogler)

Sorry, Baby (Produced by Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak & Barry Jenkins)

Train Dreams (Produced by Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer & Michael Heimler)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR:

Ryan Coogler for Sinners

Mona Fastvold for The Testament of Ann Lee

Kelly Reichardt for The Mastermind

Eva Victor for Sorry, Baby

Chloé Zhao for Hamnet

OUTSTANDING LEADING ACTOR:

Lee Byung-hun as Yoo Man-su in "NO OTHER CHOICE"

Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier in "TRAIN DREAMS"

Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare in "HAMNET"

Dylan O'Brien as Roman / Rocky in "TWINLESS"

Josh O'Connor as James Blaine "JB" Mooney in "THE MASTERMIND"

OUTSTANDING LEADING ACTRESS:

Rose Byrne as Linda in "IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU"

Kathleen Chalfant as Ruth in "FAMILIAR TOUCH"

Susan Chardy as Shula in "ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL"

Tessa Thompson as Hedda Gabler in "HEDDA"

Eva Victor as Agnes in "SORRY, BABY"

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Ebrahim Azizi as Eghbal in "IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT"

Benicio del Toro as Sergio St. Carlos in "ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER"

Delroy Lindo as Delta Slim in "SINNERS"

Jack O'Connell as Remmick in "SINNERS"

Andrew Scott as Richard Rodgers in "BLUE MOON"

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Naomi Ackie as Lydie in "SORRY, BABY"

Glenn Close as Martha Delacroix in "WAKE UP DEAD MAN:"

Nina Hoss as Eileen Lovborg in "HEDDA"

Wunmi Mosaku as Annie in "SINNERS"

Teyana Taylor as Perfidia Beverly Hills in "ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER"

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Robert Kaplow for Blue Moon

Mary Bronstein for If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Jafar Panahi for It Was Just an Accident

Ryan Coogler for Sinners

Eva Victor for Sorry, Baby

OUTSTANDING ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Screenplay by Chloé Zhao & Maggie O'Farrell; Based on Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

Screenplay by Nia DaCosta; Based on Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, Hedda

Screenplay by Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar & Lee Ja-hye; Based on The Ax by Donald Westlake, No Other Choice

Screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson; Based on Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, One Battle After Another

Screenplay by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar; Based on Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, Train Dreams

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:

100 Meters (Directed by Kenji Iwaisawa)

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (Directed by Pete Browngardt)

KPop Demon Hunters (Directed by Maggie Kang & Chris Appelhans)

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (Directed by Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han)

Zootopia 2 (Directed by Jared Bush & Byron Howard)

OUTSTANDING BREAKTHROUGH/DEBUT:

Miles Caton (Sinners)

Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another)

Abou Sangaré (Souleymane’s Story)

Tonatiuh (Kiss of the Spider Woman)

Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)

OUTSTANDING CASTING:

Áine O'Sullivan & Olivia Scott-Webb for Blue Moon

Nina Gold for Hamnet

Gayle Keller for The Mastermind

Cassandra Kulukundis for One Battle After Another

Francine Maisler for Sinners

OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Seamus McGarvey for Die My Love

Łukasz Żal for Hamnet

Sean Bobbitt for Hedda

Autumn Durald Arkapaw for Sinners

Adolpho Veloso for Train Dreams

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN:

Malgosia Turzanska for Hamnet

Lindsay Pugh for Hedda

Colleen Atwood and Christine Cantella for Kiss of the Spider Woman

Ruth E. Carter for Sinners

Manon Rasmussen for The Ugly Stepsister

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY:

Come See Me in the Good Light (Directed by Ryan White)

Cover-Up (Directed by Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus)

Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (Directed by Bruce David Klein)

The Perfect Neighbor (Directed by Geeta Gandbhir)

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) (Directed by Questlove)

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE OF THE YEAR:

Black Bag (Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page, Pierce Brosnan)

It Was Just an Accident (Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi, Mohamad Ali Elyasmehr, Delnaz Najafi, Afssaneh Najmabadi, Georges Hashemzadeh)

The Long Walk (Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Jordan Gonzalez, Joshua Odjick, Mark Hamill, Roman Griffin Davis, Judy Greer, Josh Hamilton)

Sinners (Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, Delroy Lindo, Peter Dreimanis, Lola Kirke, Li Jun Li, Yao)

The Wedding Banquet (Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan, Joan Chen, Youn Yuh-jung)

OUTSTANDING FILM EDITING:

Mary Ann Bernard for Black Bag

Kim Sang-bum & Kim Ho-bin for No Other Choice

Andy Jurgensen for One Battle After Another

Michael P. Shawver for Sinners

Sofía Subercaseaux for The Testament of Ann Lee

OUTSTANDING INTERNATIONAL FILM:

It Was Just an Accident (Directed by Jafar Panahi)

No Other Choice (Directed by Park Chan-wook)

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Directed by Rungano Nyoni)

Sentimental Value (Directed by Joachim Trier)

The Voice of Hind Rajab (Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania)

OUTSTANDING MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING:

Flora Moody & John Nolan for 28 Years Later

Natasha Lawes for 100 Nights Of Hero

Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine & Shunika Terry for Sinners

Thomas Foldberg & Anne Cathrine Sauerberg for The Ugly Stepsister

Leo Satkovich, Melizah Wheat & Jason Collins for Weapons

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE:

David Holmes for Black Bag

Max Richter for Hamnet

Hildur Guðnadóttir for Hedda

Ludwig Göransson for Sinners

Bryce Dessner for Train Dreams

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG:

"Our Love", The Ballad of Wallis Island (Music and Lyrics by Tom Basden)

"Golden", KPop Demon Hunters (Music and lyrics by Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, 24, Ido, and Teddy Park)

"I Lied to You", Sinners (Music and Lyrics by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson)

"Last Time (I Seen the Sun)", Sinners (Music and Lyrics by Alice Smith, Miles Caton & Ludwig Göransson)

"Clothed by the Sun", The Testament of Ann Lee (Music and lyrics by Daniel Blumberg)

OUTSTANDING PERFORMER OF THE YEAR:

Naomi Ackie (Mickey 17, Sorry, Baby, The Thursday Murder Club)

Josh Brolin (The Running Man, Wake Up Dead Man, Weapons)

Katy O'Brian (Christy, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Queens of the Dead, The Running Man)

Josh O'Connor (The History of Sound, The Mastermind, Rebuilding, Wake Up Dead Man)

Amanda Seyfried (The Housemaid, Seven Veils, The Testament of Ann Lee)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN:

Production Designer by Kasra Farahani; Set Decoration by Jille Azis for The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Production Design by Jack Fisk; Set Decoration by Adam Willis for Marty Supreme

Production Designer by Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration by Anna Pinnock for The Phoenician Scheme

Production Designer by Thales Junqueira for The Secret Agent

Production Design by Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration by Monique Champagne for Sinners

OUTSTANDING SOUND:

Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo & Juan Peralta for F1

Nick Caramela, Ruy García, Abby Harrison & Filipe Messeder for If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio & Tony Villaflor for One Battle After Another

Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Felipe Pacheco, Brandon Proctor & Steve Boeddeker for Sinners

Mitch Low, Ben Barker, Howard Bargroff & Richard Spooner for Warfare

OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS:

Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon & Daniel Barrett for Avatar: Fire and Ash

Alex Wuttke, Ian Lowe, Jeff Sutherland & Kirstin Hall for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Kathy Siegel, Karl Rapley, Olivier Dumont & Sheldon Stopsack for Predator: Badlands

Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter & Donnie Dean for Sinners

Stephane Ceretti, Enrico Damm, Stephane Naze & Guy Williams for Superman

MOST NOMINATIONS:

18 nominations: Sinners

8 nominations: Hamnet

6 nominations: Hedda, One Battle After Another

5 nominations: Sorry, Baby, Train Dreams

4 nominations: Black Bag, It Was Just an Accident, No Other Choice

3 nominations: Blue Moon, The Mastermind, The Testament of Ann Lee

2 nominations: KPop Demon Hunters, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, The Ugly Stepsister

1 nomination: 28 Years Later, 100 Meters, 100 Nights of Hero, Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Come See Me in the Good Light, Cover-Up, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, Die My Love, F1, Familiar Touch, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story, The Long Walk, Marty Supreme, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, The Perfect Neighbor, The Phoenician Scheme, Predator: Badlands, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), Superman, Twinless, The Voice of Hind Rajab, Wake Up Dead Man, Warfare, Weapons, The Wedding Banquet, Zootopia 2

MOST WINS:

7 wins: Sinners

2 wins: Hedda, Sorry, Baby

1 win: Avatar: Fire and Ash, Hamnet, Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, KPop Demon Hunters, Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story, Marty Supreme, The Testament of Ann Lee, Twinless, The Ugly Stepsister, The Voice of Hind Rajab

Black Bag (Produced by Casey Silver & Gregory Jacobs)

Hamnet (Produced by Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg & Sam Mendes)

Sinners (Produced by Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian & Ryan Coogler)

Sorry, Baby (Produced by Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak & Barry Jenkins)

Train Dreams (Produced by Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer & Michael Heimler)

AND THE WINNER:

SORRY, BABY (PRODUCED BY ADELE ROMANSKI, MARK CERYAK & BARRY JENKINS)

This is the third win and fourth nomination for Adele Romanski. Romanski won for producing Moonlight (2016) & If Beale Street Could Talk (2018). She was also nominated for Aftersun (2022). This is the first win and second nomination for Mark Ceryak. He was previously nominated for producing Aftersun. This is the sixth win and seventh nomination for Barry Jenkins. Jenkins previously won for directing and writing Moonlight (2016), producing, directing and writing If Beale Street Could Talk. He was also nominated for producing Aftersun.

With this prize Sorry, Baby wins two awards from its five nominations. The film won for picture & original screenplay. It was also nominated for director, leading actress (Victor) & supporting actress (Ackie).