Ed Guiney

Academy Member

Ed Guiney runs film and television drama production company Element Pictures with partner Andrew Lowe. Element have offices in Dublin and London and they established the Irish film distribution company, Element Pictures Distribution.In 2007 Ed produced Garage the follow up film to the award winning Adam & Paul, from the same team of writer Mark O'Halloran and director Lenny Abrahamson, and starring Pat Shortt, which was selected for the prestigious Director’s Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival and won the CICAE Art and Essai award. The film also won the awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Script and Best Actor at the 2008 Irish Film and Television Awards.

In 2007 he also produced Death of a President for Channel 4, written and directed by Gabriel Range, which won the International Critics Fipresci Prize at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.

In 2006 Element Pictures co-produced The Wind That Shakes the Barley, directed by Ken Loach, which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and has become one of the most successful independent films ever released in Ireland.

Recent Element Pictures productions include Darren Thornton’s acclaimed A Date for Mad Mary, Lenny Abrahamson’s Golden Globe and Oscar winning Room and Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster, winner of the Jury Prize in Cannes and recently nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Yorgos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell, winner of Best Screenplay at the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival.

Since then, Guiney has worked on Poor Things, The Favourite, Red Rock, Calm With Horses and Normal People.

Element Pictures operates an online video on demand platform, Volta.ie and also runs and operates the Light House Cinema, one of Dublin’s premiere art house cinemas.

Awards & Recognition

Poor Things

Oscar Nominated, Best Picture (2024)
Golden Globes Winner, Best Picture - Musical/Comedy (2024)
BAFTA Nominated, Best Film (2024)
IFTA Nominated, Best International Film (2024)

Normal People

BAFTA Nominated, Best Limited Series (2021)

The Wonder

IFTA Nominated, Best Film (2023)
BAFTA Nominated, Best British Film (2023)

Herself

IFTA Nominated, Best Film (2021)

The Favourite

Oscar Nominated, Best Picture (2019)
BAFTA Nominated, Best Film (2019)

Room

Oscar Nominated,Best Picture (2016)
Golden Globes Nominated,Best Picture (2016)
AFI Awards,Movie of the Year (2016)
British Independent Film Awards,Best International Independent Film(2015)
Irish Film and Television Awards,Best Film(2016)

The Lobster

BAFTA Nominated,Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film(2016)
British Independent Film Awards,Best British Picture (2016)
AFI Awards,Movie of the Year (2016)
British Independent Film Awards,Best International Independent Film(2015)

A Date for Mad Mary

Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards,Best Irish Film(2016)
Irish Film and Television Awards,Best Film (2016)

What Richard Did

Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards ,Best Irish Film,(2012)
Irish Film and Television Awards ,Best Film (2013)
Istanbul International Film Festival,Best Film (2013)
Writers' Guild of Great Britain,Best First Feature-Length Film Screenplay (2013)

The Guard

Berlin International Film Festival,Best Debut Film - Honorable Mention(2011)
Irish Film and Television Award, Audience Award (2011)
Dinard British Film Festival,Best Film (2012)
Dinard British Film Festival,Coup de Coeurs (2012)
Evening Standard British Film Awards,Peter Sellers Award for Comedy(2013)
Irish Film and Television Awards,Best Film(2012)

Garage

Cannes Film Festival,C.I.C.A.E. Award(2007)
Dinard British Film Festival,Coup de Coeurs (2007)
Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards,Best Irish Film (2007)
Irish Film and Television Awards,Best Film(2008)

Key Credits

Kinds of Kindness (2024)
Poor Things (2023)
The Dry (2022-)
Conversations with Friends (2022)
Normal People (2020)
Calm With Horses (2019)
The Favourite (2018)
Red Rock (2015-2018)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Ripper Street (2012-2016)
Room (2015)
The Lobster (2015)
A Date for Mad Mary (2015)
Red Rock (2015)
Frank (2014)
What Richard Did ( 2012)
The Guard (2011)
Garage (2007)
Boy Eats Girl (2005)
Adam & Paul (2004)
The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Bachelors Walk (2001)
Disco Pigs (2000)