IFTA Nominations for the IFTA Gala TV Awards 2018
ENTERTAINMENT Brendan O'Connor's Cutting Edge (Mind the Gap) Dancing with the Stars (ShinaWil) Ireland's Got Talent (Kite Entertainment/Green Inc Film and TV) The Tommy Tiernan Show (Power Pictures) COMEDY Bridget & Eamon (Pureclass Productions/RTE) Derry Girls (Hat Trick / Channel 4) Mrs Brown's Boys (BOC Productions / BBC/RTE) The Young Offenders (Vico Films/ BBC3/RTE) FACTUAL Creedon's Shannon (RTE Cork) Hector Central (Good Company Productions/TV4) Room to Improve (Coco Television) Schizophrenia: The Voices in My Head (Frontline Films) DOCUMENTARY SERIES Éire Fhiáin An Cósta Thiar (Crossing the Line / TG4) John Connors: The Travellers (Scratch Films / RTE) Keeping Ireland Alive - The Health Service In a Day (IndiePics / RTE) The Zoo TV Series (Moondance / RTE) DOCUMENTARY SINGLE Autism and Me (Firebrand / RTE) The Great Irish Sell-Off (RTÉ Factual) Pearl Harbor - The Heroes Who Fought Back (360 Productions/Discovery) Shaw: My Astonishing Self (Animo TV / RTE) We Need to Talk about Dad (Waka TV/RTE) SOAP / CONTINUING DRAMA Fair City (RTE) Red Rock (TV3) Ros na Rún (TG4) FEMALE PERFORMANCE Cathy Belton - Red Rock (TV3) Sharon Horgan – Catastrophe ((Merman & Avalon TV / Channel 4)) Seana Kerslake – Can’t Cope Won’t Cope (Deadpan Productions / RTE) Saoirse-Monica Jackson – Derry Girls (Hat Trick/Channel 4) Hilary Rose – Young Offenders (Vico Films / BBC3/RTE) MALE PERFORMANCE Sean McGinley, Fir Bolg (Dearg Films / TG4) Chris Newman, Red Rock (TV3) Brendan O’Carroll, Mrs Brown’s Boys (BOC Productions for BBC/RTE) Tommy Tiernan, Derry Girls (Hat Trick / Channel 4) Chris Walley, The Young Offenders (Vico Films/ BBC3/RTE) LIVE EVENT Big Week on the Farm (IndiePics/RTE) Storm Ophelia: A 3 News Special (TV3) TG4XX BEO (Gifted Empire/TG4) Weather Live (Loosehorse/RTE) REALITY & CONSTRUCTED REALITY First Dates Ireland (Coco TV / RTE) Francis Brennan's Grand Vietnamese Tour (Waddell Media / RTE) Gogglebox Ireland (Kite Entertainment / TV3) Painting the Nation (IndiePics / RTE) SPECIALIST FACTUAL Aerial Ireland (Tile Films / Smithsonian) Fairytale of New York (RTE) Portrait of a Gallery (Wildfire Productions / RTE) Wild Ireland - The Edge of the World (Crossing the Line / BBC NI/TG4) SPORTS Anthony Foley: Munsterman (Wildfire Productions / RTE) Crash and Burn (DotTV/RTE) Giles ( Loosehorse/RTE) Pull Like A Dog (Wildfire/RTE) CURRENT AFFAIRS BBC NI Spotlight - The Nama Tapes: Corruption Claire Byrne Live (RTE) RTE Investigates - Nightmare to Let The Tonight Show (TV3) NEWS BBC Newsline Brexit Gets Triggered : A 3 News Special RTE Six One News CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE’S - LIVE ACTION Bernard Dunne's Mythical Heroes (Firebrand/RTE) Drop Dead Weird (Telegael/RTE) Is Eolaí Mé (Meangadh Fíbín TG4) Lurgan 2K17 (Iris Productions /TG4) ANIMATION –CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE The Day Henry Met (Wigglywoo) Lily’s Driftwood Bay (Sixteen South) Little Roy (Jam Media) Vampirina (Brown Bag) IRISH LANGUAGE Fir Bolg (Dearg Films / TG4) Frank O’Connor Idir Dhá Shruth (Animo TV/TG4) Rocky Ros Muc (Below the Radar) Ros na Run (EO Teilifis/Tyrone Productions / TG4) DIRECTOR COMEDY/SOAP Cathy Brady, Can't Cope Won't Cope (Deadpan Productions /RTE) Jason Butler, Bridget and Eamon (Pureclass Productions / RTE) Diarmuid Goggins, Red Rock (TV3) Peter Foott, The Young Offenders (Vico Films / BBC3/RTE) WRITER COMEDY/SOAP Sharon Horgan, Catastrophe (Merman & Avalon TV / Channel 4) Stefanie Preissner, Can't Cope Won't Cope (Deadpan Productions /RTE) Lisa McGee, Derry Girls (Hat Trick/Channel 4) Peter Foott, The Young Offenders (Vico Films / BBC3/RTE) DIRECTOR TELEVISION Kim Bartley, Schizophrenia The Voices in My Head (Frontline Films/RTE) Gerry Hoban, Shaw: My Astonishing Self (Animo TV/RTE) Garry Keane, Deafening (Mind the Gap / RTE) Aoife Kelleher, We Need to Talk About Dad (Waka TV / RTE) CAMERA TELEVISION Patrick Jordan, The Young Offenders (Vico Films / BBC3/RTE) Ciaran Tanham, Red Rock (TV3) Mick O’Rourke, Sacred Sites (Tile Films / Smithsonian Channel) Domenico Pontillo, Wild Ireland - the Edge of the World (Crossing the Line / BBC NI/TG4) EDITING TELEVISION Iseult Howlett, Shaw My Astonishing Self (Animo TV / RTE) John Murphy, Giles (Loosehorse/RTE) Jamie Fitzpatrick, Wild Ireland - the Edge of the World (Crossing the Line / BBC NI/TG4) Bob Caldwell, Pearl Harbor The Heroes Who Fought Back (360 Productions / Discovery) SOUND TELEVISION Daniel Crowley, Jordan Mullen & Fionan Higgins - The Young Offenders Mick Cassidy & Killian Fitzgerald for Sacred Sites Paddy O’Hanlon, Garret Farrell & Michelee Fingleton Can’t Cope Won’t Cope Fiachra O’Hanlon and Killian Fitzgerald Pearl Harbour The Heroes who Fought Back (360 Productions / Discovery)