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4th Irish Film And Television Awards
The 4th Irish Film & Television Awards took place on 10 February 2007 and was hosted by Ryan Tubridy at the Royal Dublin Society Main Hall, Dublin, honouring Irish film and television released in 2006. Awards in film Best Film * '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley'' (Winner) ** ''Breakfast on Pluto'' ** '' The Front Line'' ** ''Middletown'' ** ''Small Engine Repair'' Best International Film * ''Little Miss Sunshine'' (Winner) ** ''Babel'' ** '' Casino Royale'' ** '' The Departed'' ** '' United 93'' Best Director * Neil Jordan — ''Breakfast on Pluto'' (Winner) ** John Boorman — ''In My Country'' ** David Gleeson — '' The Front Line'' ** Brian Kirk — '' Middletown'' Best Script * Neil Jordan & Pat McCabe for ''Breakfast on Pluto'' (Winner) ** Daragh Carville for ''Middletown'' ** David Gleeson for '' The Front Line'' ** Niall Heery for ''Small Engine Repair'' Best Cinematography * Seamus Deasy for ''The Tiger's Tail'' (Winner) ** Seamus McGarvey for '' World Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Dublin Society
The Royal Dublin Society (RDS) ( ga, Cumann Ríoga Bhaile Átha Cliath) is an Irish philanthropic organisation and members club which was founded as the 'Dublin Society' on 25 June 1731 with the aim to see Ireland thrive culturally and economically. The RDS is synonymous with its 160,000 m2 campus in Ballsbridge, Dublin, Ireland. The premises include the ' RDS Arena', 'RDS Simmonscourt', 'RDS Main Hall' and other venues which are used regularly for exhibitions, concerts and sporting events like the Dublin Horse Show or as playground for the Leinster Rugby team. The Royal Dublin Society was granted Royal Patronage in 1820 by George IV. The RDS Members' Club is a members-only club offering exclusive access to sports events on its premises and weekly luncheons and dinners. The RDS is one of nine organisations in Ireland that may nominate candidates for the Seanad Éireann (Irish Upper House) elections. Name and history The society was founded by members of the Dublin Philosoph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United 93 (film)
''United 93'' is a 2006 docudrama thriller film written and directed by Paul Greengrass. The film chronicles the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93,Barra, Allen"Historical Film: It's Time to See a Movie We Couldn't Bear to Go To" ''American Heritage'', November/December 2006. one of the four hijacked flights during the September 11 attacks and the only one not to hit its intended target due to the intervention of passengers and crew. The film attempts to recount the hijacking and subsequent events in the flight with as much veracity as possible (there is a disclaimer that some imagination had to be used) and in real time (from the flight's takeoff). The film was made with the cooperation of many of the passengers' families, though not all agreed to participate.Brooks, Xan (June 7, 2006)"United 93 'surrender monkey' defends role in film" ''The Guardian''. ''United 93'' premiered on April 26, 2006, at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, a festival founded to celebra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Cassidy (composer)
Patrick Cassidy (born 1956) is an Irish orchestral, choral, and film score composer. Cassidy was born in Claremorris, County Mayo, Ireland. He received a master's degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Limerick in 1985, and supported his early compositional activities with a day job as a statistician. He is best known for his narrative cantatas – works he has written for orchestra and choir based on Irish mythology. ''The Children of Lir'', released in September 1993, remained at number one in the Irish classical charts for a full year. It was the first cantata written in the Irish language since the work of Paul McSwiney in the late 1800s. The BBC later produced an hour long documentary on the piece. ''Famine Remembrance'', a commissioned piece to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Irish Famine, was premiered in New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1996. In June 2007, the piece was performed at the opening of Toronto's Ireland Park with the President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen McKeon
Stephen McKeon is an Irish composer of film and television soundtrack music. He has received two Irish Film and Television Awards both for John Boorman films, Queen & Country in 2014 and ''The Tiger's Tail'' in 2004 and was previously nominated for ''Blind Flight'', ''Savage'' and the children's animated feature '' Niko 2 - Little Brother, Big Trouble''. His other works include: ''The Nephew'' (1998) and ''Borstal Boy'' (2000). He scored the 2011 biopic ''Hattie''. McKeon has written the scores of over 80 films, plus a number of Hercule Poirot TV movies, as well as many TV drama series including Black Mirror. He has also scored the fourth and fifth seasons of the British fantasy drama, ''Primeval''. He is a multi-instrumentalist whose work covers a wide spectrum from large orchestral scores to ambient guitar based music such as that written for the Scottish BAFTA winning film ''Summer Summer is the hottest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isolation (2005 Film)
''Isolation'' is a 2005 Irish horror film directed and written by Billy O'Brien and produced by Film Four and Lions Gate Film Studios. The film was released direct to DVD on 26 June 2007. Plot Dan Reilly, who owns a failing farm in rural Ireland, is being paid by a bio-genetics firm to assist in some experiments to make faster-growing cattle. The firm sends Orla, a local veterinarian, to inspect the cows and ensure the experiment is running smoothly. While performing a palpation, Orla is seemingly bitten by the unborn calf. She informs John, a genetic scientist from the firm, but he dismisses her concerns. John also informs Dan of a caravan parked near his farm and reminds him that the experiment is supposed to be kept secret from the public. Dan goes out and speaks to the inhabitants, traveller Jamie and his girlfriend Mary, and tells them they must leave by morning. That same night, one of the cows goes into labour, but Dan is unable to pull the calf out. Desperate, he g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Declan Quinn
Declan Quinn (born 1957) is an American cinematographer. He is a three-time winner of the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography. Early life Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Quinn is one of four children. His mother, Teresa, was a homemaker, and also worked as a bookkeeper and in the travel business, and his father, Michael Quinn, was a professor of literature. His four siblings, the most famous of whom is Aidan, are actors. The family moved to Ireland when he was in his teens, but he returned to the United States to earn a degree in film from Columbia College Chicago. Career In Ireland, he met Bono and U2 at the Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin, and he began his career filming several music videos and the documentaries ''U2: Unforgettable Fire'' (1984) and ''U2: Outside It's America'' (1987) for the group. Quinn permanently returned to the States in 1989 and filmed '' The Kill-Off''. In 1991, he served as cinematographer on Tim Hunter's well-received ''Lies of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Trade Center (film)
''World Trade Center'' is a 2006 American docudrama disaster film directed by Oliver Stone and written by Andrea Berloff, based on the experience of a few police officers during the September 11 attacks, in which they were trapped in the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center. It stars Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Michael Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stephen Dorff, and Michael Shannon. The film was shot between October 2005 and February 2006, and theatrically released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on August 9, 2006. It was met with generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $163 million worldwide. Plot On September 11, 2001, members of the Port Authority Police are dispatched to Downtown Manhattan in response to the North Tower of the World Trade Center having been hit by a plane. The officers learn en route that the South Tower also was hit by another plane. Sergeant John McLoughlin, veteran of the 1993 bombing, assembles a group of volunteers; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seamus McGarvey
Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC (born 29 June 1967) is a cinematographer from Armagh, Northern Ireland. He lives in Tuscany, Italy. He has received two Academy Award nominations for his cinematography, on Joe Wright's 2007 drama ''Atonement'' and his 2012 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel ''Anna Karenina''. In addition to the Oscar nominations, McGarvey won the British Society of Cinematographers (B.S.C.) award for ''Anna Karenina'' and for ''Nocturnal Animals'', as well as a nomination for ''Atonement'', and earned BAFTA noms for Atonement, Anna Karenina and Nocturnal Animals. He received A.S.C. nods for Atonement and Anna Karenina. ''Atonement'' earned him nominations for the British Independent Film Award, the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Online Film Critics Society, and he received the top honor from the Phoenix Film Critics Society. McGarvey has won three Evening Standard British Film Awards for ''Atonement'', ''Anna Karenina'' and Stephen Daldry's '' The Hours'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tiger's Tail
''The Tiger's Tail'' is a 2006 Irish film written and directed by John Boorman and starring Brendan Gleeson and Kim Cattrall. The story focuses on the modern Celtic Tiger Irish economy of the late 20th century. The film premiered at the 2006 San Sebastián Film Festival. Plot Liam O'Leary (Gleeson) is a successful real estate developer in Dublin. He lives in a magnificent house with his unhappy wife (Cattrall) and rebellious son. One day, his pleasant life takes a dramatic downturn. The city council turns down his request to build a stadium, toward which he has taken out cripplingly large bank loans, and a doppelgänger, with his identical body and facial features, begins appearing around town, ordering suits and automobiles on Liam's credit account and behaving in a scandalous manner. Liam desperately attempts to pull his life out of its tailspin, but he must return to his dirtpoor roots and the old friends he has long abandoned to find the answers. Characters * Brendan Gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick McCabe (novelist)
Patrick McCabe (born 27 March 1955) is an Irish writer. Known for his mostly dark and violent novels set in contemporary—often small-town—Ireland, McCabe has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for '' The Butcher Boy'' (1992) and ''Breakfast on Pluto'' (1998), both of which have been made into films. Biography McCabe was born in Clones, County Monaghan. He resides in Clones with his artist wife Margot Quinn and two daughters, Katie and Ellen. Literary career McCabe's books include '' The Butcher Boy'' (1992) and ''Breakfast on Pluto'' (1998), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has written a children's book (''The Adventures of Shay Mouse'') and several of his radio plays have been broadcast by RTÉ and BBC Radio 4. He wrote a collection of linked short stories, ''Mondo Desperado'', published in 1999. The play ''Frank Pig Says Hello'', which he adapted from ''The Butcher Boy'', was first performed at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1992 and of course h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Kirk
Brian Kirk is an Irish film and television director who has directed episodes of ''Game of Thrones'', FX's '' The Riches'' and Showtime's ''Brotherhood'' and ''The Tudors''. He also directed the television film '' My Boy Jack'' starring David Haig and Daniel Radcliffe and based on the play of the same name. Career Kirk has been named to direct the thriller ''Midnight Delivery'' for Universal Pictures. Guillermo del Toro will produce the film. In July 2013 Kevin Costner was in talks to star in the film. Filmography Film * ''Middletown'' (2006) * ''21 Bridges'' (2019) Television *''Pulling Moves'' (2004) **Episode #1.01: "Claimitis" **Episode #1.02: "Meat Is Murder" **Episode #1.03: "The Quiz" **Episode #1.04: "Dog Eat Dog" **Episode #1.05: "Spousal Arousal" *'' Murphy's Law'' (2004–2005): **Episode #2.01: "Jack's Back" **Episode #2.02: "Bent Moon on the Rise" **Episode #3.01: "The Goodbye Look" **Episode #3.03: "Strongbox" *''Donovan'' (2005) *'' Funland'' (2005) **Episode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gleeson
David Gleeson (born in Limerick) is an Irish film director and writer. Personal life A native of Cappamore, Co. Limerick, Gleeson is the third generation of his family to enter the film business. His grandfather opened up the Regal Cinema, Cappamore, in the early 1940s, and his father, Eddie Gleeson, took over the business, opening up several more screens across the south west of Ireland, including the Curzon Cinema, Kilmallock, and the Ormond Cineplex, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. David began his career at the age of nineteen writing and directing non-professional theater in Limerick City with the one-act drama ''Class Control''. A few years later he entered the North Sea oil industry where he worked for five years, chiefly in the Forties Field on the Forties Charlie platform, followed by two years in the Arctic Circle off the coast of Norway onboard the Ocean Alliance. Gleeson met his producing partner and future wife, Nathalie Lichtenthaler, in New York City while attending a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
