“Kneecap” — the Irish-language music biopic that grew to become one of many buzziest indie movies of 2024 and is now tipped for each Oscar and BAFTA recognition — has, maybe unsurprisingly, emerged far forward of the pack of nominees for the 2025 Irish Movie & TV Academy (IFTA) awards.

Wealthy Peppiatt’s raucous comedy, about (and starring) the Belfast rap trio of the identical identify, has landed an astonishing 17 nominations for the awards, together with greatest movie, director, three of the six slots for lead actor, three of the six for supporting actress and one for Michael Fassbender within the supporting actor class.

“Small Issues Like These,” the significantly quieter Irish drama fronted (and produced) by Cillian Murphy has 9 nominations, together with lead actor for Murphy, who gained the award final yr for “Oppenheimer.”

Having been co-produced by Irish firm Tailor-made Movies, Ali Abbasi’s Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice” can also be within the combine, with 4 nominations.

On the TV facet, “Say Nothing,” Disney+’s critically lauded miniseries about Northern Eire through the Troubles, leads the best way with 10 nominations, adopted by the second season of “Unhealthy Sisters,” with 8.

Different names within the working embody Paul Mescal (“Gladiator 2”), Saoirse Ronan (“The Outrun”), Barry Keoghan (“Fowl”), Colin Farrell (“The Penguin”).

“The 2025 nominees shortlisted for Irish Academy Awards this yr is an unimaginable showcase of ability and expertise in entrance and behind the digicam,” mentioned Academy CEO, Áine Moriarty. “There may be completely little doubt that Irish expertise is amongst the perfect on the earth, delivering such excessive requirements of performing, filmmaking, and storytelling. The Irish Academy is proud to showcase this trade’s nice work and to reward their achievements.”

The IFTA awards ceremony Award will happen on Feb. 14, 2025 on the Dublin Royal Conference Centre.

See the complete checklist of nominees beneath:

FILM CATEGORIES

BEST FILM

“Kathleen Is Right here”
“King Frankie”
“Kneecap”
“Small Issues Like These”
“Spilt Milk”
“The Apprentice”

DIRECTOR – FILM

Eva Birthistle – “Kathleen Is Right here”
John Crowley – “We Stay in Time”
Brian Durnin – “Spilt Milk”
Damian McCarthy – “Oddity”
Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor – “Baltimore”
Wealthy Peppiatt – “Kneecap”

SCRIPT – FILM

Eva Birthistle – “Kathleen Is Right here”
Cara Loftus – “Spilt Milk”
Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor – “Baltimore”
Wealthy Peppiatt – “Kneecap”
Stephen Shields – “Abigail”
Enda Walsh – “Small Issues Like These”

LEAD ACTOR – FILM

Peter Coonan – “King Frankie”
Paul Mescal – “Gladiator II”
Cillian Murphy – “Small Issues Like These”
Naoise Ó Caireallain – “Kneecap”
J.J. Ó Dochartaigh – “Kneecap”
Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh – “Kneecap”

LEAD ACTRESS – FILM

Carolyn Bracken – “Oddity”
Jessie Buckley – “Depraved Little Letters”
Hazel Doupe – “Kathleen Is Right here”
Saoirse Ronan – “The Outrun”
Eileen Walsh – “Small Issues Like These”
Alisha Weir – “Abigail”

SUPPORTING ACTOR – FILM

Peter Coonan – “Kathleen Is Right here”
Michael Fassbender – “Kneecap”
Barry Keoghan – “Fowl”
Brían F. O’Byrne – “Conclave”
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor – “Baltimore”
Steve Wall – “Oddity”

SUPPORTING ACTRESS – FILM

Zara Devlin – “Small Issues Like These”
Clare Dunne – “Kathleen Is Right here”
Fionnuala Flaherty – “Kneecap”
Simone Kirby – “Kneecap”
Saoirse Ronan – “Blitz”
Jessica Reynolds – “Kneecap”

DRAMA CATEGORIES

BEST DRAMA

Unhealthy Sisters
Say Nothing
The Dry
Bodkin
Blue Lights
Crá

DIRECTOR – DRAMA

Paddy Breathnach – “The Dry”
Brian Kirk – “The Day of the Jackal”
Michael Lennox – “Say Nothing”
Lisa Mulcahy – “Sanctuary”
Hannah Quinn – “The Boy That By no means Was”
Dearbhla Walsh – “Unhealthy Sisters”

SCRIPT – DRAMA

Baz Ashmawy – “Faithless”
Ronan Bennett – “The Day of the Jackal”
Nancy Harris – “The Dry”
Sharon Horgan – “Unhealthy Sisters”
Adam Patterson, Declan Garden – “Blue Lights”
Kirsten Sheridan, Joshua Zetumer – “Say Nothing”

LEAD ACTOR – DRAMA

Anthony Boyle – “Say Nothing”
Colin Farrell – “The Penguin”
Michael Fassbender – “The Company”
Ciarán Hinds – “The Dry”
Andrew Scott – “Ripley”
Aidan Turner – “Rivals”

LEAD ACTRESS – DRAMA

Elaine Cassidy – “Sanctuary”
Nicola Coughlan – “Bridgerton”
Siobhán Cullen – “Bodkin”
Roisin Gallagher- “The Dry”
Sharon Horgan – “Unhealthy Sisters”
Lola Petticrew – “Say Nothing”

SUPPORTING ACTOR – DRAMA

Anthony Boyle – “Masters of the Air”
Liam Cunningham – “3 Physique Downside”
Michael Smiley – “Unhealthy Sisters”
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor – “Say Nothing”
Chris Walley – “Bodkin”
David Wilmot – “Bodkin”

SUPPORTING ACTRESS – DRAMA

Siobhán Cullen – “The Dry”
Hazel Doupe – “Say Nothing”
Eve Hewson – “Unhealthy Sisters”
Ruth Negga – “Presumed Harmless”
Fiona Shaw – “Unhealthy Sisters”
Victoria Smurfit – “Rivals”

INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARD CATEGORIES

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

“Anora”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Half Two”
“The Brutalist”
“The Outrun”
“The Substance”

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR

Adrien Brody – “The Brutalist”
Timothee Chalamet – “A Full Unknown”
Kieran Culkin – “A Actual Ache”
Ralph Fiennes – “Conclave”
Sebastian Stan – “The Apprentice”
Denzel Washington – “Gladiator II”

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS

Cynthia Erivo – “Depraved”
Angelina Jolie – “Maria”
Mikey Madison – “Anora”
Demi Moore – “The Substance”
Florence Pugh – “We Stay in Time”
Emily Watson – “Small Issues Like These”

OTHER AWARD CATEGORIES

GEORGE MORRISON FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

“Face Down: The Disappearance of Thomas Niedermayer”
“Don’t Neglect to Keep in mind”
“Blue Street: The Edna O’Brien Story”
“The Flats”
“Mrs Robinson”
“Brendan Gleeson’s Farewell to Hughes’s”

LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM

“Clodagh”
“Farmers!?”
“Room Taken”
“Turnaround”
“Two Moms”
“We Beg to Differ”
“Spouse of the Future”
“Wrecker”

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

“Dembaya”
“Each Different Weekend”
“Homebird”
“Nightpay”

CRAFT CATEGORIES

CASTING

“Baltimore” – Emma Gunnery
“Bodkin” – Louise Kiely
“Kneecap” – Carla Stronge
“Say Nothing” – Lucy Amos, Nina Gold
“Small Issues Like These” – Maureen Hughes

CINEMATOGRAPHY

“Fowl” – Robbie Ryan
“Fréwaka” – Narayan Van Maele
“Kneecap” – Ryan Kernaghan
“Say Nothing” – Stephen Murphy
“The Penguin” – Darran Tiernan

COSTUME DESIGN

“Abigail” – Gwen Jeffares Hourie
“Home of the Dragon” – Caroline McCall
“Kneecap” – Zjena Glamocanin
“Spilt Milk” – Gwen Jeffares Hourie
“Vikings Valhalla” – Susan O’Connor-Cave

PRODUCTION DESIGN

“Abigail” – Susie Cullen
“Bodkin” – Paki Smith
“Kneecap” – Nicola Moroney
“The Vacationer” – Philip Murphy
“Vikings Valhalla” – Tom Conroy

HAIR & MAKE-UP

“Abigail” – Linda Gannon, Liz Byrne
“Kneecap” – Liz Boston
“Small Issues Like These” – Lorraine Glynn, Lynn Johnston
“The Apprentice” – Sandra Kelly, Tom McInerney
“Vikings Valhalla” – Joe Whelan, Tom McInerney

SOUND

“Abigail” – Hugh Fox
“Blackshore” – John ‘Bob’ Brennan, Mark Henry, Fionan Higgins
“Kneecap” – Aza Hand, Brendan Rehill, Chris Woodcock
“Oddity” – Aza Hand, Hugo Parvery
“Small Issues Like These” – Hugh Fox, Senjan Jansen

ORIGINAL MUSIC

“Fréwaka” – Die Hexen
“The Apprentice” – David Holmes
“The Dry” – Sarah Lynch
“The Magic Reindeer: Saving Santa’s Sleigh” – Eimear Noone, Craig Stuart Garfinkle
“The Track Cycle” – Ray Harman

EDITING

“Unhealthy Sisters” – Derek Holland
“Kathleen Is Right here” – Colin Campbell
“Kneecap” – Julian Ulrichs & Chris Gill
“Paddington in Peru” – Úna Ní Dhonghaíle
“Say Nothing” – Edel McDonnell

VFX

“3 Physique Downside” – Ed Bruce, Liam Neville
“Bodkin” – John Kennedy, Lisa Maher
“Sanctuary” – Dan Cullen
“Shögun” – Ed Bruce, Andrew Barry