The 6th Irish Film & Television Awards took place on 14 February 2009 at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, and was hosted by Ryan Tubridy. It honoured Irish film and television released in 2008.^[1][2][3][4]

Awards in Film

Film

• Hunger (Winner)
  • 32A
  • A Film with Me in It
  • The Escapist
  • Kisses

Director Film

• Lance Daly – Kisses (Winner)
  • Ian Fitzgibbon – A Film with Me in It
  • Martin McDonagh – In Bruges
  • Declan Recks – Eden

Script Film

• Martin McDonagh – In Bruges (Winner)
  • Lance Daly – Kisses
  • Mark Doherty – A Film with Me in It
  • Enda Walsh – Hunger

Actor in a Lead Role Film

• Michael Fassbender – Hunger (Winner)
  • Colin Farrell – In Bruges
  • Brendan Gleeson – In Bruges
  • Dylan Moran – A Film with Me in It

Actress in a Lead Role Film

• Eileen Walsh – Eden (Winner)
  • Jenn Murray – Dorothy
  • Kelly O'Neill – Kisses
  • Saoirse Ronan – City of Ember

Actor in a Supporting Role Film

• Liam Cunningham – Hunger (Winner)
  • Stuart Graham – Hunger
  • Gerard McSorley – Anton
  • Peter O'Toole – Dean Spanley

Actress in a Supporting Role Film

• Saoirse Ronan – Death Defying Acts (Winner)
  • Sarah Bolger – The Spiderwick Chronicles
  • Lesley Conroy – Eden
  • Ger Ryan – Dorothy

George Morrison Feature Documentary Award

• Waveriders (Winner)
  • Gabriel Byrne: Stories From Home
  • Saviours
  • Seaview

International Film

• In Bruges (Winner)
  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
  • Man on Wire
  • WALL-E

International Actor

• Robert Downey Jr. – Iron Man (Winner)
  • Casey Affleck – Gone Baby Gone
  • Josh Brolin – W.
  • Ralph Fiennes – The Duchess

Pantene Best International Actress Award – People's Choice

• Meryl Streep – Mamma Mia! (Winner)
  • Angelina Jolie – Changeling
  • Kristin Scott Thomas – I've Loved You So Long
  • Emma Thompson – Brideshead Revisited

Awards in Television Drama

Single Drama/Drama Serial

• Whistleblower (Winner)
  • George Gently
  • The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
  • Little White Lie
  • School Run

Drama Series / Soap

• The Tudors (Winner)
  • The Clinic
  • Fair City
  • Raw
  • Ros na Rún

Director Television

• Ciaran Donnelly – The Tudors (Winner)
  • Dermot Boyd – Whistleblower
  • Dearbhla Walsh – Little Dorrit
  • Kieron J. Walsh – Raw

Script Television

• Graham Linehan – The I.T. Crowd (Winner)
  • Stuart Carolan & Barry Murphy – Little White Lie
  • Rob Heyland – Whistleblower
  • Peter McKenna – The Clinic

Actor in a Lead Role Television

• Aidan Gillen – The Wire (Winner)
  • Dominic Mafham – The Clinic
  • Jonathan Rhys Meyers – The Tudors
  • Stanley Townsend – Whistleblower

Actress in a Lead Role Television

• Charlene McKenna – Raw (Winner)
  • Elaine Cassidy – Little White Lie
  • Charlene McKenna – Whistleblower
  • Deirdre O'Kane – Bitter Sweet

Actor in a Supporting Role Television

• Peter O'Toole – The Tudors (Winner)
  • Michael Fassbender – The Devil's Whore
  • David Herlihy – The Clinic
  • John Kavanagh – George Gently

Actress in a Supporting Role Television

• Maria Doyle Kennedy – The Tudors (Winner)
  • Orla Brady – Mistresses
  • Hilda Fay – Whistleblower
  • Amy Huberman – The Clinic

Craft / Technical Awards

Costume Design

• Joan Bergin – The Tudors (Winner)
  • Driscoll Calder – 32A
  • Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh – Brideshead Revisited
  • Leonie Prendergast – Kisses

Director of Photography

• PJ Dillon – 32A (Winner)
  • Seamus Deasy – A Film with Me in It
  • Owen McPolin – Little Dorrit
  • Fergal O'Hanlon – Anton

Editing

• J. Patrick Duffner – Kisses (Winner)
  • Shane Sutton – Fight or Flight
  • Ben Yeates – Raw
  • Gareth Young – Eden

Make Up & Hair – sponsored by M·A·C

• Sharon Doyle & Dee Corcoran – The Tudors (Winner)
  • Eileen Buggy & Morna Ferguson – George Gently
  • Joni Galvin & Muriel Bell – Dorothy
  • Liz Byrne – Kisses

Original Score

• David Holmes – Hunger (Winner)
  • David Holmes – Cherrybomb
  • Stephen McKeon – Niko and the Way to the Stars
  • Anna Rice – Anton

Production Design

• Tom McCullagh – Hunger (Winner)
  • Tom Conroy – The Tudors
  • John Paul Kelly – The Other Boleyn Girl
  • David Wilson – Dorothy

Sound

• Ronan Hill & Mervyn Moore – Hunger (Winner)
  • Brendan Deasy – A Film with Me in It
  • John Fitzgerald, Patrick Drummond & Caoimhe Doyle – Niko and the Way to the Stars
  • Paul Maynes, Niall Brady & Garret Farrel – Waveriders

Awards in Television

Children's / Youth Programme

• Aifric (Winner)
  • Aisling's Diary
  • Funky Fables
  • Quizone

Current Affairs

• Cocaine (Prime Time Investigates) (Winner)
  • A Lost Boy (Spotlight)
  • Slave Labour Ireland (Prime Time Investigates)
  • Teen Bullying (Prime Time Investigates)

Documentary Series

• Bertie (Winner)
  • Death or Canada
  • How the Irish Have Sex
  • Mobs Mhericeá

Single Documentary

• Cromwell in Ireland (Winner)
  • Brian Keenan: Back to Beirut
  • Patrick McCabe: Blood Relations
  • Pimpernel sa Vatican

Entertainment Programme

• The Apprentice (Winner)
  • The Panel
  • The Podge and Rodge Show
  • Tubridy Tonight

Factual Programme

• In the Name of the Fada (Winner)
  • Ballet Chancers
  • Celebrity Bainisteoir
  • Who Do You Think You Are?

Sport

• Troid Fhuilteach (A Bloody Canvas) (Winner)
  • Brief Encounters of the Sporting Mind
  • Euro 2008
  • Road to Croker... With Bertie Ahern

Others

Animation

• Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty (Winner)
  • Days Like This
  • Niko and the Way to the Stars
  • On The Air: Hypnotised Hen

Short Film

• The Door (Winner)
  • An Ranger
  • Martin
  • Of Best Intentions

Special Irish Language

• In the Name of the Fada (Winner)
  • Aifric
  • Fairytale of Kathmandu
  • Seacht

Rising Star Award, sponsored by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board

• Michael Fassbender – Actor (Winner)
  • Sarah Bolger – Actor
  • Lance Daly – Writer/Director
  • Enda Walsh – Writer

Industry Lifetime Contribution Award

• George Morrison^[5]

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