6th Irish Film & Television Awards

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.

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