Joy in Ireland after the country’s film talent earns 14 Academy Awards nominations | Ireland

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Ireland received a record-breaking 14 Academy Award nominations, prompting jokes to move the ceremony from Los Angeles to Dublin.

Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin received nine nominations, Paul Mescal was nominated for Best Actor for Aftersun, and The Quiet Girl made history by becoming the first Irish-language film to be nominated in the Best International Feature Film category.

Gael Force! The Irish Examiner announced after the nominations were announced on Tuesday. “Not normal, people!” A pun on Mescal’s former best-known role in the TV drama Normal People, said news site Extra.ie.

Joe Duffy, radio presenter for the national broadcaster, RTÉ, joked to his listeners that the March 12 ceremony should move from Hollywood to Dublin. Ireland already has its own Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles, the Oscars Wild.

The Banshees of Inisherin’, a black comedy starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as former friends on a small island, was surpassed by In the Name of the Father, which scored an Irish record seven nominations in 1994.

The Banshees earned nominations for Best Picture, Direction, Editing, Original Screenplay, Lead Actor (Farrell), Supporting Actor (Gleeson and Barry Keoghan), Supporting Actress (Kerry Condon) and Original Score. Its nine nominations are second only to the action comedy Everything Everywhere All At One, which won with 11.

Ireland now faces a dilemma about who she should root for for best actor — Mescal, who plays the divorced father in Aftersun, or Farrell.

Paul Mescal at Aftersun. Photo: AP

Northern Ireland’s An Irish Goodbye, about a reunion of estranged brothers, one of whom has Down syndrome, is nominated in the Live Action Short Film category.

Jonathan Redmond is nominated for Best Editing for his work on Elvis, and Richard Baneham is nominated for Best Visual Effects for Avatar: The Way of Water.

The Quiet Girl – whose Irish title is An Cailín Ciúin – broke Irish and UK box office records for an Irish-language film, and has already won multiple awards. Directed by Colm Bairéad, and based on Claire Keegan’s New Yorker story turned Foster novel, it’s a coming-of-age tale of a girl from a dysfunctional family who is sent to live with relatives in rural Ireland.

“If you’d told me a year ago we’d be here,” said Periad, “I wouldn’t have believed you.” “I think it’s still sinking. I’m still in shock. Euphoric.” Members of the cast and crew and some of the financial backers gathered at the Stella Cinema in Rathmines, south Dublin, to watch the ad.

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Periad credited the “extraordinary strength” of Keegan’s story as the film’s setting. “If the ultimate dream comes true and we win, there will be a great deal of Irish talk on the stage that night,” he said.

Other international nominees are All Quiet On The Western Front, Close, Argentina 1985, and EO.

Alan Esslemont, managing director of TG4, an Irish-language television network that partially funded the film, said The Quiet Girl was a source of pride for Irish speakers and enabled an explosion of culture and creativity. “It was actually pivotal to a new wave of cinema in the whole of Ireland.”

John F. Kennedy, head of visual effects at Windmill Lane, a post-production center in Dublin, said it was no coincidence that he received the Ireland nominations. “We no longer need to beat the drum of our long tradition of storytelling or the tradition of the underdog nation brave above its own weight. This is the result of years of steady and continuous strategic growth across the film industry from government, studios, educational channels and private sector channels.”

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