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IFTA Awards 2025 Winners & Nominees

The 21st Irish Film & Television Academy Awards (2025) took place on February 14, 2025 (Royal Convention Centre, Dublin, Ireland). Small Things Like These won the most, 2 of its 5 nominations. Winners include Rich Peppiatt (Best Director), Cillian Murphy (Best Lead Actor) and Saoirse Ronan (Best Lead Actress). Every winner and nominee in all 8 categories is below.

All 8 categories Most wins
categories
8
nominations
27
films nominated
13
winners
5
Held on
Venue
Royal Convention Centre, Dublin, Ireland
Headline winners

IFTA Awards 2025: The Winners

The 21st Irish Film & Television Academy Awards (2025) winners: Rich Peppiatt (Best Director), Cillian Murphy (Best Lead Actor) and Saoirse Ronan (Best Lead Actress), and 2 more categories below.

Scoreboard

IFTA Awards 2025: Which Films Won the Most

Small Things Like These won 2 awards from 5 nominations. 4 films won at least once, while Oddity went home empty-handed from 3 nominations. Green is wins, blue is nominations.

  1. Small Things Like These (2024) movie poster
    Small Things Like These 2 / 5
    2024 · Drama, History · 2 wins from 5 nominations
  2. Kneecap (2024) movie poster
    Kneecap 1 / 8
    2024 · Comedy, Drama · 1 win from 8 nominations
  3. The Outrun (2024) movie poster
    The Outrun 1 / 1
    2024 · Drama · 1 win from 1 nomination
  4. Blitz (2024) movie poster
    Blitz 1 / 1
    2024 · Action, Drama · 1 win from 1 nomination
  5. Oddity (2024) movie poster
    Oddity 0 / 3
    2024 · Horror, Thriller · 0 wins from 3 nominations
  6. Abigail (2024) movie poster
    Abigail 0 / 2
    2024 · Horror, Thriller · 0 wins from 2 nominations
  7. The Apprentice (2024) movie poster
    The Apprentice 0 / 1
    2024 · Biography, Drama · 0 wins from 1 nomination
  8. We Live in Time (2024) movie poster
    We Live in Time 0 / 1
    2024 · Drama, Romance · 0 wins from 1 nomination
  9. Gladiator II (2024) movie poster
    Gladiator II 0 / 1
    2024 · Action, Adventure · 0 wins from 1 nomination
  10. Wicked Little Letters (2024) movie poster
    Wicked Little Letters 0 / 1
    2024 · Comedy, Crime · 0 wins from 1 nomination
Full results

All 8 IFTA Awards 2025 Categories: Winners & Nominees

8 categories and 27 nominations. The winner of each comes first, on a green row. Search for a film or a person, show only the winners, or jump straight to a category.

8 categories · 27 nominations

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IFTA Awards 2025 Best Live Action Short Film

1 nominee

No winner is recorded for this category.

Movie marathon

The IFTA Awards 2025 Best Film Marathon

All 3 Best Film nominees at the 21st Irish Film & Television Academy Awards (2025), back to back: 5 hours 21 minutes.

Total running time 5h 21m 5 hours 21 minutes All 3 films
Longest
The Apprentice 2h
Shortest
Small Things Like These 1h 36m
By genre

The Genres Behind the IFTA Awards 2025 Winners

Drama led with 20 nominations across 9 films and won 5. A film with several genres counts for each one.

  1. Drama 5 wins · 20 nominations · 25%
  2. Comedy 1 win · 9 nominations · 11%
  3. History 3 wins · 8 nominations · 38%
  4. Thriller 0 wins · 6 nominations · 0%
  5. Horror 0 wins · 5 nominations · 0%
  6. Action 1 win · 2 nominations · 50%
  7. War 1 win · 1 nomination · 100%
  8. Biography 0 wins · 1 nomination · 0%
  9. Romance 0 wins · 1 nomination · 0%
  10. Adventure 0 wins · 1 nomination · 0%
2025 season

How the Rest of the 2025 Awards Season Voted

The other 18 ceremonies of 2025, with the winner of each top prize. Anora won the most of them: 6.

All 2025 awards
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Previous IFTA Awards Ceremonies

The 6 ceremonies before this one, with the date and size of each. The IFTA Awards page has every year back to 2003.

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IFTA Awards 2025: Questions & Answers

The winners, the film that won the most, the most-nominated film and the date of the 21st Irish Film & Television Academy Awards (2025), answered from the results on this page.

Who won at the 21st Irish Film & Television Academy Awards (2025)?

The winners include Rich Peppiatt (Best Director), Cillian Murphy (Best Lead Actor), Saoirse Ronan (Best Lead Actress), Saoirse Ronan (Best Supporting Actress) and Small Things Like These (Best Script).

Which film won the most awards at the 21st Irish Film & Television Academy Awards (2025)?

Small Things Like These (2024) won the most: 2 awards from 5 nominations.

Which film had the most nominations at the 21st Irish Film & Television Academy Awards (2025)?

Kneecap (2024) led with 8 nominations and won one of them.

Who won the acting and directing awards at the 21st Irish Film & Television Academy Awards (2025)?

Best Director: Rich Peppiatt for Kneecap. Best Lead Actor: Cillian Murphy for Small Things Like These. Best Lead Actress: Saoirse Ronan for The Outrun. Best Supporting Actress: Saoirse Ronan for Blitz.

When was the 21st Irish Film & Television Academy Awards (2025)?

The 21st Irish Film & Television Academy Awards (2025) took place on February 14, 2025 (Royal Convention Centre, Dublin, Ireland). The database has 8 categories and 27 nominations for it.