The Quiet Girl Named Best Film by Dublin Film Critics Circle

Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl has been named Best Film by the Dublin Film Critics Circle. The film also picked up a win for Best Irish Film. Elsewhere, Charlotte Wells earned Best Director for Aftersun, while Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin) and Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) were named Best Actor and Actress, respectively.

Full list of winners below.

BEST FILM

1.     An Cailín Ciúin/The Quiet Girl

2.     Aftersun

3.     Everything Everywhere All At Once

4.     The Banshees of Inisherin

5.     Living

6.     Elvis

7.     RRR

8.     Happening

9.     Vortex

10.  Parallel Mothers

BEST DIRECTOR

1.     Charlotte Wells (Aftersun)

2.     Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

3.     Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)

4.     Colm Bairéad (An Cailín Ciúin/The Quiet Girl)

5.     Robert Eggers (The Northman)

6.     Oliver Hermanus (Living)

7.     SS Rajamouli (RRR)

8.     Park Chan-Wook (Decision to Leave)

9.     Gaspar Noé (Vortex)

10.  Luca Guadagnino (Bones and All)

BEST DOCUMENTARY

1.     Moonage Daydream

2.     Nothing Compares

3.     Lyra

4.     Kurt Vonnegut

5.     Futura

6.     Cow

7.     Fire of Love

8.     Million Dollar Pigeons

9.     The Territory

10.  North Circular

BEST ACTOR

1.     Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)

2.     Bill Nighy (Living)

3.     Austin Butler (Elvis)

4.     Paul Mescal (Aftersun)

5.     Udo Kier (Swan Song)

BEST ACTRESS

1.     Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

2.     Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)

3.     Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)

4.     Tang Wei (Decision to Leave)

5.     Anamaria Vartolomei (Happening)

BEST SCREENPLAY

1.     Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)

2.     Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once

3.     Charlotte Wells (Aftersun)

4.     Park Chan-Wook (Decision to Leave)

5.     Jordan Peele (Nope)

6.     Mariano Cohn, Andrés Duprat, Gastón Duprat (Official Competition)

7.     Gaspar Noé (Vortex)

8.     Terence Davies (Benediction)

9.     Rian Johnson (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)

10.  Ian Stokell, Lesley Paterson, Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front)

CINEMATOGRAPHY

1.     Claudio Miranda (Top Gun: Maverick)

2.     Ben Davis (The Banshees of Inisherin)

3.     Hoyte van Hoytema (Nope)

4.     Larkin Seiple (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

5.     Kate McCullough (An Cailín Ciúin/The Quiet Girl)

6.     K.K Senthil Kumar (RRR)

7.     Jarin Blaschke (The Northman)

8.     Benoît Debie (Vortex)

9.     Jamie D Ramsay (Living)

10.  Mitja Licen (Small Body)

BEST IRISH FILM

1.     An Cailín Ciúin/The Quiet Girl

2.     Róise and Frank

3.     Nothing Compares

4.     The Dance

5.     It Is In Us All

BREAKTHROUGH, INTERNATIONAL

Amber Midthunder, Prey

IRISH BREAKTHROUGH

Alisha Weir, Matilda The Musical

Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.