Oscars 2024: Who are Ireland’s biggest contenders?

As the 96th Academy Awards ceremony approaches, who are the biggest contenders to win an award in Ireland at next year’s ceremony?

Last year’s Oscars were nominated for a total of 14 categories, making it a record year for the country.

This included two winners.Visual effects by Dubliner Richard Baneham Avatar: Water Path Ross White and Tom Berkeley ireland’s farewell Winner in the best short story category.

there was Last year was disappointing though as Banshee of Inisherin After receiving a total of nine nominations, he returned home empty-handed.

Part of the cast of “The Banshees of Inisherin” (right) co-starring Martin McDonagh at the 79th Venice Film Festival held in Venice, Italy in September 2022. Photo credit: Independent Photo Agency Srl / Alamy Stock Photo

Cillian Murphy is considered the frontrunner to win the presidential nomination on January 23rd. play the leading role in christopher nolan oppenheimer.

If his Golden Globe nomination goes well, he could join a number of other Irish stars in the Best Actor category.

Barry Keoghan was nominated for: salt burn And Andrew Scott for that all of us strangers.

Paul Mescal, another up-and-coming Irish talent, will also be hoping to receive a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his role in the film. all of us strangers.

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The 10-category shortlist for the 2024 Oscars was announced last week, and includes several more Irish nominees.

flora and sonWhich Follow a working-class single mother in Dublinnominated two original songs written for the film in the Best Original Song category.

these are high society and meet in the middle Both were co-authored with Dubliner John Carney.

Eve Hewson in the Apple TV+ movie Flora and Son. 25-9-23. Image provided by LMKMEDIA.

Poor thing, The film, starring Emma Stone and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, was shortlisted in three categories. Make-up and hairstyling, visual effects, and original score.

The film is produced by Dublin-based film studio and production company Element Pictures and is scheduled for release on January 12th.

The full list of nominations for the 96th Academy Awards will be announced on January 23rd, before the event itself takes place on March 10th.