Dublin Film Critics' Circle

Winners

2018 winners

• Best Film – Custody
• Best Director - Chloé Zhao, The Rider
• Best Irish Director - Rebecca Daly, Good Favour
• Best Screenplay - Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here
• Best Cinematography - Monika Lenczewska, Under the Tree
• Best Actor - Charlie Plummer, Lean on Pete
• Best Actress - Charlotte Rampling, Hannah
• Best Documentary - So Help Me God
• Best Irish Film - The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid
• Michael Dwyer Discovery Award - Coralie Fargeat, Revenge
• George Byrne Maverick Award - Stephen Rea – Black 47
• Extraordinary Achievement - Bill Morrison,
• Jury Prize - Warwick Thornton, Sweet Country
• Jury Prize - Kathleen Hepburn, Never Steady, Never Still
• Jury Prize - Jian Liu, Have a Nice Day
• Jury Prize - Ryan Killackey, Yasuni Man

  2017 winners

• Best Film – Aquarius
• Best Actress – Florence Pugh – Lady Macbeth
• Best Actor – Sherwan Haji – The Other Side of Hope
• Best Director – Lav Diaz – The Woman Who Left
• Best Cinematography – M. David Mullen – The Love Witch
• Best Screenplay – Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov – Glory
• Best Irish Feature – Handsome Devil
• Best Irish Documentary – The Farthest
• Best Documentary – I Am Not Your Negro
• Jury Prize – Kristopher Avedisian – Donald Cried
• Jury Prize – Daouda Coulibaly – Wùlu
• Jury Prize – My Life as a Courgette
• Jury Prize – The Transfiguration
• George Byrne Maverick Award – Emer Reynolds
• Michael Dwyer Discovery Award – Blue Teapot cast – Sanctuary

  2016 winners

• Best Film – I, Daniel Blake
• Best Director – Denis Villeneuve – Arrival
• Best Irish Film – A Date for Mad Mary
• Best Documentary – Weiner / Mattress Men
• Best Actor – Dave Johns – I, Daniel Blake
• Best Actress – Amy Adams – Arrival
• Best Screenplay – Eric Heisserer – Arrival
• Best Cinematography – Seamus McGarvey – Nocturnal Animals
• Breakthrough Award – Seana Kerslake
• Breakthrough Award – Hayley Squires

  2015 winners

• Best Film – Inside Out
• Best Irish Film – Brooklyn / The Queen of Ireland
• Best Documentary – The Queen of Ireland
• Best Director – Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman or
• Best Actor – Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs
• Best Actress – Julianne Moore – Still Alice
• Breakthrough International – Daisy Ridley – / Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor – Tangerine
• Breakthrough Irish – Jordanne Jones – I Used to Live Here

  2014 winners

• Best Film – Boyhood
• Best Irish Film – Frank
• Best Documentary – Finding Vivian Maier
• Best Director – Richard Linklater – Boyhood
• Best Actor – Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
• Best Actress – Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night
• Breakthrough Award – Jack O'Connell – '71, Starred Up, and Unbroken

  2013 winners

• Best Film – Gravity
• Best Irish Film – Good Vibrations
• Best Screenplay – Before Midnight
• Best Documentary – The Act of Killing
• Best Cinematography – Emmanuel Lubezki – Gravity, and To the Wonder
• Best Director – Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity
• Best Actor – Bruce Dern – Nebraska
• Best Actress – Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
• Breakthrough Award – Lake Bell and Joshua Oppenheimer

  2012 winners

• Best Film – The Artist
• Best Irish Film – What Richard Did
• Best Documentary – Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present
• Best Director – Michael Haneke – Amour
• Best Actor – Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
• Best Actress – Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
• Breakthrough Award – Gareth Evans – The Raid: Redemption

  2011 winners

• Best Film – Drive
• Best Irish Film – The Guard
• Best Foreign Language Film – A Separation
• Best Director – Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive
• Best Actor – Ryan Gosling – Drive
• Best Actress – Jessica Chastain – The Tree of Life
• Best Documentary – Senna
• Best Irish Documentary – Knuckle
• International Breakthrough Award – Jessica Chastain – The Help, Take Shelter, and The Tree of Life
• Irish Breakthrough Award – John Michael McDonagh – The Guard

  2010 winners

• Best Film – A Prophet
• Best Irish Film – His & Hers
• Best Documentary – His & Hers
• Best Director – Jacques Audiard – A Prophet
• Best Actor – Tahar Rahim – A Prophet
• Best Actress – Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone
• Breakthrough Award – Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone
• Irish Breakthrough Award – Ken Wardrop – His & Hers

  Decade awards

• Best Film of the Decade – There Will Be Blood
• Best Irish Film of the Decade – Adam & Paul, and Hunger

  2009 winners

• Best Film – Let the Right One In
• Best Irish Film – Waveriders
• Best Documentary – Anvil! The Story of Anvil
• Best Director – Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
• Best Actor – Sean Penn – Milk
• Best Actress – Yolande Moreau – Séraphine
• Breakthrough Award – Neil Blomkamp – District 9
• Outstanding Achievement – Duncan Jones

  2008 winners

• Best Film – There Will Be Blood
• Best Irish Film – Hunger
• Best Director – Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood
• Best Actor – Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
• Best Actress – Kristin Scott Thomas – I've Loved You So Long
• Breakthrough Award – Steve McQueen – Hunger

  2007 winners

• Best International Film – The Lives of Others
• Best Irish Film – Garage
• Best Director – David Fincher – Zodiac
• Best Actor – Ulrich Muhe – The Lives of Others
• Best Actress – Julie Christie – Away from Her
• Breakthrough Award – Saoirse Ronan – Atonement

  2006 winners

• Best Film – Brokeback Mountain
• Best Irish Film – The Wind That Shakes the Barley
• Best Director – Martin Scorsese – The Departed
• Best Actor – Leonardo DiCaprio – The Departed
• Best Actress – Penélope Cruz – Volver
• Best Supporting Actor – Jack Nicholson – The Departed
• Best Supporting Actress – Abigail Breslin – Little Miss Sunshine
• Breakthrough Award – Noah Baumbach – The Squid and the Whale