Ireland is celebrating a record haul for the country at the 2023 Oscar nominations, totaling 14 nods across various categories. Irish cinema is having a moment at the 2023 Academy Awards, earning a total of 14 nominations. Colm Bairéad’s coming-of-age tale, The Quiet Girl, made history by becoming the first Irish film to be nominated in the international feature category. Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin, co-produced by Ireland’s Metropolitan Films International, scored nine nominations, including four for actors Colin Farrell, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan, and Brendan Gleeson.
The Banshees of Inisherin beat the Irish record for most nominations at the Academy Awards, previously jointly held by Belfast and In the Name of the Father, which had seven each. There is a fifth Irish acting nomination for star Paul Mescal in Aftersun.
In the technical categories, Richard Baneham, an Oscar winner for the first Avatar, is nominated for best achievement in visual effects for Avatar: The Way of Water, while Jonathan Redmond is nominated in the editing category for Elvis. Tom Berkeley and Ross White’s Northern Ireland-set An Irish Goodbye is nominated in the live-action short category.
