Adam & Paul, Hunger lauded by Dublin critics

by Naman Ramachandran

22/12/2009 - The Dublin Film Critics Circle has named Lenny Abrahamson’s Adam & Paul, and Steve McQueen’s Hunger as tied best Irish films of the decade receiving equal number of votes. Joel Conroy’s Waveriders was named best Irish film of the year.

Swedish film Let the Right One In was named best film of 2009, French actress Yolande Moreau best actress for Séraphine and Duncan Jones received an Outstanding Achievement award for his work on making Moon.

The full list:

Best Irish Films of the Decade
1. Hunger [trailer, film focus], Adam & Paul
2. Garage [trailer, film focus]
3. Once [trailer]
4. Bloody Sunday [trailer]
5. Intermission
6. In America
7. How Harry Became a Tree
8. Omagh
9. Kisses [trailer]
10. Isolation

Best Irish Film, 2009 


1. Waveriders

2. The Yellow Bittern: The Life and Times of Liam Clancy

3. The Secret of Kells [trailer, film focus]

Best Film, 2009


1. Let the Right One In [trailer, film focus]
2. The White Ribbon [trailer, film focus]
3. Up
4. The Hurt Locker
5. The Wrestler
6. Il Divo [trailer, film focus]
7. A Serious Man
8. Mesrine, Parts 1 & 2
9. Slumdog Millionaire [trailer, film focus]
10. District 9, Moon
11. Anvil: The Story of Anvil
12. The Class [trailer, film focus]
13. Star Trek
14. Inglourious Basterds [trailer]
15. In the Loop [trailer]
16. (500) Days of Summer
17. Synecdoche, New York
18. Where the Wild Things Are
19. Frost/Nixon, Milk
20. Katalin Varga [trailer, film focus], Antichrist [trailer, film focus]

Best Director, 2009 


1. Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

2. Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon

3. Paolo Sorrentino, Il Divo

4. Jean-Francoise Richet, Mesrine, Parts 1 & 2

5. Neil Blomkamp, District 9

Best Actor, 2009


1. Sean Penn, Milk

2. Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

3. Tom Hardy, Bronson [trailer]

4. Vincent Cassel, Mesrine, Parts 1 & 2

5. Toni Servillo, Il Divo

Best Actress, 2009


1. Yolande Moreau, Séraphine [trailer]

2. Lina Leanderson, Let the Right One In

3. Carey Mulligan, An Education [trailer]

4. Isabelle Fuhrman, Orphan

5. Meryl Streep, Doubt

Best Documentary, 2009 


1. Anvil: The Story of Anvil

2. The Cove

3. Encounters at the End of the World

4. The Yellow Bittern: The Life and Times of Liam Clancy

5. Soul Power

Breakthrough Award, 2009 - Neil Blomkamp, District 9

Outstanding Achievement, 2009 - Duncan Jones, Moon [trailer]

Best Films of the Decade


 1. There Will Be Blood

2. Downfall [trailer, film focus]

3. Brokeback Mountain

4. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [trailer]

5. The White Ribbon

6. Hidden [trailer, film focus]

7. United 93 [trailer]

8. City Of God

9. Little Miss Sunshine, In the Mood For Love

10. Spirited Away, Let the Right One In

11. Far From Heaven

12. Pan's Labyrinth [trailer]

13. Sideways, Lost In Translation

14. The Lives of Others [trailer, film focus]

15. Adaptation

16. Wall-E, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mulholland Drive

17. The Best of Youth

18. The Dark Knight

19. Zodiac, Before Sunset, Letters From Iwo Jima, Waltz with Bashir [trailer], Irreversible

20. Together, Infernal Affairs