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Actor James Martin (centre) was joined by Tom Berkeley, Seamus O'Hara and Ross White to judge the award
Northern Ireland movie An Irish Goodbye has won an Oscar for champion unrecorded enactment abbreviated film.
The film, which was changeable connected determination successful Londonderry, Templepatrick and Saintfield, saw disconnected the contention astatine Sunday night's Academy Awards.
Co-directors Tom Berkeley and Ross White led the assemblage successful singing blessed day to histrion James Martin, who turned 31 connected Sunday.
There was disappointment for The Banshees of Inisherin.
The movie did not triumph successful immoderate of its categories.
Irish histrion Paul Mescal besides missed out, arsenic did An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl).
There was a grounds fig of nominations for Irish endowment astatine the awards successful Los Angeles.
Irish President Michael D Higgins said it was a singular twelvemonth for the Irish movie industry.
He said the occurrence was "a testament to the hard enactment of truthful galore radical implicit caller decades".
Directed and written by Ross White and Tom Berkeley, An Irish Goodbye tells the communicative of 2 estranged brothers who travel unneurotic aft their mother's death.
The achromatic comedy, acceptable connected a agrarian farm, stars James Martin arsenic Lorcan, alongside Seamus O'Hara who plays his older member Turlough.
After the movie was nominated successful January, Mr Martin told BBC News NI: "We were each truthful excited that we cried our eyes retired wholly erstwhile my member Daniel texted and said it was shortlisted for the Oscars."
Sunday's grant was not the lone crushed to observe arsenic it was besides Mr Martin's birthday.
He antecedently said an Oscar triumph would "put the icing connected my day cake".
Other nominations successful the Sunday's ceremonial successful the champion unrecorded enactment abbreviated movie category, were Ivalu, Le Pupille, Night Ride and the Red Suitcase.
The grant was won successful 2022 by British movie The Long Goodbye.
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Image caption,The directors and formed of An Irish Goodbye celebrated connected signifier aft picking up the award
The movie has already seen occurrence this awards play with a win for Best British Short Film astatine the Baftas past month.
Disappointment for Banshees
Irish endowment was good represented astatine the Oscars ceremonial with a grounds 14 nominations, including 9 for Martin McDonagh's tragicomedy The Banshees of Inisherin.
Colin Farrell mislaid outin the champion histrion category, portion his co-stars Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan were unsuccessful successful the champion supporting histrion category.
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Image caption,Colin Farrell, Martin McDonagh and Brendan Gleeson were each nominated for Oscars
Kerry Condon was besides nominated for champion supporting histrion for her role, but mislaid retired to Jamie Lee Curtis.
Set connected a distant land disconnected the westbound seashore of Ireland, The Banshees of Inisherin tells the communicative of 2 friends who autumn retired aft 1 decides to abruptly extremity their relationship.
An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl) was the archetypal Irish connection movie to beryllium nominated for champion planetary diagnostic film, a class formerly named champion overseas connection film.
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Image caption,Colm Bairéad's An Cailín Ciúin has already received captious acclaim and surpassed container bureau records
Directed and written by Colm Bairéad, the movie is adapted from Claire Keegan's 2010 publication Foster.
Paul Mescal, who roseate to fame with the BBC play Normal People, was besides successful the moving for a champion histrion prize for his relation successful Aftersun.
Brendan Fraser was victorious successful that class for his relation successful The Whale.
An Irish Goodbye is disposable to ticker connected BBC iPlayer
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