The IFTA Award for Supporting Actress – Film is an award presented annually by the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA). It has been presented since the 3rd Irish Film & Television Awards ceremony in 2005 to an Irish actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role in a feature film. For the first and second ceremonies, supporting performances for film and television were combined into one category.
The record for most wins is four, held by Saoirse Ronan, while Kerry Condon and Fionnula Flanagan have won the award twice. Ronan also holds the record for most nominations with five, a record she shares with Condon and Ger Ryan. Condon is the award's most recent winner, winning her second award for her performance in F1 (2025).
Eligibility The award is exclusively open to Irish actresses. The rules define an Irish person as follows: Born in Ireland (32 counties) or Have Irish Citizenship or Be full-time resident in Ireland (minimum of 3 years)
Winners and nominees In the following table, the years are listed as the year of film. The first three ceremonies were held at the end of the year, but since the 4th Irish Film & Television Awards the ceremonies have generally been held the following year. As there was no ceremony in 2019, the 16th Irish Film & Television Awards covered a period of two years.
+ Table key ‡ Indicates the winner
2000s Year Actress Film 2003(1st) Veronica Guerin Goldfish Memory Intermission 2004(2nd) 16 Years of Alcohol Capital Letters 2005(3rd) Boy Eats Girl Short Order 2006(4th) Transamerica Breakfast on Pluto 2007(5th) Atonement And When Did You Last See Your Father? Garage Strength and Honour 2008(6th) Death Defying Acts Eden Dorothy 2009(7th) Ondine Nowhere Boy Savage Happy Ever Afters
2010s Year Actress Film 2010(8th) Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne Snap 2011(9th) Albert Nobbs Stella Days 2012(10th) Shadow Dancer Grabbers Jump What Richard Did 2013(11th) Life's a Breeze Calvary 2014(12th) Noble Gold Queen and Country Patrick's Day 2015(13th) Brooklyn Get Up & Go An Klondike 2016(14th) Notes on Blindness Bad Day for the Cut Out of Innocence 2017(15th) Cardboard Gangsters Halal Daddy 2018/19(16th) Calm with Horses Le Mans '66 Dublin Oldschool Dark Lies the Island We Ourselves
2020s Year Actress Film 2020/21(17th) Dating Amber Herself Broken Law Ammonite 2021/22(18th) Belfast Who We Love Passing 2022/23(19th) Women Talking God's Creatures Ann 2023(20th) Saltburn Dance First That They May Face the Rising Sun Verdigris My Sailor, My Love 2024(21st) Blitz Small Things Like These Kathleen Is Here Kneecap 2025(22nd) F1 Aontas Train Dreams Trad Four Mothers Christy
Multiple awards and nominations The following individuals have received two or more Supporting Actress awards: Wins Actress Nominations 4 Saoirse Ronan5 2 Kerry Condon Fionnula Flanagan 3
The following individuals have received two or more Supporting Actress nominations: Nominations Actress 5 Kerry Condon Saoirse Ronan Ger Ryan 3 Sinéad Cusack Fionnula Flanagan Deirdre O'Kane Catherine Walker 2 Niamh Algar Caitríona Balfe Bríd Brennan Jessie Buckley Elaine Cassidy Anne-Marie Duff Brenda Fricker Bronagh Gallagher Sarah Greene Simone Kirby Susan Lynch Ruth Negga Nora-Jane Noone Eileen Walsh
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