Michael Dwyer's best and worst. . .
Film of the year: The Best of Youth (La Meglio Giovnentu)
Outstanding director: Marco Tullio Giordana for The Best of Youth
Most versatile director: Richard Linklater for Before Sunset and School of Rock
Most promising new director: Billy Ray for Shattered Glass
Best Irish director: Lenny Abrahamson for Adam & Paul
Best new Irish director: John Simpson for Freeze Frame
Best actress: Charlize Theron for Monster
Best actor: Gael García Bernal for Bad Education and The Motorcycle Diaries
Best supporting actor: Peter Sarsgaard for Shattered Glass
Best supporting actress: Meryl Streep for The Manchurian Candidate
Most promising new actress: Bryce Dallas Howard for The Village
Most promising new actor: Dallas Roberts for A Home at the End of the World
Most promising new Irish actor or actress: Allan Leech for Cowboys & Angels and Man About Dog
Best Irish actor: Tom Murphy for Adam & Paul
Best Irish actress: Angeline Ball for Bloom
Best Irish actress in a supporting role: Brenda Fricker for Inside I'm Dancing
Best Irish actor in a supporting role: Frank Kelly for Cowboys & Angels
Best documentary: Michael Moore for Fahrenheit 9/11
Best animated feature: Brad Bird for The Incredibles
Special achievement in animation: Paul Donnellon for the opening credits sequence in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Best original screenplay: Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri for Look At Me (Comme Une Image)
Best adapted screenplay: Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini for American Splendor
Best cinematography: Jeong-hun Jeong for Old Boy
Best original score: Debbie Wiseman for Freeze Frame
Best compilation soundtrack: Kill Bill Vol 2
Most affecting musical performance: More Than This, as sung by Bill Murray in Lost in Translation
Best film editing: Sang-Beom Kim for Old Boy
Best art direction: Antxón Gómez for Bad Education
Best costume design: Elisabetta Montaldo for The Best of Youth
Best make-up: Toni G, Lee Grimes and Yoichi Art Sakamoto for Monster
Best casting: Barbara Melega for The Best of Youth
Best sound: The Bourne Supremacy
Best special effects: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Most welcome reissue: Roman Polanski's Chinatown
Best sequel: Richard Linklater for Before Sunset
Best remake: Jonathan Demme for The Manchurian Candidate
Worst remake: Paul McGuigan for Wicker Park
Most off-form auteur: John Woo for Paycheck
Most underrated film: Bernardo Bertolucci for The Dreamers
Most overrated film: (tie) Peter Webber for Girl With a Pearl Earring and Terry Zwigoff for Bad Santa
Most misconceived film: Kevin Spacey for Beyond the Sea
Most botched literary adaptation: Nicholas Meyer for The Human Stain
Most long-winded film: Mondovino
Most embarrassing vanity exercise: Kevin Spacey for Beyond the Sea
Worst actor: (tie) Mike Myers for The Cat in the Hat and Ben Affleck for Paycheck
Worst actress: Dakota Fanning for Uptown Girls
Worst film: Lars von Trier for Dogville
