Film4 Celebrates 4 Wins At EE BAFTA Film Awards for Martin McDonagh’s THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Including Outstanding British Film

Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2022 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved.

Film4 were delighted to pick up four Awards for THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN at last night’s 2023 EE BAFTA Film Awards, including Outstanding British Film, marking another hugely successful Awards run for the film commissioning arm of Channel 4.

Film4-backed THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN won four BAFTAs: Outstanding British Film; Original Screenplay; Supporting Actor for Barry Keoghan and Supporting Actress for Kerry Condon.

Ollie Madden and Daniel Battsek, Director and Chairman of Film4, commented“It is thrilling to see The Banshees of Inisherin take home these awards. On behalf of the whole team at Film4, we congratulate Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon on their wins and our deepest gratitude goes out to BAFTA members for their recognition. We are beyond proud to have backed this film and to see BAFTA’s appreciation is the icing on the cake.”

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN marks the fourth collaboration between Martin McDonagh and Film4, who supported his short film SIX SHOOTER (2004), and then backed his next three features IN BRUGES, SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS and the BAFTA and Academy Award-winning THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI.

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN IS STREAMING NOW ON DISNEY+

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Film4 is Channel 4 Television’s feature film division. Having recently celebrated 40 years of film-making, Film4 has become renowned for developing and co-financing a wildly diverse slate of films and for working with, and discovering, the most distinctive and innovative talent in UK and international filmmaking, both new and established.

Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years, Academy Award®-winners such as Florian Zeller’s The Father, Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia’s box office record breaking documentary Amy, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, in addition to critically-acclaimed award-winners such as Sarah Gavron’s Rocks, Rose Glass’s Saint Maud, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War, Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, Rungano Nyoni’s I Am Not a Witch, Chris Morris’s Four Lions, Shane Meadows’ This is England, Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin and Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years.

Film4’s recent releases include Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin, Oliver Hermanus’ Living, Julia Ducournau’s Titane, Jonathan Butterell’s Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Rebecca Hall’s Passing, Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho, Will Sharpe’s The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Aml Ameen’s Boxing Day, Eva Husson’s Mothering Sunday, Michael Pearce’s Encounter, Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor, documentary The Real Charlie Chaplin from Peter Middleton and James Spinney, and Jim Archer’s Brian & Charles. Forthcoming titles include Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men, Florian Zeller’s The Son and Soudade Kaadan’s Nezouh.