Best Director - Lenny Abrahamson
Best Irish Film
Best Irish Actor in Film - Tom Murphy
Best Irish Actress in Film - Louise Lewis
Best Editing - Isobel Stephenson
Best Music - Stephen Rennicks
Best Script - Mark O'Halloran
Best Hair & Make-Up - Tom McInerney
AIB People's Choice Award for Best Irish Film
Friends since they were small boys, Adam and Paul have withered into two hapless, desperate junkies, tied together by habit and necessity. A stylized, downbeat comedy, the film follows the pair through a single day which, like every other, is entirely devoted to the business of scrounging and robbing money for drugs. The difference today is that Adam and Paul – already near rock bottom – have finally run out of luck, credit and friends. Stylistically, ‘Adam & Paul’ is a cold, contemporary take on classic, physical comedy. Thematically, it is a minimal fairytale about two baffled, vulnerable children in the grip of forces too powerful for them to handle.