From Jimmy Kimmel’s joke about Dublin to Richie Baneham’s cúpla focal and even the appearance of Jenny the donkey from The Banshees of Inisherin, every Irish mention at the Oscars last night got a cheer.
Ross Keane, the IFI's director at the Oscars watch party. Photograph: Simon Carswell
The film itself has been playing in the cinema for 10 months and, many weeks, it is the highest grossing movie at the IFI, Keane says, showing the impact this little movie has had on the public. Pre-Oscar awards in the last couple of weeks running up to the Oscars had been “going in one direction,” she said.
Nominated in nine categories, Banshees left empty-handed in the end. There was disappointment among the crowd at the IFI. The failure to convert the nominations for Banshees and An Cailín Ciúin into Oscars sucked the energy out of the room at the watch party.
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