Tuesday 24 December 2013

Irina 2013: the winners

 
 Trouser-splitting antics ensue as cast and crew of Run for Your Wife take the stage to claim their award for Worst Ensemble Cast, one of the film's record five Irinas.
 
 
The Irina Palm d'Or for Worst British Film
Run For Your Wife
 
Worst British Director (tied)
Ray Cooney, Run for Your Wife
Tom Hooper, Les Misérables
 
Worst British Actor
Dominic Cooper, Summer in February
 
Worst British Actress
Denise van Outen, Run for Your Wife
 
Worst British Supporting Actor
Naveen Andrews, Diana
 
Worst British Supporting Actress (tied)
Su Pollard, Run for Your Wife
Eliza Bennett, Confine      
 
Worst Screenplay
Stephen Jeffreys, Diana (sample dialogue: "If you can't stand the fragrance, don't go into the garden of love")
 
Worst Ensemble Cast
Run for Your Wife

Monday 16 December 2013

The Irina nominations 2013


It may have dropped its trousers (and, according to critics, something of a bollock), but Ray Cooney's stage-to-screen adaptation Run for Your Wife has picked up an unprecedented eight Irina nominations.

 
Worst British Film
Bula Quo!
Byzantium
The Christmas Candle
Diana
Do Elephants Pray?
The Fall of the Essex Boys
Les Miserables
Romeo and Juliet
Run for Your Wife
Sir Billi

Worst British Director
Ray Cooney, Run for Your Wife 
Tom Hooper, Les Miserables 
Stuart St. Paul, Bula Quo!
Paul Tanter, The Fall of the Essex Boys
Tobias Tobbell, Confine

Worst British Actor
Alfie Allen, Confine  
Dominic Cooper, Summer in February
Jonnie Hurn, Do Elephants Pray?
Jude Law, Dom Hemingway
Dan Stevens, Summer in February

Worst British Actress
Gemma Arterton, Byzantium and Runner Runner
Karen Gillan, Not Another Happy Ending 
Sarah Harding, Run for Your Wife
Daisy Lowe, Confine
Denise van Outen, Run for Your Wife

Worst British Supporting Actor
Russ Abbot, Run for Your Wife
Naveen Andrews, Diana
Rolf Harris, Run for Your Wife
Neil Morrissey, Run for Your Wife
Marc Warren, Do Elephants Pray?

Worst British Supporting Actress 
Eliza Bennett, Confine
Susan Boyle, The Christmas Candle
Kate Nash, Powder Room 
Su Pollard, Run for Your Wife
Abi Titmuss, Do Elephants Pray?

The Irina Palm jury convenes later this week to deliberate; a full list of winners will be posted here in due course.