FILMOGRAPHY
MY LEFT FOOT
Drama | 1h 43m | 1989
In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to have a intellectual disability for the first ten years of his life.
Starring
Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker,
Academy Awards Nominee Best Picture
Nominee Best Director
Nominee Best
Adapted Screenplay
1990
Academy Awards Winner for Best Actor
1990
Academy Awards Winner for Best Supporting Actress
1990
Academy Awards Nominee for Best Actor
1991
BAFTA Awards Nominee for Best Supporting Actor
1991
Golden Globes
Nominee Best Actor
in a Motion Picture
1991
INTO THE WEST
Drama | 1h 37m | 1992
When two young boys find a mysterious white stallion, they take care of it till the police gives it away to a notorious breeder. The boys rescue the stallion and ride it far away.
Written By
Jim Sheridan
Directed By
Mike Newell
Starring
Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, David Kelly,
Ciarán Fitzgerald & Rúaidhrí Conroy
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Academy Awards Best Picture Nominee
1994
Academy Awards Best Director Nominee
1994
Academy Awards Best Foreign Film Nominee
1994
Berliniale Golden Bear Winner Best Picture
1994
THREE MOONS
Documentary | 37m | 1995
Directed By
Jim Sherdan
This film profiles Hong Kong-Irish fashion designer John Rocha focusing on his influences, and involvement with Irish culture and the preparations for his first Paris Fashion Week runway event.
Featuring
John Rocha, Odette Rocha, Sinéad O'Connor
SOME MOTHERS SON
Drama | 1h 52m | 1996
The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
Written By
Terry George & Jim Sheridan
Directed By
Terry George
Starring
Aidan Gillen, Helen Mirren, Fionnula Fagan
Cannes Film Festival Golden Camera Nominee
Terry George
1996
San Sebastian
Film Festival
Audience Award Winner
1996
European Film Awards Winner
1996
Golden Globe Nominee Best Picture
1998
Golden Globe Nominee Best Director
1998
Golden Globe Nominee Best Actor
1998
Producers Guild of America Stanley Kramer Award Winner
2003
Academy Awards Nominee for
Best Original Screenplay
2003
Golden Globe Nominee for Best Screenplay
2003
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GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN'
Drama | 1h 57m | 2005
After his mother's death in an apparent drug deal gone wrong, Marcus takes up drug peddling to pay his bills. However, his life changes when he decides to give it up and pursue his passion for rap.
Starring
BET Award Nominee
for Best Actor
2006
IFTA Winner for Best Production Design
2007
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Golden Globe Nominee for Best Actor
2009
Critics Choice Award Nominee for Best Actor
2009
Golden Globe Nominee for Best Song
2009
THE SECRET SCRIPTURE
Thriller | 1h 48m | 2016
Residing in a psychiatric hospital, a woman receives visits from a young psychologist whose interest in her diary triggers flashbacks of her youth, which was filled with romance, obsession and turmoil.
Starring
Rooney Mara, Jack Reynor, Theo James
Eric Bana, Vanessa Redgrave
Irish Film & Television
Awards Nominee
Best Film
2017
Irish Film & Television
Awards Nominee
Best Director
2017
SHELTER ME, APOLLO HOUSE
Documentary | 1h 04m | 2018
As the homeless problem in Ireland seemed to go unnoticed by those in power, housing activists, well-known public figures, including Film Director Jim Sheridan, Musicians Glen Hansard , Hozier and others came together and took the law into their own hands. They broke into and took over an empty government building - Apollo House - in Dublin City Centre and were surprised and gratified at the reaction of the public.
Featuring
Jim Sheridan, Glen Hansard, Hozier
Damien Dempsey, Neilí Conroy
Executive Producer
Jim Sheridan
Directed By
Zahara Moufid
Disappear Here
Film Festival
Winner
Best Documentary
2018
Jim Cullen
Human Rights Award
Respect Film Festival
Winner Belfast
2018
30th Galway Film Fleadh
Official Selection
2018
Hollywood International
Moving Pictures
Film Festival
Finalist
2018
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MURDER AT THE COTTAGE
Documentary Series | 5 episodes | 2021
Two days before Christmas in 1996, Sophie Toscan du Plantier was brutally murdered at her holiday cottage in Schull, West Cork. The murder rocked the quiet Irish town and 24 years later, the case remains a mystery. This series sees six-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Jim Sheridan, piece together original evidence, never-before-seen footage, and interviews with those closest to the case to try to make sense of what really happened.
Produced By
Donal MacIntyre
Directed By
Jim Sheridan
Now Streaming On
Royal Television Society
Awards Nominee
Best Factual Series
2022
11th HOUR
Drama Short | 10m | 2017
Inspired by true events this short film is adapted from an article written by journalist Lise Hand.
Maria José and her Irish husband run a bar in uptown Manhattan. On the evening of 9/11 it is heaving with shell-shocked locals and battle weary troops from the NYPD, united in disbelief, grief and anger.
Maria José's bar is heaving with locals united in grief and a building rage; a cop pulls his gun and when a surprise visitor enters Maria has to seize the moment to take back control.
Produced By
Rachel Lysaght
Written By
Jim Sheridan, Oskar Slingerland
based on a story by Lise Hand
Directed By
Jim Sheridan
Premiered on Sky Atlantic 9/11 2021
Starring
Salma Hayek, Darren Healy, Tony Doyle,
Omar Shariff Jnr
Tribeca Film Festival
Shorts Selection
2017
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PET.E.R O'TOOLE
Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Documentary | 1h 30m | 2022
Reflecting Peter O'Toole's theatrical legacy, this feature documentary is structured into four acts, each introduced by a quote about O'Toole that encapsulates his life during a specific period.
Produced By
Brian O'Flaherty
Directed By
Jim Sheridan
Featuring
Dame Sián Philips, Sir Anthony Hopkins,
Sir Derek Jacobi, Brian Cox CBE, Kate O'Toole,
Sir Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry,
Petula Clarke, Jane Merrow, Brian Blessed OBE
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An Taibhse (The Ghost)
Horror | 1h 32m | 2024
Ireland, 1852. Éamon (Tom Kerrisk) and his daughter Máire (Livvy Hill) take on a tranquil caretaker role at a secluded Georgian mansion during the harsh winter months. However, their peaceful assignment soon awakens a dreadful terror.
Executive Producers
Jim Sheridan & Tom Kerrisk
Directed By
John Farrelly
Starring
Tom Kerrisk, Livvy Hill, Anthony Murphy