For over 60 years Cork Film Festival has celebrated excellence in filmmaking, championing new and emerging voices, as well as established filmmakers, through its prestigious Awards. Three of our Awards – the Grand Prix Irish Short, the Grand Prix International Short and the Grand Prix Documentary Short – are Academy Award®-qualifying, ensuring that the winners in Cork will automatically join the longlist for the Oscars®.

Award Winners

Cork Film Festival Youth Jury Award

The Cave

Director: Feras Fayyad

Cork Film Festival Nomination For European Short Film Awards 2018

Things That Happen In The Bathroom

Director: Edward Hancox

Best Cork Short Award

Rosalyn

Director: Olivia J Middleton

Best Director: Irish Short

Supported by Screen Directors Guild Ireland

Michael-David McKernan

Director of Halo

Audience Award

Presented By The River Lee

The Last Right

Director: Aoife Crehan

Gradam Na Féile Do Scannáin Faisnéise / Award For Cinematic Documentary

The Cave

Directors: Feras Fayyad

Gradam Spiorad Na Féile / Spirit Of The Festival Award

Presented By The Gate Cinema

Swallow

Director: Carlo Mirabella-Davis

Grand Prix Documentary Short Award (Academy Award® Qualifying)

Horse Riders

Director: Anna Gawlita

Grand Prix International Short (Academy Award® Qualifying)

Stalker

Director: Christopher Andrews

Grand Prix Irish Short (Academy Award® Qualifying)

Presented By RTÉ

Cíunas (Silence)

Directors: Tristan Heaune