Conor McPherson's film The Eclipse has taken the award for best film in the 7th Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTAs).
The winners were announced at a ceremony in Dublin last night.
The Eclipse also picked up awards for Aidan Quinn for best supporting actor (film) and for Conor McPherson Billy Roche for best film script.
Colin Farrell and Dervla Kirwan won the actor in a lead role (film) and actress in a supporting role (film) awards for their performances in Neil Jordan's Ondine.
The young Carlow actor Saoirse Ronan won the actress in a lead role (film) prize for her performance in Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones.
Five Minutes of Heaven took the award for single drama/ drama serial, and the medical drama The Clinic picked up the award for best drama series/soap.
Irish director Thaddeus O'Sullivan was named best director in the television category for Into the Storm, while its lead actor Brendan Gleeson took the prize for actor in a lead role (television) for his performance as Winston Churchill in the HBO drama.
Harper's Island star Elaine Cassidy won the actress in a lead role (television) award.
RTE's programme The Frontline received the IFTA for current affairs.
Tomm Moore, director of the Oscar-nominated animated film The Secret of Kells was named the 2010 Irish Film Board Rising Star and his film also took the best animation award.
The Irish Academy voted The Hurt Locker best international film.
Brendan Gleeson, Jon Voight and Juliette Binoche presented the academy's lifetime achievement award to Wicklow-based director John Boorman.
IFTA chief executive Áine Moriarty said it was "truly inspiring" to see that the exceptional talent and creative work
coming from the Irish film and television industry "continue to entertain, engage and capture the imagination of audiences here in Ireland and abroad".
"I would like to congratulate all IFTA winners and nominees for their fine achievements this year.”
A full list of the awards is available on the academy's website.