Killarney-born actress Jessie Buckley has won the Critics Choice Award for Best Actress for her performance in historical drama Hamnet.
Buckley collected the prize at the 31st Critics Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California, with comedian Chelsea Handler hosting the ceremony.
In her acceptance speech, Buckley paid tribute to director Chloé Zhao and thanked her co-stars, including Irish actor Paul Mescal and Emily Watson.
"Chloe Zhao, you have reminded me of the power of telling a story and the journey that you can go on to touch the deepest parts of what it is to be alive, thank you," she said.
"Paul, I bloody love you man. And I know loads of other women do in this room too, but tough s***.
"I could drink you like water working with you every single day. You're a giant of the heart and thank you so much for making me a little bit more human."
Hamnet, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell’s novel, centres on William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes as they navigate grief following the death of their 11-year-old son.
Dubliner Richard Baneham, a double Oscar winner for his visual effects work on Avatar and its sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, shared the Critics Choice Visual Effects award with his colleagues Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett for their work on Avatar: Fire and Ash.
On the television side, Netflix’s British limited series Adolescence picked up four awards, including Best Limited Series. Stephen Graham won Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television, while Owen Cooper won Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television and Erin Doherty won Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television.
The series follows a family thrown into crisis after their teenage son is accused of murdering a classmate.
Sarah Snook won Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television for her performance in All Her Fault, an adaptation of the book of the same name by Dublin author Andrea Mara.
In the film categories, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another won Best Picture, while Anderson also took Best Director.
Timothée Chalamet won Best Actor for Marty Supreme, a film centred on a gifted table tennis player chasing international success in the early 1950s.
Elsewhere, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy won Best Movie Made for Television, while Sinners took four awards, including Best Original Screenplay and Best Score.
