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RTÉ2 announces Lenny Abrahamson season ahead of the 88th Academy Awards
As Irish director Lenny Abrahamson sets his sights on Oscar glory, RTÉ2 will screen three of his best known films to mark his Academy Award nomination.
Lenny is up for ‘Best Director’ for his feature film Room starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay and written by Irish author Emma Donoghue. The Lenny Abrahamson season on RTÉ2 will celebrate the director’s work to-date by screening three of his movies and showing coverage of the 88th Academy Awards ceremony.
Starting on Sunday 14 February, RTÉ2 will broadcast What Richard Did, which fast-tracked the career of actor Jack Reynor who has since starred in the Transformers franchise. The season continues on Saturday 20 February with Garage starring Pat Shortt. Then the much-loved Adam and Paul will air after coverage of the 88th Academy Awards ceremony on Monday 29 February on RTÉ2.
Channel Controller for RTÉ2 Bill Malone said: “Lenny is one of our finest home-grown directors. He is one of the hottest names in film-making right now and RTÉ2 is privileged to bring viewers this season of his critically acclaimed films.”
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Date: 8 February 2016
For further information please contact:
Sarah Neville, RTÉ television press office, sarah.neville@rte.ie, 01-208 2872, 087 9800561
Notes to the Editor:
Lenny Abrahamson Season schedule:
What Richard Did – Sunday 14 February at 9.30pm
(2012, Drama) Jack Reynor, Fionn Walton. Director: Lenny Abrahamson. What Richard Did follows Richard Karlsen, golden-boy athlete and undisputed alpha-male of his privileged set of South Dublin teenagers, through the summer between the end of school and the beginning of university. The world is bright and everything seems possible, until one summer night Richard does something that destroys it all and shatters the lives of the people closest to him. Featuring extraordinary performances from its mainly young cast, What Richard Did is a quietly devastating study of a boy confronting the gap between who he thought he was and who he proves to be.
Garage – Saturday 20 February 9.30pm
(2007, Drama) Pat Shortt, Anne-Marie Duff. Director: Lenny Abrahamson. Josie (Pat Shortt) has spent 20 years as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station in small-town Ireland. Despite loneliness and the fact that his neighbours treat him as figure of fun, he always good natured, absurdly optimistic and, in his own peculiar way, happy; he has his place – it might not be great, but it his. Garage is the story of Josie hapless search for intimacy over the course of a summer which sees his little niche threatened and his life changed forever.
The 88th Academy Awards – Monday 29 February 9pm
Coverage of this year’s Oscars on RTÉ2.
Adam And Paul – Monday 29 February 11pm
(2004, Comedy/Drama) Tom Murphy, Mark O’Halloran. Director: Lenny Abrahamson. Two drug addicts negotiate their way through Dublin’s city centre, encountering friends and family as they search for their next fix.