Martin McDonagh

- Born: March 26, 1970
- Birth place: Camberwell, London, United Kingdom
- Nominated for 4 Tony Awards
- Won an Oscar for his short film, Six Shooter
- Film directing debut: Six Shooter (2004)
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Martin McDonagh is an Irish playwright and film director. He began his career writing plays for the British and American theaters. He was nominated for Tony Awards for his productions of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Lonesome West,The Pillowman, and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Seguing from theater to films, McDonagh's first short Six Shooter won him an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short.
McDonagh once again found himself with an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 2009 for his film In Bruges, but the award went to Dustin Lance Black for Milk.

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  These three plays are set in a town in Galway so blighted by rancor, ignorance, and spite that, as the local priest complains, God Himself seems to have no jurisdiction there.<i...
  
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- The Lieutenant of Inishmore - $7.50
  
  "Come on in ahead for yourselves. I'm just in the middle of shooting me Dad." Who knocked the cat belonging to "Mad Padraic" over on a lonely road on the island of Inishm...
  
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- Who *will* win the best original screenplay Oscar for 2009? Who *should* win? - featured 3 Answers
  
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- Went to see 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane' by Martin McDonagh last night. Wow! What an uncofmortably brilliant play! Grim & great at sametime
- Just had an excellent evening of theatre in Epsom, seeing 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane'. Written my Martin McDonagh, of 'In Bruges' fame.
- Just starting my Eng Lit tutorial. Anyone know interesting stuff about the Cripple of Inishmann or Martin McDonagh?
- Schoenfeld Theaterの次の作品はMartin McDonaghの新作A Behanding in Spokaneだそーだ！あぁ新作かぁ〜。いや新作がいいのだけど理解出来なさそうなのでこのために渡米はないだろうなぁ〜。って散歩に行ってこよう！
- Dear Martin McDonagh: You are making every other playwright look bad. Keep it up. #fb
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