The Overcoat premiered at the 2018 Galway Film Fleadh. Jordanne Jones won the Bingham Ray award for Best Newcomer. The Overcoat won Best Animated Sequence. In 2018, he received the Jim Sheridan Award for Achievement in Irish Film at the Irish Screen America film festival in Los Angeles. He received the Dublin Film Critics' Circle Maverick award at the 2019 Dublin International Film Festival. The Overcoat received a special mention. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit award at the 2019 Santa Barbara International Film Festival for Metal Heart. Personal life O'Conor was born on 19 April 1975 in Dublin, Ireland. He studied drama at the Samuel Beckett Centre in Trinity College Dublin, and received a Fulbright scholarship to attend NYU Film School. Filmography Film and television as writer and director References External links 1975 births Living people Irish male film actors Irish male television actors People from County Dublin Irish male child actors 20th-century Irish male actors 21st-century Irish male actors