Sheridan returned to Ireland in the late 1980s . In 1989 , he directed '' My Left Foot '' , which became a critical and commercial success and won Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker Academy Awards . He followed that with '' The Field '' ( with Richard Harris ) in 1990 ; then with '' In the Name of the Father '' in 1993 , a fictionalized re-telling of the case of the Guildford Four . The film won the Golden Bear at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival
44th Berlin International Film Festival
44th Berlin International Film Festival
Jim Sheridan