Sing Street

John Carney's Sing Street closed his unofficial Dublin music trilogy after Once (2007) and Begin Again (2013). The film premiered at Sundance in January 2016 and went on to a wide international release through The Weinstein Company and Lionsgate. It was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy and the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film, although neither nomination converted to a win.

The cast is led by newcomer Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, then sixteen, and Lucy Boynton, alongside Jack Reynor as Conor's older brother and Aidan Gillen and Maria Doyle Kennedy as the parents, Doyle Kennedy a longtime Carney collaborator, originally a member of The Commitments band. The original songs were co-written by Carney with Gary Clark of Danny Wilson; Drive It Like You Stole It and Up in particular were singled out as among the strongest original soundtrack songs of the year and were a focus of the soundtrack album's commercial success.

The film was shot in Synge Street CBS, the actual Christian Brothers' school on Dublin's South Circular Road, where Carney himself had been a pupil in the 1980s; the production used a mix of real teachers and former students as extras. A stage adaptation premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2019 and at the Lyric Theatre, London in 2024-2025; the property has since become one of the most recognisable contemporary Irish musical exports.