 The following year , Nesbitt co @-@ starred with Liam Neeson in the fact @-@ based television film Five Minutes of Heaven ( Oliver Hirschbiegel , 2009 ) . The first part of the film dramatises the real @-@ life murder of Jim Griffin by Alistair Little in 1970s Lurgan ; the second part features a fictional meeting between Little ( Neeson ) and Jim 's brother Joe ( Nesbitt ) 33 years later . Nesbitt met with Griffin before filming began to learn about how his brother 's murder affected him . The film was broadcast on BBC Two in April 2009 . He also starred as Colour Sgt. Mike Swift in Peter Bowker 's three @-@ part BBC / Kudos television serial Occupation . In Occupation , set over six years , Nesbitt 's character is one of three British soldiers who return to Basra , Iraq after their tours have concluded . He researched the role by speaking to Territorial Army soldiers in Belfast , and RAF officers in Morocco , where the serial was filmed . Both performances were commended by Independent journalist Hugh Montgomery ; in a review of 2009 's television , Montgomery named Nesbitt " Face of the Year " , writing , " Just as you had James Nesbitt written off as the gurning embodiment of everything mediocre about British TV drama , he produced two stonking performances , as the transfixingly harrowed sergeant in Occupation , and a nervily vengeful victim 's relative in Irish @-@ troubles piece Five Minutes of Heaven . Give the man a Bafta . " Nesbitt was not nominated for a BAFTA award , though did receive a nomination for Best Actor from the Broadcasting Press Guild for both performances . 
 The following year , Nesbitt <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>co</mark></a> @-@ starred with Liam Neeson in the fact @-@ based television film Five Minutes of Heaven ( Oliver Hirschbiegel , 2009 ) . The first part of the film <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>dramatises</mark></a> the real @-@ life murder of Jim Griffin by Alistair Little in 1970s Lurgan ; the second part <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>features</mark></a> a fictional meeting between Little ( Neeson ) and Jim <a href='null_genetive' title='4'><mark>'s</mark></a>brother Joe ( Nesbitt ) 33 years later . Nesbitt met with Griffin before filming began to learn about how his brother <a href='null_genetive' title='5'><mark>'s</mark></a>murder affected him . The film was broadcast on BBC Two in April 2009 . He also starred as Colour Sgt. Mike Swift in Peter Bowker <a href='null_genetive' title='6'><mark>'s</mark></a>three @-@ part BBC / Kudos television serial Occupation . In Occupation , set over six years , Nesbitt <a href='null_genetive' title='7'><mark>'s</mark></a>character is one of three British soldiers <a href='null_relcl' title='8'><mark>who</mark></a>return to Basra , Iraq after their tours <a href='been_done' title='9'><mark>have</mark></a> concluded . He researched the role by speaking to Territorial Army soldiers in Belfast , and RAF officers in Morocco , where the serial was filmed . Both performances <a href='uninflect' title='10'><mark>were</mark></a> commended by Independent journalist Hugh Montgomery ; in a review of 2009 <a href='null_genetive' title='11'><mark>'s</mark></a>television , Montgomery named Nesbitt " Face of the Year " , writing , " Just as you had James Nesbitt written off as the gurning embodiment of everything mediocre about British TV drama , he produced two stonking performances , as the transfixingly harrowed sergeant in Occupation , and a nervily vengeful victim <a href='null_genetive' title='12'><mark>'s</mark></a>relative in Irish @-@ troubles piece Five Minutes of Heaven . Give the man a Bafta . " Nesbitt was not nominated for <a href='None' title='13'><mark>a</mark></a>BAFTA <a href='negative_concord' title='14'><mark>award</mark></a> , though did receive a nomination for Best Actor from the Broadcasting Press Guild for both performances . 
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