Kneecap premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2024, the first film in the Irish language to do so, where it won the NEXT Audience Award. Its Irish premiere at the 36th edition of the Galway Film Fleadh, won Best Irish Film, the Audience Award and the Irish Language Feature Film Award. The film was released on August 2, 2024 in the United States by Sony Pictures Classics, on August 8, 2024 in Ireland, and in the United Kingdom on August 23, by Wildcard Distribution and Curzon Film respectively. It was selected as the Irish entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.