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Monday 10 March 2014
Olivier Awards 2014 with MasterCard
Nominations Announced
• New musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and acclaimed revival of Stephen
Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along lead the voting for a single production, each
receiving seven nominations
• Best New Musical nominees Once, The Book of Mormon and The Scottsboro Boys receive
six nominations each
• The Almeida’s West End transfers Chimerica and Ghosts among ten nominations for the
Islington theatre
• Success for the Michael Grandage Season with five nominations across acting categories
including Best Actor for Jude Law and Best Actress for Judi Dench
• Matilda The Musical, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and Wicked shortlisted for
the BBC Radio 2 Audience Award
The nominations for The Olivier Awards 2014 with MasterCard – the most prestigious event in
the UK’s theatrical calendar – were announced today (Monday 10 March) by Nigel Harman
and Leigh Zimmerman with the full list of nominations available below and online
at www.olivierawards.com.
New musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily
We Roll Along lead the list with seven nominations, followed by the Best New
Musical nominees Once, The Book of Mormon and The Scottsboro Boys each receiving six
nominations. A good year for the Almeida is marked with ten nominations including two in
the Best New Play category for Chimerica and 1984, and a Best Revival nomination for Ghosts.
In the coveted categories of Best Actor and Best Actress, Jude Law and Judi Dench receive
nominations for their performances in Henry V and Peter and Alice respectively, both part of the
successful Michael Grandage Season at the Noël Coward Theatre, which receives five acting
nominations in total. They compete with Tom Hiddleston, Henry Goodman and Rory Kinnear
for Best Actor, and Anna Chancellor, Lesley Manville and Hayley Atwell for Best Actress.
The Best New Comedy category makes a welcome return with original productions The Duck
House, The Full Monty, Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense and The Same Deep Water As Me all
vying for the award.
Women dominate the Best Director category with Maria Friedman (Merrily We Roll Along),
Susan Stroman (The Scottsboro Boys) and Lyndsey Turner (Chimerica) up against Richard Eyre
for his staging of Ghosts.
The highly anticipated shortlist for the BBC Radio 2 Audience Award – the only Olivier Award
voted for by the public – is Matilda The Musical, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and
Wicked.
Contemporary dance is strongly represented with nominations split between the Royal Opera
House, the Barbican and Sadler’s Wells. Notable opera nominations include Les Vĕpres
Siciliennes at the Royal Opera House and English National Opera’s new staging of Berg’s
Wozzeck up for Best New Opera Production. English Touring Opera and the Royal Opera
House are both nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Opera.
Nominations for the Affiliate category cover the breadth of London with Theatre Royal
Stratford East and the Bush Theatre competing against the Soho Theatre and the Tricycle
Theatre for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.
The star-studded 2014 Olivier Awards ceremony will take place at the Royal Opera House on
Sunday 13 April with a full television highlights package broadcast on ITV later that evening.
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Mark Rubinstein, President of the Society of London Theatre, said: “Congratulations to all of
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-ENDSFULL NOMINATIONS LIST FOR THE OLIVIER AWARDS 2014 WITH MASTERCARD
BEST ACTOR
Henry Goodman for The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui at the Duchess Theatre
Tom Hiddleston for Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse
Rory Kinnear for Othello at the National Theatre, Olivier
Jude Law for Henry V at the Noël Coward Theatre
BEST ACTRESS
Hayley Atwell for The Pride at the Trafalgar Studios
Anna Chancellor for Private Lives at the Gielgud Theatre
Judi Dench for Peter And Alice at the Noël Coward Theatre
Lesley Manville for Ghosts at the Almeida Theatre & Trafalgar Studios
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Ron Cook for Henry V at the Noël Coward Theatre
Mark Gatiss for Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse
Jack Lowden for Ghosts at the Almeida Theatre & Trafalgar Studios
Ardal O’Hanlon for The Weir at the Donmar Warehouse & the Wyndham’s Theatre
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Sharon D Clarke for The Amen Corner at the National Theatre, Olivier
Sarah Greene for The Cripple Of Inishmaan at the Noël Coward Theatre
Katherine Kingsley for A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Noël Coward Theatre
Cecilia Noble for The Amen Corner at the National Theatre, Olivier
AMERICAN AIRLINES BEST NEW PLAY
1984 at the Almeida Theatre
Chimerica at the Almeida Theatre & Harold Pinter Theatre
The Night Alive at the Donmar Warehouse
Peter And Alice at the Noël Coward Theatre
BEST NEW COMEDY
The Duck House at the Vaudeville Theatre
The Full Monty at the Noël Coward Theatre
Jeeves & Wooster In Perfect Nonsense at the Duke of York’s Theatre
The Same Deep Water As Me at the Donmar Warehouse
BEST DIRECTOR
Richard Eyre for Ghosts at the Almeida Theatre & Trafalgar Studios
Maria Friedman for Merrily We Roll Along at the Harold Pinter Theatre
Susan Stroman for The Scottsboro Boys at the Young Vic
Lyndsey Turner for Chimerica at the Almeida Theatre & Harold Pinter Theatre
BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Gavin Creel for The Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theatre
Jared Gertner for The Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theatre
Douglas Hodge for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Kyle Scatliffe for The Scottsboro Boys at the Young Vic
BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Rosalie Craig for The Light Princess at the National Theatre, Lyttelton
Zrinka Cvitešić for Once at the Phoenix Theatre
Jenna Russell for Merrily We Roll Along at the Harold Pinter Theatre
Charlotte Wakefield for The Sound Of Music at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
BEST PERFORMANCE IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Stephen Ashfield for The Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theatre
Colman Domingo for The Scottsboro Boys at the Young Vic
Josefina Gabrielle for Merrily We Roll Along at the Harold Pinter Theatre
Nigel Planer for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
MASTERCARD BEST NEW MUSICAL
The Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theatre
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Once at the Phoenix Theatre
The Scottsboro Boys at the Young Vic
BEST REVIVAL
The Amen Corner at the National Theatre, Olivier
Ghosts at the Almeida Theatre & Trafalgar Studios
Othello at the National Theatre, Olivier
Private Lives at the Gielgud Theatre
BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL
Merrily We Roll Along at the Harold Pinter Theatre
The Sound Of Music at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Tell Me On A Sunday at the St James Theatre & the Duchess Theatre
BEST THEATRE CHOREOGRAPHER
Peter Darling for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Steven Hoggett for Once at the Phoenix Theatre
Casey Nicholaw for The Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theatre
Susan Stroman for The Scottsboro Boys at the Young Vic
BEST ENTERTAINMENT AND FAMILY
Derren Brown: Infamous at the Palace Theatre
Eric And Little Ern at the Vaudeville Theatre
Barry Humphries’ Farewell Tour - Eat, Pray, Laugh! at the London Palladium
The Wind In The Willows at the Duchess Theatre
AUTOGRAPH SOUND AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC
The Book Of Mormon – Trey Parker, Robert Lopez & Matt Stone for book, music & lyrics
Merrily We Roll Along – The orchestra
Once – Martin Lowe for composition & arrangements, Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová for
music & lyrics
The Scottsboro Boys – John Kander & Fred Ebb for music & lyrics
WHITE LIGHT AWARD FOR BEST LIGHTING DESIGN
Paule Constable for The Light Princess at the National Theatre, Lyttelton
Tim Lutkin & Finn Ross for Chimerica at the Almeida Theatre & Harold Pinter Theatre
Peter Mumford for Ghosts at the Almeida Theatre & Trafalgar Studios
Paul Pyant for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
BEST SOUND DESIGN
Simon Baker for The Light Princess at the National Theatre, Lyttelton
Carolyn Downing for Chimerica at the Almeida Theatre & Harold Pinter Theatre
Clive Goodwin for Once at the Phoenix Theatre
Gareth Owen for Merrily We Roll Along at the Harold Pinter Theatre
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Nicky Gillibrand for The Wind In The Willows at the Duchess Theatre
Soutra Gilmour for Merrily We Roll Along at the Harold Pinter Theatre
Rae Smith for The Light Princess at the National Theatre, Lyttelton
Mark Thompson for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
XL VIDEO AWARD FOR BEST SET DESIGN
Bob Crowley for Once at the Phoenix Theatre
Es Devlin for Chimerica at the Almeida Theatre & Harold Pinter Theatre
Tim Goodchild for Strangers On A Train at the Gielgud Theatre
Mark Thompson for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN AN AFFILIATE THEATRE
Cush Jumbo for Josephine And I at the Bush Theatre
Fleabag at the Soho Theatre
Handbagged at the Tricycle Theatre
Oh What A Lovely War at the Theatre Royal Stratford East
BEST NEW DANCE PRODUCTION
Compagnie 111 Aurélien Bory/Stéphanie Fuster for What’s Become Of You?
(Questcequetudeviens?) at the Barbican Theatre
Eastman - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Sadler’s Wells for Puz/zle at Sadler’s Wells
Richard Alston Dance Company/Britten Sinfonia for Barbican Britten: Phaedra at the Barbican
Theatre
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DANCE
Arthur Pita for his choreography of Ballet Black - A Dream Within A Midsummer Night’s Dream at
the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
Clemmie Sveaas for her performance in Witch-Hunt at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera
House
The Mark Morris Season at Sadler’s Wells
Michael Hulls for his body of lighting work including Ballet Boyz – The Talent at Sadler’s Wells
BEST NEW OPERA PRODUCTION
The Firework-Maker’s Daughter at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
Les Vĕpres Siciliennes at the Royal Opera House
Wozzeck by English National Opera at the London Coliseum
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN OPERA
Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez for their performances in La Donna Del Lago at the
Royal Opera House
Plácido Domingo for his performance in Nabucco at the Royal Opera House
English Touring Opera for its brave and challenging touring productions at the Linbury
Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
BBC RADIO 2 AUDIENCE AWARD
Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre
Matilda The Musical at the Cambridge Theatre
The Phantom Of The Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre
Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre
Notes to Editors:
Established in 1976, the Laurence Olivier Awards celebrate the world-class status of London’s
theatre and are Britain’s most prestigious stage honours. For further information, including
2013 winners, visit: www.olivierawards.com
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