Olivier Awards 2016: Nominations announced by Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton

Best Actor in a Play: 

Kenneth Branagh for The Winter’s Tale at Garrick Theatre, Mark Rylance for Farinelli And The King at Duke of York’s Theatre, Kenneth Cranham for The Father at Wyndham’s Theatre, Benedict Cumberbatch for Hamlet at the Barbican, Adrian Lester for Red Velvet at Garrick Theatre

Best Actress in a Play:

Denise Gough for People, Places and Things at National Theatre, Dorfman, Lia Williams for Orestia at Almeida Theatre, Gemma Arterton for Nell Gywnn at the Apollo Theatre, Janet McAteer for Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Donmar Warehouse, Nicole Kidman for Photograph 51 at Noël Coward Theatre

Best Actor in a Musical:

Ian Bartholomew for Mrs Henderson Presents at Noël Coward Theatre, Killian Donnelly for Kinky Boots at Adelphi Theatre, Matt Henry for Kinky Boots at Adelphi Theatre, David Haig for Guys and Dolls at Savoy Theatre, Jamie Parker for Guys and Dolls at Savoy Theatre

Best Actress in A Musical: 

Tracie Bennett for Mrs Henderson Presents at Noël Coward Theatre, Natalie Dew for Bend It Like Beckham at Phoenix Theatre, Laura Pitt-Pulford for Seven Brides and Seven Brothers at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Imelda Staunton for Gypsy at Savoy Theatre, Sophie Thompson for Guys and Dolls at Savoy Theatre

Best Director: 

Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh for The Winter’s Tale at Garrick Theatre, Matthew Dunster for Hangmen at Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at Royal Court and Wyndham’s Theatre, Robert Icke for Oresteia at Almeida Theatre, Jonathan Kent for Gypsy at Savoy Theatre

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

Mark Gatiss for Three Days In The Country at National Theatre, Lyttelton Michael Pennington for The Winter’s Tale at Garrick Theatre, Tom Sturridge for American Buffalo at Wyndham’s Theatre, David Suchet for The Importance Of Being Earnest at Vaudeville Theatre

Best Actress in a Supporting Role: 

Judi Dench for The Winter’s Tale at Garrick Theatre, Michele Dotrice for Nell Gwynn at Apollo Theatre, Melody Grove for Farinelli And The King at Duke of York’s Theatre, Catherine Steadman for Oppenheimer at Vaudeville Theatre

Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical:

David Bedella for In The Heights at King’s Cross Theatre, Dan Burton for Gypsy at Savoy Theatre, Peter Davison for Gypsy at Savoy Theatre, Gavin Spokes for Guys And Dolls at Savoy Theatre

Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical:

Preeya Kalidas for Bend It Like Beckham at Phoenix Theatre, Amy Lennox for Kinky Boots at Adelphi Theatre, Lara Pulver for Gypsy at Savoy Theatre, Emma Williams for Mrs Henderson Presents at Noël Coward Theatre

Best Revival:

Hamlet at the Barbican, Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Donmar Warehouse, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at The National, The Winter’s Tale the Garrick Theatre

Best Musical Revival: 

Bugsy Malone at Lyric Hammersmith, Guys And Dolls at Savoy Theatre, Gypsy at Savoy Theatre, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

Best New Comedy: 

A Christmas Carol at the Noël Coward Theatre,  Hand to God at the Vaudeville, Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the Apollo Theatre, Nell Gywnn at the Apollo Theatre

Virgin Atlantic Best New Play:

Farinelli And The King at Duke of York’s Theatre, The Father at Wyndham’s Theatre, Hangmen at Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court & Wyndham’s Theatre, People, Places And Things at National Theatre, Dorfman

MasterCard Best New Musical:

Bend It Like Beckham at Phoenix Theatre, In the Heights at King’s Cross Theatre, Kinky Boots at Adelphi Theatre, Mrs Henderson Presents at Noël Coward Theatre

Best Entertainment and Family Production:

Alice’s Adventures Underground at The Vaults, Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax at The Old Vic, I Want My Hat Back at National Theatre, Temporary Theatre, Peter Pan at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Showstopper! The Improvised Musical at Apollo Theatre

Best New Opera Production:

Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci at Royal Opera House, The Force Of Destiny at London Coliseum, Morgen Und Abend at Royal Opera House

Outstanding Achievement in Opera: 

English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra for The Force Of Destiny, Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk and The Queen Of Spades at London Coliseum, Felicity Palmer for The Queen Of Spades at London Coliseum, Sir Antonio Pappano for his conducting of Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci, Guillaume Tell and Król Roger at Royal Opera House, Tamara Wilson for The Force Of Destiny at London Coliseum

Best New Dance Production:

He Who Falls (Celui Qui Tombe) by Compagnie Yoann Bourgeois at the Barbican, Romeo Et Juliette by Les Ballets de Monte Carlo at London Coliseum, Woolf Works by Wayne McGregor at Royal Opera House

Outstanding Achievement in Dance:

Alessandra Ferri for her performances in Chéri and Woolf Works at Royal Opera House, Javier De Frutos for his choreography of Anatomy Of A Passing Cloud at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, Sasha Waltz for her choreography of Sacre at Sadler’s Wells

Best Theatre Choreographer:

Carlos Acosta and Andrew Wright for Guys And Dolls at Savoy Theatre, Drew McOnie for In The Heights at King’s Cross Theatre, Stephen Mear for Gypsy at Savoy Theatre, Jerry Mitchell for Kinky Boots at Adelphi Theatre

Autograph Sound Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music:

Bend It Like Beckham at Phoenix Theatre, with music by Howard Goodall, lyrics by Charles Hart and orchestrations by Howard Goodall and Kuljit Bhamra, Farinelli And The King at Duke of York’s Theatre, with musical arrangements by Claire van Kampen, composition by Iestyn Davies and the Singers who alternated the singing role of Farinelli, In The Heights at at King’s Cross Theatre for music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Kinky Boots at at Adelphi Theatre, with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper, and music supervision, arrangements and orchestrations by Stephen Oremus

Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre:

Barbarians at The Clare, Young Vic Phil Dunster for his role in Pink Mist at Bush Theatre, Pat Kinevane and Fishamble for Silent at Soho Theatre, Violence And Son at Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court

Best Costume Design: 

Gregg Barnes for Kinky Boots at Adelphi Theatre, Hugh Durrant Nell Gywnn at the Apollo Theatre, Jonathan Fensom for Farinelli And The King at Duke of York’s Theatre, Katrina Lindsay for Bend It Like Beckham at Phoenix Theatre

Blue-i Theatre Technology Award for Best Set Design: 

Hildegard Bechtler for Orestia at Almeida Theatre, Es Devlin for Hamlet at the Barbican, Jonathan Fensom for Farinelli And The King at Duke of York’s Theatre, Anna Fleischle for Hangmen at Wyndham’s Theatre

White Light Award for Best Lighting Design:

Neil Austin for The Winter’s Tale at Garrick Theatre, Natasha Chivers for Oresteia at Almeida Theatre, James Farncombe for People, Places And Things at National Theatre, Dorfman, Mark Henderson for Gypsy at Savoy Theatre

Best Sound Design:

George Dennis for The Homecoming at Trafalgar Studios One, Tom Gibbons for People, Places And Things at National Theatre, Dorfman, Christopher Shutt for The Father at Wyndham’s Theatre, Christopher Shutt for Hamlet at Barbican Theatre