Olivier Awards 2024: Andrew Scott looks like a winner as fashion-conscious star attends in cropped blazer and sparkly shirt – weeks after beloved mum Nora’s death

Best Actor in a Musical

David Cumming for Operation Mincemeat

Tom Francis to Sunset Boulevard – WINNER

Daniel Mays for Guys and Dolls

Charlie Stemp for Crazy for You

Best Actress in a Musical

Natasha Hodgson for Operation Mincemeat

Caissie Levy for Next to Normal

Nicole Scherzinger for Sunset Boulevard – WINNER

Marisha Wallace for Guys and Dolls

Best Actress

Laura Donnelly for The Hills of California

Sophie Okonedo for Medea

Sarah Jessica Parker for Plaza Suite

Sheridan Smith for Shirley Valentine

Sarah Snook for The Picture of Dorian Gray – WINNER

Best actor

Mark Gatiss for The Motive and the Cue – WINNER

Joseph Fiennes for Dear England

James Norton for A Little Life

Andrew Scott for Vanya

David Tennant for Macbeth

Best New Play

Dear England by James Graham – WINNER

The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth

The Motive and the Cue by Jack Thorne

Till the Stars Come Down by Beth Steel

Best New Musical

The Little Big Things, music by Nick Butcher, lyrics by Nick Butcher and Tom Ling, book by Joe White

Next to Normal, music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey

Operation Minced Meat, music, lyrics and book by David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts – WINNER

A Strange Loop, music, lyrics and book by Michael R Jackson

Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical

Grace Hodgett Young to Sunset Boulevard

Zoë Roberts for Operation Mincemeat

Amy Trigg for The Little Big Things – WINNER

Eleanor Worthington-Cox for Next to Normal

Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical

Jak Malone for Operation Mincemeat – WINNER

Cedric Neal for Guys and Dolls

David Thaxton to Sunset Boulevard

Jack Wolfe for Next to Normal

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Will close for Dear England – WINNER

Paul Hilton for An Enemy of the People

Giles Terera for Clyde’s

Luke Thompson for A Little Life

Zubin Varla for A Little Life

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Lorraine Ashbourne for Till the Stars Come Down

Priyanga Burford for An Enemy of the People

Haydn Gwynne for When Winston Got to War With the Wireless – WINNER

Gina McKee for Dear England

Olivier Tanya Reynolds for A Mirror

Noël Coward Award for Best New Entertainment or Comedy Play

Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo and Franca Rame

Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Stranger Things: The First Shadow by Kate Trefry – WINNER

Vardy V Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial, adapted by Liv Hennessy

Best Family Show

Bluey’s Big Play by Joe Brumm

Dinosaur World Live by Derek Bond – WINNER

The Chicken Leg House adapted by Oliver Lansley

The Smeds and the Smoos adapted from Tall Stories

Gillian Lynne Award for Best Theater Choreographer

Fabian Aloise to Sunset Boulevard

Ellen Kane and Hannes Langolf for Dear England

Arlene Phillips with James Cousins ​​for Guys and Dolls – WINNER

Mark Smith for The Little Big Things

Susan Stroman for Crazy for You

Best Costume Design

Bunny Christie and Deborah Andrews for Guys and Dolls

Ryan Dawson Laight for La Cage Aux Folles

Hugh Durrant for Peter Pan

Marg Horwell for The Picture of Dorian Gray – WINNER

Best Revival

The Effect by Lucy Prebble

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell

Vanya by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Simon Stephens – WINNER

Best Musical Revival

Groundhog Day, music and lyrics by Tim Minchin

Guys and Dolls, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows

Hadestown, music, lyrics and book by Anaïs Mitchell

Sunset Boulevard, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics and book by Don Black and Christopher Hampton – WINNER

Best sound design

Paul Arditti for Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Dan Balfour and Tom Gibbins for Dear England

Adam Fisher for Sunset Boulevard – WINNER

Gareth Fry for Macbeth

Outstanding musical contribution

Tom Brady for Musical Supervision and Arrangements and Charlie Rosen for Orchestrations for Guys and Dolls

Matt Brind for Musical Supervision, Arrangements and Orchestrations for Just for One Day

Steve Sidwell for Orchestrations and Joe Bunker for Musical Director for Operation Mincemeat

Alan Williams for musical supervision and musical direction for Sunset Boulevard – WINNER

Best scenography

Miriam Buether for Stranger Things: The First Shadow WINS

Bunny Christie for guys and dolls

Es Devlin and Ash J Woodward Dear England

Soutra Gilmour and Nathan Amzi and Joe Ransom for Sunset Boulevard

Best lighting design

Jon Clark for Dear England

Jon Clark for Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Paule Constable for guys and dolls

Jack Knowles for Sunset Boulevard – WINNER

Best New Opera Production

Blue by the English National Opera

Innocence by the Royal Opera – WINNER

Imagine a day like this of the Royal Opera House

Rhinegold by the English National Opera

Outstanding Performance in Opera

Antonio Pappano for his role as Musical Director of the Royal Opera House – WINNER

Belarus Free Theater Company for King Stakh’s Wild Hunt

Marina Abramović for 7 deaths of Maria Callas

Outstanding Performance in Dance

Isabela Coracy for her performance in NINA: By Whatever Means, part of Ballet Black: Pioneers – WINNER

Jonzi D for his artistic direction of Breakin’ Convention 2023 International festival of hip-hop Dance Theatre

Rhiannon Faith for her community-focused take on Lay Down Your Burdens at The Pit

Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre

Blue Mist by Mohamed-Zain Dada at the Jerwood Theater Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre

A playlist for The Revolution by AJ Yi at the Bush Theatre

Sleepova by Matilda Feyişayo at the Bush Theater – WINNER

The Swell by Isley Lynn at Orange Tree Theatre

The Time Machine: A Comedy by Steven Canny and John Nicholson at the Park Theatre

Sir Peter Hall Award for Best Director

Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin for Stranger Things: The First Shadow at the Phoenix Theatre

Rupert Goold for Dear England at the National Theater – Olivier and Prince Edward Theatre

Jamie Lloyd for Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy Theater – WINNER

Sam Mendes for The Motive and the Cue at the National Theater – Lyttelton and Noël Coward Theatre