1999 Laurence Olivier Awards

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The 1999 Laurence Olivier Awards were held in 1999 in London celebrating excellence in West End theatre by the Society of London Theatre.

Winners and nominees

Details of winners (in bold) and nominees, in each award category, per the Society of London Theatre.^[1]

Play of the Year	Best New Musical
The Weir by Conor McPherson – Royal Court Copenhagen by Michael Frayn – National Theatre Cottesloe / Duchess The Blue Room by David Hare – Donmar Warehouse The Unexpected Man by Yasmina Reza – RSC at the Barbican Pit / Duchess	Kat and the Kings – Vaudeville Rent – Shaftesbury Saturday Night Fever – London Palladium Whistle Down the Wind – Aldwych
Best New Comedy	Best Entertainment
Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick by Terry Johnson – National Theatre Lyttelton Alarms and Excursions by Michael Frayn – Gielgud Love upon the Throne by Patrick Barlow, Martin Duncan and John Ramm – Comedy Things We Do for Love by Alan Ayckbourn – Gielgud / Duchess	Do You Come Here Often – Vaudeville Much ado about Everything – Playhouse Steve Coogan Is the Man Who Thinks He's It – Lyceum Shakespeare's Villains: A Masterclass in Evil – Haymarket
Outstanding Musical Production
Oklahoma – National Theatre Olivier / Lyceum Annie – Victoria Palace Into the Woods – Donmar Warehouse Show Boat – Prince Edward
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Kevin Spacey as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman in The Iceman Cometh* – Old Vic** Michael Gambon as Parsky in The Unexpected Man – RSC at the Barbican Pit / Duchess Iain Glen as Various in The Blue Room – Donmar Warehouse Jim Norton as Jack in The Weir – Royal Court David Suchet as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus – Old Vic	*Eileen Atkins as Woman in The Unexpected Man* – RSC at the Barbican Pit / Duchess** Sinéad Cusack as Mai O'Hara in Our Lady of Sligo – National Theatre Cottesloe Judi Dench as Filumena Marturano in Filumena – Piccadilly Nicole Kidman as Various in The Blue Room – Donmar Warehouse Diana Rigg as Agrippina and Phaedra in Britannicus and Phèdre – Albery
Best Actor in a Musical	Best Actress in a Musical
Jody Abrahams, Loukmaan Adams, Mandisa Bardill, Junaid Booysen, Salie Daniels and Alistair Izobel (The Cast) as Kat Diamond, Bingo, Lucy, Ballie, The Narrator and Magoo in Kat and the Kings – Vaudeville Adam Garcia as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever – London Palladium Hugh Jackman as Curly McLain in Oklahoma – National Theatre Olivier / Lyceum Clarke Peters as Billy Flynn in Chicago – Adelphi	*Sophie Thompson as The Baker's Wife in Into the Woods* – Donmar Warehouse** Krysten Cummings as Mimi Márquez in Rent – Shaftesbury Maria Friedman as Roxie Hart in Chicago – Adelphi Josefina Gabrielle as Laurey Williams in Oklahoma – National Theatre Olivier / Lyceum
Best Performance in a Supporting Role	Best Supporting Performance in a Musical
*Brendan Coyle as Brendan in The Weir* – Royal Court** Emma Fielding as Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal – RSC at the Barbican Adam Godley as Kenneth Williams in Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick – National Theatre Lyttelton Michael Sheen as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Amadeus – Old Vic	*Shuler Hensley as Jud Fry in Oklahoma* – National Theatre Olivier / Lyceum** Wilson Jermaine Heredia as Angel Dumott Schunard in Rent – Shaftesbury Jimmy Johnston as Will Parker in Oklahoma – National Theatre Olivier / Lyceum Andrew Kennedy as Rooster Hannigan in Annie – Victoria Palace
Best Director	Best Theatre Choreographer
*Howard Davies for The Iceman Cometh* – Old Vic** Sam Mendes for The Blue Room – Donmar Warehouse Trevor Nunn for Oklahoma – National Theatre Olivier / Lyceum Ian Rickson for The Weir – Royal Court	*Susan Stroman for Oklahoma* – National Theatre Olivier / Lyceum** Jody Abrahams and Loukmaan Adams for Kat and the Kings – Vaudeville Peter Gennaro for Annie – Victoria Palace Arlene Philips for Saturday Night Fever – London Palladium
Best Set Designer	Best Costume Designer
*Anthony Ward for Oklahoma* – National Theatre Olivier / Lyceum** Maria Björnson for Britannicus and Phèdre – Albery William Dudley for Amadeus – Old Vic and Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick – National Theatre Lyttelton Richard Hoover for Not About Nightingales – National Theatre Cottesloe Mark Thompson for The Blue Room – Donmar Warehouse and The Unexpected Man – RSC at the Barbican Pit / Duchess	*William Dudley for Amadeus* – Old Vic and The London Cuckolds – National Theatre Lyttelton** Maria Björnson for Britannicus and Phèdre – Albery Bunny Christie for As You Like It – Globe Robert Jones for Henry VIII – RSC at the Young Vic
Best Lighting Designer
*Hugh Vanstone for The Blue Room* – Donmar Warehouse and The Unexpected Man – RSC at the Barbican Pit / Duchess** Paule Constable for Amadeus – Old Vic and Uncle Vanya – RSC at the Young Vic Mark Henderson for Britannicus and Phèdre – Albery David Hersey for Oklahoma – National Theatre Olivier / Lyceum
Outstanding Achievement in Dance	Best New Dance Production
William Forsythe for the season, Ballett Frankfurt – Sadler's Wells Trisha Brown for choreographing L'Orfeo – Barbican Bill T. Jones for We Set Out Early...Visibility Was Poor – Sadler's Wells Twyla Tharp for the season – Barbican	Enemy in the Figure, Ballett Frankfurt – Sadler's Wells The Man with a Moustache, City of London Ballet – Sadler's Wells Room of Cooks, The Royal Ballet – Sadler's Wells We Set Out Early...Visibility Was Poor, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company – Sadler's Wells
Outstanding Achievement in Opera	Outstanding New Opera Production
The Royal Opera House Orchestra for Le nozze di Figaro, The Bartered Bride and The Golden Cockerel Sandra Ford in The Tales of Hoffmann and Mary Stuart – London Coliseum René Jacobs for musical directing L'Orfeo – Barbican Andrew Shore in Gianni Schicchi and The Elixir of Love – London Coliseum	La clemenza di Tito, Welsh National Opera – Shaftesbury Boris Godunov, English National Opera – London Coliseum L'Orfeo, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie – Barbican Il trittico, English National Opera – London Coliseum
Society Special Award
Peter Hall

Productions with multiple nominations and awards

The following 17 productions, including one ballet and one opera, received multiple nominations:

9: Oklahoma
6: The Blue Room
5: Amadeus and The Unexpected Man
4: Britannicus, Phèdre and The Weir
3: Annie, Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick, Kat and the Kings, L'Orfeo, Rent and Saturday Night Fever
2: Chicago, Into the Woods, The Iceman Cometh and We Set Out Early...Visibility Was Poor