2010 Laurence Olivier Awards

Award ceremony

Date

21 March 2010

Location

Grosvenor House Hotel

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The 2010 Olivier Awards were held on 21 March 2010 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Best New Play^[1]	Best New Musical^[1]
The Mountaintop by Katori Hall – Trafalgar Studio 1 Enron by Lucy Prebble – Royal Court / Noël Coward Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth – Royal Court / Apollo Red by John Logan – Donmar Warehouse	Spring Awakening – Novello Dreamboats and Petticoats – Savoy Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Palace Sister Act – London Palladium
Best Revival^[1]	Best Musical Revival^[1]
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Novello A Streetcar Named Desire – Donmar Warehouse A View from the Bridge – Duke of York's Arcadia – Duke of York's The Misanthrope – Comedy Three Days of Rain – Apollo	Hello, Dolly – Regent's Park Open Air A Little Night Music – Garrick Annie Get Your Gun – Young Vic Oliver – Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Best New Comedy^[1]	Best Entertainment^[1]
The Priory by Michael Wynne – Royal Court Calendar Girls by Tim Firth – Noël Coward England People Very Nice by Richard Bean – National Theatre Olivier Parlour Song by Jez Butterworth – Almeida	Morecambe – Duchess Arturo Brachetti: Change – Garrick Derren Brown: Enigma – Adelphi
Best Actor^[1]	Best Actress^[1]
*Mark Rylance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron in Jerusalem* – Royal Court and Apollo** James Earl Jones as Big Daddy Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Novello Jude Law as Prince Hamlet in Hamlet – Donmar at Wyndham's James McAvoy as Ned and Walker in Three Days of Rain – Apollo Ken Stott as Eddie Carbone in A View from the Bridge – Duke of York's Samuel West as Jeffrey Skilling in Enron – Royal Court / Noël Coward	*Rachel Weisz as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire* – Donmar Warehouse** Gillian Anderson as Nora Helmer in A Doll's House – Donmar Warehouse Lorraine Burroughs as Camae in The Mountaintop – Trafalgar Studio 1 Imelda Staunton as Kath in Entertaining Mr Sloane – Trafalgar Studio 1 Juliet Stevenson as Stephanie Anderson in Duet for One – Almeida / Vaudeville
Best Actor in a Musical^[1]	Best Actress in a Musical^[1]
*Aneurin Barnard as Melchior Gabor in Spring Awakening* – Novello** Rowan Atkinson as Fagin in Oliver – Theatre Royal Drury Lane Bob Golding as Eric Morecambe in Morecambe – Duchess Alexander Hanson as Frederik in A Little Night Music – Garrick Tony Sheldon as Bernadette in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Palace	*Samantha Spiro as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly* – Regent's Park Open Air** Melanie C as Mrs. Johnstone in Blood Brothers – Phoenix Patina Miller as Deloris Van Cartier in Sister Act – London Palladium Hannah Waddingham as Desirée Armfeldt in A Little Night Music – Garrick Charlotte Wakefield as Wendla Bergmann in Spring Awakening – Novello
Best Actor in a Supporting Role^[1]	Best Actress in a Supporting Role^[1]
*Eddie Redmayne as Ken in Red* – Donmar Warehouse** Mackenzie Crook as Ginger in Jerusalem – Royal Court / Apollo Rory Kinnear as Mitya in Burnt by the Sun – National Theatre Lyttelton Tim Pigott-Smith as Ken Lay in Enron – Royal Court / Noël Coward	*Ruth Wilson as Stella Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire* – Donmar Warehouse** Hayley Atwell as Catherine Carbone in A View from the Bridge – Duke of York's Michelle Dockery as Maroussia in Burnt by the Sun – National Theatre Lyttelton Alexandra Gilbreath as Olivia in Twelfth Night – Duke of York's Keira Knightley as Jennifer in The Misanthrope – Comedy Rachael Stirling as Rebecca in The Priory – Royal Court
Best Supporting Role in a Musical
*Iwan Rheon as Moritz Stiefel in Spring Awakening* – Novello** Sheila Hancock as Mother Superior in Sister Act – London Palladium Maureen Lipman as Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music – Garrick Kelly Price as Countess Charlotte Malcolm in A Little Night Music – Garrick
Best Director^[1]	Best Theatre Choreographer
*Rupert Goold for Enron* – Royal Court / Noël Coward** Michael Grandage for Hamlet – Donmar at Wyndham's Lindsay Posner for A View from the Bridge – Duke of York's Ian Rickson for Jerusalem – Royal Court / Apollo Bijan Sheibani for Our Class – National Theatre Cottesloe	*Stephen Mear for Hello, Dolly* – Regent's Park Open Air** Matthew Bourne for Oliver – Theatre Royal Drury Lane Bill T. Jones for Spring Awakening – Novello Anthony Van Laast for Sister Act – London Palladium
Best Set Design	Best Costume Design
*Ultz for Jerusalem* – Royal Court / Apollo** Pete Bishop and Mark Thompson for England People Very Nice – National Theatre Olivier Christopher Oram for Red – Donmar Warehouse Anthony Ward for Enron – Royal Court / Noël Coward	*Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner for Priscilla, Queen of the Desert* – Palace** Peter McKintosh for Hello, Dolly – Regent's Park Open Air Christopher Oram for Madame de Sade – Donmar at Wyndham's Amy Roberts for The Misanthrope – Comedy
Best Lighting Design	Best Sound Design
*Mark Henderson for Burnt by the Sun* – National Theatre Lyttelton** Kevin Adams for Spring Awakening – Novello Jon Clark for Three Days of Rain – Apollo Mark Henderson for Enron – Royal Court / Noël Coward	*Brian Ronan for Spring Awakening* – Novello** Andrew Bruce and Nick Lidster for Mother Courage and Her Children – National Theatre Olivier Ian Dickinson for Jerusalem – Royal Court / Apollo Christopher Shutt for Every Good Boy Deserves Favour – National Theatre Olivier
Outstanding Achievement in Dance	Best New Dance Production
Rambert Dance Company for an outstanding year of new work Colin Dunne in Out of Time – Barbican Pit Michael Hulls for lighting Two:Four:Ten – London Coliseum; Afterlight, Ex Machina and Eonnagata – Sadler's Wells	Goldberg: The Brandstrup-Rojo Project, ROH2 – Royal Opera House A Linha Curva, Rambert Dance Company – Sadler's Wells Afterlight – Sadler's Wells E=mc², Birmingham Royal Ballet – Sadler's Wells The Rite of Spring, Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre – London Coliseum
Outstanding Achievement in Opera	Best New Opera Production
*Nina Stemme in Tristan und Isolde, The Royal Opera – Royal Opera House* Anja Kampe in Der fliegende Holländer, The Royal Opera – Royal Opera House Stuart Skelton in Peter Grimes, English National Opera – London Coliseum Michael Volle in Lulu and Tristan und Isolde, The Royal Opera – Royal Opera House	Tristan und Isolde, The Royal Opera – Royal Opera House Der fliegende Holländer, The Royal Opera – Royal Opera House Lulu, The Royal Opera – Royal Opera House Peter Grimes, English National Opera – London Coliseum
Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre
Cock – Royal Court Upstairs Ìyà Ilé: The First Wife – Soho / Tiata Fahodzi The Great Game – Tricycle
Audience Award for Most Popular Show
Wicked – Apollo Victoria Billy Elliot – Victoria Palace The Phantom of the Opera – Her Majesty's War Horse – New London We Will Rock You – Dominion
Society Special Award	Lifetime Achievement
Maggie Smith	Michael Codron

Productions with multiple nominations and awards

The following 25 productions, including one ballet and four operas, received multiple nominations:^[1]

7: Spring Awakening
6: Enron, Jerusalem
5: A Little Night Music
4: A View from the Bridge, Hello, Dolly, Sister Act
3: A Streetcar Named Desire, Burnt by the Sun, Oliver, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Red, The Misanthrope, Three Days of Rain, Tristan und Isolde
2: Afterlight, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Der fliegende Holländer, England People Very Nice, Hamlet, Lulu, Morecambe, Peter Grimes, The Mountaintop, The Priory

The following five productions, including one opera, received multiple awards:^[1]

4: Spring Awakening
3: Hello, Dolly
2: A Streetcar Named Desire, Jerusalem, Tristan und Isolde

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p "Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards 2010 Winners Announced". londontheatre.co.uk. 8 June 2016.

Mark Shenton (21 March 2010). "Spring Awakening, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Wicked Win Olivier Awards". playbill. Archived from the original on 25 May 2010. Retrieved 20 July 2010.

External links

Previous Olivier Winners – 2010
"Olivier Award winners and nominees, 2010" at officiallondontheatre.co.uk
"Olivier winner Rachel Weisz: I want to do a play every year" at thisislondon.co.uk, 22 March 2010

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