27th ANNUAL LAURENCE OLIVIER AWARD WINNERS



BEST ACTRESS Lindsay Duncan for Private Lives at the Albery theatre.

BEST ACTOR Roger Allam for Private On Parade at the Donmar Warehouse

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Marcia Warren

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Toby Jones for The Play What I Wrote at the Wyndham theatre

BBC AWARD FOR BEST NEW PLAY Jitney by August Wilson at the Lyttelton theatre

BEST NEW COMEDY The Play What I Wrote by Hamish McColl, Sean Foley and Eddie Braben at the Wyndham theatre

BEST ENTERTAINMENT Shockheaded Peter at the Piccadilly theatre

OUTSTANDING MUSICAL PRODUCTION My Fair Lady at the Lyttelton and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL Martine McCutcheon for My Fair Lady at the Lyttelton and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Philip Quast for South Pacific at the Olivier theatre

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL Martyn Jacques for Shockheaded Peter at the Piccadilly theatre

BEST DIRECTOR Michael Boyd for Henry VI Parts I, II and III and Richard III at the Young Vic

BEST THEATRE CHOREOGRAPHER Matthew Bourne for My Fair Lady, Lyttelton and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

BEST SET DESIGNER Tim Hatley for Humble Boy at the Cottesloe and Private Lives at the Albery

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER Jenny Beavan for Private Lives, Albery

BEST LIGHTING DESIGNER Mark Henderson for A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Albery and The Playboy Of The Western World at the Cottesloe

MOST PROMISING PLAYWRIGHT Grae Cleugh for F***ing Games at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court

MOST PORMISING PERFORMER Benjamin Davies for F***ing Games at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court

BEST NEW OPERA The Royal Opera's Boulevard Solitude at the Royal Opera House

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN OPERA Bernard Haitink for the Royal Opera's Jenufa and The Queen Of Spades and the musical directorship of "a season of great distinction" by the Royal Opera at the Royal Opera House

BEST NEW DANCE Sankai Juku's Hibiki at Sadler's Wells

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DANCE Mark Morris for the Mark Morris Dance Group's season at Sadler's Wells

SPECIAL AWARD Rupert Rhymes

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Trevor Nunn

AUDIENCE AWARD FOR MOST POPULAR SHOW The Phantom of the Opera
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