2016 Olivier Award Winners & Watch Full Show!

Best actor

rnWinner: Kenneth Cranham for The Father at Wyndham’s TheatrernrnKenneth Branagh for The Winter’s Tale at Garrick TheatrernrnBenedict Cumberbatch for Hamlet at Barbican TheatrernrnAdrian Lester for Red Velvet at Garrick TheatrernrnMark Rylance for Farinelli And The King at Duke of York’s Theatrern

Best actress

rnWinner: Denise Gough for People, Places And Things at National Theatre, DorfmanrnrnGemma Arterton for Nell Gwynn at Apollo TheatrernrnNicole Kidman for Photograph 51 at Noël Coward TheatrernrnJanet McTeer for Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Donmar WarehousernrnLia Williams for Oresteia at Almeida Theatrern

Best actor in a supporting role

rnWinner: Mark Gatiss for Three Days In The Country at National Theatre, LytteltonrnrnMichael Pennington for The Winter’s Tale at Garrick TheatrernrnTom Sturridge for American Buffalo at Wyndham’s TheatrernrnDavid Suchet for The Importance Of Being Earnest at Vaudeville Theatrern

Best actress in a supporting role

rnWinner: Judi Dench for The Winter’s Tale at Garrick TheatrernrnMichele Dotrice for Nell Gwynn at Apollo TheatrernrnMelody Grove for Farinelli And The King at Duke of York’s TheatrernrnCatherine Steadman for Oppenheimer at Vaudeville Theatrern

Best director

rnWinner: Robert Icke for Oresteia at Almeida TheatrernrnRob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh for The Winter’s Tale at Garrick TheatrernrnMatthew Dunster for Hangmen at Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at Royal Court & Wyndham’s TheatrernrnJonathan Kent for Gypsy at Savoy Theatrern

Best actor in a supporting role in a musical

rnWinner: David Bedella for In The Heights at King’s Cross TheatrernrnDan Burton for Gypsy at Savoy TheatrernrnPeter Davison for Gypsy at Savoy TheatrernrnGavin Spokes for Guys And Dolls at Savoy Theatrern

Best actress in a supporting role in a musical

rnWinner: Lara Pulver for Gypsy at Savoy TheatrernrnPreeya Kalidas for Bend It Like Beckham at Phoenix TheatrernrnAmy Lennox for Kinky Boots at Adelphi TheatrernrnEmma Williams for Mrs Henderson Presents at Noel Coward Theatrern

Best musical revival

rnWinner: Gypsy at Savoy TheatrernrnBugsy Malone at Lyric HammersmithrnrnGuys And Dolls at Savoy TheatrernrnSeven Brides For Seven Brothers at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatrern

Best actor in a musical

rnWinner: Matt Henry for Kinky Boots at Adelphi TheatrernrnIan Bartholomew for Mrs Henderson Presents at Noël Coward TheatrernrnKillian Donnelly for Kinky Boots at Adelphi TheatrernrnDavid Haig for Guys And Dolls at Savoy TheatrernrnJamie Parker for Guys And Dolls at Savoy Theatrern

Best actress in a musical

rnWinner: Imelda Staunton for Gypsy at Savoy TheatrernrnTracie Bennett for Mrs Henderson Presents at Noël Coward TheatrernrnNatalie Dew for Bend It Like Beckham at Phoenix TheatrernrnLaura Pitt-Pulford for Seven Brides For Seven Brothers at Regent’s Park Open Air TheatrernrnSophie Thompson for Guys And Dolls at Savoy Theatrern

Best new musical

rnWinner: Kinky Boots at Adelphi TheatrernrnBend It Like Beckham at Phoenix TheatrernrnIn the Heights at King’s Cross TheatrernrnMrs Henderson Presents at Noel Coward Theatrern

Best revival

rnWinner: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at National Theatre, LytteltonrnrnHamlet at Barbican TheatrernrnLes Liaisons Dangereuses at Donmar WarehousernrnThe Winter’s Tale at Garrick Theatrern

Best new comedy

rnWinner: Nell Gwynn at Apollo TheatrernrnHand To God at Vaudeville TheatrernrnPeter Pan Goes Wrong at Apollo Theatrern

Best new opera

rnWinner: Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci at Royal Opera HousernrnThe Force Of Destiny at London ColiseumrnrnMorgen Und Abend at Royal Opera HousernrnEnglish National Opera Chorus and Orchestra for The Force Of Destiny, Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk and The Queen Of Spades at London ColiseumrnrnFelicity Palmer for The Queen Of Spades at London ColiseumrnrnSir Antonio Pappano for his conducting of Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci, Guillaume Tell and Krol Roger at Royal Opera HousernrnTamara Wilson for The Force Of Destiny at London Coliseumrn

Outstanding achievement in opera

rnWinner: English National Opera chorus and orchestra for The Force of Destiny, Lady Macbeth of Mtensk and The Queen of Spades at London ColiseumrnrnFelicity Palmer for The Queen of Spades at London ColiseumrnrnAntonio Pappano for his conducting of Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci,Guillaume Tell and Krol Roger at Royal Opera HousernrnTamara Wilson for The Force of Destiny at London Coliseumrn

Outstanding achievement in an affiliate theatre

rnWinner: Pat Kinevane and Fishamble for Silent at Soho TheatrernrnBarbarians at The Clare, Young VicrnrnPhil Dunster for his role in Pink Mist at Bush TheatrernrnViolence And Son at Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Courtrn

Best new play

rnWinner: Hangmen at Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court & Wyndham’s TheatrernrnFarinelli And The King at Duke of York’s TheatrernrnThe Father at Wyndham’s TheatreOlivier Awards 2016: The winnersrnrnPeople, Places And Things at National Theatre, Dorfmanrn

Best entertainment and family

rnWinner: Showstopper! The Improvised Musical at Apollo TheatrernrnAlice’s Adventures Underground at The VaultsrnrnDr Seuss’s The Lorax at The Old VicrnrnI Want My Hat Back at National Theatre, Temporary TheatrernrnPeter Pan at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatrern

Best new dance production

rnWinner: Woolf Works by Wayne McGregor at Royal Opera HousernrnHe Who Falls (Celui Qui Tombe) by Compagnie Yoann Bourgeois at the BarbicanrnrnRomeo Et Juliette by Les Ballets de Monte Carlo at London Coliseumrn

Outstanding achievement in dance

rnWinner: Alessandra Ferri for her performances in Cheri and Woolf Works at Royal Opera HousernrnJavier De Frutos for his choreography of Anatomy Of A Passing Cloud at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera HousernrnSasha Waltz for her choreography of Sacre at Sadler’s Wellsrn

Outstanding achievement in music

rnWinner: In The Heights – Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda at King’s Cross TheatrernrnBend It Like Beckham – Music by Howard Goodall, Lyrics by Charles Hart and Orchestrations by Howard Goodall and Kuljit Bhamra at Phoenix TheatrernrnFarinelli And The King – Claire van Kampen for Musical Arrangements, the Musicians and Iestyn Davies and the Singers who alternated the singing role of Farinelli at Duke of York’s TheatrernrnKinky Boots – Music and Lyrics by Cyndi Lauper, Music Supervision, Arrangements and Orchestrations by Stephen Oremus at Adelphi Theatrern

Best theatre choreographer

rnWinner: Drew McOnie for In The Heights at King’s Cross TheatrernrnCarlos Acosta and Andrew Wright for Guys And Dolls at Savoy TheatrernrnStephen Mear for Gypsy at Savoy TheatrernrnJerry Mitchell for Kinky Boots at Adelphi Theatrern

Best costume design

rnWinner: Gregg Barnes for Kinky Boots at Adelphi TheatrernrnHugh Durrant for Nell Gwynn at Apollo TheatrernrnJonathan Fensom for Farinelli And The King at Duke of York’s TheatrernrnKatrina Lindsay for Bend It Like Beckham at Phoenix Theatrern

Best set design

rnWinner: Anna Fleischle for Hangmen at Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court & Wyndham’s TheatrernrnHildegard Bechtler for Oresteia at Almeida TheatrernrnEs Devlin for Hamlet at Barbican TheatrernrnJonathan Fensom for Farinelli And The King at Duke of York’s Theatrern

Best lighting design

rnWinner: Mark Henderson for Gypsy at Savoy TheatrernrnNeil Austin for The Winter’s Tale at Garrick TheatrernrnNatasha Chivers for Oresteia at Almeida TheatrernrnJames Farncombe for People, Places And Things at National Theatre, Dorfmanrn

Best sound design

rnWinner: Tom Gibbons for People, Places And Things at National Theatre, DorfmanrnrnGeorge Dennis for The Homecoming at Trafalgar Studios 1rnrnChristopher Shutt for The Father at Wyndham’s TheatrernrnChristopher Shutt for Hamlet at Barbican Theatrernrn