Nominations for the 2025 Olivier Awards, London's top theatrical honors, were revealed March 4, with Regent's Park Open Air Theatre's summer revival of Fiddler on the Roof and Donmar Warehouse's U.K. debut of Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 becoming the most recognized productions of the season. The former picked up 13 nods, including Best Musical Revival and a Best Actor in a Musical nomination for Broadway vet Adam Dannheisser, while the Dave Malloy musical took six nominations, including Best New Musical.
That last category, the awards' top prize, also included nominations for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, one of the new musical's four total nods; Broadway's MJ The Musical, one of three nominations; and Why Am I So Single?, the sole nomination for the new show from the creators of SIX The Musical. Best New Play nominations went to Lindsey Ferrentino's The Fear of 13, Mark Rosenblatt's Giant, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson's Kyoto, Benedict Lombe's Shifters, and Eline Arbo and Stephanie Bain's The Years.
The Musical Revival category was split between American and British musicals, with nominations for Fiddler on the Roof at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre and Hello, Dolly!; and Oliver! and Starlight Express. The Play Revival category recognized The Importance of Being Earnest at the National, Machinal at The Old Vic, Oedipus at Wyndham's Theatre, and Waiting for Godot at Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Broadway vets made a nice showing with this year's nominations. A particularly heavy-hitting category in this regard was Best Actor, which saw nominations for Billy Crudup in Harry Clarke, John Lithgow for Giant, and Mark Strong for Oedipus. Nominated for Best Actor in a Musical were Beetlejuice's Adam Dannheisser for Fiddler on the Roof and Tony winner Myles Frost for MJ; Tony nominee and three-time Olivier winner Sharon D Clarke (Broadway's Caroline, Or Change and Death of a Salesman) was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her work as Lady Bracknell in The National's The Importance of Being Earnest. In creative categories, Dave Malloy and Nicholas Shilbeck were recognized in the Outstanding Musical Contribution category for their work on The Great Comet, Nicholas Hytner was nominated for his direction of Giant, Off-Broadway's 罢颈迟补苍矛辩耻别 was nominated for Best New Entertainment or Comedy Play (one of three total nods), and Christopher Wheeldon was nominated for his MJ choreography, among other Broadway nominations.
Winners will be named April 6 at a ceremony at Royal Albert Hall.
See the full list of nominations below:
Best New Musical
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
MJ The Musical
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Why Am I So Single?
Best Set Design
Jon Bausor (set design), Toby Oli茅 and Daisy Beattie (puppetry design), Satoshi Kuriyama (projection design), Spirited Away
Frankie Bradshaw (set design), Ballet Shoes
Es Devlin (set design), Coriolanus
Tom Scutt (set design), Fiddler on the Roof
Best Lighting Design
Paule Constable & Ben Jacobs, Oliver!
Howard Hudson, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Howard Hudson, Starlight Express
Aideen Malone, Fiddler on the Roof
Best New Opera Production
Duke Bluebeard鈥檚 Castle, English National Opera
Festen, The Royal Opera
尝鈥橭濒颈尘辫颈补诲别, Irish National Opera & The Royal Opera
The Tales Of Hoffmann, The Royal Opera
Outstanding Achievement in Opera
Aigul Akhmetshina, performance in Carmen at Royal Opera House
Allan Clayton, performance in Festen at Royal Opera House
Jung Young-doo,鈥痜or directing Lear at Barbican Theatre
Best Family Show
Brainiac Live
Maddie Moate鈥檚 Very Curious Christmas
The Nutcracker
Rough Magic
Best New Production in Affiliate Theatre
Animal Farm, Theatre Royal Stratford East
Boys on the Verge of Tears, Soho Theatre
English, at Kiln Theatre
Now, I See, Theatre Royal Stratford East
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Marylebone Theatre
Best New Dance Production
Assembly Hall
Frontiers: Choreographers of Canada
Theatre of Dreams
An Untitled Love
Outstanding Achievement in Dance
Sarah Chun, performance in Three Short Ballets
Tom Visser, lighting design of Angels鈥� Atlas as part of Frontiers: Choreographers Of Canada
Eva Yerbabuena, performance in 驰别谤产补驳眉别苍补 at Sadler鈥檚 Wells
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Jorge Bosch, Kyoto
Tom Edden, Waiting For Godot
Elliot Levey, Giant
Ben Whishaw, Bluets
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Sharon D Clarke, The Importance Of Being Earnest
Romola Garai, Giant
Romola Garai, The Years
Gina McKee, The Years
Best Theatre Choreographer
Matthew Bourne, Oliver!
Julia Cheng, Fiddler on the Roof
Hofesh Shechter, Oedipus
Christopher Wheeldon, MJ The Musical
Best Costume Design
Hugh Durrant, Robin Hood
Sachiko Nakahara, Spirited Away
Tom Scutt, Fiddler on the Roof
Gabriella Slade, Starlight Express
Best Sound Design
Nick Lidster, Fiddler on the The Roof
Christopher Shutt, Oedipus
Thijs van Vuure, The Years
Koichi Yamamoto, Spirited Away
Outstanding Musical Contribution
Mark Aspinall (musical supervision and additional orchestrations), Fiddler on the Roof
Darren Clark (music supervision, orchestrations, and arrangements) and Mark Aspinall (musical direction, music supervision, orchestrations, and arrangements), The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Dave Malloy (orchestrations) and Nicholas Skilbeck (musical supervision), Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Asaf Zohar (compositions) and Gavin Sutherland (dance arrangements and orchestrations), Ballet Shoes
Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical
Liv Andrusier, Fiddler on the Roof
Amy Di Bartolomeo, The Devil Wears Prada
Beverley Klein, Fiddler on the Roof
Maimuna Memon, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical
Andy Nyman, Hello, Dolly!
Raphael Papo, Fiddler on the Roof
Layton Williams, 罢颈迟补苍矛辩耻别
Tom Xander, Mean Girls
Best New Entertainment or Comedy Play
Ballet Shoes
Inside No. 9 Stage/Fright
Spirited Away
罢颈迟补苍矛辩耻别
Best Director
Eline Arbo, The Years
Jordan Fein, Fiddler on the Roof
Nicholas Hytner, Giant
Robert Icke, Oedipus
Best Actress
Heather Agyepong, Shifters
Lesley Manville, Oedipus
Rosie Sheehy, Machinal
Meera Syal, A Tupperware of Ashes
Indira Varma, Oedipus
Best Actor
Adrien Brody, The Fear of 13
Billy Crudup, Harry Clarke
Paapa Essiedu, Death of England: Delroy
John Lithgow, Giant
Mark Strong, Oedipus
Best Revival
The Importance of Being Earnest
Machinal
Oedipus
Waiting For Godot
Best Musical Revival
Fiddler on the Roof
Hello, Dolly!
Oliver!
Starlight Express
Best Actor in a Musical
John Dagleish, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Adam Dannheisser, Fiddler on the Roof
Myles Frost, MJ The Musical
Simon Lipkin, Oliver!
Jamie Muscato, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Best Actress in a Musical
Chumisa Dornford-May, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Lauren Drew, 罢颈迟补苍矛辩耻别
Clare Foster, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Lara Pulver, Fiddler on the Roof
Imelda Staunton, Hello, Dolly!
Best New Play
The Fear of 13
Giant
Kyoto
Shifters
The Years
Productions with multiple nominations:
Fiddler on the Roof - 13
Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 - 6
Giant - 5
The Years - 5
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 4
Oliver! - 4
Spirited Away - 4
Ballet Shoes - 3
Hello, Dolly! - 3
MJ The Musical - 3
Oedipus (The Old Vic) - 3
Starlight Express - 3
罢颈迟补苍矛辩耻别 - 3
The Fear of 13 - 2
Festen - 2
Frontiers: Choreographers of Canada - 2
The Importance of Being Earnest - 2
Kyoto - 2
Machinal - 2
Oedpus (Wynham鈥檚 Theatre) - 2
Waiting for Godot - 2
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