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Best Actor in a Musical
David Cumming for Operation Mincemeat
Tom Francis for Sunset Boulevard – WINNER
Daniel Mays for boys and dolls
Charlie Stemp for Crazy for You
Best Actress in a Musical
Natasha Hodgson for Operation Mincemeat
Caissie Levy for Next to Normal
Nicole Scherzinger for Sunset Boulevard – WINNER
Marisha Wallace for boys and dolls
Best actress
Laura Donnelly for The Hills of California
Sophie Okonedo for Medea
Sarah Jessica Parker for Plaza Suite
Sheridan Smith for Shirley Valentine
Sarah Snook for Dorian Gray’s photo – WINNER
Best Actor
Mark Gatiss for The Motive and the Cue – WINNER
Joseph Fiennes for Dear England
James Norton for A Little Life
Andrew Scott for Vanya
David Tennant for Macbeth
Best New Play
Dear England by James Graham – WINNER
The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth
The Motif and Cue by Jack Thorne
Until the Stars Come Down by Beth Steel
Best New Musical
The Little Big Things, music by Nick Butcher, lyrics by Nick Butcher and Tom Ling, book by Joe White
Next to Normal, music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Operation Mincemeat, music, lyrics and book by David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts – WINNER
A Strange Loop, music, lyrics and book by Michael R Jackson
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical
Grace Hodgett Young for Sunset Boulevard
Zoë Roberts for Operation Mincemeat
Amy Trigg for The Little Big Things – WINNER
Eleanor Worthington-Cox for Next to Normal
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical
Jak Malone for Operation Mincemeat – WINNER
Cedric Neal for boys and dolls
David Thaxton for Sunset Boulevard
Jack Wolfe for Next to Normal
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Closing for Dear England – WINNER
Paul Hilton for An Enemy of the People
Giles Terera for Clyde’s
Luke Thompson for A Little Life
Zubin Varla for A Small Life
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Lorraine Ashbourne for Till the Stars Come Down
Priyanga Burford for an enemy of the people
Haydn Gwynne for When Winston Went to War With the Wireless – WINNER
Gina McKee for Dear England
Olivier Tanya Reynolds for A Mirror
Noël Coward Prize for the best new entertainment or comedy play
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo and Franca Rame
Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Stranger Things: The First Shadow by Kate Trefry – WINNER
Vardy V Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial, edited by Liv Hennessy
Best family show
Bluey’s Big Play by Joe Brumm
Dinosaur World Live by Derek Bond – WINNER
The House with Chicken Legs, adapted by Oliver Lansley
The Smeds and the Smoos adapted by Tall Stories
Gillian Lynne Award for Best Theater Choreographer
Fabian Aloise for Sunset Boulevard
Ellen Kane and Hannes Langolf for Dear England
Arlene Phillips with James Cousins for Guys and Dolls – WINNER
Mark Smith for The Little Big Things
Susan Stroman for Crazy for You
Best Costume Design
Bunny Christie and Deborah Andrews for boys and dolls
Ryan Dawson Laight for La Cage Aux Folles
Hugh Durrant for Peter Pan
Marg Horwell in front of the photo of Dorian Gray – WINNER
Best revival
The Lucy Prebble Effect
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell
Vanya by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Simon Stephens – WINNER
Best Musical Revival
Groundhog Day, music and lyrics by Tim Minchin
Guys and Dolls, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
Hadestown, music, lyrics and book by Anaïs Mitchell
Sunset Boulevard, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics and book by Don Black and Christopher Hampton – WINNER
Best sound design
Paul Arditti for Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Dan Balfour and Tom Gibbins for Dear England
Adam Fisher for Sunset Boulevard – WINNER
Gareth Fry for Macbeth
Excellent musical contribution
Tom Brady for musical direction and arrangements and Charlie Rosen for orchestrations for boys and puppets
Matt Brind for musical supervision, arrangements and orchestrations for Just for One Day
Steve Sidwell for orchestrations and Joe Bunker for musical direction for Operation Mincemeat
Alan Williams for musical supervision and musical direction for Sunset Boulevard – WINNER
Best set design
Miriam Buether for Stranger Things: The First Shadow WINNER
Bunny Christie for boys and dolls
Es Devlin and Ash J Woodward Dear England
Soutra Gilmour and Nathan Amzi and Joe Ransom for Sunset Boulevard
Best lighting design
Jon Clark for Dear England
Jon Clark for Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Paule Constable for boys and dolls
Jack Knowles for Sunset Boulevard – WINNER
Best new opera production
Blue by the English National Opera
Innocence by the Royal Opera – WINNER
Imagine a day like this at the Royal Opera
The Rhine Gold of the English National Opera
Outstanding Achievement in Opera
Antonio Pappano for his role as Music Director of the Royal Opera House – WINNER
Belarus Free Theater Company for King Stakh’s Wild Hunt
Marina Abramović for 7 deaths of Maria Callas
Outstanding Achievement in Dance
Isabela Coracy for her performance in NINA: By What Means, part of Ballet Black: Pioneers – WINNER
Jonzi D for his artistic direction of Breakin’ Convention 2023 International festival for hip-hop dance theater
Rhiannon Faith for her community-focused concept of Lay Down Your Burdens at The Pit
Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theater
Blue Mist by Mohamed-Zain Dada at the Jerwood Theater Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre
A playlist for AJ Yi’s The Revolution at the Bush Theater
Matilda Feyişayo’s Sleepova at the Bush Theater – WINNER
The Swell by Isley Lynn at the Orange Tree theatre
The Time Machine: a comedy by Steven Canny and John Nicholson at the Park Theatre
Sir Peter Hall Award for Best Director
Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin for Stranger Things: The First Shadow at the Phoenix Theater
Rupert Goold for Dear England at the National Theater – Olivier and Prince Edward Theatre
Jamie Lloyd for Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy Theater – WINNER
Sam Mendes for The Motive and the Cue at the National Theater – Lyttelton and Noël Coward theatre