2005 OLIVIER AWARD NOMINEES

Victoria Hamilton for Suddenly Last Summer (The Albery)
Clare Higgins for Hecuba (Donmar Warehouse)
Anna Maxwell Martin for His Dark Materials (The Olivier)
Caroline O'Connor for Bombshells (The Arts Theatre)

BEST ACTOR

Michael Gambon for Endgame (The Albery)
Richard Griffiths for The History Boys (The Lyttelton)
Jonathan Pryce for The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? (The Almeida/The Apollo)
Ben Whishaw for Hamlet (The Old Vic)

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Samuel Barnett for The History Boys
Dame Judi Dench for All's Well That Ends Well (The Gielgud)
Amanda Harris for Othello (Trafalgar Studios)
Eddie Redmayne for The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?

BEST NEW PLAY

By The Bog Of Cats (Wyndhams)
Festen (The Almeida and The Lyric)
The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?
The History Boys

BEST REVIVAL

All's Well That Ends Well
Endgame
Hamlet (The Old Vic)
Journey's End (The Comedy/The Playhouse/The Duke of York's)

BEST NEW MUSICAL

Mary Poppins
The Producers (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane);
The Woman In White (The Palace)

OUTSTANDING MUSICAL PRODUCTION

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (The Olivier)
Grand Hotel (Donmar Warehouse)
Simply Heavenly (Trafalgar Studios)
Sweeney Todd (Trafalgar Studios/The New Ambassadors)

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Maria Friedman for The Woman In White (The Palace)
Leigh Zimmerman for The Producers
Laura Michelle Kelly for Mary Poppins

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Lee Evans for The Producers
Paul Hegarty for Sweeney Todd
Nathan Lane for The Producers
Gavin Lee for Mary Poppins

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MUSICAL

Michael Crawford for The Woman In White
David Haig for Mary Poppins
Conleth Hill for The Producers

BEST DIRECTOR

Richard Eyre for Mary Poppins
Nicholas Hytner for The History Boys
Rufus Norris for Festen
Susan Stroman for The Producers

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT OR PERFORMANCE IN AN AFFILIATE THEATRE

Kevin Harvey for Yellowman (The Hampstead)
Aidan McArdle for The Shadow Of A Gunman (The Tricycle)
Andrew Scott for A Girl In A Car With A Man (The Jerwood Theatre)
The Tricycle Theatre for its production of Guantánamo

BEST NEW OPERA PRODUCTION

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Royal Opera House)
Les Paladins (The Barbican)
Peter Grimes (ROH)

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN OPERA

Ben Heppner for Peter Grimes
John McFarlane for his designs for Peter Grimes and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
The Royal Opera House orchestra, musical director Antonio Pappano
Thomas Ades and the Royal Opera House for The Tempest

BEST NEW DANCE PRODUCTION

Northern Ballet Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Royal New Zealand Ballet's Milagros
Royal New Zealand Ballet's Romeo And Juliet
Rambert Dance Company's Swamp

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DANCE

Julien Macdonald
San Francisco Ballet
The Royal Ballet
Rambert Dance Company