Oliviers 2016 nominations list: Gypsy leads with eight nominations including Best Actress for Imelda Staunton
The annual theatres awards ceremony takes place in April
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Imelda Staunton has picked up her eleventh Olivier Award nomination for Gypsy, which leads the field with an impressive eight nods.
Staunton is up for Best Actress in a Musical for her hugely acclaimed leading role, while Dame Judi Dench will be celebrating her fifteenth nomination for The Winter's Tale.
Musical Kinky Boots follows Gypsy with seven nominations, while The Winter’s Tale and Farinelli and the King have both racked up six.
Farinelli and the King's Mark Rylance will be competing against Hamlet’s Benedict Cumberbatch for Best Actor in a Play following his Best Supporting Actor win for Spotlight at Sunday night’s Oscars.
Bend It Like Beckham is a contender for Best New Musical, along with In the Heights, Kinky Boots and Mrs Henderson Presents.
Take a look at the full list of nominations:
Best New Musical
Bend It Like Beckham
In the Heights
Mrs Henderson Presents
Kinky Boots
Best Musical Revival
Gypsy
Bugsy Malone
Guys and Dolls
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
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Best Actress in a Musical
Imelda Staunton for Gypsy
Sophie Thompson for Guys and Dolls
Natalie Dew for Bend It Like Beckham
Tracie Bennett for Mrs Henderson Presents
Laura Pitt-Pulford for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Best Actor in a Musical
Ian Bartholomew for Mrs Henderson Presents
Killian Donnelly for Kinky Boots
David Haig for Guys and Dolls
Matt Henry for Kinky Boots
Jamie Parker for Guys and Dolls
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical
David Bedella for In the Heights
Dan Burton for Gypsy
Peter Davison for Gypsy
Gavin Spokes for Guys and Dolls
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical
Lara Pulver for Gypsy
Preeya Kalidas for Bend It Like Beckham
Amy Lennox for Kinky Boots
Emma Williams for Mrs Henderson Presents
Best Director
Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh for The Winter’s Tale
Robert Icke for Oresteia
Matthew Dunster for Hangmen
Jonathan Kent for Gypsy
Best Actress in a Play
Gemma Arterton for Nell Gwynn
Denise Gough for People, Places and Things
Nicole Kidman for Photograph 51
Janet McTeer for Les Liasons Dangereuses
Lia Williams for Oresteia
Best Actor in a Play
Kenneth Branagh for The Winter’s Tale
Kenneth Cranham for The Father
Benedict Cumberbatch for Hamlet
Adrian Lester for Red Velvet
Mark Rylance for Farinelli and the King
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Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Judi Dench for The Winter’s Tale
Michele Dotrice for Nell Gwynn
Melody Grove for Farinelli and the King
Catherine Steadman for Oppenheimer
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Mark Gatiss for Three Days in the Country
Michael Pennington for The Winter’s Tale
Tom Sturridge for American Buffalo
David Suchet for The Importance of Being Earnest
Best New Play
Farinelli and the King
The Father
Hangmen
People, Place and Things
Best Revival
Hamlet
Les Liasons Dangereuses
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
The Winter’s Tale
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Best New Comedy
A Christmas Carol
Hand to God
Nell Gwynn
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Best Costume Design
Gregg Barnes for Kinky Boots
Hugh Durrant for Nell Gwynn
Jonathan Fensom for Farinelli and the King
Katrina Lindsay for Bend It Like Beckham
Best Set Design
Hildegard Bechtler for Oresteia
Es Devlin for Hamlet
Jonathan Fensom for Farinelli and the King
Anna Fleischle for Hangmen
Best Lighting Design
Neil Austin for The Winter’s tale
Natasha Chivers for Oresteia
James Farncombe for People, Places and Things
Mark Henderson for Gypsy
Best Sound Design
George Dennis for The Homecoming
Christopher Shutt for The Father
Tom Gibbons for People, Places and Things
Christopher Shutt for Hamlet
Best Theatre Choreographer
Carlos Acosta and Andrew Wright for Guys and Dolls
Drew McOnie for In The Heights
Stephen Mear for Gypsy
Jerry Mitchell for Kinky Boots
Outstanding Achievement in Music
Bend It Like Beckham
Farinelli and the King
In the Heights
Kinky Boots
Outstanding Achievement in Dance
Alessandra Ferri
Javier De Frutos
Sasha Waltz
Best New Dance Production
He Who Falls (Celui Qui Tombe)
Romeo Et Juliette
Woolf Works
Best Entertainment and Family
Alice’s Adventures Underground
Dr Seuss’s The Lorax
I Want My Hat Back
Peter Pan
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
Best New Opera Production
Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
The Force of Destiny
Morgen Und Abend
Outstanding Achievement in Opera
English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra for The Force of Destiny, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and The Queen of Spades
Felicity Palmer for The Queen of Spades
Antonio Pappano for conducting Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci, Guillaume Tell and Krol Roger
Tamara Wilson for The Force of Destiny
Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre
Barbarians
Pat Kinevane and Fishamble
Phil Dunster
Violence and Son
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