Nominations Announced for the Olivier Awards

The nominations are in for the Olivier Awards, which honor achievements in the London theatre scene. Leading the way with nominations are the Regent Park Open Air Theatre revival of Fiddler on the Roof, which transfers to the Barbican Theatre in May; the musical Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, based on a portion of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace, staged at Donmar Warehouse; Giant, a new drama about the novelist Roald Dahl; The Years, a drama based on the memoir of the same name by the French author Annie Ernaux.

Other productions cited in the design categories are Spirited Away, the stage adaptation of the Studio Ghibli film; Ballet Shoes, a National Theatre production based on a popular novel; a National Theatre revival of Shakespeare's Coriolanus; a new revival of the classic musical Oliver!; a revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express; a revival of Sophocles' Oedipus; and the pantomime Robin Hood.

The design nominees are:

Best Set Design
Jon Bausor (set design), Toby Olié 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 and Ben Jacobs, Oliver!
Howard Hudson, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Howard Hudson, Starlight Express
Aideen Malone, Fiddler on the Roof

Best Sound Design
Nick Lidster, Fiddler on the the Roof
Christopher Shutt, Oedipus
Thijs van Vuure, The Years
Koichi Yamamoto, Spirited Away

Best Costume Design
Hugh Durrant, Robin Hood
Sachiko Nakahara, Spirited Away
Tom Scutt, Fiddler on the Roof
Gabriella Slade, Starlight Express

The awards will be given out on April 6 at Royal Albert Hall. To see the full list of nominees with photos, go to: officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/year/olivier-awards-2025/.