Olivier Awards 2018

The Olivier Award winners (London theatre) were announced tonight in a glittering ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton won seven Olivier Award wins, with Giles Terera picking up Best Actor in a Musical and Michael Jibson winning Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his performance as King George. Other awards were for Best Lighting Design, Best Sound Design, Best New Musical, Best Choreography and Outstanding Achievement in Music.

Laura Donnelly won for Best Actress in a musical for her performance as Caitlin Carney in The Ferryman at the Royal Court and in the West End, while the Best Supporting Actress award went to Denise Gough for Angels in America, which recently opened on Broadway and originally ran at the National Theatre.

Bryan Cranston won the award for Best Actor in the National Theatre’s production of Network. Best Supporting Actor was won by Bertie Carvel, who starred in James Graham’s Ink, which transferred into the West End after opening at the Almeida. Graham also won an Olivier Award for Best New Comedy for political play Labour of Love.

Jez Butterworth’s play The Ferryman picked up three awards, winning Best New Play and Best Director for Sam Mendes on top of Donnelly’s win for Best Actress.

Shirley Henderson and Sheila Atim both won awards for their performances in the new musical Girl from the North Country, which opened at the Old Vic last year before transferring to the Noël Coward Theatre.

The National Theatre won five awards for its productions in total. On top of wins for Gough and Cranston, Vicki Mortimer won Best Costume Design for work on Follies, which also won Best Musical Revival, while Angels in America won Best Play Revival.

Tonight’s show host was Catherine Tate, and special guest presenters included Patti Lupone, Chita Rivera and Cuba Gooding Jr.

Here is the full list of Olivier Award winners