Olivier Award Winners: Sarah Snook & Nicole Scherzinger Take Home Top Prizes

Succession star Sarah Snook and singer-actress Nicole Scherzinger were among the big winners at the 2024 Olivier Awards, which were revealed this evening at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Scroll down for the full list of winners.

Snook picked up the Best Actress gong for her multi-character performance in the Sydney Theatre Company’s version of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The play also picked up Best Costume Design for Marg Horwell. Scherzinger landed Best Actress in a Musical for her turn as Norma Desmond in the recent revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway-bound Sunset Boulevard.

Elsewhere, the Best Director award went to Jamie Lloyd for the Savoy Theatre production of Sunset Boulevard while Vanya starring Andrew Scott landed Best Revival. Will Close nabbed Best Actor for his role in the National Theatre’s popular Dear England and Haydn Gwynne clinched Best Actress for her role as Winston Churchill in When Winston Went To War With The Wireless at Donmar Warehouse.Sunset Boulevard was the biggest winner of the night with seven gongs.

Proceedings this evening began with Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham performing a number with singer and pianist Joe Stilgoe. Waddingham, who will be seen on the big screen this year in The Fall Guy and Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 2, hosted last year’s ceremony, and the Olivier Awards administrators at the Society of London Theatre moved fast to book her again for today’s award festivities.

Attendees included James Norton (Little Women, Happy Valley), nominated in the best actor line-up for A Little Life, and Andrew Scott, nominated for Vanya, Simon Stephens’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Sarah Jessica Parker (And Just Like That…) was nominated in the best actress category for her performance in Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite which also stars her husband Matthew Broderick, but did not attend.

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We were inside the Royal Albert Hall and on the green carpet, where we spoke with several attendees, including Mark Gatiss, Joseph Fiennes, and Marisha Wallace.

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The ceremony coincided with the National Theatre’s 60th anniversary. The theatre, founded by Laurence Olivier, was nominated for 15 awards this year and will celebrate the landmark anniversary with a special grand finale and onstage dedication.

The Full List Of 2024 Olivier Awards winners:

Cunard Best Revival

Vanya by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Simon Stephens at Duke Of York’s Theatre

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Will Close for Dear England at National Theatre – Olivier & Prince Edward Theatre

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Haydn Gwynne for When Winston Went To War With The Wireless at Donmar Warehouse

Blue-i Theatre Technology Award for Best Set Design

Miriam Buether for Set Design & 59 Productions for Video Design for Stranger Things: The First Shadow at Phoenix Theatre

Mithridate Award for Best Costume Design

Marg Horwell for The Picture Of Dorian Gray at Theatre Royal Haymarket

Best Actress

Sarah Snook for The Picture Of Dorian Gray at Theatre Royal Haymarket

Best Actor

Mark Gatiss for The Motive And The Cue at National Theatre – Lyttelton & Noël Coward Theatre

Outstanding Achievement in Opera

Olivier Award Winners: Sarah Snook & Nicole Scherzinger Take Home Top Prizes — Full List (2024)

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