1990 Laurence Olivier Awards
Winners and nominees from the Laurence Olivier Awards.
1990 Laurence Olivier Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| Actor of the Year | Ian McKellen | Othello |
| Actor of the Year | Oliver Ford Davies | Racing Demon |
| Actor of the Year | Nigel Hawthorne | Shadowlands |
| Actor of the Year | Michael Pennington | The Wars Of The Roses |
| Actress of the Year | Fiona Shaw | Electra |
| Actress of the Year | Prunella Scales | Single Spies |
| BBC Award for the Play of the Year | Joshua Sobol | Ghetto |
| BBC Award for the Play of the Year | Alan Ayckbourn | Man Of The Moment |
| BBC Award for the Play of the Year | David Hare | Racing Demon |
| BBC Award for the Play of the Year | William Nicholson | Shadowlands |
| Comedy of the Year | Keith Waterhouse | Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell |
| Comedy of the Year | Alan Bennett | Single Spies |
| Comedy of the Year | Richard Nelson | Some Americans Abroad |
| Comedy of the Year | Robert Harling | Steel Magnolias |
| Comedy Performance of the Year | Peter O'Toole | Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell |
| Comedy Performance of the Year | Michael Gambon | Man Of The Moment |
| Comedy Performance of the Year | Alfred Molina | Speed-the-Plow |
| Comedy Performance of the Year | Alex Jennings | The Liar |
| Designer of the Year | Bob Crowley | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom |
| Designer of the Year | John Napier | Miss Saigon |
| Designer of the Year | The Design Team | Suicide For Love |
| Designer of the Year | Chris Dyer | The Wars Of The Roses |
| Director of the Year | Nicholas Hytner | Ghetto |
| Director of the Year | Trevor Nunn | Othello |
| Director of the Year | Michael Bogdanov | The Wars Of The Roses |
| Most Promising Newcomer of the Year in Theatre | Glen Goei | M Butterfly |
| Most Promising Newcomer of the Year in Theatre | Charlotte Keatley | My Mother Said I Never Should |
| Most Promising Newcomer of the Year in Theatre | Georgia Slowe | Romeo And Juliet |
| Most Promising Newcomer of the Year in Theatre | Jeremy Northam | The Voysey Inheritance |
| Musical of the Year | Alan Janes | Buddy |
| Musical of the Year | Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg | Miss Saigon |
| Musical of the Year | Bob Carlton | Return To The Forbidden Planet |
| Musical of the Year | Stephen Schwartz | The Baker's Wife |
| Outstanding Achievement in Opera | English National Opera | Lear |
| Outstanding Achievement in Opera | The Komische Opera | Orpheus And Eurydice |
| Outstanding Achievement in Opera | The Garden Venture | Survival Song |
| Outstanding Achievement in Opera | English National Opera | Three Oranges |
| Outstanding Achievement in Opera | The Royal Opera | Un Re In Ascolto |
| Outstanding Achievement of the Year in Dance | Kim Brandstrup, Nina Ananiashvili and Irek Mukhamedov | |
| Outstanding Achievement of the Year in Dance | The Royal Ballet | Kenneth MacMillan's Prince Of The Pagodas |
| Outstanding Achievement of the Year in Dance | David Bintley | Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Production | Shakespeare Theatre | |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Production | Olney Theatre, Arena Stage, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Round House Theatre | |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Production | Edward Morgan | Heathen Valley |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Production | John Going | Lucky Stiff |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Production | Douglas C. Wager | On The Town |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Production | Howard Shalwitz | The Dead Monkey |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Production | Douglas C. Wager | The Man Who Came To Dinner |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Production | Michael Kahn | Twelfth Night |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center, Kennedy Center, Kennedy Center, Kennedy Center, Kennedy Center | |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Tom Hulce | A Few Good Men |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Joe Sears, Jaston Williams | A Tuna Christmas |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | David Hurst | Incommunicado |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Avery Brooks | Paul Robeson |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Charles S. Dutton | Piano Lesson |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Olney Theatre Center | |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Arena Stage, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage | |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Edward Gero | Beggar's Opera |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Evan Pappas | Lucky Stiff |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | John Scherer, Paul Binotto | On the Town |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Stephen Wade | On The Way Home |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Production | Source Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, Arena Stage, Olney Theatre | |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Production | Stanley Anderson | A Walk in the Woods |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Production | Harry R. Tate | Bluesman |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Production | David Marks | Briar Patch |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Production | Jerry Whiddon | Heathen Valley |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Production | Richard Bauer | Man Who Came to Dinner |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Production | Richard Bauer | Return of Herbert Bracewell |
| Outstanding Lead Actress , Resident Production | Shakespeare Theatre | |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Tyne Daly | Gypsy |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Margo Martindale | Steel Magnolias |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Nancy Marchand | The Cocktail Hour |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | S. Epatha Merkerson | The Piano Lesson |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Nan Martin | The Road To Mecca |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production | Arena Stage, American Showcase Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company | |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production | Lily Knight | A Lie of the Mind |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production | Marissa Copeland | Briar Patch Arena Stage |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production | Carolyn Swift | Talking Things Over With Chekov |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production | Sarah Marshall | The Dead Monkey |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production | Kelly McGillis | Twelfth Night |
| Outstanding Performance of the Year by an Actor in a Musical | Paul Hipp | Buddy |
| Outstanding Performance of the Year by an Actor in a Musical | Jonathan Pryce | Miss Saigon |
| Outstanding Performance of the Year by an Actor in a Musical | Matthew Devitt | Return To The Forbidden Planet |
| Outstanding Performance of the Year by an Actor in a Musical | Alun Armstrong | The Baker's Wife |
| Outstanding Performance of the Year by an Actress in a Musical | Elaine Paige | Anything Goes |
| Outstanding Performance of the Year by an Actress in a Musical | Judy Kuhn | Metropolis |
| Outstanding Performance of the Year by an Actress in a Musical | Lea Salonga | Miss Saigon |
| Outstanding Performance of the Year by an Actress in a Musical | Patricia Hodge | Noel And Gertie |
| Outstanding Performance of the Year in a Supporting Role | Linda Kerr Scott | Ghetto |
| Outstanding Performance of the Year in a Supporting Role | Zoe Wanamaker | Othello |
| Outstanding Performance of the Year in a Supporting Role | Michael Bryant | Hamlet |
| Outstanding Performance of the Year in a Supporting Role | Simon Russell Beale | Man Of Mode, Restoration, Playing With Trains and Some Americans Abroad |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Olney Theatre Center, Shakespeare Theatre, Studio Theatre, Arena Stage | |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | John Arnone | Nothing Sacred |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Zack Brown | On the Town |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Russell Metheny | Principia Scriptoriae |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Russell Metheny | The Common Pursuit |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | James Kronzer | The Return of Herbert Bracewell |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Derek McLane | Twelfth Night |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Arena Stage, Source Theatre Company, Round House Theatre | |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Susan R. White | A Lie of the Mind |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Mark Menna | Bluesman |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Horizons Theatre | David Crandall Stick Wife |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Neil McFadden | Heathen Valley |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Susan R. White | On The Town |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Production | Round House Theatre, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Shakespeare Theatre | |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Production | David Marks | A Lie of the Mind |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Production | Grover Gardner | Dead Monkey |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Production | Timmy Ray James | Heathen Valley |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Production | Louis Lotorto | The Tempest |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Production | Philip Goodwin | Twelfth Night |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production | Round House Theatre, Arena Stage, Studio Theatre, Smallbeer Theatre Company | |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production | Sarah Marshall | Briar Patch |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production | Lynnie Raybuck | Happy Birthdays |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production | Kaia Calhoun | Heathen Valley |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production | Washington Stage Guild | June Hansen Blithe Spirit |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production | Jennifer Mendenhall | The Common Pursuit |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production | Tana Hicken | The Man Who Came to Dinner |
| The Observer Award for Outstanding Achievement | Declan Donnellan | Fuente Ovejuna |
| The Observer Award for Outstanding Achievement | Ute Lemper | Her Kurt Weill Evening |
| The Observer Award for Outstanding Achievement | John Wood | The Master Builder |
| The Observer Award for Outstanding Achievement | John Wood | The Tempest |
| The Observer Award for Outstanding Achievement | Philip Prowse | The Vortex |
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