2000 Laurence Olivier Awards
Winners and nominees from the Laurence Olivier Awards.
2000 Laurence Olivier Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| Award for Outstanding Achievement | Peter O'Toole | Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell |
| BBC Award for the Play of the Year | Richard Nelson | Goodnight Children Everywhere |
| BBC Award for the Play of the Year | Liz Lochead | Perfect Days |
| BBC Award for the Play of the Year | Martin Sherman | Rose |
| BBC Award for the Play of the Year | Alan Bennett | The Lady In The Van |
| BBC Award for the Play of the Year | Richard Greenberg | Three Days Of Rain |
| Best Actor | Michael Sheen | Look Back In Anger |
| Best Actor | Roger Allam | Summerfolk |
| Best Actor | Henry Goodman | The Merchant Of Venice |
| Best Actor | Stephen Dillane | The Real Thing |
| Best Actor | Antony Sher | The Winter's Tale |
| Best Actor in a Musical | Ben Keaton | Animal Crackers |
| Best Actor in a Musical | Gus MacGregor | Buddy |
| Best Actor in a Musical | Simon Russell Beale | Candide |
| Best Actor in a Musical | Daniel Evans | Candide |
| Best Actor in a Musical | Rob Edwards | The Lion King |
| Best Actress | Janie Dee | Comic Potential |
| Best Actress | Maggie Smith | The Lady In The Van |
| Best Actress | Alison Steadman | The Memory Of Water |
| Best Actress | Jennifer Ehle | The Real Thing |
| Best Actress in a Musical | Siobhan McCarthy | Mamma Mia! |
| Best Actress in a Musical | Barbara Dickson | Spend Spend Spend |
| Best Actress in a Musical | Rachel Leskovac | Spend Spend Spend |
| Best Actress in a Musical | Josette Bushell-Mingo | The Lion King |
| Best Costume Designer | John Napier | Candide |
| Best Costume Designer | Rob Howell | Money and Troilus And Cressida |
| Best Costume Designer | Julie Taymor | The Lion King |
| Best Costume Designer | Robert Jones | The Winter's Tale |
| Best Director | Jeremy Sams | Spend Spend Spend |
| Best Director | Julie Taymor | The Lion King |
| Best Entertainment | the New Ambassadors | Al Murray - The Pub Landlord |
| Best Entertainment | Rob Becker | Defending The Caveman |
| Best Entertainment | the Theatre Royal Haymarket | Fascinating Aida - Barefaced Chic |
| Best Entertainment | Mark Clements and Michael Vivian | Soul Train |
| Best Lighting Designer | Peter Mumford | Collected Stories |
| Best Lighting Designer | Mark Henderson | Plenty |
| Best Lighting Designer | Howard Harrison | Private Lives |
| Best Lighting Designer | Donald Holder | The Lion King |
| Best Lighting Designer | Mark Henderson | Vassa |
| Best New Comedy | Alan Ayckbourn | Comic Potential |
| Best New Comedy | Ronald Harewood | Quartet |
| Best New Comedy | Shelagh Stephenson | The Memory Of Water |
| Best New Dance Production | San Francisco Ballet | Sandpiper Ballet |
| Best New Dance Production | Nederlands Dans Theater 1 | Symphony Of Psalms |
| Best New Dance Production | San Francisco Ballet | The Cage |
| Best New Dance Production | Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal | Viktor |
| Best New Opera Production | English National Opera | Alcina |
| Best New Opera Production | Welsh National Opera | Hansel And Gretel |
| Best New Opera Production | English National Opera | Parsifal |
| Best New Opera Production | English National Opera | Semele |
| Best Set Designer | Maria Bjornson | Plenty |
| Best Set Designer | Rob Howell | Richard III |
| Best Set Designer | Lez Brotherston | Spend Spend Spend |
| Best Set Designer | Richard Hudson | The Lion King |
| Best Supporting Actor | Ron Cook | Juno And The Paycock |
| Best Supporting Actor | Roger Allam | Money |
| Best Supporting Actor | Michael Bryant | Summerfolk |
| Best Supporting Actor | Michael Williams | The Forest |
| Best Supporting Actress | Annie-Marie Duff | Collected Stories |
| Best Supporting Actress | Patricia Hodge | Money |
| Best Supporting Actress | Kika Markham | Song At Twilight |
| Best Supporting Actress | Estelle Kohler | The Winter's Tale |
| Best Supporting Performance in a Musical | Joseph Alessi | Animal Crackers |
| Best Supporting Performance in a Musical | Denis Quilley | Candide |
| Best Supporting Performance in a Musical | Jenny Galloway | Mamma Mia! |
| Best Supporting Performance in a Musical | Louise Plowright | Mamma Mia! |
| Best Supporting Performance in a Musical | Stephen Houghton | Spend Spend Spend |
| Best Theatre Choreographer | Peter Darling | Candide |
| Best Theatre Choreographer | Craig Revel | Horwood for Spend Spend Spend |
| Best Theatre Choreographer | Stephen Mear | Soul Train |
| Best Theatre Choreographer | Garth Fagan | The Lion King |
| Outstanding Achievement in Dance | Nina Ananiashvili | Don Quixote |
| Outstanding Achievement in Dance | David Bintley | Edward II |
| Outstanding Achievement in Dance | Jiri Kylian | Nederlands Dans Theater 1's season |
| Outstanding Achievement in Dance | Pina Bausch and her company | Viktor |
| Outstanding Achievement in Opera | Kim Begley | Parsifal |
| Outstanding Achievement in Opera | Rosemary Joshua | Semele |
| Outstanding Achievement in Opera | English National Opera | The works of Handel |
| Outstanding Musical Production | Stephen Sondheim | A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum |
| Outstanding Musical Production | Leonard Bernstein | Candide |
| Outstanding Musical Production | Gillian Lynne, Chris Walker, Stephen Clarke | Dick Whittington |
| Outstanding Musical Production | Richard Adler and Jerry Ross | The Pajama Gamem |
| Radisson Edwardian Award for Best New Musical | George Stiles | Honk! The Ugly Duckling |
| Radisson Edwardian Award for Best New Musical | Benny Andersson | Mamma Mia! |
| Radisson Edwardian Award for Best New Musical | Steve Brown | Spend Spend Spend |
| Radisson Edwardian Award for Best New Musical | Elton John, Tim Rice | The Lion King |
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