2025 Olivier Awards: Full list of winners

Stage heavyweights John Lithgow, Lesley Manville, and Imelda Staunton all won awards and Layton Williams won his first Olivier Award for Titanique.

Find out the full list of winners at the 2025 Olivier Awards with London Theatre. The ceremony took place at the Royal Albert Hall on 6 April.

Despite Fiddler on the Roof leading with 13 nominations, a range of shows picked up awards on the night. Giant won three awards, as did Fiddler on the Roof and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, while Oedipus and Titanique each picked up two.

Romola Garai beat herself in the Best Actress in a Supporting Role category for The Years, while stage veterans Lesley Manville and John Lithgow won Best Actress and Best Actor awards for Oedipus and Giant, respectively. Elliot Levey also won for Giant in the Best Supporting Actor category.

Fiddler on the Roof, the most nominated show of the evening, took home Best Musical Revival, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button won Best New Musical, Giant won Best New Play, and Oedipus won Best Revival.

Layton Williams took home his first Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical for Titanique, while Imelda Staunton won Best Actress in a Musical for Hello, Dolly!, John Dagleish won Best Actor in a Musical for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Maimuna Memon won Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical for Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812.

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Best New Play

Winner: Giant by Mark Rosenblatt at Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at Royal Court Theatre

Also nominated:
The Fear of 13 by Lindsey Ferrentino at Donmar Warehouse
Kyoto by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson at @sohoplace
Shifters by Benedict Lombe at Duke of York’s Theatre
The Years adapted by Eline Arbo, in an English version by Stephanie Bain at Almeida Theatre and Harold Pinter Theatre

Best New Musical

Winner: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, music and lyrics by Darren Clark, book and lyrics by Jethro Compton at Ambassadors Theatre

Also nominated: MJ The Musical, book by Lynn Nottage at Prince Edward Theatre
Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812, music, lyrics and book by Dave Malloy at Donmar Warehouse
Why Am I So Single?, music, lyrics and book by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss at Garrick Theatre

Best Revival

Winner: Oedipus by Robert Icke at Wyndham’s Theatre

Also nominated:
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde at National Theatre – Lyttelton
Machinal by Sophie Treadwell at The Old Vic
Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett at Theatre Royal Haymarket

Best Musical Revival

Winner: Fiddler on the Roof, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joseph Stein at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

Also nominated:
Hello, Dolly!, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, book by Michael Stewart at The London Palladium
Oliver!, book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart, new material and revisions by Cameron Mackintosh at Gielgud Theatre
Starlight Express, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Richard Stilgoe at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre

Best Actress

Winner: Lesley Manville for Oedipus

Also nominated:
Heather Agyepong for Shifters
Rosie Sheehy for Machinal
Meera Syal for A Tupperware of Ashes
Indira Varma for Oedipus

Best Actor

Winner: John Lithgow for Giant

Also nominated:
Adrien Brody for The Fear of 13
Billy Crudup for Harry Clarke
Paapa Essiedu for Death of England: Delroy
Mark Strong for Oedipus

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Winner: Elliot Levey for Giant

Also nominated:
Jorge Bosch for Kyoto
Tom Edden for Waiting for Godot
Ben Whishaw for Bluets

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Winner: Romola Garai for The Years

Also nominated:
Sharon D Clarke for The Importance of Being Earnest
Romola Garai for Giant
Gina McKee for The Years

Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical

Winner: Maimuna Memon for Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812

Also nominated:
Liv Andrusier for Fiddler on the Roof
Amy Di Bartolomeo for The Devil Wears Prada
Beverley Klein for Fiddler on the Roof

Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical

Winner: Layton Williams for Titanique

Also nominated:
Andy Nyman for Hello, Dolly!
Raphael Papo for Fiddler on the Roof
Tom Xander for Mean Girls

Best Actor in a Musical

Winner: John Dagleish for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Also nominated:
Adam Dannheisser for Fiddler on the Roof
Myles Frost for MJ The Musical
Simon Lipkin for Oliver!
Jamie Muscato for Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812

Best Actress in a Musical

Winner: Imelda Staunton for Hello, Dolly!

Also nominated:
Chumisa Dornford-May for Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812
Lauren Drew for Titanique
Clare Foster for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Lara Pulver for Fiddler on the Roof

Best Director

Winner: Eline Arbo for The Years

Also nominated:
Jordan Fein for Fiddler on the Roof
Nicholas Hytner for Giant
Robert Icke for Oedipus

Best Costume Design

Winner: Gabriella Slade for Starlight Express

Also nominated:
Hugh Durrant for Robin Hood
Sachiko Nakahara for Spirited Away
Tom Scutt for Fiddler on the Roof

Best Sound Design

Winner: Nick Lidster for Fiddler on the Roof

Also nominated:
Christopher Shutt for Oedipus
Thijs van Vuure for The Years
Koichi Yamamoto for Spirited Away

Best New Entertainment or Comedy Play

Winner: Titanique by Tye Blue, Marla Mindelle and Constantine Rousouli

Also nominated:
Ballet Shoes adapted by Kendall Feaver at National Theatre
Inside No. 9 Stage/Fright by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith
Spirited Away adapted by John Caird and co-adapted by Maoko Imai

Best Family Show

Winner: Brainiac Live at Marylebone Theatre

Also nominated:
Maddie Moate's Very Curious Christmas at Apollo Theatre
The Nutcracker at Polka Theatre
Rough Magic at Shakespeare's Globe

Best Theatre Choreographer

Winner: Christopher Wheeldon for MJ The Musical

Also nominated:
Matthew Bourne for Oliver!
Julia Cheng for Fiddler on the Roof
Hofesh Shechter for Oedipus

Best Set Design

Winner: Tom Scutt for set design — Fiddler on the Roof

Also nominated:
Jon Bausor for set design, Toby Olié and Daisy Beattie for puppetry design, and Satoshi Kuriyama for projection design — Spirited Away
Frankie Bradshaw for set design — Ballet Shoes
Es Devlin for set design — Coriolanus

Best Lighting Design

Winner: Paule Constable and Ben Jacobs — Oliver!

Also nominated:
Howard Hudson — Starlight Express
Howard Hudson — Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
Aideen Malone — Fiddler on the Roof

Best New Production in Affiliate Theatre

Winner: Boys on the Verge of Tears — Soho Theatre

Also nominated:
Animal Farm — Theatre Royal Stratford East
English — Kiln Theatre
Now, I See — Theatre Royal Stratford East
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank — Marylebone Theatre

Outstanding Achievement in Opera

Winner: Allan Clayton for Festen at the Royal Opera House

Also nominated:
Aigul Akhmetshina for Carmen at the Royal Opera House
Jung Young-doo for direction of Lear at the Barbican

Best New Opera Production

Winner: Festen by the Royal Opera at the Royal Opera House

Also nominated:
Duke Bluebeard's Castle by ENO at the London Coliseum
L'Olimpiade by Irish National Opera and the Royal Opera at the Royal Opera House
The Tales of Hoffmann by the Royal Opera at the Royal Opera House

Best New Dance Production

Winner: Assembly Hall — Sadler's Wells

Also nominated:
Frontiers: Choreographers of Canada — Pite/Kudelka/Portner — Sadler's Wells
Theatre of Dreams — Sadler's Wells
An Untitled Love — Sadler's Wells

Outstanding Achievement in Dance

Winner: Eva Yerbabuena for her performance in Yerbabuena

Also nominated:
Sarah Chun for her performance in Three Short Ballets
Tom Visser for his lighting design of Angels' Atlas as part of Frontiers: Choreographers of Canada — Pite/Kudelka/Portner

Outstanding Musical Contribution

Winner: Darren Clark for Music Supervision, Orchestrations and Arrangements and Mark Aspinall for Musical Direction, Music Supervision, Orchestrations and Arrangements for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Also nominated:
Mark Aspinall for Musical Supervision and Additional Orchestrations for Fiddler on the Roof
Dave Malloy for Orchestrations and Nicholas Skilbeck for Musical Supervision for Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812
Asaf Zohar for Compositions and Gavin Sutherland for Dance Arrangements and Orchestration for Ballet Shoes

Photo credit: Olivier Award winners John Lithgow and Elliot Levey in Giant, Lesley Manville in Oedipus, Romola Garai in The Years, Layton Williams in Titanique, and John Dagleish in The Curious Case of Benjamin. (Photos courtesy of productions)