Met zeven Olivier Awards (uit tien nominaties), de belangrijkste Britse Theaterprijzen, behaalde de musical Matilda een record. De veelgeroemde musical, gebaseerd op het boek van Roald Dahl, stal de show bij de uitreiking van de prijzen. De vier meisjes die afwisselend de hoofdrol vertolken kregen alle vier de prijs voor beste musicalactrice. Matilda werd ook verkozen tot beste nieuwe musical en is een productie van de Royal Shakespeare Company. (Zie onder voor beelden uit Matilda)

De volledige lijst van winnaars:

Mastercard best new play
Collaborators at the Cottesloe

Best revival
Anna Christie at the Donmar Warehouse

Best entertainment and family
Derren Brown – Svengali at the Shaftesbury

Best actress
Ruth Wilson for Anna Christie at the Donmar Warehouse

Best actor
Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller for Frankenstein at the Olivier

Best performance in a supporting role
Sheridan Smith for Flare Path at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket

Best actress in a musical
The Matildas for Matilda the Musical at the Cambridge (Cleo Demetriou, Kerry Ingram, Sophia Kiely and Eleanor Worthington Cox)

Best actor in a musical
Bertie Carvel for Matilda the Musical at the Cambridge

Best performance in a supporting role in a musical
Nigel Harman for Shrek the Musical at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Best new musical
Matilda the Musical at the Cambridge

Best musical revival
Crazy for You at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

Best director
Matthew Warchus for Matilda the Musical at the Cambridge

Best theatre choreographer
Peter Darling for Matilda the Musical at the Cambridge

Best lighting design
Frankenstein, designed by Bruno Poet at the Olivier

XL Video award for best set design
Matilda the Musical, designed by Rob Howell at the Cambridge

Best costume design
Crazy for You, designed by Peter McKintosh at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

Best sound design
Matilda the Musical, designed by Simon Baker at the Cambridge

Outstanding achievement in an affiliate theatre
Theatre Royal, Stratford East in association with the Barbican and Traverse Theatre for Roadkill

Best new opera production
English National Opera’s Castor and Pollux at the London Coliseum

Outstanding achievement in opera
ENO, for the breadth and diversity of its artistic programme

Outstanding achievement in dance
Edward Watson for his performance in The Metamorphosis at the Linbury Studio at the Royal Opera House

Best new dance production
Desh by Akram Khan Company at Sadler’s Wells, choreographed by Akram Khan

BBC Radio 2 Olivier audience award
Les Misérables