The nominations for the 2014 Olivier Awards, the West End’s equivalent of Broadway’s Tonys, were announced March 10, with new musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the acclaimed revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along leading the pack—both garnered seven nominations each. They were closely followed by Best New Musical nominees Once, The Book of Mormon and The Scottsboro Boys, which all received six nominations each. Broadway favorites Gavin Creel, Jared Gertner and Kyle Scatliffe all received Best Actor in a Musical nods, Creel and Gertner for The Book of Mormon and Scatliffe for The Scottsboro Boys. Check out the full list below!FULL NOMINATIONS LIST FOR THE OLIVIER AWARDS 2014 BEST ACTORHenry Goodman for The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui at the Duchess TheatreTom Hiddleston for Coriolanus at the Donmar WarehouseRory Kinnear for Othello at the National Theatre, OlivierJude Law for Henry V at the Noël Coward TheatreBEST ACTRESSHayley Atwell for The Pride at the Trafalgar StudiosAnna Chancellor for Private Lives at the Gielgud TheatreJudi Dench for Peter And Alice at the Noël Coward TheatreLesley Manville for Ghosts at the Almeida Theatre & Trafalgar StudiosBEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLERon Cook for Henry V at the Noël Coward TheatreMark Gatiss for Coriolanus at the Donmar WarehouseJack Lowden for Ghosts at the Almeida Theatre & Trafalgar StudiosArdal O’Hanlon for The Weir at the Donmar Warehouse & the Wyndham’s TheatreBEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLESharon D Clarke for The Amen Corner at the National Theatre, OlivierSarah Greene for The Cripple Of Inishmaan at the Noël Coward TheatreKatherine Kingsley for A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Noël Coward TheatreCecilia Noble for The Amen Corner at the National Theatre, OlivierAMERICAN AIRLINES BEST NEW PLAY1984 at the Almeida TheatreChimerica at the Almeida Theatre & Harold Pinter TheatreThe Night Alive at the Donmar WarehousePeter And Alice at the Noël Coward TheatreBEST NEW COMEDYThe Duck House at the Vaudeville TheatreThe Full Monty at the Noël Coward TheatreJeeves & Wooster In Perfect Nonsense at the Duke of York’s TheatreThe Same Deep Water As Me at the Donmar WarehouseBEST DIRECTORRichard Eyre for Ghosts at the Almeida Theatre & Trafalgar StudiosMaria Friedman for Merrily We Roll Along at the Harold Pinter TheatreSusan Stroman for The Scottsboro Boys at the Young VicLyndsey Turner for Chimerica at the Almeida Theatre & Harold Pinter TheatreBEST ACTOR IN A MUSICALGavin Creel for The Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales TheatreJared Gertner for The Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales TheatreDouglas Hodge for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury LaneKyle Scatliffe for The Scottsboro Boys at the Young VicBEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICALRosalie Craig for The Light Princess at the National Theatre, LytteltonZrinka Cviteš for Once at the Phoenix TheatreJenna Russell for Merrily We Roll Along at the Harold Pinter TheatreCharlotte Wakefield for The Sound Of Music at the Regent’s Park Open Air TheatreBEST PERFORMANCE IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MUSICALStephen Ashfield for The Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales TheatreColman Domingo for The Scottsboro Boys at the Young VicJosefina Gabrielle for Merrily We Roll Along at the Harold Pinter TheatreNigel Planer for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury LaneMASTERCARD BEST NEW MUSICALThe Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales TheatreCharlie And The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury LaneOnce at the Phoenix TheatreThe Scottsboro Boys at the Young VicBEST REVIVALThe Amen Corner at the National Theatre, OlivierGhosts at the Almeida Theatre & Trafalgar StudiosOthello at the National Theatre, OlivierPrivate Lives at the Gielgud TheatreBEST MUSICAL REVIVALMerrily We Roll Along at the Harold Pinter TheatreThe Sound Of Music at the Regent’s Park Open Air TheatreTell Me On A Sunday at the St James Theatre & the Duchess TheatreBEST THEATRE CHOREOGRAPHERPeter Darling for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury LaneSteven Hoggett for Once at the Phoenix TheatreCasey Nicholaw for The Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales TheatreSusan Stroman for The Scottsboro Boys at the Young VicBEST ENTERTAINMENT AND FAMILYDerren Brown: Infamous at the Palace TheatreEric And Little Ern at the Vaudeville TheatreBarry Humphries’ Farewell Tour – Eat, Pray, Laugh! at the London PalladiumThe Wind In The Willows at the Duchess TheatreAUTOGRAPH SOUND AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSICThe Book Of Mormon – Trey Parker, Robert Lopez & Matt Stone for book, music & lyricsMerrily We Roll Along – The orchestraOnce – Martin Lowe for composition & arrangements, Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová for music & lyricsThe Scottsboro Boys – John Kander & Fred Ebb for music & lyricsWHITE LIGHT AWARD FOR BEST LIGHTING DESIGNPaule Constable for The Light Princess at the National Theatre, LytteltonTim Lutkin & Finn Ross for Chimerica at the Almeida Theatre & Harold Pinter TheatrePeter Mumford for Ghosts at the Almeida Theatre & Trafalgar StudiosPaul Pyant for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury LaneBEST SOUND DESIGNSimon Baker for The Light Princess at the National Theatre, LytteltonCarolyn Downing for Chimerica at the Almeida Theatre & Harold Pinter TheatreClive Goodwin for Once at the Phoenix TheatreGareth Owen for Merrily We Roll Along at the Harold Pinter TheatreBEST COSTUME DESIGNNicky Gillibrand for The Wind In The Willows at the Duchess TheatreSoutra Gilmour for Merrily We Roll Along at the Harold Pinter TheatreRae Smith for The Light Princess at the National Theatre, LytteltonMark Thompson for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury LaneXL VIDEO AWARD FOR BEST SET DESIGNBob Crowley for Once at the Phoenix TheatreEs Devlin for Chimerica at the Almeida Theatre & Harold Pinter TheatreTim Goodchild for Strangers On A Train at the Gielgud TheatreMark Thompson for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury LaneOUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN AN AFFILIATE THEATRECush Jumbo for Josephine And I at the Bush TheatreFleabag at the Soho TheatreHandbagged at the Tricycle TheatreOh What A Lovely War at the Theatre Royal Stratford EastBEST NEW DANCE PRODUCTIONCompagnie 111 Aurélien Bory/Stéphanie Fuster for What’s Become Of You? (Questcequetudeviens?) at the Barbican TheatreEastman – Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Sadler’s Wells for Puz/zle at Sadler’s WellsRichard Alston Dance Company/Britten Sinfonia for Barbican Britten: Phaedra at the Barbican TheatreOUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DANCE Arthur Pita for his choreography of Ballet Black – A Dream Within A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera HouseClemmie Sveaas for her performance in Witch-Hunt at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera HouseThe Mark Morris Season at Sadler’s WellsMichael Hulls for his body of lighting work including Ballet Boyz – The Talent at Sadler’s WellsBEST NEW OPERA PRODUCTIONThe Firework-Maker’s Daughter at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera HouseLes Vepres Siciliennes at the Royal Opera HouseWozzeck by English National Opera at the London ColiseumOUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN OPERAJoyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez for their performances in La Donna Del Lago at the Royal Opera HousePlácido Domingo for his performance in Nabucco at the Royal Opera HouseEnglish Touring Opera for its brave and challenging touring productions at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera HouseBBC RADIO 2 AUDIENCE AWARDLes Misérables at the Queen’s TheatreMatilda The Musical at the Cambridge TheatreThe Phantom Of The Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre
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