2011 Evening Standard Theatre Awards

  = winner

•   The Heretic by Richard Bean (Royal Court)
•   One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean (National's Lyttelton)
• Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo (Almeida)
• Tribes by Nina Raine (Royal Court)

• Wittenberg by David Davalos (Gate)
• The Knot of the Heart by David Eldridge (Almeida)
• Remembrance Day by Aleksey Scherbak (Royal Court)

•   Mike Leigh for Grief (National's Cottesloe)
• Rob Ashford for Anna Christie (Donmar)
• Dominic Cooke for Chicken Soup with Barley (Royal Court)
• Edward Hall for Richard III & The Comedy of Errors (Propeller at Hampstead)

• Lucy Bailey for The Beggar's Opera (Open Air Theatre) & Kingdom of Earth (Print Room) & Fabrication (Print Room)
• Danny Boyle for Frankenstein (National's Olivier)
• Declan Donnellan for The Tempest (Cheek By Jowl at Barbican)
• Simon Godwin for The Acid Test (Royal Court)
• Michael Grandage for Luise Miller (Donmar)
• Sean Holmes for Saved (Lyric Hammersmith)
• Sam Mendes for Richard III (Old Vic)
• Roger Michell for Tribes (Royal Court)
• Rufus Norris for London Road (National's Cottesloe)
• Trevor Nunn for Flare Path (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
• Bijan Sheibani for The Kitchen (National's Olivier)
• Max Stafford-Clark for Top Girls (Chichester's Minerva & Trafalgar Studios)
• Jessica Swale for The Belle's Stratagem (Southwark Playhouse)
• Matthew Warchus for Matilda the Musical (RSC Stratford & Cambridge Theatre)
• Nicholas Hytner for One Man, Two Guvnors (National Theatre)

•   Benedict Cumberbatch, Frankenstein (National's Olivier)
•   Jonny Lee Miller, Frankenstein (National's Olivier)
• Bertie Carvel, Matilda the Musical (RSC Stratford & Cambridge Theatre)
• Charles Edwards, Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare's Globe)

• Richard Clothier, Richard III (Propeller at Hampstead)
• James Corden, One Man, Two Guvnors (National's Lyttelton)
• Ralph Fiennes, The Tempest (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
• Harry Hadden-Paton, Flare Path (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
• Derek Jacobi, King Lear (Donmar)
• Jude Law, Anna Christie (Donmar)
• Kevin Spacey, Richard III (Old Vic)
• Dominic West, Butley (Duchess)

•   Sheridan Smith, Flare Path (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
• Samantha Spiro, Chicken Soup with Barley (Royal Court)
• Kristin Scott Thomas, Betrayal (Comedy)

• Gemma Arterton, The Master Builder (Almeida)
• Tracie Bennett, End of the Rainbow (Trafalgar Studios)
• Eve Best, Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare's Globe)
• Lisa Dillon, The Knot of the Heart (Almeida)
• Haydn Gwynne, Richard III (Old Vic)
• Lesley Manville, Grief (National's Cottesloe)
• Sinead Matthews, Ecstasy (Hampstead)
• Ruth Negga, The Playboy of the Western World (Old Vic)
• Imelda Staunton, A Delicate Balance (Almeida)
• Michelle Terry, Tribes (Royal Court)
• Tracey Ullman, My City (Almeida)
• Ruth Wilson, Anna Christie (Donmar)

•   Matilda the Musical, RSC Stratford & Cambridge Theatre
• Betty Blue Eyes, Novello Theatre
• London Road, National's Cottesloe

• Crazy for You, Open Air Theatre
• Fela!, National's Olivier
• Parade, Southwark Playhouse
• Woody Sez, Arts Theatre

•   Adam Cork, sound designer of Anna Christie & King Lear (Donmar)
• Bunny Christie, Men Should Weep (National's Lyttelton)
• Lizzie Clachan, Wastwater (Royal Court)
• Mark Tildesley, Frankenstein (National's Olivier)

• Paul Barritt, The Animals and Children Took to the Streets (BAC)
• Jon Bausor, Lord of the Flies (Open Air Theatre)
• Giles Cadle, The Kitchen (National's Olivier)
• William Dudley, Snake in the Grass (Print Room)

•   Penelope Skinner, The Village Bike (Royal Court)
• EV Crowe, 'Kin' (Royal Court)
• Vivienne Franzmann, Mogadishu (Lyric Hammersmith)

• Tom Basden, Joseph K (Gate)
• Jesse Briton, 'Bound' (Southwark Playhouse)
• Ella Hickson, Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios)
• Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Belongings (Hampstead & Trafalgar Studios)

•   Kyle Soller for his performances in The Glass Menagerie (Young Vic) & The Government Inspector (Young Vic) & The Faith Machine (Royal Court)
• Phoebe Fox for her performances in As You Like It (Rose Kingston) and The Acid Test (Royal Court) & There Is A War (National's Paintframe)
• Malachi Kirby for his performance in Mogadishu (Lyric, Hammersmith)
• David Wilson Barnes for his performance in Becky Shaw (Almeida)

• 1927 (company) for their production of The Animals and Children Took to the Streets (BAC)
• Robyn Addison for her performances in The Rivals (Theatre Royal Bath/ Theatre Royal Haymarket) & Mongrel Island (Soho)
• Tom Byam Shaw for his performances in Les Parents Terribles (Donmar at Trafalgar Studios) and The Tempest (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
• Joseph Drake for his performance in Kingdom of Earth (Print Room)
• Johnny Flynn for his performance in The Heretic (Royal Court)
• Vanessa Kirby for her performance in The Acid Test (Royal Court)
• David Mercatali for his direction of Tender Napalm (Southwark Playhouse)
• Chris Rolls for his direction of Les Parents Terribles (Donmar at Trafalgar Studios)
• Thom Southerland for his direction of Parade (Southwark Playhouse)

• Michael Grandage for making the Donmar Warehouse a star

• Pet Shop Boys and Javier de Frutos for The Most Incredible Thing (Sadler's Wells)

• Kristin Scott Thomas for her contribution to theatre

• Tom Stoppard for his contribution to Russian theatre and the international stage

• Sarah Sands, London Evening Standard
• Henry Hitchings, London Evening Standard
• Georgina Brown, Mail on Sunday
• Susannah Clapp, The Observer
• Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
• Libby Purves, The Times
• Matt Wolf, International Herald Tribune
• Evgeny Lebedev, chairman of the Evening Standard