Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design | |
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Awarded for | Best Set Design |
Location | England |
Presented by | Society of London Theatre |
Currently held by | Miriam Buether (set design) and 59 Productions (video design) for Stranger Things: The First Shadow (2024) |
Website | officiallondontheatre |
The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976, and renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor and director Laurence Olivier.
The award originated as a single award for Designer of the Year in 1976 before being renamed as Best Set Design in 1991 with the introduction of awards for Best Costume Design and Best Lighting Design. In 2004, the award for Best Sound Design was introduced.
Winners and nominees
1970s
Year | Designer | Production |
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1976 | ||
Abd'Elkader Farrah | Henry IV and Henry V | |
Eileen Diss | The Family Dance | |
Ralph Koltai | Old World and Wild Oats | |
Alan Tagg | Confusions | |
1977 | ||
John Napier | King Lear | |
John Bury | Volpone | |
Tazeena Firth and Timothy O'Brien | Tales from the Vienna Woods | |
Ralph Koltai | Rosmersholm | |
1978 | ||
Ralph Koltai | Brand | |
Eileen Diss | The Homecoming | |
Abd'Elkader Farrah | Henry VI | |
Tanya Moiseiwitsch | The Double Dealer | |
1979 | ||
William Dudley | Undiscovered Country | |
John Bury | Strife | |
John Napier | Once in a Lifetime | |
Carl Toms | For Services Rendered |
1980s
Year | Designer | Production |
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1980 | ||
Dermot Hayes and John Napier | Nicholas Nickleby | |
John Bury | Amadeus | |
John Gunter | Juno and the Paycock | |
Jocelyn Herbert | Life of Galileo | |
1981 | ||
Carl Toms | The Provoked Wife | |
Eileen Diss | Measure for Measure | |
John Napier | Cats | |
Saul Radomsky | Tonight at 8.30 | |
1982 | ||
John Gunter | Guys and Dolls | |
Abd'Elkader Farrah | Poppy | |
Carl Toms | Windy City | |
Ultz | The Twin Rivals | |
1983 | ||
Ralph Koltai | Cyrano de Bergerac | |
John Gunter | The Rivals | |
John Napier | Peter Pan | |
Carl Toms | The Real Thing | |
1984 | ||
John Gunter | Wild Honey | |
Voytek Dolinski and Michael Levine | Strange Interlude | |
John Napier | Starlight Express | |
Carl Toms | The Aspern Papers | |
1985 | ||
William Dudley | The Mysteries | |
Alison Chitty | Martine and She Stoops to Conquer | |
Bob Crowley | Henry V, Love's Labour's Lost and The Winter's Tale | |
Philip Prowse | The Duchess of Malfi | |
1986 | ||
William Dudley | Futurists | |
Maria Björnson | The Phantom of the Opera | |
Bob Crowley | As You Like It and Les liaisons dangereuses | |
Carl Toms | Dalliance and The Magistrate | |
1987 | ||
Lucio Fanti | The Hairy Ape | |
Bob Crowley | A Penny for a Song and Macbeth | |
William Dudley | Girlfriends, Kiss Me, Kate and Richard II | |
Kappa Senoh | Macbeth | |
1988 | ||
Richard Hudson | Andromache, Bussy D'Ambois, Candide, One Way Pendulum, The Tempest and Too Clever by Half | |
William Dudley | Bartholomew Fair, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Changeling, The Shaughraun and Waiting for Godot | |
Nick Ormerod | A Family Affair, Philoctetes and The Tempest | |
Mark Thompson | Measure for Measure and The Wizard of Oz |
1990s
Year | Designer | Production |
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1990 | ||
Bob Crowley | Ghetto, Hedda Gabler, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and The Plantagenets | |
The Design Team | Suicide for Love | |
Chris Dyer | The Merchant of Venice and The Wars of the Roses | |
John Napier | Miss Saigon | |
1991 | ||
Mark Thompson | The Wind in the Willows | |
Tom Cairns | Sunday in the Park with George | |
William Dudley | Marya | |
Nigel Lowery | The Illusion | |
1992 | ||
Mark Thompson | The Comedy of Errors and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | |
Bob Crowley | When She Danced, Murmuring Judges and The Night of the Iguana | |
Ashley Martin-Davis | The Miser and The Recruiting Officer | |
Philip Prowse | A Woman of No Importance and The White Devil | |
1993 | ||
Ian MacNeil | An Inspector Calls | |
Bob Crowley | Carousel, Henry IV and No Man's Land | |
Jerome Sirlin | Kiss of the Spider Woman | |
Robin Wagner | Crazy for You | |
1994 | ||
Mark Thompson | Hysteria | |
Peter J. Davison | Medea | |
Ian MacNeil | Machinal | |
Anthony Ward | The Winter's Tale | |
1995 | ||
Stephen Brimson Lewis | Design for Living and Les Parents terribles | |
Lez Brotherston | Neville's Island | |
Peter J. Davison | Le Cid and Saint Joan | |
Anthony Ward | Sweet Bird of Youth and The Tempest | |
1996 | ||
John Napier | Burning Blue | |
John Gunter | Skylight, Absolute Hell and Twelfth Night | |
Rob Howell | The Glass Menagerie | |
Anthony Ward | A Midsummer Night's Dream, La Grande Magia and The Way of the World | |
1997 | ||
Tim Hatley | Stanley | |
John Arnone | Tommy | |
Paul Farnsworth | Passion | |
Mark Thompson | 'Art' | |
1998 | ||
Tim Goodchild | Three Hours After Marriage | |
William Dudley | The Homecoming | |
John Gunter | The Peter Hall Company's Season | |
Rob Howell | Chips with Everything | |
1999 | ||
Anthony Ward | Oklahoma! | |
Maria Björnson | Britannicus and Phèdre | |
William Dudley | Amadeus and Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick | |
Richard Hoover | Not About Nightingales | |
Mark Thompson | The Blue Room and The Unexpected Man |
2000s
2010s
2020s
Year | Designer | Production |
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2020 | ||
Bob Crowley | Mary Poppins | |
Soutra Gilmour | & Juliet | |
Rae Smith | Rosmersholm | |
Uncle Vanya | ||
2021 | Not presented due to extended closing of theatre productions during COVID-19 pandemic[A] | |
2022[A] | ||
Tim Hatley (set design), Nick Barnes and Finn Caldwell (puppet design) | Life of Pi | |
Tim Hatley (set design) and Finn Ross (video design) | Back to the Future: The Musical | |
Derek McLane | Moulin Rouge! | |
Tom Scutt | Cabaret | |
2023 | ||
Tom Pye | My Neighbour Totoro | |
Miriam Buether | To Kill A Mockingbird | |
Ben Stones | Standing at the Sky's Edge | |
Mark Walters | Jack and the Beanstalk | |
2024 | ||
Miriam Buether (set design), 59 Productions (video design) | Stranger Things: The First Shadow | |
Bunny Christie (set design) | Guys and Dolls | |
Es Devlin (set design), Ash J Woodward (video design) | Dear England | |
Soutra Gilmour (set design), Nathan Amzi & Joe Ransom (video design) | Sunset Boulevard |
- ^ a b Due to late March 2020[1] to late July 2021[2] closing of London theatre productions during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, the 2022 awards recognise productions that launched anytime from February 2020 to February 2022[3]
Individuals with multiple wins
5 wins
- William Dudley
4 wins
3 wins
- Bob Crowley
- Tim Hatley
- Rob Howell
- John Napier
- Mark Thompson (2 consecutive)
2 wins
- Es Devlin (consecutive)
- John Gunter
- Ralph Koltai
See also
References
- ^ Johnson, The Rt Hon Boris, MP (2020-03-23). Prime Minister's statement on coronavirus (COVID-19): 23 March 2020 [transcript] (Speech). Prime Minister's Televised Speech to the United Kingdom. www.gov.uk. London, UK. Archived from the original on 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
From this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction — you must stay at home.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ McPhee, Ryan (2021-06-14). "U.K. Postpones Reopening Roadmap; West End Theatres Will No Longer Reopen in Full in June". Playbill. Archived from the original on 2021-06-14. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
Step 4 of the roadmap will allow productions to play without capacity restrictions. June 21 was the goal; now, the government is eyeing July 19.
- ^ Thomas, Sophie (2022-03-08). "Everything you need to know about the Olivier Awards". londontheatre.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2022-04-11. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
Any new production that opened between 19 Feb. 2020 to 22 Feb. 2022 are eligible for categories in the 2022 Olivier Awards. With two years worth of shows set for honours in one year's ceremony, the 2022 Olivier Awards will prove tougher competition than before.
- London Theatre Guide (2008). "The Laurence Olivier Awards: Full List of Winners, 1976-2008" (.PDF). 1976-2008. The Society of London Theatre. p. 20. Retrieved 2008-08-30.
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