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Society Of London Theatre Special Award
The Laurence Olivier Award for Society of London Theatre Special Award is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial British 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, himself a 1979 recipient of this award. This award was introduced in 1976. In 2020, the award was expanded with additional Special Recognition Recipients, recognizing a larger number of people each year for their lifetime of contributions to commercial British theatre. Award winners 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also * Special Tony Award The Special Tony Award category includes the Lifetime Achievement Tony Award and the Special Tony Award. These are non-competitive honorary awards, and the titles have changed over the years. The Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre ... References * External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Olivier Award
The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply the Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London at an annual ceremony in the capital. The awards were originally known as the Society of West End Theatre Awards, but they were renamed in honour of the British actor of the same name in 1984. The awards are given to individuals involved in West End productions and other leading non-commercial theatres based in London across a range of categories covering plays, musicals, dance, opera and affiliate theatre. A discretionary non-competitive Special Olivier Award is also given each year. The Olivier Awards are recognised internationally as the highest honour in British theatre, equivalent to the BAFTA Awards for film and television, and the BRIT Awards for music. The Olivier Awards are considered equivalent to Broadway's Tony Awards and France's Molière Award. Since inception, the awards have been held at va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Laurence Olivier Awards
The 1983 Society of West End Theatre Awards were held in 1983 in London celebrating excellence in West End theatre by the Society of West End Theatre. The awards would not become the Laurence Olivier Awards, as they are known today, until the 1984 ceremony. Winners and nominees Details of winners (in bold) and nominees, in each award category, per the Society of London Theatre. Productions with multiple nominations and awards The following 20 productions, including one ballet and one opera, received multiple nominations: * 4: ''Pack of Lies'' * 3: '' Blood Brothers'', ''Cyrano de Bergerac'', ''Tales from Hollywood'' and ''The Rivals'' * 2: ''A Moon for the Misbegotten'', '' As You Like It'', '' Bashville'', ''Beethoven's Tenth'', ''Daisy Pulls It Off'', '' Glengarry Glen Ross'', ''Heartbreak House'', ''King Lear'', '' Little Shop of Horrors'', ''Manon Lescaut'', ''Snoopy'', '' The Nightingale'', ''The Provok'd Wife'', ''The Slab Boys Trilogy'' and ''The Taming of the Shrew'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ninette De Valois
Dame Ninette de Valois (born Edris Stannus; 6 June 1898 – 8 March 2001) was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet. Most notably, she danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, later establishing the Royal Ballet, one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century and one of the leading ballet companies in the world. She also established the Royal Ballet School and the touring company which became the Birmingham Royal Ballet. She is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of ballet and as the "godmother" of English and Irish ballet. Life Early life and family Ninette de Valois was born as Edris Stannus on 6 June 1898 at Baltyboys House, an 18th-century manor house near the town of Blessington, County Wicklow, Ireland, then still part of the United Kingdom. A member of a gentry family, she was the second daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Stannus DSO,Montgomery-Massingber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 Laurence Olivier Awards
The 1992 Laurence Olivier Awards were held in 1992 in London celebrating excellence in West End theatre by the Society of London Theatre. Winners and nominees Details of winners (in bold) and nominees, in each award category, per the Society of London Theatre. Productions with multiple nominations and awards The following 18 productions received multiple nominations: * 7: ''Carmen Jones'' * 6: ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'' * 5: ''The Comedy of Errors'' and ''Uncle Vanya'' * 4: ''Angels in America'', ''Hedda Gabler'', ''The Boys from Syracuse'' and ''When She Danced'' * 3: ''Talking Heads'' and ''The Night of the Iguana'' * 2: ''A Woman of No Importance'', '' Death and the Maiden'', ''Murmuring Judges'', ''Tango Argentino'', ''The Madness of George III'', ''The Miser'', ''The Phantom of the Opera'' and ''The Recruiting Officer'' The following eight productions received multiple awards: * 3: ''Carmen Jones'' and ''The Comedy of Errors'' * 2: '' Death and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991), known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than 60 years. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was determined from an early age to become an actress, despite parental opposition. She was working in smaller theatres even before graduating from drama school, and within two years she was starring in the West End. Ashcroft maintained her leading place in British theatre for the next 50 years. Always attracted by the ideals of permanent theatrical ensembles, she did much of her work for the Old Vic in the early 1930s, John Gielgud's companies in the 1930s and 1940s, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and its successor the Royal Shakespeare Company from the 1950s, and the National Theatre from the 1970s. While well regarded in Shakespeare, Ashcroft was also known for her commitment to modern drama, appearing in plays by Bertolt Brecht, Samuel B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Laurence Olivier Awards
The 1991 Laurence Olivier Awards were held in 1991 in London celebrating excellence in West End theatre by the Society of London Theatre. Winners and nominees Details of winners (in bold) and nominees, in each award category, per the Society of London Theatre. Productions with multiple nominations and awards The following 17 productions, including one ballet and one opera, received multiple nominations: * 7: ''Into the Woods'' * 6: '' Sunday in the Park with George'' and ''The Wind in the Willows'' * 5: ''Show Boat'' * 4: ''Dancing at Lughnasa'' and ''Five Guys Named Moe'' * 3: '' Richard III'', '' The Rehearsal'' and ''White Chameleon'' * 2: ''Accidental Death of an Anarchist'', '' Duke Bluebeard's Castle'', ''Pericles'', ''Singer'', '' The Illusion'', ''The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus'', ''The Wild Duck'' and ''Winter Dreams'' The following six productions received multiple awards: * 2: ''Five Guys Named Moe'', ''Into the Woods'', ''Pericles'', '' Richard III'', ''Show Boat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, Guinness was featured in several of the Ealing comedies, including ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' (1949), in which he played nine different characters, ''The Lavender Hill Mob'' (1951), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination, and '' The Ladykillers'' (1955). He collaborated six times with director David Lean: Herbert Pocket in '' Great Expectations'' (1946), Fagin in '' Oliver Twist'' (1948), Col. Nicholson in ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' (1957), for which he won both the Academy Award for Best Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor, Prince Faisal in ''Lawrence of Arabia'' (1962), General Yevgraf Zhivago in ''Doctor Zhivago'' (1965), and Professor Godbole in ''A Passage to India'' (1984). In 1970 he played Jacob Marley's ghost in Ronald Neame's '' Scrooge''. He also portrayed Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas's origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Laurence Olivier Awards
The 1988 Laurence Olivier Awards were held in 1988 in London celebrating excellence in West End theatre by the Society of London Theatre. Winners and nominees Details of winners (in bold) and nominees, in each award category, per the Society of London Theatre. Productions with multiple nominations and awards The following 19 productions received multiple nominations: * 4: '' Candide'' and '' The Wizard of Oz'' * 3: '' A Family Affair'', ''A Touch of the Poet'', '' An Enemy of the People'', '' Blood Brothers'', ''Our Country's Good'', ''Separation'', '' The Secret Rapture'', ''Titus Andronicus'' and '' Too Clever by Half'' * 2: '' A Walk in the Woods'', '' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'', ''Hello and Goodbye'', '' Henceforward'', ''Mrs. Klein'', ''Shirley Valentine'', '' Sugar Babies'' and ''The Shaughraun'' The following five productions received multiple awards: * 3: '' Candide'' and '' Too Clever by Half'' * 2: ''Our Country's Good'', ''Shirley Valentine'' and ''Titus Andronicus' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Laurence Olivier Awards
The 1987 Laurence Olivier Awards were held in 1987 in London celebrating excellence in West End theatre by the Society of London Theatre. Winners and nominees Details of winners (in bold) and nominees, in each award category, per the Society of London Theatre. Productions with multiple nominations and awards The following 17 productions received multiple nominations: * 4: ''Kiss Me, Kate'' * 3: ''A Lie of the Mind'', ''A View from the Bridge'', '' Groucho: A Life in Revue'' and '' Up on the Roof'' * 2: ''A Penny for a Song'', ''Antony and Cleopatra'', '' Blues in the Night'', ''Follies'', ''Lettice and Lovage'', ''Macbeth'' (Lyttelton), ''Medea'', ''Sarcophagus'', '' The Rover'', ''The Two Noble Kinsmen'', ''Three Men on a Horse'' and ''Twelfth Night'' The following three productions received multiple awards: * 2: ''A View from the Bridge'', ''Antony and Cleopatra'' and ''Kiss Me, Kate'' See also * 41st Tony Awards References External links Previous Olivier Winners – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 Laurence Olivier Awards
The 1986 Laurence Olivier Awards were presented by the Society of London Theatre on 7 December 1986 at the Royalty Theatre in London, celebrating excellence in West End theatre. It was broadcast by BBC Television, though the broadcast date and specific BBC station is not availablethe 2003 Oliviers, for example, aired on BBC Two the evening after the live event. Winners and nominees Details of winners (in bold) and nominees, in each award category, per the Society of London Theatre. Productions with multiple nominations and awards The following 15 productions, including two operas, received multiple nominations: * 5: ''Les liaisons dangereuses'' and ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' * 4: ''As You Like It'' * 3: ''Chess'', ''Doctor Faust'', ''Ourselves Alone'', ''The Normal Heart'' and ''The Phantom of the Opera'' * 2: ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ''Dalliance'', ''H.M.S. Pinafore'', '' The American Clock'', '' The Magistrate'', ''The Ring Cycle'', ''When We Are Married'' and ''W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gielgud
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, (; 14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century. A member of the Terry family theatrical dynasty, he gained his first paid acting work as a junior member of his cousin Phyllis Neilson-Terry's company in 1922. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art he worked in repertory theatre and in the West End theatre, West End before establishing himself at the Old Vic as an exponent of William Shakespeare, Shakespeare in 1929–31. During the 1930s Gielgud was a stage star in the West End and on Broadway theatre, Broadway, appearing in new works and classics. He began a parallel career as a director, and set up his own company at the Sondheim Theatre, Queen's Theatre, London. He was regarded by many as the finest Prince Hamlet, Hamlet of his era, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 Laurence Olivier Awards
The 1985 Laurence Olivier Awards were presented by the Society of London Theatre in 1985 at the Dominion Theatre in London, celebrating excellence in West End theatre. It was broadcast by BBC Television, though the broadcast date and specific BBC station is not availablethe 2003 Oliviers, for example, aired on BBC Two the evening after the live event. Winners and nominees Details of winners (in bold) and nominees, in each award category, per the Society of London Theatre. Productions with multiple nominations and awards The following 18 productions, including one ballet and two operas, received multiple nominations: * 4: ''Les Misérables'' and ''Love's Labour's Lost'' * 3: '' A Chorus of Disapproval'', ''Pravda'', ''Richard III'' and ''The Winter's Tale'' * 2: ''Donnerstag aus Licht'', ''Faust'', ''Henry V'', ''Lennon'', ''Martine'', '' Me and My Girl'', ''The Crucible'', ''The Mysteries'', ''The Playboy of the Western World'', '' The Road to Mecca'', ''The Sons of Horus'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
