2010 Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Winners, shortlist and longlist

Best Play

Longlisted

Best Director

• Howard Davies for The White Guard & All My Sons
• Nicholas Hytner for The Habit of Art & London Assurance & Hamlet
• Laurie Sansom for Beyond the Horizon and Spring Storm
• Thea Sharrock for ''After the Dance''

Longlisted

• Dominic Cooke for Clybourne Park
• Rupert Goold for Romeo and Juliet & Earthquakes in London
• Michael Grandage for Red & Danton's Death
• Jeremy Herrin for Spur of the Moment
• Joe Hill-Gibbins for The Beauty Queen of Leenane
• James MacDonald for Cock
• Roger Michell for Rope
• Lyndsey Turner for ''Posh''

Best Actor

• Rory Kinnear, Measure for Measure & Hamlet
• Roger Allam, Henry IV Parts One and Two
• David Suchet, ''All My Sons''

Longlisted

• Bertie Carvel, Rope
• Benedict Cumberbatch, After the Dance
• Martin Freeman, Clybourne Park
• Alex Jennings, The Habit of Art
• Adrian Lester, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Alfred Molina, Red
• Jonathan Pryce, The Caretaker
• Simon Russell Beale, London Assurance & Deathtrap
• Adrian Scarborough, ''After the Dance''

Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress

• Nancy Carroll, After the Dance
• Elena Roger, Passion
• Sheridan Smith, Legally Blonde
• Sophie Thompson, ''Clybourne Park''

Longlisted

• Gemma Arterton, The Little Dog Laughed
• Judi Dench, A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Tamsin Greig, The Little Dog Laughed
• Jenny Jules, Ruined
• Keira Knightley, The Misanthrope
• Amanda Lawrence, Jiggery Pokery & Henry VIII
• Rosaleen Linehan, The Beauty Queen of Leenane
• Helen McCrory, The Late Middle Classes
• Lesley Manville, Six Degrees of Separation
• Anna Maxwell Martin, Measure for Measure
• Fiona Shaw, London Assurance
• Zoë Wanamaker, ''All My Sons''

Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical

Longlisted

Best Design

• Miriam Buether for Sucker Punch & Earthquakes in London
• Bunny Christie for The White Guard
• Christopher Oram for Passion & ''Red''

Longlisted

• Lez Brotherston for The Rise and Fall of Little Voice & Measure for Measure & Women Beware Women & Design for Living
• Rob Howell for Private Lives & Deathtrap
• Vicki Mortimer for The Cat in the Hat
• Mark Thompson for ''London Assurance''

Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright

• Anya Reiss for Spur of the Moment
• DC Moore for The Empire
• Nick Payne for If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet & ''Wanderlust''

Longlisted

• James Graham for The Whisky Taster & The Man
• Atiha Sen Gupta for What Fatima Did
• Penelope Skinner for ''Eigengrau''

Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer

• Melanie C for her performance in Blood Brothers
• Daniel Kaluuya for his performance in Sucker Punch
• Isabella Laughland for her performance in Wanderlust
• Shannon Tarbet for her performance in ''Spur of the Moment''

Longlisted

• Laura Dos Santos for her performance in Educating Rita
• Simon Godwin for his direction of Wanderlust
• Henry Lloyd-Hughes for his performances in Rope and Posh
• James McArdle for his performance in Spur of the Moment
• James Musgrave for his performance in Wanderlust
• Nikesh Patel for his performance in ''Disconnect''

Editor's Award

• Daniel Kaluuya for his performance in Sucker Punch

Lebedev Special Award

• Sir Michael Gambon for his contribution to theatre

Moscow Art Theatre's Golden Seagull

• Sir Peter Hall

Judges

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