| Best New Play | Best New Musical |
| Priscilla, Queen of the Desert* Been So Long * Dreamboats & Petticoats * Sister Act* Spring Awakening* Thriller Live! |
| Best Play Revival | Best Musical Revival |
| A Streetcar Named Desire* A View from the Bridge* Arcadia* Enjoy* Three Days of Rain* Waiting for Godot | Oliver!* A Little Night Music* Annie Get Your Gun* Carousel* Hello, Dolly!* Sunset Boulevard |
| Best Actor in a Play | Best Actress in a Play |
| Jude Law for Hamlet* David Harewood for The Mountaintop* Dominic West for Life Is a Dream* Ken Stott for A View from the Bridge* Mark Rylance for Jerusalem* Samuel West for Enron | Rachel Weisz for A Streetcar Named Desire* Alison Steadman for Enjoy* Fiona Shaw for Mother Courage & Her Children* Helen Mirren for Phedre* Juliet Stevenson for Duet for One* Lesley Sharp for The Rise & Fall of Little Voice |
| Best Actor in a Musical | Best Actress in a Musical |
| Rowan Atkinson for Oliver!* Alexander Hanson for A Little Night Music* Aneurin Barnard for Spring Awakening* Jason Donovan for Priscilla, Queen of the Desert* Julian Ovenden for Annie Get Your Gun* Tony Sheldon for Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Patina Miller for Sister Act* Charlotte Wakefield for Spring Awakening* Hannah Waddingham for A Little Night Music* Jane Horrocks for Annie Get Your Gun* Kathryn Evans for Sunset Boulevard * Samantha Spiro for Hello, Dolly! |
| Best Supporting Actor in a Play | Best Supporting Actress in a Play |
| Patrick Stewart for Hamlet* David Dawson for Comedians* John Shrapnel for Phedre* Mackenzie Crook for Jerusalem* Marc Warren for The Rise & Fall of Little Voice* Simon Paisley Day for Entertaining Mr Sloane | Miriam Margolyes for Endgame* Amanda Drew for Enron* Carol Macready for Enjoy* Hayley Atwell for A View from the Bridge* Kate Fleetwood for Life Is a Dream* Michelle Dockery for Burnt by the Sun |
| Best Supporting Actor in a Musical | Best Supporting Actress in a Musical |
| Oliver Thornton for Priscilla, Queen of the Desert* Burn Gorman for Oliver!* Clive Carter for Priscilla, Queen of the Desert* Daniel Crossley for Hello, Dolly!* Gabriel Vick for A Little Night Music* Iwan Rheon for Spring Awakening | Jodie Prenger for Oliver!* Jessie Buckley for A Little Night Music* Julia Sutton for Sister Act* Lesley Garrett for Carousel * Maureen Lipman for A Little Night Music* Sheila Hancock for Sister Act |
| Best Set Designer | Best Lighting Designer |
| Brian Thomson for Priscilla, Queen of the Desert* Christopher Oram for A Streetcar Named Desire & Twelfth Night* Lizzie Clachan for Money, Shunt & Treasure Island* Miriam Buether for Judgment Day & When the Rain Stops Falling* Peter McKintosh for Prick Up Your Ears, Entertaining Mr Sloane * & Hello, Dolly!* William Dudley for Peter Pan | Natasha Katz for Sister Act* Johanna Town for Speaking in Tongues* Kevin Adams for Spring Awakening* Mark Henderson for Enron* Mike Robertson for On the Waterfront* Neil Austin for Life Is a Dream & Madame de Sade |
| Best Director | Best Choreographer |
| Trevor Nunn for Inherit the Wind & A Little Night Music* Gregory Doran for Hamlet* Ian Rickson for Parlour Song & Jerusalem* Nicholas Hytner for Phedre & The Habit of Art* Rupert Goold for Enron* Sam Mendes for The Cherry Orchard & The Winter’s Tale | Ross Coleman for Priscilla, Queen of the Desert* Adam Cooper for Carousel and Shall We Dance* Anthony Van Laast for Sister Act* Bill T Jones for Spring Awakening* Gary Lloyd for Thriller Live!* Stephen Mear for Hello, Dolly! |
| Best Off-West End Production | Best Regional Production |
| The Pirates of Penzance* F**king Men* Forbidden Broadway* Kursk * Kurt & Sid* Stovepipe | Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall* It’s a Wonderful Life * Spend Spend Spend * The Caretaker * The Light in the Piazza * The Winslow Boy |
| Best Solo Performance | Best Ensemble Performance |
| Derren Brown 'for Derren Brown: Enigma* Alan Cumming for I Bought a Blue Car Today* Clare Higgins for The Fever* David Hare for Berlin* Rob Brydon for Rob Brydon Live!* Sadie Frost for Touched | On the Waterfront * Arcadia* Dancing* Our Class * The Great Game* The Power of Yes |
| Best Takeover in a Role | Best Shakespearean Production |
| John Barrowman for La Cage aux Folles* Brian Conley for Hairspray* Edward Bennett for Hamlet* Melanie C for Blood Brothers* Omid Djalili for Oliver!* Roger Allam for La Cage aux Folles | Hamlet* All’s Well That Ends Well * Hamlet* Othello* The Winters Tale* Twelfth Night |
| London Newcomer of the Year | Best West End Show |
| Diana Vickers for The Rise & Fall of Little Voice* Jaime Winstone for The Fastest Clock in the Universe* Lenny Henry for Othello* Nicholas Hoult for New Boy* Patina Miller for Sister Act* Tom Sturridge for Punk Rock | Wicked'* Billy Elliot * Hairspray * Jersey Boys* Les Miserables* Mamma Mia!* The Lion King* The Phantom of the Opera * War Horse * We Will Rock You |