2012 Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Winners, shortlist and longlist

Best Play

Longlisted

Best Director

• Nicholas Hytner for Timon of Athens
• Carrie Cracknell for A Doll's House
• James Macdonald for Love and Information
• Ian Rickson for ''Hamlet''

Longlisted

• Benedict Andrews for Three Sisters
• Lucy Bailey for Uncle Vanya
• Tom Cairns for Scenes from an Execution
• Marianne Elliott for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
• Polly Findlay for Antigone
• Sean Foley for The Ladykillers
• Jeremy Herrin for This House
• Jonathan Kent for Sweeney Todd
• Roger Michell for Farewell to the Theatre
• Lindsay Posner for Noises Off
• Josie Rourke for The Recruiting Officer
• Lyndsey Turner for ''Philadelphia, Here I Come!''

Best Actor

• Simon Russell Beale, Collaborators
• Charles Edwards, The King's Speech and This House
• Adrian Lester, Red Velvet
• Luke Treadaway, ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time''

Longlisted

• Rupert Everett, The Judas Kiss
• Laurence Fox, Our Boys
• David Haig, The Madness of George III
• Douglas Hodge, Inadmissible Evidence
• Alex Jennings, Collaborators
• Rory Kinnear, The Last of the Haussmans
• Simon Paisley Day, The Taming of the Shrew
• Eddie Redmayne, Richard II
• Adrian Scarborough, Hedda Gabler
• Michael Sheen, Hamlet
• Scott Shepherd, Gatz
• David Suchet, ''Long Day's Journey Into Night''

Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress

• Hattie Morahan, A Doll's House
• Eileen Atkins, All That Fall
• Cate Blanchett, Big and Small
• Laurie Metcalf, ''Long Day's Journey Into Night''

Longlisted

• Pippa Bennett-Warner, The Witness
• Eve Best, The Duchess of Malfi
• Anna Chancellor, The Last of the Duchess
• Anne-Marie Duff, Berenice
• Mariah Gale, Three Sisters
• Tamsin Greig, Jumpy
• Sally Hawkins, Constellations
• Martina Laird, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
• Helen McCrory, The Last of the Haussmans
• Joely Richardson, The Lady from the Sea
• Sheridan Smith, Hedda Gabler
• Imelda Staunton, ''Sweeney Todd''

Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical

• ''Swallows and Amazons''

Longlisted

• ''Top Hat''

Best Design

• Soutra Gilmour, Inadmissible Evidence and Antigone
• Miriam Buether, Wild Swans
• Ian MacNeil, ''A Doll's House''

Longlisted

• Hildegard Bechtler, Top Hat
• Bunny Christie, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
• Kevin Depinet, Detroit
• Es Devlin, The Master and Margarita
• Richard Kent, Richard II
• Peter McKintosh, Noises Off
• Vicki Mortimer, The Last of the Haussmans
• Lucy Osborne, The Recruiting Officer
• Michael Taylor, The Ladykillers
• Jamie Vartan, ''Misterman''

Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright

• Lolita Chakrabarti, Red Velvet
• John Hodge, Collaborators
• Tom Wells, ''Kitchen Sink''

Longlisted

• Stephen Beresford, The Last of the Haussmans
• Ishy Din, Snookered
• Vickie Donoghue, Mudlarks
• Nancy Harris, Our New Girl
• Luke Norris, Goodbye to All That
• Nicholas Pierpan, You Can Still Make a Killing
• Tim Price, Salt, Root and Roe
• Hayley Squires, ''Vera Vera Vera''

Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer

• Matthew Tennyson, Making Noise Quietly
• Denise Gough, Our New Girl and Desire Under the Elms
• Abby Rakic-Platt, ''Vera Vera Vera''

Longlisted

• Jonathan Bailey, South Downs
• David Fynn, She Stoops to Conquer
• Cush Jumbo, She Stoops to Conquer
• Joshua Williams, Shivered and Love and Information
• Emi Wokoma, ''Soul Sister''

Beyond Theatre Award

• Danny Boyle and his creative team, for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics

Lebedev Special Award

• Nicholas Hytner, for his dynamic directorship of the National Theatre

Editor's Award

• David Hare, for his contribution to theatre

Burberry Award for Emerging Director

• Simon Godwin

Moscow Art Theatre's Golden Seagull Award

• Judi Dench, for her contribution to world theatre

Judges

• Henry Hitchings
• Georgina Brown
• Susannah Clapp
• Libby Purves
• Charles Spencer
• Matt Wolf
• Sarah Sands
• Evgeny Lebedev