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Adrien Brody scores Olivier nomination after Oscar win

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US star Adrien Brody has been nominated for the UK’s most prestigious theatre awards, the Oliviers, just days after being named best actor at the Oscars.
Brody appeared on the London stage in The Fear of 13 last year, just before the start of the film awards season, which saw him win a Bafta, Golden Globe and Academy Award for his role in The Brutalist.
Other Olivier nominees this year include John Lithgow, who is also nominated for best actor, for playing Roald Dahl in the play Giant.
Lesley Manville, Ben Whishaw, Imelda Staunton, Meera Syal, Billy Crudup, Mark Strong and Paapa Essiedu are among the other acting nominees.
In The Fear of 13, Brody portrayed Nick Yarris, a man who was wrongfully convicted for murder and spent 22 years on Death Row.
Other plays in the running this year include Kyoto, Shifters, Giant and The Years, which have five nominations each.
Fiddler On The Roof scored the most nominations overall with 13 nods, including best musical revival.
That ties the record for most Olivier nominations, after musical Hamilton also received 13 nods in 2018.
The Oliviers will be hosted by singer-songwriter Beverley Knight and actor and singer Billy Porter on Sunday 6 April at the Royal Albert Hall.
The nominations in full
Best new play
- The Fear Of 13 by Lindsey Ferrentino
- Giant
- Kyoto
- Shifters
- The Years
Best new musical
- The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
- MJ The Musical
- Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812
- Why Am I So Single?
Best new entertainment or comedy play
- Ballet Shoes
- Inside No 9 Stage/Fright
- Spirited Away adapted
- Titanique
Best revival
- The Importance Of Being Earnest
- Machinal
- Oedipus
- Waiting For Godot
Best musical revival
- Fiddler On The Roof
- Hello, Dolly!
- Oliver!
- Starlight Express
Best actress
- Heather Agyepong for Shifters
- Lesley Manville for Oedipus
- Rosie Sheehy for Machinal
- Meera Syal for A Tupperware Of Ashes
- Indira Varma for Oedipus
Best actor
- Adrien Brody for The Fear Of 13
- Billy Crudup for Harry Clarke
- Paapa Essiedu for Death Of England: Delroy
- John Lithgow for Giant at Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
- Mark Strong for Oedipus
Best actor (musical)
- John Dagleish for The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
- Adam Dannheisser for Fiddler On The Roof
- Myles Frost for MJ The Musical
- Simon Lipkin for Oliver!
- Jamie Muscato for Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812
Best actress (musical)
- Chumisa Dornford-May for Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812
- Lauren Drew for Titanique
- Clare Foster for The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
- Lara Pulver for Fiddler On The Roof
- Imelda Staunton for Hello, Dolly!
Best supporting actor
- Jorge Bosch for Kyoto
- Tom Edden for Waiting For Godot
- Elliot Levey for Giant
- Ben Whishaw for Bluets at Jerwood
Best supporting actress
- Sharon D Clarke for The Importance Of Being Earnest
- Romola Garai for Giant
- Romola Garai for The Years
- Gina McKee for The Years
Best director
- Eline Arbo for The Years
- Jordan Fein for Fiddler On The Roof
- Nicholas Hytner for Giant
- Robert Icke for Oedipus
Best supporting actress (musical)
- Liv Andrusier for Fiddler On The Roof
- Amy Di Bartolomeo for The Devil Wears Prada
- Beverley Klein for Fiddler On The Roof
- Maimuna Memon for Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812
Best supporting actor (musical)
- Andy Nyman for Hello, Dolly!
- Raphael Papo for Fiddler On The Roof
- Layton Williams for Titanique at Criterion Theatre
- Tom Xander for Mean Girls at Savoy Theatre
Best family show
- Brainiac Live
- Maddie Moate’s Very Curious Christmas
- The Nutcracker
- Rough Magic
Best new production in affiliate theatre
- Animal Farm
- Boys On The Verge Of Tears
- English
- Now, I See by Lanre Malaolu
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Best new dance production
- Assembly Hall
- Frontiers: Choreographers Of Canada
- Theatre Of Dreams
- An Untitled Love
Best set design
- Spirited Away
- Ballet Shoes
- Coriolanus
- Fiddler On The Roof
Best lighting design
- Oliver!
- Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812
- Starlight Express
- Fiddler On The Roof
Outstanding achievement in dance
- Sarah Chun for her performance in Three Short Ballets at Royal Opera House
- Tom Visser for his lighting design of Angels’ Atlas as part of Frontiers: Choreographers Of Canada
- Eva Yerbabuena for her performance in Yerbagüena
Best theatre choreographer
- Matthew Bourne for Oliver!
- Julia Cheng for Fiddler On The Roof
- Hofesh Shechter for Oedipus
- Christopher Wheeldon for MJ The Musical
- Hugh Durrant for Robin Hood
- Sachiko Nakahara for Spirited Away
- Tom Scutt for Fiddler On The Roof
- Gabriella Slade for Starlight Express
Best sound design
- Nick Lidster for Fiddler On The Roof
- Christopher Shutt for Oedipus
- Thijs van Vuure for The Years
- Koichi Yamamoto for Spirited Away
Outstanding musical contribution
- Mark Aspinall for Musical Supervision & Additional Orchestrations for Fiddler On The Roof
- Darren Clark for music supervision, orchestrations & arrangements and Mark Aspinall for musical direction, music supervision, orchestrations & arrangements for The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
- Dave Malloy for orchestrations and Nicholas Skilbeck for musical supervision for Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812
- Asaf Zohar for compositions and Gavin Sutherland for dance arrangements & orchestration for Ballet Shoes
Best new opera production
- Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
- Festen
- L’Olimpiade
- The Tales Of Hoffmann
Outstanding achievement in opera
- Aigul Akhmetshina for her performance in Carmen
- Allan Clayton for his performance in Festen
- Jung Young-doo for his direction of Lear
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