Laurence Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design

See Olivier Awards for more information about the awards and a full list of categories and winners.

The Laurence Olivier Awards are a series of awards presented annually by The Society of London Theatre. They are presented in recognition of achievements in commercial British theatre, most notably plays and musicals in the West End of London, an area commonly referred to as "Theatreland". The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976 and, in 1984 they we renamed in honour of the renowned British actor Lord Olivier. The Olivier Awards are the most prestigious theatrical awards in the United Kingdom and are the UK equivalent of the Tony Awards.

This list comprises the winners and nominees of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design.

Award winners

1990s

• 1991: Jean Kalman – Richard III and White Chameleon
  • Alan Burrett – Three Sisters
  • Pat Collins – The Illusion
  • Paul Pyant – The Wind in the Willows

• 1992: Mark Henderson – Murmuring Judges and Long Day's Journey into Night
  • Wayne Dowdeswell – Edward II
  • Jean Kalman – The Night of the Iguana and Hedda Gabler
  • Sumio Yoshii – Tango at the End of Winter

• 1993: Howell Binkley – Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • Paule Constable – The Street of Crocodiles
  • Rick Fisher – An Inspector Calls
  • Jean Kalman – A Midsummer Night's Dream

• 1994: Rick Fisher – Hysteria, Machinal and Moonlight
  • Terry Hands and Wayne Dowdeswell – Tamburlaine the Great
  • Wayne Dowdeswell – Medea
  • Brian Harris – The School of Night

• 1995: Mark Henderson for his work during the year
  • Rick Fisher – The Cryptogram and Pericles
  • David Hersey – Glengarry Glen Ross and Oliver!
  • Tina MacHugh – Ghosts and Rutherford and Son

• 1996: David Hersey – Burning Blue, The Glass Menagerie and Twelfth Night
  • Mark Henderson – Absolute Hell, La Grande Magia and Indian Ink
  • Peter Mumford – Richard II, Mother Courage and Her Children and Volpone
  • Chris Parry – A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Way of the World

• 1997: Chris Parry – Tommy
  • Mark Henderson – John Gabriel Borkman
  • David Hersey – Martin Guerre
  • Hugh Vanstone – 'Art'

• 1998: Rick Fisher – Chips with Everything and Lady in the Dark
  • Paul Anderson – The Chairs
  • Howard Harrison – The Fix
  • Hugh Vanstone – Hamlet

• 1999: Hugh Vanstone – The Blue Room and The Unexpected Man
  • Paule Constable – Amadeus and Uncle Vanya
  • Mark Henderson – Britannicus and Phedre
  • David Hersey – Oklahoma!

2000s

• 2000: Mark Henderson – Plenty, Spend Spend Spend, Suddenly, Last Summer, The Forest, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Real Thing and Vassa
  • Howard Harrison – Private Lives, Sleep With Me and The Tempest
  • Donald Holder – The Lion King
  • Peter Mumford – Collected Stories, Richard III, Summerfolk and The Merchant of Venice

• 2001: Hugh Vanstone – The Cherry Orchard and The Graduate
  • Howard Harrison – To the Green Fields Beyond and The Witches of Eastwick
  • Mark Henderson – All My Sons
  • Paul Pyant – Hamlet

• 2002: Mark Henderson – A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Playboy of the Western World
  • Howard Harrison – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Tales from Hollywood
  • David Hersey – My Fair Lady and South Pacific
  • Tim Mitchell – Henry IV
  • Peter Mumford – Hamlet and Private Lives

• 2003: Peter Mumford – The Bacchae
  • Paul Pyant – A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Paule Constable – Play Without Words
  • David Hersey – The Coast of Utopia

• 2004: Hugh Vanstone – Pacific Overtures
  • Simon Corder – Hitchcock Blonde
  • Howard Harrison – Ragtime

• 2005: Paule Constable – His Dark Materials
  • Paul Pyant – All's Well That Ends Well
  • Jean Kalman – Festen
  • Howard Harrison – Mary Poppins

• 2006: Paule Constable – Don Carlos
  • Rick Fisher – Billy Elliot the Musical
  • Howard Harrison – Guys and Dolls
  • Hugh Vanstone – Mary Stuart

• 2007: Natasha Chivers and Mike Robertson – Sunday in the Park with George
  • Jean Kalman – The Crucible
  • Hugh Vanstone – Spamalot
  • Neil Austin – Thérèse Raquin
  • Kenneth Posner – Wicked

• 2008: Howard Harrison – Macbeth
  • Kenneth Posner – Hairspray
  • Paul Pyant – The Lord of the Rings
  • Paule Constable – War Horse

• 2009: Paule Constable – The Chalk Garden
  • Paule Constable – Ivanov
  • Neil Austin – No Man's Land
  • Neil Austin – Piaf

2010s

• 2010: Mark Henderson – Burnt by the Sun
  • Mark Henderson – ENRON
  • Kevin Adams – Spring Awakening
  • Jon Clark – Three Days of Rain

• 2011: Neil Austin – The White Guard
  • Mark Henderson – After the Dance
  • Hugh Vanstone – Deathtrap
  • Paule Constable – Love Never Dies

References

• London Theatre Guide (2008) (.PDF). The Laurence Olivier Awards: Full List of Winners 1976-2008. The Society of London Theatre. http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/servlet/file/LOA_fullist.pdf?ITEM_ENT_ID=101095&ITEM_VERSION=1&COLLSPEC_ENT_ID=8. Retrieved 2008-08-30. 

External links

• Laurence Olivier Awards official website