The full shortlist (or shortlists, depending on how you look at is! for the 2014 Evening Standard Awards has been announced - there are plenty of trully strong contenders here.
BEST ACTOR
Tom Hiddleston - Coriolanus, Donmar Warehouse
Ben Miles - Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies, RSC Swan & Aldwych
Mark Strong - A View from the Bridge, Young Vic
NATASHA RICHARDSON AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS
Gillian Anderson A Streetcar Named Desire, Young Vic
Helen McCrory Medea, National Theatre's Olivier
Tanya Moodie Intimate Apparel, Ustinov Bath & Park Theatre
Billie Piper Great Britain, National Theatre's Lyttelton
Kristin Scott Thomas Electra, Old Vic
NOOK AWARD FOR BEST PLAY
Intimate Apparel - Lynn Nottage, Ustinov Bath & Park Theatre
The James Plays - Rona Munro, Edinburgh Festival Theatre & National Theatre's Olivier
King Charles III - Mike Bartlett, Almeida & Wyndham's
The Nether - Jennifer Haley, Royal Court
NED SHERRIN AWARD FOR BEST MUSICAL
Dogfight - Southwark Playhouse
Here Lies Love - National Theatre's Dorfman
The Scottsboro Boys - Young Vic & Garrick
Sunny Afternoon - Hampstead & Harold Pinter Theatre
MILTON SHULMAN AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR
Stephen Daldry - Skylight, Wyndham's
Yaël Farber - The Crucible, Old Vic
Jeremy Herrin - Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies, RSC Swan & Aldwych
Ivo van Hove - A View from the Bridge, Young Vic
EMERGING TALENT AWARD IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BURBERRY
Matthew Beard - for his performance in Skylight, Wyndham's
John Dagleish - for his performance in Sunny Afternoon, Hampstead & Harold Pinter Theatre
Robert Hastie - for his direction of My Night With Reg, Donmar Warehouse
Laura Jane Matthewson - for her performance in Dogfight, Southwark Playhouse
BEST DESIGN IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HEAL'S
Bunny Christie - Emil and the Detectives, National Theatre's Olivier
Es Devlin - American Psycho, Almeida
Mark Henderson (Lighting designer) - Kate Bush's Before the Dawn, Eventim Apollo
Ashley Martin-Davis - Wonderland, Hampstead
CHARLES WINTOUR AWARD FOR MOST PROMISING PLAYWRIGHT
Barney Norris - Visitors (Arcola)
Dan O'Brien - The Body of an American (Northampton Royal & Derngate & Gate Notting Hill)
Beth Steel - Wonderland (Hampstead)
