Laurence Olivier Award for Best Costume Design

The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Costume Design is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in professional London theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976, and renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor and director Laurence Olivier.

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Costume Design
Awarded for	Best Costume Design
Location	England
Presented by	Society of London Theatre
First award	1991
Currently held by	Gabriella Slade for Starlight Express (2025)
Website	officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/

This award was introduced in 1991. There had been an award for Designer of the Year from 1976 to 1990, originally focused on set designers but including an increasing number of commingled nominations for other design specialties through the years. The commingled single award was retired after the 1990 ceremony, with more granular awards introduced in 1991 for Best Set Design and Best Lighting Design, along with this Best Costume Design award.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Designer	Production
1991
	Jasper Conran	The Rehearsal
	Sue Blane	Into the Woods
	Tom Cairns	Sunday in the Park with George
	Mark Thompson	The Wind in the Willows
1992
	Mark Thompson	The Comedy of Errors
	Ashley Martin-Davis	The Miser
	James Merifield	The Boys from Syracuse
	Philip Prowse	A Woman of No Importance
1993
	William Dudley	Heartbreak House and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
	Bob Crowley	Carousel and Hamlet
	Anthony Powell	Hay Fever and Trelawny of the 'Wells'
	Carl Toms	An Ideal Husband
1994
	Gerald Scarfe	An Absolute Turkey
	Sue Blane	Antony and Cleopatra
	Johan Engels	Tamburlaine the Great
	Anthony Ward	The Winter's Tale
1995
	Deirdre Clancy	Love's Labour's Lost and A Month in the Country
	Stephen Brimson Lewis	Design for Living and Les Parents terribles
	David Charles and Jane Greenwood	She Loves Me
	Clare Mitchell	Le Cid and Saint Joan
1996
	Anthony Ward	A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Way of the World
	Deirdre Clancy	Absolute Hell and Twelfth Night
	Nicky Gillibrand	A Little Night Music
	Richard Hudson	Volpone
1997
	Tim Goodchild	The Relapse
	Louise Belson	By Jeeves
	William Dudley	Mary Stuart
	David C. Woolard	Tommy
1998
	Tim Goodchild	Three Hours After Marriage
	Nicky Gillibrand	Lady in the Dark
	Ann Hould-Ward	Beauty and the Beast
	William Ivey Long	Chicago
1999
	William Dudley	Amadeus and The London Cuckolds
	Maria Björnson	Britannicus and Phèdre
	Bunny Christie	As You Like It
	Robert Jones	Henry VIII

2000s

Year	Designer	Production
2000
	Julie Taymor	The Lion King
	Rob Howell	Money and Troilus and Cressida
	Robert Jones	The Winter's Tale
	Elise and John Napier	Candide
2001
	Alison Chitty	Remembrance of Things Past
	Gregg Barnes	Pageant
	Bob Crowley	Cressida and The Witches of Eastwick
	Roger Kirk	The King and I
2002
	Jenny Beavan	Private Lives
	Martin Pakledinaz	Kiss Me, Kate
	Kevin Pollard	Shockheaded Peter
	Anthony Ward	My Fair Lady
2003
	Jenny Tiramani	Twelfth Night
	William Dudley	The Coast Of Utopia
	Mike Nicholls	Taboo
	Mark Thompson	Bombay Dreams
2004
	Christopher Oram	Power
	Mara Blumenfeld	Pacific Overtures
	Raimonda Gaetaniat	Absolutely! (Perhaps)
	Martin Pakledinaz	Thoroughly Modern Millie
2005
	Deirdre Clancy	All's Well That Ends Well
	Bob Crowley	Mary Poppins
	John Gunter and Mark Bouman	Hamlet
	William Ivey Long	The Producers
2006
	Es Devlin	The Dog in the Manger
	Rob Howell	Hedda Gabler
	Christopher Oram	Don Carlos
	Anthony Ward	Mary Stuart
2007
	Alison Chitty	The Voysey Inheritance
	Tim Hatley	Spamalot
	Susan Hilferty	Wicked
2008
	Vicki Mortimer	The Man of Mode
	Gregg Barnes	The Drowsy Chaperone
	Rob Howell	The Lord of the Rings
	William Ivey Long	Hairspray
2009
	Tom Piper and Emma Williams	The Histories
	Rob Howell	The Norman Conquests
	Christopher Oram	Twelfth Night
	Matthew Wright	La Cage aux Folles

2010s

Year	Designer	Production
2010
	Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner	Priscilla Queen of the Desert
	Peter McKintosh	Hello, Dolly!
	Christopher Oram	Madame de Sade
	Amy Roberts	The Misanthrope
2011
	Hildegard Bechtler	After the Dance
	Lez Brotherston	Design for Living
	Bob Crowley	Love Never Dies
	Mark Thompson	London Assurance
2012
	Peter McKintosh	Crazy for You
	Tim Hatley	Shrek
	Rob Howell	Matilda
	Catherine Zuber	South Pacific
2013
	Jon Morrell	Top Hat
	Bob Crowley	The Audience
	Jenny Tiramani	Twelfth Night
	Anthony Ward	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2014
	Mark Thompson	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
	Nicky Gillibrand	The Wind in the Willows
	Soutra Gilmour	Merrily We Roll Along
	Rae Smith	The Light Princess
2015
	Christopher Oram	Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
	Robert Jones	City of Angels
	Paul Tazewell	Memphis
	Alejo Vietti	Beautiful
2016
	Gregg Barnes	Kinky Boots
	Hugh Durrant	Nell Gwynn
	Jonathan Fensom	Farinelli and the King
	Katrina Lindsay	Bend It Like Beckham
2017
	Katrina Lindsay	Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
	Gregg Barnes	Dreamgirls
	Hugh Durrant	Cinderella
	Rob Howell	Groundhog Day
2018
	Vicki Mortimer	Follies
	Hugh Durrant	Dick Whittington
	Roger Kirk	42nd Street
	Paul Tazewell	Hamilton
2019
	Catherine Zuber	The King and I
	Fly Davis	Caroline, or Change
	Anna Fleischle	Home, I'm Darling
	Gabriella Slade	Six

2020s

Year	Designer	Production
2020
	Joanna Scotcher	Emilia
	Hugh Durrant	Goldilocks and the Three Bears
	Jonathan Lipman	Fiddler on the Roof
	Paloma Young	& Juliet
2021	Not presented due to extended closing of theatre productions during COVID-19 pandemic[A]
2022[A]
	Catherine Zuber	Moulin Rouge!
	Jon Morrell	Anything Goes
	Christopher Oram	Frozen
	Tom Scutt	Cabaret
2023
	Kimie Nakano	My Neighbour Totoro
	Frankie Bradshaw	Blues for an Alabama Sky
	Hugh Durrant	Jack and the Beanstalk
	Jean Paul Gaultier	Jean Paul Gaultier Fashion Freak Show
2024
	Marg Horwell	The Picture of Dorian Gray
	Bunny Christie & Deborah Andrews	Guys and Dolls
	Ryan Dawson Laight	La Cage aux Folles
	Hugh Durrant	Peter Pan
2025
	Gabriella Slade	Starlight Express
	Hugh Durrant	Robin Hood
	Sachiko Nakahara	Spirited Away
	Tom Scutt	Fiddler on the Roof

1. Due to late March 2020^[1] to late July 2021^[2] closing of London theatre productions during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, the 2022 awards recognise productions that launched anytime from February 2020 to February 2022^[3]

Multiple awards and nominations for Best Costume Design

Awards

Two awards

• Alison Chitty
• Deirdre Clancy
• William Dudley
• Tim Goodchild
• Christopher Oram
• Mark Thompson
• Vicki Mortimer
• Catherine Zuber

Nominations

Six nominations

• Hugh Durrant

• Rob Howell
• Christopher Oram

Five nominations

• Bob Crowley
• Mark Thompson
• Anthony Ward

Four nominations

• Gregg Barnes
• William Dudley

Three nominations

• Deirdre Clancy
• Nicky Gillibrand
• Robert Jones
• William Ivey Long
• Catherine Zuber

Two nominations

• Sue Blane
• Alison Chitty
• Tim Goodchild
• Tim Hatley
• Roger Kirk
• Peter McKintosh
• Jon Morrell
• Vicki Mortimer
• Martin Pakledinaz
• Gabriella Slade
• Paul Tazewell
• Jenny Tiramani

See also

• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design
• Tony Award for Best Costume Design