Critics' Circle Theatre Award

|Bob Hoskins

|Guys and Dolls

|Derek Jacobi

|Cyrano de Bergerac and Much Ado About Nothing

|Brian Cox

|Rat in the Skull and Strange Interlude

|Anthony Hopkins

|Pravda

|Bill Fraser

|When We Are Married

|Brian Cox

|Fashion, Taming of the Shrew and Titus Andronicus

|Alex Jennings

|Too Clever by Half

|Ian McKellen

|Othello

|Michael Gambon

|Man of the Moment

|Nigel Hawthorne

|The Madness of George III

|Paul Eddington

|No Man's Land

|Ian Holm

|Moonlight

|Tom Courtenay

|Moscow Stations

|Daniel Massey

|Taking Sides

|David Suchet

|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

|Ian Holm

|King Lear

|Kevin Spacey

|The Iceman Cometh

|Henry Goodman

|The Merchant of Venice

|Michael Gambon

|The Caretaker

|Ian McDiarmid

|Faith Healer

|Simon Russell Beale

|Uncle Vanya

|Michael Sheen

|Caligula

|Richard Griffiths

|The History Boys

|Simon Russell Beale

|The Philanthropist

|Rufus Sewell

|Rock 'n' Roll

|Charles Dance

|Shadowlands

|Kenneth Branagh

|Ivanov

|Mark Rylance

|Jerusalem

|David Suchet

|All My Sons

|Benedict Cumberbatch

|Frankenstein

|Adrian Lester

|Red Velvet

|Lenny Henry

|Fences

|Mark Strong

|A View from the Bridge

|Kenneth Cranham

|The Father

|Stephen Dillane

|Faith Healer

|Bryan Cranston

|Network

|Kyle Soller

|The Inheritance

|Andrew Scott

|Present Laughter

|Ben Daniels

|The Normal Heart

|Giles Terera

|Blues for an Alabama Sky and Othello

|Andrew Scott

|Vanya

|Mark Strong

|Oedipus

|Judi Dench

|The Importance of Being Earnest and A Kind of Alaska

|Juliet Stevenson

|Measure for Measure

|Glenda Jackson

|Strange Interlude

|Vanessa Redgrave

|The Seagull

|Joan Plowright

|The House of Bernarda Alba

|Judi Dench

|Antony and Cleopatra

|Pauline Collins

|Shirley Valentine

|Fiona Shaw

|Electra and The Good Person of Sichuan

|Josette Simon

|After the Fall

|Fiona Shaw

|Hedda Gabler

|Eileen Atkins

|The Night of the Iguana

|Penelope Wilton

|The Deep Blue Sea

|Clare Higgins

|The Children's Hour and Sweet Bird of Youth

|Claire Skinner

|The Glass Menagerie

|Janet McTeer

|A Doll's House

|Judi Dench

|Amy's View

|Sinéad Cusack

|Our Lady of Sligo

|Janie Dee

|Comic Potential

|Victoria Hamilton

|As You Like It

|Lindsay Duncan

|Mouth to Mouth and Private Lives

|Clare Higgins

|Vincent in Brixton

|Eve Best

|Mourning Becomes Electra

|Victoria Hamilton

|Suddenly Last Summer

|Eve Best

|Hedda Gabler

|Kathleen Turner

|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

|Anne-Marie Duff

|Saint Joan

|Margaret Tyzack

|The Chalk Garden

|Rachel Weisz

|A Streetcar Named Desire

|Jenny Jules

|Ruined

|Sheridan Smith

|Flare Path

|Hattie Morahan

|A Doll's House

|Lesley Manville

|Ghosts

|Helen McCrory

|Medea

|Denise Gough

|People, Places and Things

|Billie Piper

|Yerma

|Victoria Hamilton

|Albion

|Patsy Ferran

|Summer and Smoke

|Sharon D Clarke

|Death of a Salesman

|Jessie Buckley

|Cabaret

|Patsy Ferran

|A Streetcar Named Desire

|Sophie Okonedo

|Medea

|Lesley Manville

|Oedipus

|John Gunter

|The Beggar's Opera and Guys and Dolls

|Voytek

|Great and Small

|Alison Chitty

|Venice Preserved

|William Dudley

|The Critic, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Mutiny, The Mysteries and The Real Inspector Hound

|Ezio Frigerio

|The House of Bernarda Alba

|Follies

|Richard Hudson

|The Old Vic season

|John Napier

|Miss Saigon

|Mark Thompson

|The Wind in the Willows

|Bob Crowley

|Murmuring Judges

| rowspan="2" |Ian MacNeil

|An Inspector Calls

|Machinal

|Mark Thompson

|The Kitchen

|Robin Don

|The Winter Guest

|Robert Innes Hopkins

|The Comedy of Errors and The Weavers

|John Napier

|Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up

|Phelim McDermott, Julian Crouch and Graeme Gilmour

|Shockheaded Peter

|Julie Taymor and Richard Hudson

|The Lion King

| rowspan="2" |Paul Brown

|Coriolanus, Richard II and The Tempest

|Platonov

|William Dudley

|The Coast of Utopia

|Bob Crowley

|Mourning Becomes Electra

|Christopher Oram

|Suddenly Last Summer

|Timothy Bird and David Farley

|Sunday in the Park with George

|Punchdrunk Company

|Faust

|Rae Smith and Handspring Puppet Company

|War Horse

|Neil Murray

|Brief Encounter

|Christopher Oram

|Red

|Bunny Christie

|The White Guard

|Mark Tildesley

|Frankenstein

|Miriam Buether

|Wild Swans

| rowspan="2" |Es Devlin

|Chimerica

|The Nether

|Anna Fleischle

|Hangmen

|Christine Jones

|Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

|Vicki Mortimer

|Follies

|Bunny Christie

|Company

|Tom Scutt

|A Very Expensive Poison

|Tom Scutt

|Cabaret

|Tom Pye

|My Neighbour Totoro

|Miriam Buether and 59 Productions

|Stranger Things: The First Shadow

|Frankie Bradshaw

|Ballet Shoes and Dear Octopus

|James Roose-Evans

|84, Charing Cross Road

|Terry Hands

|Cyrano de Bergerac (classical)

|Peter Gill

|Fool for Love and Venice Preserved

|Bill Bryden

|The Mysteries

|Mike Alfreds

|The Cherry Orchard

|Declan Donnellan

|Twelfth Night

|Peter Brook

|The Mahabharata

|Nicholas Hytner

|Ghetto and Miss Saigon

|Peter Hall

|The Wild Duck

|Trevor Nunn

|Timon of Athens

|Stephen Daldry

|An Inspector Calls

|Terry Hands

|Tamburlaine the Great

|Sean Mathias

|Design for Living and Les Parents terribles

|Sam Mendes

|The Glass Menagerie

| rowspan="2" |Richard Eyre

|Guys and Dolls and John Gabriel Borkman

|The Invention of Love and King Lear

|Howard Davies

|Flight and The Iceman Cometh

|Trevor Nunn

|The Merchant of Venice and Summerfolk

|Michael Grandage

|As You Like It, Merrily We Roll Along and Passion Play

|Robert Lepage

|The Far Side of the Moon

|Sam Mendes

|Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya

|Howard Davies

|Mourning Becomes Electra

|Rufus Norris

|Festen

|Michael Grandage

|The Wild Duck

|John Tiffany

|Black Watch

|Rupert Goold

|Macbeth

|Michael Grandage

|The Chalk Garden and Ivanov

|Rupert Goold

|Enron

|Michael Grandage

|King Lear

|Mike Leigh

|Grief

|Benedict Andrews

|Three Sisters

|Lyndsey Turner

|Chimerica

|Ivo van Hove

|A View from the Bridge

|Robert Icke

|Oresteia

|John Tiffany

|Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

|Dominic Cooke

|Follies

|Stephen Daldry

|The Inheritance

|Jamie Lloyd

|Betrayal, Cyrano de Bergerac and Evita

|Rebecca Frecknall

|Cabaret

|Lynette Linton

|Blues for an Alabama Sky

|Rupert Goold

|Dear England

|Robert Icke

|Oedipus

|Guys and Dolls

|Blood Brothers

|On Your Toes

|Me and My Girl

|Chess

|Follies

|South Pacific

|Miss Saigon

|Into the Woods

|Carmen Jones

|Assassins

|City of Angels

|She Loves Me

|Company

|Guys and Dolls

|Chicago

|Oklahoma!

|Spend Spend Spend

|The Beautiful Game

|Kiss Me, Kate

|Anything Goes

|Jerry Springer: The Opera

|The Producers

|Billy Elliot the Musical

|Caroline, or Change

|Hairspray

|La Cage Aux Folles

|Spring Awakening

|Matilda the Musical

|London Road

|Merrily We Roll Along

|The Scottsboro Boys

|Gypsy

|Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical

|Groundhog Day

|Hamilton

|Company

|Come From Away

|Spring Awakening

|Oklahoma!

|Guys and Dolls

|Fiddler on the Roof

|A Kind of Alaska

|Harold Pinter

|One for the Road

|Harold Pinter

|A Chorus of Disapproval

|Alan Ayckbourn

|Road

|Jim Cartwright

|Curtains

|Stephen Bill

|The Secret Rapture

|David Hare

|Ghetto

|Joshua Sobol

|Racing Demon

|David Hare

|Three Birds Alighting on a Field

|Timberlake Wertenbaker

|Angels in America

|Tony Kushner

|Arcadia

|Tom Stoppard

|Dead Funny

|Terry Johnson

|The Steward of Christendom

|Sebastian Barry

|Blinded by the Sun

|Stephen Poliakoff

|Closer

|Patrick Marber

|Copenhagen

|Michael Frayn

|Mnemonic

|Simon McBurney

|Blue/Orange

|Joe Penhall

|Humble Boy

|Charlotte Jones

|The York Realist

|Peter Gill

|Democracy

|Michael Frayn

|The History Boys

|Alan Bennett

|Harvest

|Richard Bean

|Rock'n'Roll

|Tom Stoppard

|A Disappearing Number

|Simon McBurney and Complicite

|August: Osage County

|Tracy Letts

|Jerusalem

|Jez Butterworth

|Clybourne Park

|Bruce Norris

|One Man, Two Guvnors

|Richard Bean

|The Effect

|Lucy Prebble

|Chimerica

|Lucy Kirkwood

|King Charles III

|Mike Bartlett

|Hangmen

|Martin McDonagh

|The Flick

|Annie Baker

|The Ferryman

|Jez Butterworth

|The Inheritance

|Matthew Lopez

|A Very Expensive Poison

|Lucy Prebble

|Best of Enemies

|James Graham

|Patriots

|Peter Morgan

|The Motive and the Cue

|Jack Thorne

|Giant

|Mark Rosenblatt

|Simon Russell Beale

|Hamlet

|Samuel West

|Hamlet

|Mark Rylance

|Twelfth Night

|Greg Hicks

|Coriolanus

|Paul Rhys

|Measure for Measure

|Kevin Spacey

|Richard II

|Tamsin Greig

|Much Ado About Nothing

|Chiwetel Ejiofor

|Othello

|Derek Jacobi

|Twelfth Night

|Jude Law

|Hamlet

|Derek Jacobi

|King Lear

|Eddie Redmayne

|Richard II

|Simon Russell Beale

|Timon of Athens

|Rory Kinnear

|Othello

|Antony Sher

|Henry IV

|Judi Dench

|The Winter's Tale

|Glenda Jackson

|King Lear

|Andrew Scott

|Hamlet

|Sophie Okonedo

|Antony and Cleopatra

|Hammed Animashaun

|A Midsummer Night's Dream

|Cush Jumbo

|Hamlet

|Arthur Hughes

|Richard III

|David Tennant

|Macbeth

|Danny Sapani

|King Lear

|Sam Mendes

|Artistic direction at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester

|Sara Crow

|Private Lives

|Lia Williams

|The Revengers' Comedies

|Rufus Sewell

|Making It Better

|Emma Fielding

|Arcadia and The School for Wives

|Rachel Weisz

|Design for Living

|Victoria Hamilton

|The Master Builder and Retreat

|James Callis

|Old Wicked Songs

|Liza Walker

|Closer

|Mick Gordon

|Gate Theatre, London

|Eve Best

|'Tis Pity She's a Whore

|Chiwetel Ejiofor

|Blue/Orange

|Lyndsey Marshal

|Boston Marriage and Redundant

|Alison Pargeter

|Damsels in Distress

|Lisa Dillon

|Iphigenia and The Master Builder

|Eddie Redmayne

|The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?

|Mariah Gale

|'Tis Pity She's a Whore

|Andrew Garfield

|Citizenship and The Overwhelming

|Leanne Jones

|Hairspray

|Ella Smith

|Fat Pig

|Tom Sturridge

|Punk Rock

|Daniel Kaluuya

|Sucker Punch

|Blanche McIntyre

|Accolade and Foxfinder

|Denise Gough

|Desire Under the Elms and Our New Girl

|Kate O'Flynn

|Port

|Patsy Ferran

|Blithe Spirit and Treasure Island

|David Moorst

|Violence and Son

|Anthony Boyle

|Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

|Sheila Atim

|Girl From the North Country

|Chris Walley

|The Lieutenant of Inishmore

|Sam Tutty

|Dear Evan Hansen

|Samuel Creasy

|The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage

|Lizzie Annis

|The Glass Menagerie

|Louis McCartney

|Stranger Things: The First Shadow

|Francesca Amewudah-Rivers

|Romeo and Juliet

|Stephen Jeffreys

|Valued Friends

|Clare McIntyre

|My Heart's a Suitcase

|Rona Munro

|Bold Girls

|Philip Ridley

|The Fastest Clock in the Universe

|Simon Donald

|Theatre of Stuff

|Kevin Elyot

|My Night With Reg

|Jez Butterworth

|Mojo

|Martin McDonagh

|The Beauty Queen of Leenane

|Conor McPherson

|The Weir

|Rebecca Prichard

|Yard Gal

|Charlotte Jones

|Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis

|Joanna Laurens

|The Three Birds

|Gregory Burke

|Gagarin Way

|Charlotte Eilenberg

|The Lucky Ones

|Lucy Prebble

|The Sugar Syndrome

|Rebecca Lenkiewicz

|The Night Season

|Laura Wade

|Breathing Corpses and Colder Than Here

|Nina Raine

|Rabbit

|Polly Stenham

|That Face

|Alexi Kaye Campbell

|The Pride

|Alia Bano

|Shades

|Anya Reis

|Spur of the Moment

|Tom Well

|The Kitchen Sink

|Lolita Chakrabarti

|Red Velvet

|Rory Kinnear

|The Herd

|Barney Norris

|Visitors

|James Fritz

|Four Minutes Twelve Seconds

|Charlene James

|Cuttin’ It

|Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

|Gloria and An Octoroon

|Natasha Gordon

|Nine Night

|Jasmine Lee-Jones

|Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner

|Igor Memic

|Old Bridge

|Tyrell Williams

|Red Pitch

|Marcelo Dos Santos

|Backstairs Billy

|Mark Rosenblatt

|Giant

|David Lan

|Commendation for artistic direction at the Young Vic

|Neil McPherson

|Commendation for artistic direction at the Finborough Theatre

|Paule Constable

|Commendation for lighting design

|Jermyn Street Theatre

| rowspan="5" |Commendations for exceptional theatre-making during lockdown

|New Diorama Theatre

|Recipient of the Peter Brook Award for an innovative venue

|Orange Tree Theatre

|Recipient of the Peter Brook Award for an innovative venue

|The Yard Theatre

|Recipient of the Peter Brook Award for an innovative venue