EVENING STANDARD THEATRE AWARDS: Winners Include Smith, Cumberbatch, Lee Miller, ONE MAN TWO GUV'NORS, WICKED and MATILDA!

The Evening Standard Theatre Awards winners were announced tonight - with Sheridan Smith picking up Best Actress for her role in Flare Path and Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller sharing the prize for Best Actor for their joint role in Frankenstein.

Richard Bean's two plays, The Heretic and One Man Two Guv'nors, also split the award for Best Play.

The ceremony was hosted by Dame Edna Everage, with awards presented by stars including Karen Gillan, Gemma Arterton and Olivia Williams.

Wicked was named "Best Night Out" by Evening Standard readers, while Michael Grandage won the editor's award for his achievement at the Donmar.

Special awards also went to Tom Stoppard, Kristin Scott Thomas and the Pet Shop Boys.

EVENING STANDARD THEATRE AWARDS - NOMINEES

BEST ACTOR

Bertie Carvel
Matilda (RSC Stratford and Cambridge Theatre)
Benedict Cumberbatch (WINNER)
Frankenstein (National's Olivier)
Charles Edwards
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare's Globe)
Jonny Lee Miller (WINNER)
Frankenstein (National's Olivier)

Natasha Richardson award for Best Actress

Sheridan Smith (WINNER)
Flare Path (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
Samantha Spiro
Chicken Soup With Barley (Royal Court)
Kristin Scott Thomas
Betrayal (Comedy)

Best Play

The Heretic (WINNER)
Richard Bean (Royal Court ) 
One Man, Two Guvnors (WINNER)
Richard Bean (National's Lyttelton)
Becky Shaw
Gina Gionfriddo (Almeida)
Tribes
Nina Raine (Royal Court)

Ned Sherrin Award For Best Musical

Betty Blue Eyes
Novello
London Road
National's Cottesloe
Matilda the musical (WINNER)
RSC Stratford and Cambridge Theatre

Best Director

Rob Ashford
Anna Christie (Donmar)
Dominic Cooke
Chicken Soup With Barley (Royal Court)
Edward Hall
Richard III & The Comedy Of Errors (Propeller At Hampstead)
Mike Leigh (WINNER)
Grief (National's Cottesloe) 

Bunny Christie
Men Should Weep (National's Lyttelton)
Lizzie Clachan
Wastwater (Royal Court)
Adam Cork (WINNER)
Sound designer of Anna Christie and King Lear (Donmar)
Mark Tildesley
Frankenstein (National's Olivier)

Charles Wintour Award For Most Promising Playwright

E.V. Crowe
Kin (Royal Court)
Vivienne Franzmann
Mogadishu (Lyric Hammersmith)
Penelope Skinner (WINNER)
The Village Bike (Royal Court)

Milton Shulman Award For Outstanding Newcomer

Phoebe Fox
For her performances In As You Like It (Rose, Kingston) and The Acid Test (Royal Court) and There Is A War (National's Paintframe)
Malachi Kirby
For his performance In Mogadishu (Lyric Hammersmith)
Kyle Soller (WINNER)
For his performances In The Glass Menagerie (Young Vic), Government Inspector (Young Vic) and The Faith Machine (Royal Court)
David Wilson Barnes
For his performance In Becky Shaw (Almeida)