The
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design is an annual award presented by the
Society of London Theatre
The Society of London Theatre (SOLT) is an umbrella organisation for West End theatre in London. Founded in 1908, as Society of West End Theatre Managers, then Society of West End Theatre in 1975, changing to its current name in 1994, the (SOLT) ...
in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre. The awards were established as the Society of
West End Theatre
West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.Christopher Innes, "West End" in ''The Cambridge Guide to Theatre'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 1194–1 ...
Awards in 1976, and renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor and director
Laurence Olivier.
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 Costume Design, along with this Best Lighting Design award.
Winners and nominees
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
See also
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Tony Award for Best Lighting Design
This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for outstanding lighting design of a play or musical. The award was first presented in 1970. Since 2005, the category was divided into Lighting Design in a Play ...
References
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External links
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Lighting Design
In theatre, a lighting designer (or LD) works with the director, choreographer, set designer, costume designer, and sound designer to create the lighting, atmosphere, and time of day for the production in response to the text while keeping i ...