Laurence Olivier Award For Best Actor - Award Winners and Nominations - 2000s

2000s

2000 Henry Goodman – The Merchant of Venice

• Roger Allam – Summerfolk
• Stephen Dillane – The Real Thing
• Michael Sheen – Look Back in Anger
• Antony Sher – A Winter's Tale

2001 Conleth Hill – Stones in His Pockets

• Sean Campion – Stones in His Pockets
• Michael Gambon – The Caretaker
• Bill Nighy – Blue/Orange
• Simon Russell Beale – Hamlet

2002 Roger Allam – Privates on Parade

• Sean Foley – The Play What I Wrote
• Hamish McColl – The Play What I Wrote
• Alan Rickman – Private Lives
• Simon Russell Beale – Humble Boy

2003 Simon Russell Beale – Uncle Vanya

• Michael Gambon – A Number
• Mark Rylance – Twelfth Night
• David Tennant – Lobby Hero

2004 Matthew Kelly – Of Mice and Men

• Roger Allam – Democracy
• Kenneth Branagh – Edmond
• Greg Hicks – Coriolanus
• Michael Sheen – Caligula

2005 Richard Griffiths – The History Boys

• Michael Gambon – Endgame
• Jonathan Pryce – The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
• Ben Whishaw – Hamlet

2006 Brian Dennehy – Death of a Salesman

• Richard Griffiths – Heroes
• Derek Jacobi – Don Carlos
• Con O'Neill – Telstar
• Michael Sheen – Someone Who'll Watch Over Me

2007 Rufus Sewell – Rock 'n' Roll

• Iain Glen – The Crucible
• David Haig – Donkeys' Years
• Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
• Michael Sheen – Frost/Nixon

2008 Chiwetel Ejiofor – Othello

• Ian McKellen – King Lear
• Mark Rylance – Boeing Boeing
• John Simm – Elling
• Patrick Stewart – Macbeth

2009 Derek Jacobi – Twelfth Night

• David Bradley – No Man's Land
• Michael Gambon – No Man's Land
• Adam Godley – Rain Man