Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonny Lee Miller & More Short-Listed for 2011 London Evening Standard Awards

Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonny Lee Miller, Rob Ashford and more have been shortlisted for London's 2011 Evening Standard Theatre Awards. The prestigious awards, which are chosen by a panel of theater critics from the UK's top publications, will be handed out at a dinner ceremony hosted by Dame Edna Everage at the Savoy Hotel on November 20.

The complete list of contenders is as follows:

Best Actor
Bertie Carvel, Matilda The Musical
Benedict Cumberbatch, Frankenstein
Charles Edwards, Much Ado About Nothing
Jonny Lee Miller, Frankenstein

Best Actress
Sheridan Smith, Flare Path
Samantha Spiro, Chicken Soup With Barley
Kristin Scott Thomas, Betrayal

Best Play
The Heretic, Richard Bean
One Man, Two Guvnors, Richard Bean
Becky Shaw, Gina Gionfriddo
Tribes, Nina Raine

The Ned Sherrin Award For Best Musical
Betty Blue Eyes
London Road
Matilda

Best Director
Rob Ashford, Anna Christie
Dominic Cooke, Chicken Soup With Barley
Edward Hall , Richard III & The Comedy Of Errors
Mike Leigh Grief

Best Design
Bunny Christie, Men Should Weep
Lizzie Clachan, Wastwater
Adam Cork, sound designer, Anna Christie and King Lear
Mark Tildesley, Frankenstein

The Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright
Ev Crowe, Kin
Vivienne Franzmann, Mogadishu
Penelope Skinner, The Village Bike

The Milton Shulman Award For Outstanding Newcomer
Phoebe Fox, As You Like It, The Acid Test and There Is A War
Malachi Kirby, Mogadishu
Kyle Soller, The Glass Menagerie, Government Inspector and The Faith Machine
David Wilson Barnes, Becky Shaw