# Laurence Olivier Award for Best Sound Design

The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Sound Design is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976, and renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor and director Laurence Olivier.
This award was introduced in 2004, 13 years after the 1991 introduction of individual awards for Best Set Design, Best Costume Design and Best Lighting Design.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 2004 |
| 2004 | Mike Walker | Jerry Springer |
| 2004 | Paul Arditti | The Pillowman |
| 2004 | Peter Hylenski | Ragtime |
| 2004 | Nick Lidster | Pacific Overtures |
| 2005 |
| 2005 | Mick Potter | The Woman in White |
| 2005 | Paul Arditti | Festen |
| 2005 | Adam Cork | Suddenly, Last Summer |
| 2006 |
| 2006 | Paul Arditti | Billy Elliot |
| 2006 | Terry Jardine and Chris Full | Guys and Dolls |
| 2006 | Christopher Shutt | Coram Boy |
| 2007 |
| 2007 | Gareth Fry | Waves |
| 2007 | Ian Dickinson | Rock 'n' Roll |
| 2007 | Mic Pool | The 39 Steps |
| 2008 |
| 2008 | Paul Arditti | Saint Joan |
| 2008 | Simon Baker | The Lord of the Rings |
| 2008 | Terry Jardine and Nick Lidster | Parade |
| 2008 | Steve C. Kennedy | Hairspray |
| 2008 | Christopher Shutt | War Horse |
| 2009 |
| 2009 | Gareth Fry | Black Watch |
| 2009 | Simon Baker | Brief Encounter |
| 2009 | Steve Canyon Kennedy | Jersey Boys |
| 2009 | Christopher Shutt, Max Ringham and Ben Ringham | Piaf |

### 2010s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 2010 |
| 2010 | Brian Ronan | Spring Awakening |
| 2010 | Andrew Bruce and Nick Lidster | Mother Courage and Her Children |
| 2010 | Ian Dickinson | Jerusalem |
| 2010 | Christopher Shutt | Every Good Boy Deserves Favour |
| 2011 |
| 2011 | Adam Cork | King Lear |
| 2011 | Nick Manning | Ghost Stories |
| 2011 | Gareth Owen | End of the Rainbow |
| 2011 | Craig Vear | The Railway Children |
| 2012 |
| 2012 | Simon Baker | Matilda |
| 2012 | Bobby Aitken | Ghost |
| 2012 | Ben Ringham and Max Ringham | The Ladykillers |
| 2012 | Underworld and Ed Clarke | Frankenstein |
| 2013 |
| 2013 | Ian Dickinson and Adrian Sutton | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| 2013 | Paul Groothuis | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| 2013 | David McSeveney | Constellations |
| 2013 | Gareth Owen | Top Hat |
| 2014 |
| 2014 | Carolyn Downing | Chimerica |
| 2014 | Gareth Owen | Merrily We Roll Along |
| 2014 | Simon Baker | The Light Princess |
| 2014 | Clive Goodwin | Once |
| 2015 |
| 2015 | Gareth Owen | Memphis |
| 2015 | Tom Gibbons | A View from the Bridge |
| 2015 | Matt McKenzie | Sunny Afternoon |
| 2015 | Brian Ronan | Beautiful |
| 2016 |
| 2016 | Tom Gibbons | People, Places and Things |
| 2016 | George Dennis | The Homecoming |
| 2016 | Christopher Shutt | The Father |
| 2016 | Christopher Shutt | Hamlet |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | Gareth Fry | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child |
| 2017 | Paul Arditti | Amadeus |
| 2017 | Adam Cork | Travesties |
| 2017 | Nick Lidster | Jesus Christ Superstar |
| 2018 |
| 2018 | Nevin Steinberg | Hamilton |
| 2018 | Tom Gibbons | Hamlet |
| 2018 | Gareth Owen | Bat Out of Hell |
| 2018 | Eric Sleichim | Network |
| 2019 |
| 2019 | Gareth Owen | Come from Away |
| 2019 | Paul Arditti and Christopher Reid | The Inheritance |
| 2019 | Mike Beer | A Monster Calls |
| 2019 | Carolyn Downing | Summer and Smoke |
| 2019 | Nick Powell | The Lehman Trilogy |

### 2020s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Emma Laxton | Emilia |
| 2020 | Gregory Clarke | Rosmersholm |
| 2020 | Ben Ringham and Max Ringham | Anna |
| 2020 | Ben Ringham and Max Ringham | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| 2021 | Not presented due to extended closing of theatre productions during COVID-19 pandemic | Not presented due to extended closing of theatre productions during COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2022 |
| 2022 | Nick Lidster | Cabaret |
| 2022 | Ian Dickinson | 2:22 A Ghost Story |
| 2022 | Carolyn Downing | Life of Pi |
| 2022 | Gareth Owen | Back to the Future: The Musical |
| 2023 |
| 2023 | Tony Gayle | My Neighbour Totoro |
| 2023 | Bobby Aitken | Standing at the Sky's Edge |
| 2023 | Drew Levy | Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! |
| 2023 | Ben & Max Ringham | Prima Facie |
| 2024 |
| 2024 | Adam Fisher | Sunset Boulevard |
| 2024 | Paul Arditti | Stranger Things: The First Shadow |
| 2024 | Dan Balfour & Tom Gibbons | Dear England |
| 2024 | Gareth Fry | Macbeth |
* 1 2 Due to late March 2020 to late July 2021 closing of London theatre productions during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, the 2022 awards recognise productions that launched anytime from February 2020 to February 2022