# Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Contribution

The Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Contribution 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 2014 as Outstanding Achievement in Music, and was renamed to Best Original Score or New Orchestrations from 2020 to 2023.
Since 2024, the award was given its current name and reconfigured to honor librettists (book, lyrics and score) alongside Best New Musical, while other music elements (arrangements, music direction, music supervision and orchestrations) honored in this category.

## Winners and nominees
### 2010s

| Year | Production | Recipient |
| 2014 |
| 2014 | Once | Martin Lowe, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová |
| 2014 | Merrily We Roll Along | The Orchestra |
| 2014 | The Book of Mormon | Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone |
| 2014 | The Scottsboro Boys | John Kander and Fred Ebb |
| 2015 |
| 2015 | Sunny Afternoon | Ray Davies |
| 2015 | Beautiful | The Orchestra |
| 2015 | Here Lies Love | David Byrne and Fatboy Slim |
| 2015 | Memphis | David Bryan, Joe DiPietro, Tim Sutton and the Band |
| 2016 |
| 2016 | In the Heights | Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| 2016 | Bend It Like Beckham | Howard Goodall, Charles Hart and Kuljit Bhamra |
| 2016 | Farinelli and the King | Claire van Kampen, the Orchestra, Iestyn Davies and the Farinelli Singers |
| 2016 | Kinky Boots | Cyndi Lauper and Stephen Oremus |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | School of Rock | Three children's bands who play live every night |
| 2017 | Dreamgirls | Henry Krieger |
| 2017 | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | Imogen Heap |
| 2017 | Jesus Christ Superstar | The Band and Company |
| 2018 |
| 2018 | Hamilton | Alex Lacamoire and Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| 2018 | Everybody's Talking About Jamie | Dan Gillespie Sells |
| 2018 | Follies | The orchestra, under the musical supervision of Nicholas Skilbeck and music director Nigel Lilley |
| 2018 | Girl from the North Country | Bob Dylan and Simon Hale |
| 2019 |
| 2019 | Come from Away | David Hein, Irene Sankoff, Ian Eisendrath, August Eriksmoen, Alan Berry and the Band |
| 2019 | A Monster Calls | Benji Bower and Will Bower |
| 2019 | Fun Home | Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori |
| 2019 | The Inheritance | Paul Englishby |
| 2019 | Six | Joe Beighton, Tom Curran, Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss |

### 2020s

| Year | Production | Recipient |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Dear Evan Hansen | Alex Lacamoire, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul |
| 2020 | Waitress | Sara Bareilles |
| 2020 | Fiddler on the Roof | Jason Carr |
| 2020 | & Juliet | Dominic Fallacaro and Bill Sherman |
| 2020 | Amélie | Barnaby Race |
| 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 | Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical | Simon Hale (orchestrations) |
| 2022 | Anything Goes | David Chase, Bill Elliott and Rob Fisher (orchestrations) |
| 2022 | Back to the Future: The Musical | Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard (music and lyrics), Bryan Crook and Ethan Popp (orchestrations) |
| 2022 | Life of Pi | Andrew T. Mackay (music) |
| 2023 |
| 2023 | Standing at the Sky's Edge | Richard Hawley (music and lyrics), Tom Deering (orchestrations) |
| 2023 | The Band's Visit | David Yazbek (music and lyrics), Jamshied Sharifi (orchestrations), Andrea Grody (additional arrangements) |
| 2023 | My Neighbour Totoro | Joe Hisaishi (music), Will Stuart (orchestrations and arrangements) |
| 2023 | Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! | Daniel Kluger (orchestrations and arrangements), Nathan Koci (additional vocal arrangements) |
| 2024 |
| 2024 | Sunset Boulevard | Alan Williams (music direction and music supervision) |
| 2024 | Guys and Dolls | Tom Brady (arrangements and music supervision), Charlie Rosen (orchestrations) |
| 2024 | Just for One Day | Matt Brind (arrangements, music supervision, and orchestrations) |
| 2024 | Operation Mincemeat | Joe Bunker (music direction), Steve Sidwell (orchestrations) |
* 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