Best Play or Musical:
Winner: Twelfth Night (Orange Tree Theatre)
Nominees:
- King Lear (The Shed)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival)
- Twelfth Night (Orange Tree Theatre)
- Macbeth (National Theatre)
- Cymbeline (Stratford Festival)
Best Principal Actor/Actress:
Winner: Michael Patrick (Richard, Richard III, Belfast Lyric Theatre)
Nominees:
- Ty Fanning (Hamlet, Hamlet, Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company)
- Tess Burgler (Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing, Ohio Shakespeare Festival)
- Kenneth Branagh (King Lear, King Lear, The Shed)
- Michael Patrick (Richard, Richard III, Belfast Lyric Theatre)
- Patricia Allison (Viola, Twelfth Night, Orange Tree Theatre)
- Ian McKellen (Hamlet, Hamlet, Theatre Royal Windsor)
- Indira Varma (Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, National Theatre)
- Dorothea Myer-Bennett (Olivia, Twelfth Night, Orange Tree Theatre)
Best Supporting Actor/Actress:
Winner: Steven Berkoff (Polonius, Hamlet, Theatre Royal Windsor)
Nominees:
- Jameka Monet Wilson (Perdita, The Winter's Tale, Delaware Shakespeare Festival)
- Hayden Wood (Dogberry, Much Ado About Nothing, The Watermill Theatre)
- Leigh Quinn (Verges/Conrade/Friar, Much Ado About Nothing, The Watermill Theatre)
- Akeem Davis (Ford, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival)
- Steven Berkoff (Polonius, Hamlet, Theatre Royal Windsor)
- Clive Francis (Sir Toby Belch, Twelfth Night, Orange Tree Theatre)
- Oliver Ford Davies (Malvolio, Twelfth Night, Orange Tree Theatre)
Best Director:
Winner: Elle While (Richard III, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre)
Nominees:
- Elle While (Richard III, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre)
- Matt Pfeiffer (Ford, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival)
- Oisín Kearney (The Tragedy of Richard III, Belfast Lyric Theatre)
- Rob Ashford (King Lear, The Shed)
- John River-Resto (Trópico Macbeth, LatinUs Theater Company)
- Tom Littler (Twelfth Night, Orange Tree Theatre)
- Simon Godwin (Macbeth, National Theatre)
- Ola Ince (Othello, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre)
Best Scenic Design:
Winner: Neil Irish and Anett Black (Twelfth Night, Orange Tree Theatre)
Nominees:
- Courtney O'Neill (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Great Lakes Theater)
- Echo Zhou (Cymbeline, Stratford Festival)
- Neil Irish (Twelfth Night, Orange Tree Theatre)
- Anett Black (Twelfth Night, Orange Tree Theatre)
Best Sound Design/Original Score:
Winner: Ben and Max Ringham (King Lear, The Shed)
Nominees:
- Christopher Colucci (The Comedy of Errors, Lantern Theater Company)
- Alex Bechtel (The Merry Wives of Windsor, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival)
- Ben and Max Ringham (King Lear, The Shed)
- Njo Kong Kie (Cymbeline, Stratford Festival)
- Renell Shaw (Othello, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre)
- Stefan Bednarczyk (Twelfth Night, Orange Tree Theatre)
- Matt Eaton (Twelfth Night, Orange Tree Theatre)
Best Lighting Design:
Winner: Echo Zhou (Cymbeline, Stratford Festival)
Nominees:
- Shon Causer (The Comedy of Errors, Lantern Theater Company)
- Anthony Forchielli (Macbeth, Quintessence Theatre Group)
- Jonathan M. Daley (Richard III, Belfast Lyric Theatre)
- Paul Keogan (King Lear, The Shed)
- Echo Zhou (Cymbeline, Stratford Festival)
- William Reynolds (Twelfth Night, Orange Tree Theatre)
Best Costume/Makeup Design:
Winner: Jon Bausor (King Lear, The Shed)
Nominees:
- Rebecca Kanach (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hedgerow Theatre Company)
- Jen Kilander and Victoria Wojciechowski (The Comedy of Errors, Harrisburg Shakespeare Company)
- Pei Lee (The Merry Wives of Windsor, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival)
- Jon Bausor (King Lear, The Shed)
- Michelle Bohn (Cymbeline, Stratford Festival)
Best Choreography or Fight Direction:
Winner: Philip d’Orléans (Twelfth Night, Orange Tree Theatre)
Nominees:
- Charles McMahon (The Comedy of Errors, Lantern Theater Company)
- Jessie Jones (Macbeth, Quintessence Theatre Group)
- Sean Bradley (Macbeth, Quintessence Theatre Group)
- Anita Nittoly (Cymbeline, Stratford Festival)
- Philip d’Orléans (Twelfth Night, Orange Tree Theatre)
Best Script Adaptation/Dramaturgy:
Winner: The Bed Trick (Keiko Green, Seattle Shakespeare)
Nominees:
- The Bed Trick (Keiko Green, Seattle Shakespeare)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Peter Reynolds, Hedgerow Theatre Company)
- The Tragedy of Richard III (Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney, Belfast Lyric Theatre)
- Trópico Macbeth (John River-Resto, LatinUs Theater Company)
- Othello (Ola Ince, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre)
Best Film (Any medium):
Winner: Hamlet (Director: Sean Mathias, BK Studios)
Nominees:
- Hamlet (Director: Sean Mathias, BK Studios)
- Cymbeline (Director: Esther Jun, Stratfest @ Home)
Best Book, Publication, or Recording:
Winner: Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King (Dan Jones, Viking)
Nominees:
- The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV (Helen Castor, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
- Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King (Dan Jones, Viking)
- Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent (Judi Dench & Brendan O'Hea, St. Martin's Press)
- The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race (Patricia Akhimie, Oxford University Press)
- Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud (Stephen Greenblatt & Adam Phillips, Yale University Press)
- Shylock's Venice: The Remarkable History of Venice's Jews and the Ghetto (Harry Freedman, Bloomsbury Continuum)
Lear Award for Lifetime Achievement:
Ralph Fiennes
