Billy Elliot's other nominations include best new musical and best director for Stephen Daldry.
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Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry will direct the West End production next February at London's Gielgud theatre.
Directed by Stephen Daldry, The Audience opens in February at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End.
"That he feels unable to continue is a great sadness to us all, " said Stephen Daldry, the play's director.
Stephen Daldry, who directed Bell in Billy Elliot and has remained good friends with the young star, was also among the guests.
Among those to speak out were National Theatre boss Sir Nicholas Hytner, actor Stephen Fry and directors Danny Boyle and Stephen Daldry.
Both the film and the musical were directed by Britain's Stephen Daldry.
Film and theatre director Stephen Daldry, the creative director of the Olympic ceremonies, was presented with a special award at the end of the evening by Stephen Fry.
Also interviewed are Dame Judi Dench, Arthur Miller, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Peter Hall, Sir Tom Stoppard, Vanessa Redgrave, Fiona Shaw, Stephen Daldry, David Hare, Harold Pinter, and Alan Bennett.
In the movie, which was written by Eric Roth and directed by Stephen Daldry, Oskar (Thomas Horn) is eleven and fully there, front and center on the street, a skinny kid with floppy brown hair and blue eyes.
In a mild surprise, "The Reader, " based on the best-selling novel about a postwar German boy who has an affair with an older woman with a Holocaust-related secret, took home nominations for best picture, best actress (Kate Winslet) and best director (Stephen Daldry).
In the movie, which was written by Eric Roth and directed by Stephen Daldry, Oskar (Thomas Horn) is fully there, front and center, a skinny kid with blue eyes, irritated by his living mom (Sandra Bullock) and madly in love with his deceased dad (Tom Hanks, seen generously in flashbacks).
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