Stewart, Jacobi win Olivier Awards

Patrick Stewart and Derek Jacobi were among the stars recognised at last night's Olivier Awards.

Jacobi won the best actor prize for the part of Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, while Stewart picked up his third Olivier for best supporting performance for his Claudius in the Bard's Hamlet, WhatsOnStage reports.

Stewart said: "You cannot perform Claudius without Hamlet, but we performed Hamlet without David Tennant for four weeks.

"In part this is also going to the extraordinary David Tennant and to his understudy, who went on to play Hamlet at a preview with four hours' notice, the astonishing Edward Bennett."

Black Watch received the most awards of the evening, winning best new play, best director, best sound design and best choreographer.

Earlier this month, it emerged that Tennant's role in Hamlet would be filmed as a movie that "won't be a feature film" but would be more than a straight transfer of the stage production.