It’s been quite the year, it’s almost Christmas and what would the festive season be without some recognition of the best of 2025? Over the next week we’ll shortlist five nominees in each of 17 categories for our Oscars, or monstas if you will, of 2025.

• Read on for the nominees for the monsta for the Best Theatre Actor 2025 Previous winners 2024 Paapa Essiedu (Death Of England: The Plays) 2023 Charlie Stemp (Crazy For You), 2022 Mark Rylance (Jerusalem); 2021 James McArdle (The Tragedy Of Macbeth); 2020: Michael Balogun (Death of England: Delroy), 2019: Daniel Monks (Teenage Dick), 2018: Arinze Kene (Misty), 2017: Andrew Scott (Hamlet), 2016: George Mackay (The Caretaker), 2015: James McAvoy (The Ruling Class) 

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