Award hope for Corden’s hit Broadway show

The comic actor – who won acclaim for his London run of the show and is known best to TV viewers for his role in Gavin and Stacey – faces eminent names for the title of best leading actor in a play, including Philip Seymour Hoffman and James Earl Jones.

Corden, 33, was also nominated for an Olivier Award for his West End stint in the show but lost out to Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in Frankenstein. He is up against Hoffman for Death of a Salesman, Jones for The Best Man, Frank Langella for Man and Boy and John Lithgow for The Columnist.

Bafta winning Brit Andrew Garfield, who plays Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man, is also nominated for his role in Death of a Salesman. His acclaimed performance as Biff marked his Broadway debut.

Former Coronation Street actress Tracie Bennett is another British hopeful. She has been nominated for her role as Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow and is facing tough competition for the leading actress in a play award against stars such as Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon who won acclaim for her performance as a cancer sufferer in Wit.

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s hits Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita have both been nominated for best musical revival, along with Follies and Porgy and Bess.