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{{short description|English film and theatre director}}
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| birth_name       = Nicholas Robert Hytner
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1956|05|7}}<ref name=Debretts>{{cite web |url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/h/14647/Nicholas%20Robert+HYTNER.aspx |title=Sir Nicholas Hytner Authorised Biography |website=Debrett's |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518143451/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/h/14647/Nicholas%20Robert+HYTNER.aspx |archive-date=18 May 2011}}</ref><ref name=GuardianSep2003>{{cite web |first=Fiachra |last=Gibbons |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/sep/26/theatre |title=The Guardian profile: Nicholas Hytner |website=The Guardian |date=26 September 2003 |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250427161921/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/sep/26/theatre |archive-date=April 27, 2025}}</ref>
| birth_place        = [[Didsbury]], [[Manchester]], England<ref name=GuardianSep2003 /><ref name=BFIScreenOnline>{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/502644/index.html |title=Hytner, Nicholas (1956–) |website=BFI |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223204654/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/502644/index.html |archive-date=February 23, 2024}}</ref>
| occupation      = Theatre director, film director, film producer
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| awards          = [[Nicholas Hytner#Awards and honours|Full list]]
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'''Sir Nicholas Robert Hytner''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|aɪ|t|n|ər}} {{respell|HYTE|nər}}; born 7 May 1956) is an English theatre director, film director, and film producer. He was previously the Artistic Director of [[West End theatre|London]]'s [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]. His major successes as director include ''[[Miss Saigon]]'', ''[[The History Boys]]'' and ''[[One Man, Two Guvnors]]''. He is also known for directing films such as ''[[The Madness of King George]]'' (1994), ''[[The Crucible (1996 film)|The Crucible]]'' (1996), ''[[The History Boys (film)|The History Boys]]'' (2006), and ''[[The Lady in the Van]]'' (2015). Hytner was [[knight bachelor|knighted]] in the [[2010 New Year Honours]] for services to drama by [[Queen Elizabeth II]].<ref name="ReferenceA">{{London Gazette|issue=59282|date=31 December 2009|page=1|supp=y}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Hytner was born in the prosperous suburbs of south [[Manchester]] in 1956,<ref name=GuardianOct2010>{{cite web |first=Andrew |last=Dickson |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/oct/18/nicholas-hytner-national-theatre-profile |title=A life in theatre: Nicholas Hytner |website=The Guardian |date=16 October 2010 |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111013007/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/oct/18/nicholas-hytner-national-theatre-profile |archive-date=January 11, 2014}}</ref> to barrister [[Benet Hytner]] and his wife, [[Joyce Hytner|Joyce]].<ref name=JewishTelegraph>{{cite web |first=Paul |last=Harris |url=http://www.jewishtelegraph.com/prof_51.html |title=A Knight At The Theater – But Just Call Him Nick |website=Jewish Telegraph |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250120093349/http://www.jewishtelegraph.com/prof_51.html |archive-date=January 20, 2025}}</ref> He is the eldest child of four,<ref name=GuardianOct2010 /> and has described his upbringing as being in "a typical Jewish, cultured family".<ref name=GuardianOct2010 />

He attended [[Manchester Grammar School]]<ref name=GuardianSep2003a>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/sep/29/theatre1 |title=Stage for the people |website=The Guardian |date=29 September 2003 |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250117233535/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/sep/29/theatre1 |archive-date=January 17, 2025}}</ref><ref name=JewishTelegraph /><ref name=UnitedAgents>{{cite web |url=http://unitedagents.co.uk/nicholas-hytner |title=Nicholas Hytner |website=United Agents |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120110121938/http://unitedagents.co.uk/nicholas-hytner |archive-date=January 10, 2012}}</ref> and went to university at [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]],<ref name=GuardianSep2003a /> where he studied English.<ref name=UnitedAgents /> He did some acting while at university, including co-scripting and performing in a televised production of the 1977 Cambridge [[Footlights]] Revue.<ref name=JewishTelegraph /> However, Hytner did not consider acting his strong point. "I think I was savvy enough when I went to Cambridge to discover I was a poor actor," he said later.<ref name=JewishTelegraph /> He also did some directing, including a production of [[Bertolt Brecht]] and [[Kurt Weill]]'s ''[[Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny]]''.<ref name=BFIScreenOnline />

==Career==

===Early career===
After leaving Cambridge, Hytner's first "proper paid job" was as assistant to [[Colin Graham]] at [[English National Opera]].<ref name=GuardianMay2001>{{cite web |first=David |last=Benedict |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/may/07/artsfeatures1 |title=What I would do as head of the National |website=The Guardian |date=7 May 2001 |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225080814/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/may/07/artsfeatures1 |archive-date=February 25, 2015}}</ref> Some of his earliest professional directing work was in opera, including at [[Kent Opera]], [[Wexford Festival Opera]] and a production of ''[[Rienzi]]'' at [[English National Opera]]. His first theatre productions were at the [[Northcott Theatre]], [[Exeter]].<ref name=UnitedAgents /><ref name=Hoadly>{{cite web |url=http://www.hoadly.co.uk/html/theatre_singular.htm |title=Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn |website=Graham Hoadly |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090905082624/http://www.hoadly.co.uk/html/theatre_singular.htm |archive-date=September 5, 2009}}</ref> He then directed a series of productions at the [[West Yorkshire Playhouse|Leeds Playhouse]], including  ''[[The Ruling Class (play)|The Ruling Class]]'' by [[Peter Barnes (playwright)|Peter Barnes]], an adaptation of ''[[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling|Tom Jones]]'' and a musical version of ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland|Alice in Wonderland]]''.<ref name=UnitedAgents /><ref>{{cite web |first=Robin |last=Thornber |url=http://www.anthonyphillips.co.uk/archives/alice/press.htm |title=Alice: Press Reviews #1 |date=1984 |website=Anthony Phillips |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302161412/http://www.anthonyphillips.co.uk/archives/alice/press.htm |archive-date=March 2, 2024}}</ref> In 1985 he became an Associate Director of the [[Royal Exchange, Manchester|Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester]],<ref name=UnitedAgents /> a position he retained until 1989.<ref name=GuardianSep2003 />

===Theatre director===
Hytner was hired by producer [[Cameron Mackintosh]] to direct ''Miss Saigon'', the next work from ''[[Les Misérables (musical)|Les Misérables]]'' creators [[Alain Boublil]] and [[Claude-Michel Schönberg]]. "I had seen several of Nick's opera productions – Handel's 'Xerxes' and Mozart's 'Magic Flute' – as well as some of his classical plays, and he has a marvellously visual point of view," Mackintosh said.<ref name=NYTimesSep89>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/17/theater/theater-from-the-paris-sewers-to-vietnam-s-streets.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |title=Theater; From The Paris Sewers To Vietnam's Streets |first=Hilary |last=de Vries  |website=The New York Times |date=17 September 1989 |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522062650/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/17/theater/theater-from-the-paris-sewers-to-vietnam-s-streets.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |archive-date=May 22, 2025}}</ref> For Hytner, "It just felt like a huge lark... It was gigantic, and I was into gigantic at the time, so I threw everything I knew at it. It was big, honest, moving, brash, kind of crazy. I had no idea that it would take off."<ref name=GuardianOct2010 />

Hytner's London production of ''Miss Saigon'' opened on 20 September 1989, and closed on 30 October 1999 after just over ten years, on its 4,274th performance, having grossed more than £150 million in ticket sales during its London run.<ref name=GuardianMay2001 /> Hytner also directed the New York production, where the show recouped its $10.9m investment in 39 weeks.<ref name=GuardianMay2001 /> The show, at New York's [[Broadway Theatre (53rd Street)|Broadway Theatre]], opened on 11 April 1991 and closed on 28 January 2001 after 4,092 performances.<ref name=IBDBMissSaigon>{{cite web |url=http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=4639 |title=Miss Saigon |website=IBDB |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102144756/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/miss-saigon-4639 |archive-date=November 2, 2023}}</ref>

Hytner was on a percentage for both London and New York productions, allowing him (then aged 34) to never need worry about money again.<ref name="GuardianMay2001" /> "It was a huge– a massive stroke of fortune," he said in 2010. "It meant that thereafter I only needed to do what I wanted to do."<ref name=GuardianOct2010 />

What Hytner did was to continue directing theatre and opera, including several productions at London's [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] (where he had first directed in 1989 with ''[[Ghetto (play)|Ghetto]]''). In 1990, he was appointed an Associate Director of the National by its then-Director [[Richard Eyre]]. One of the plays he directed was [[Alan Bennett]]'s ''[[The Madness of George III]]''. When a film adaptation was commissioned, Bennett insisted Hytner should direct it, and the retitled ''[[The Madness of King George]]'' (1994) became Hytner's film debut.<ref>{{cite web |first=David |last=Gritten |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-08-ca-17652-story.html |title=Late-Blooming Nigel Hawthorne Enjoys 'Madness' of King-Size Role in Hytner's Film |website=Los Angeles Times |date=8 January 1995 |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250531122225/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-08-ca-17652-story.html |archive-date=May 31, 2025}}</ref>

In 1994, Eyre announced he would be leaving the National Theatre in three years' time.<ref name=NTUpdateMay2010>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/files/documents/update_May10.pdf |title=National Theatre Update |date=2010 |publisher=National Library |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826115122/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/files/documents/update_May10.pdf |archive-date=26 August 2014}}</ref> "[It] made me begin to think about the vision that is needed in such a position and the fact that this needs refreshing under every directorate. I very much felt that you had to have a big idea in order to put yourself forward for such a role and as I didn't have this kind of idea at that time, I decided not to apply," Hytner said later.<ref name=NTUpdateMay2010 /> He continued as an Associate Director at the National until 1997, when the new Director, [[Trevor Nunn]], took up his post.

Hytner directed more films: ''[[The Crucible (1996 film)|The Crucible]]'' (1996) with [[Daniel Day-Lewis]], ''[[The Object of My Affection]]'' (1998) and ''[[Center Stage (2000 film)|Center Stage]]'' (2000). The last of these was not an adaptation from a play or novel, having been based on an original screenplay. He also spent 15 months developing a film of the musical ''[[Chicago (musical)|Chicago]]'', to star [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]], but the project foundered and was later made [[Chicago (2002 film)|with a different director and cast]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/mar/30/theatre.artsfeatures |title=National ringmaster |first=Vanessa |last=Thorpe |date=30 March 2003 |website=The Guardian |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227160254/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/mar/30/theatre.artsfeatures |archive-date=February 27, 2023}}</ref>

===National Theatre Director (2003-15)===
When Trevor Nunn announced that he would be leaving the National Theatre, Hytner "really felt that this time I had a strong sense of what the NT should be doing under a new Director. I had a long conversation with Christopher Hogg, then Chairman of the NT Board, and [[Tom Stoppard]] about my ideas for the NT's future. These included a redefinition of how it might be possible to use the theatre spaces and opening up the NT to new audiences by lowering prices for some performances."<ref name=NTUpdateMay2010 /> Hytner was successful in his application for the post, and his appointment as Director was announced in September 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1562593.stm |title=Hytner appointment welcomed |website=BBC News |date=25 September 2001 |access-date=August 12, 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319151949/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1562593.stm |archive-date=March 19, 2016}}</ref> He took over from Nunn in April 2003.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/about-us/our-history/ |title=Our History |website=National Theatre |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250423155234/https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/about-us/our-history/ |archive-date=April 23, 2025}}</ref>

Hytner's role as Director of the National involves decisions about what plays are staged. "Essentially what I do is produce 20 shows a year here," he stated in one interview.<ref name=JewishTelegraph /> "To produce as opposed to direct, as I generate the ideas, generate the repertoire. What I do is put together the team that are going to stage the repertoire together then stand back and come in at a later stage to see how it's all going."<ref name=JewishTelegraph /> (Hytner does also direct plays himself at the National, and all his theatre work since 2003 has originated there.) But his role is also about the overall direction of the National Theatre as an organisation. "It would be wrong to say that I confine myself only to the repertoire – I don't. I think how we allocate our resources, exactly what we spend money on, is always an artistic decision. I think the amount of attention we give to what goes on in the foyers, what goes on outside, how the building looks at night, the amount of attention we give to our education work and our website are all artistic matters. They all stem from a sense of the artistic direction of the organization."<ref name=DirNTinterview>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover-more/about-the-national/behind-the-scenes/director-of-the-national-theatre |title=Director of the National Theatre |website=National Theatre |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014050613/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover-more/about-the-national/behind-the-scenes/director-of-the-national-theatre |archive-date=14 October 2012}}</ref>

Under Hytner's directorship, the National has innovated with Sunday openings,<ref name=NTFuture /> live cinema broadcasts of NT plays around the world, ''National Theatre Live'',<ref name=NTFuture /> and with its reduced price ticket seasons. These seasons, sponsored by [[Travelex]], have offered large numbers of reduced price seats (for £10 when the scheme was introduced in 2003,<ref name=GuardianSep2003 /> with prices rising to £12 from 2011).<ref name=NTFuture>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover-more/national-theatre-administration/nt-future |title=NT Future |date=October 2012 |website=National Theatre |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121118163905/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover-more/national-theatre-administration/nt-future |archive-date=18 November 2012}}</ref> The reduced price seasons were credited with achieving high usage for the Olivier auditorium – between 90% and 100% full during the summer months compared to a historic average of 65%, with no loss in overall income,<ref name=GuardianSep2003 /> and with encouraging a younger and more diverse audience.<ref name=GuardianSep2003 /> In 2003 it was reported that one third of the audience for the multiracial production of ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]'' in modern dress (directed by Hytner) had never been to the theatre before,<ref name=GuardianSep2003 /> and that a large section of the audience for the drama ''[[Elmina's Kitchen]]'' were Black east Londoners new to the National.<ref name=GuardianSep2003 />

Hytner has said that this diversity is a consequence of the theatre's direction rather than the motivation for it. "I think our repertoire is more diverse than it's ever been," he said, "and I think that reflects a more diverse society and a more diverse audience. The aim, though, was not to go out and find a diverse audience but for the repertoire to reflect a greater diversity in our culture."<ref name=DirNTinterview /> He has also said: "The rep[ertoire] should reflect the world we're part of, and it should put the society in which we live in the context of the past and, as far as we can, of the wider world."<ref name=DirNTinterview />

Hytner's latest innovation is ''NT Future'', a £70 million scheme (of which £59 million had been raised at October 2012)<ref name=NTFuture /> to open up the National's building and to contribute to the regeneration of the [[South Bank]], to transform facilities for education and participation, and to keep ahead of new technologies and the changing needs of theatre artists and audiences.<ref name=NTFuture />

Hytner stated as early as 2010 that he did not wish to stay as head of the National indefinitely, saying, "I've been here seven years. My predecessors have averaged 12. It's important that someone else comes in and shakes it up again so I won't be here in 10 years, that's for sure."<ref name=JewishTelegraph /> In April 2013, he announced that he would step down as Director of the National Theatre at the end of March 2015.<ref name=NTDeparture>{{cite web|title=Nicholas Hytner Announces His Date of Departure from National Theatre|url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover-more/about-the-nt/press|publisher=National Theatre|access-date=11 April 2013|archive-date=10 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410115715/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover-more/about-the-nt/press|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=Guardian10Apr13>{{cite news|last=Higgins|first=Charlotte|title=Sir Nicholas Hytner to step down as National Theatre artistic director|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/apr/10/sir-nicholas-hytner-national-theatre|access-date=9 August 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|date=10 April 2013}}</ref> In his role as Director of National Theatre, he appeared on the Cultural Exchange as part of the [[Radio Four]] programme ''[[Front Row (radio programme)|Front Row]]'', where he chose ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'' by [[Mozart]] as his work of art.

=== The London Theatre Company (2017-present) ===
Hytner and Nick Starr founded the London Theatre Company opening a new 900-seat adaptable commercial theatre, [[Bridge Theatre]] near [[Tower Bridge]] in October 2017. Hytner directed the inaugural production of [[Young Marx (play)|''Young Marx'']] followed by productions such as the hit immersive revivals of [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Julius Caesar]]'' in 2018, ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' in 2019 and ''[[Guys and Dolls]]'' which ran from March 2023 until January 2025.

The London Theatre Company also opened another venue with [[59 Productions]], The Lightroom in [[King's Cross, London]] in February 2023 used for immersive artist-led exhibitions which will also eventually become a theatrical space.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wiegand |first=Chris |date=2024-06-21 |title=Bridgerton's Jonathan Bailey to play Richard II on London stage |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/jun/21/jonathan-bailey-richard-ii-nicholas-hytner-bridge-theatre-bridgerton |access-date=2024-06-21 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

===Opera and film===
Hytner has worked extensively in opera, with many of his productions achieving critical acclaim and commercial success – his English National Opera staging of ''[[The Magic Flute]]'' was in repertory for 25 years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bsecs.org.uk/Reviews/ReviewDetails.aspx?id=62&type=1 |title=The Magic Flute at ENO |date=2012 |website=British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826113807/http://www.bsecs.org.uk/Reviews/ReviewDetails.aspx?id=62&type=1 |archive-date=26 August 2014}}</ref> But Hytner has described himself (to an opera-related audience) as "someone who is unimpressed by his own work on the operatic stage".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.opera-europa.org/view.asp?id=1094 |title=Address by Nicholas Hytner |date=January 6, 2011 |website=Opera Europa |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415134946/http://www.opera-europa.org/view.asp?id=1094 |archive-date=April 15, 2013}}</ref>

Similarly, most of Hytner's films have achieved critical and commercial success, with ''The Madness of King George'' winning BAFTA and ''Evening Standard'' awards for best British film, but he still sees himself as primarily a theatre practitioner. "I think I'm a theatre director who does other stuff," he has said. "I can't see myself as a film-maker. I love doing opera when ever I've done it, but I always see myself as visiting from the theatre, which is where I belong. The real film-maker thinks with a camera, which is something I just can't do."<ref name=JewishTelegraph />

==Personal life==
Hytner is gay.<ref name=GuardianOct2010 /> Although brought up in a Jewish household, Hytner said in 2010, "I'm not a believer, but I do think it is a significant part of my adventure and it fascinates me. I couldn't say I'm a member of the Jewish community or gay community in that I don't seek out either of those communities to hang out with, but it is an important part of who I believe myself to [be]."<ref name=JewishTelegraph />

Hytner's mother, [[Joyce Hytner]] {{postnominals|country=GBR|OBE}}, is a theatrical fundraiser, who has served on the board of many organisations including [[The Old Vic]], the [[Criterion Theatre]], the [[Royal Court Theatre]] and [[Historic Royal Palaces]].<ref name=GuardianOct2010 /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/story/arts-fundraiser-and-champion-manchester-international-festival-receives |title=Arts fundraiser and champion of Manchester International Festival receives honorary degree |date=July 24, 2018 |website=Manchester Metropolitan University |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250812212720/https://www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/story/arts-fundraiser-and-champion-manchester-international-festival-receives |archive-date=August 12, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oldvictheatre.com/about-the-old-vic/ |title=ABOUT THE OLD VIC |website=The Old Vic |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017202850/http://www.oldvictheatre.com/about-the-old-vic/ |archive-date=17 October 2012}}</ref>

==Stage and screen credits==
=== Film ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Producer
|-
| 1994
| ''[[The Madness of King George]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|-
| 1996
| ''[[The Crucible (1996 film)|The Crucible]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|-
| 1998
| ''[[The Object of My Affection]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Center Stage (2000 film)|Center Stage]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|-
| 2006
| ''[[The History Boys (film)|The History Boys]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
| 2015
| ''[[The Lady in the Van]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
| 2025
| ''[[The Choral]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
|}

'''Television'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Notes
|-
| 2013
| ''[[National Theatre Live: 50 Years On Stage]]''
| TV special
|-
| 2020
| [[Talking Heads (British TV series)|''Talking Heads'']]
| 3 episodes
|}

===Theatre===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Playwright
! Theater
! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}
|-
|1982
|''[[Absurd Person Singular]]''
|[[Alan Ayckbourn]]
|[[Northcott Theatre]], Exeter
|<ref name=Hoadly />
|-
| 1984
|''[[Jumpers (play)|Jumpers]]''
|[[Tom Stoppard]]
|[[Royal Exchange, Manchester]]
|<ref name=RoyalExchPlays>{{cite web |url=https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/1984-royal-exchange-manchester-1914799.html |title=1984, Royal Exchange, Manchester |last=Walker |first=Lynne |date=March 2, 2010 |website=Independent |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250812213438/https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/1984-royal-exchange-manchester-1914799.html |archive-date=August 12, 2025}}</ref>
|-
|1985
|''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel]]''
|[[Emma Orczy|Baroness Orczy]]
|[[Chichester Festival Theatre]]
|<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cft.org.uk/1985?startFrom=1349046000 |title=1985 |website=Chichester Festival Theatre |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826120712/http://www.cft.org.uk/1985?startFrom=1349046000 |archive-date=26 August 2014 }}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=3|1986
|''[[As You Like It]]''
|[[William Shakespeare]]
|rowspan=6|[[Royal Exchange, Manchester]]
|rowspan=5|<ref name=RoyalExchPlays />
|-
|''Mumbo Jumbo''
|[[Robin Glendinning]]
|-
|''[[Edward II (play)|Edward II]]''
|[[Christopher Marlowe]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1987
|''[[The Country Wife]]''
|[[William Wycherley]]
|-
|''[[Don Carlos (play)|Don Carlos]]''
|[[Friedrich Schiller]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1988
|''[[The Tempest]]''
|rowspan=2|[[William Shakespeare]]
|<ref>[http://www.ahds.rhul.ac.uk/ahdscollections/docroot/shakespeare/performancedetails.do?performanceId=11974 "Tempest, The, Hytner/Fielding, Royal Shakespeare Company, July 1988"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826113746/http://www.ahds.rhul.ac.uk/ahdscollections/docroot/shakespeare/performancedetails.do?performanceId=11974 |date=26 August 2014 }}, ''Arts and Humanities Data Service''. Retrieved 31 October 2012.</ref>
|-
|''[[Measure for Measure]]''
|[[Barbican Centre|Barbican Theatre]]
|<ref>[http://www.ahds.rhul.ac.uk/ahdscollections/docroot/shakespeare/performancedetails.do?performanceId=11562 "Measure for Measure, Hytner/Thompson, Royal Shakespeare Company, October 1988"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826113749/http://www.ahds.rhul.ac.uk/ahdscollections/docroot/shakespeare/performancedetails.do?performanceId=11562 |date=26 August 2014 }}, ''Arts and Humanities Data Service''. Retrieved 31 October 2012.</ref>
|-
|1989
|''[[Ghetto (play)|Ghetto]]''
|[[Joshua Sobol]]
|[[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]
| <ref name=NTProdList>[http://microsites.nationaltheatre.org.uk/download.php?id=4014 "Nicholas Hytner at the National Theatre"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826113733/http://microsites.nationaltheatre.org.uk/download.php?id=4014 |date=26 August 2014 }}, ''National Theatre''. Retrieved 31 October 2012.</ref>
|-
|1990
|''[[Volpone]]''
|[[Ben Jonson]]
|[[Almeida Theatre]]
|
|-
|1990-91
|''[[The Wind in the Willows (play)|The Wind in the Willows]]''
|[[Kenneth Grahame]] <br/>adapted by [[Alan Bennett]]
|[[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]
|<ref name=NTProdList />
|-
|1989-99 <br/> 1991-01
|''[[Miss Saigon]]''
|[[Claude-Michel Schönberg]]
|[[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane|Drury Lane]], West End <Br/> [[The Broadway Theatre]], Broadway
|<ref name=NYTimesSep89 /><ref name=IBDBMissSaigon />
|-
|1991
|''[[King Lear]]''
|[[William Shakespeare]]
|[[Barbican Centre|Barbican Theatre]]
|<ref>[http://www.ahds.rhul.ac.uk/ahdscollections/docroot/shakespeare/performancedetails.do?performanceId=11429 "King Lear, Hytner/Fielding, Royal Shakespeare Company, May 1991"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826115601/http://www.ahds.rhul.ac.uk/ahdscollections/docroot/shakespeare/performancedetails.do?performanceId=11429 |date=26 August 2014 }}, ''Arts and Humanities Data Service''. Retrieved 31 October 2012.</ref>
|-
|1991-92
|''[[The Madness of George III]]''
|[[Alan Bennett]]
|rowspan=2|[[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]
|<ref name=NTProdList />
|-
|1992
|''[[The Recruiting Officer]]''
|[[George Farquhar]]
|<ref name=NTProdList />
|-
|1992 <br/> 1994-95 <br/>
|''[[Carousel (musical)|Carousel]]''
|[[Rodgers and Hammerstein]]
| Lyttleton Theatre, [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] <br/> [[Vivian Beaumont Theater]] <Br/> [[Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts|Lincoln Center, New York]]
|<ref name=NTProdList /><ref>[http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=4598 "Carousel"], ''IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information''. Retrieved 4 November 2012.</ref>
|-
|1993
|''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]''
|[[Oscar Wilde]]
|[[Aldwych Theatre]]
|
|-
|1997
|''[[The Cripple of Inishmaan]]''
|[[Martin McDonagh]]
|[[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]
|<ref name=NTProdList />
|-
|1998
|''[[Twelfth Night]]''
|[[William Shakespeare]]
|[[Vivian Beaumont Theater]], Broadway <Br/> [[Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts|Lincoln Center, New York]]
|<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lct.org/aboutBio.htm?id=7 |title=Andre Bishop |website=Lincoln Center Theater |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613120114/http://www.lct.org/aboutBio.htm?id=7 |archive-date=June 13, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=4732 |title=Twelfth Night |website=IBDB |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250421065357/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/twelfth-night-4732 |archive-date=April 21, 2025}}</ref>
|-
|1999
|''The Lady in the Van''
|[[Alan Bennett]]
|[[Sondheim Theatre|Queen's Theatre]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2|2000
|''[[Orpheus Descending]]''
|[[Tennessee Williams]]
|[[Donmar Warehouse]]
|
|-
|''Cressida''
|[[Nicholas Wright (playwright)|Nicholas Wright]]
|[[Albery Theatre]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2|2001
|''[[The Winter's Tale]]''
|[[William Shakespeare]]
|rowspan=2|[[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]
|<ref name=NTProdList />
|-
|''[[Mother Clap's Molly House]]''
|[[Mark Ravenhill]]
|<ref name=NTProdList />
|-
|2002
|''[[Sweet Smell of Success (musical)|Sweet Smell of Success]]''
|[[Marvin Hamlisch]] / [[Craig Carnelia]]
|[[Al Hirschfeld Theatre|Martin Beck Theatre]], Broadway
|<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=13278 |title=Sweet Smell of Success |website=IBDB |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150314233052/http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=13278 |archive-date=March 14, 2015}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|2003
|''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]''
|[[William Shakespeare]]
|[[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]
|rowspan=2|<ref name=NTProdList />
|-
|''[[His Dark Materials (play)|His Dark Materials]]''
|[[Philip Pullman]]
|Olivier Theatre, [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]
|-
|2005 <Br/> 2006
|''[[The History Boys]]''
|[[Alan Bennett]]
|Lyttelton Theatre, [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] <br/> [[Broadhurst Theatre]], Broadway
| <ref name=NTProdList /><ref>[http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=400540 "The History Boys"], ''IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information''. Retrieved 4 November 2012.</ref>
|-
|2004
|''[[Stuff Happens]]''
|[[David Hare (playwright)|David Hare]]
|rowspan=13|[[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]
|rowspan=9|<ref name=NTProdList />
|-
|rowspan=2|2005
|''[[Henry IV, Part 1]]''
|rowspan=2|[[William Shakespeare]]
|-
|''[[Henry IV, Part 2]]''
|-
|rowspan=2|2006
|''Southwark Fair''
|[[Samuel Adamson]]
|-
|''[[The Alchemist (play)|The Alchemist]]''
|[[Ben Jonson]]
|-
|rowspan=2|2007
|''[[The Man of Mode]]''
|[[George Etherege]]
|-
|''[[Rafta, Rafta...]]''
|[[Ayub Khan-Din]]
|-
|2007-08
|''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]''
|[[William Shakespeare]]
|-
|2008
|''[[Major Barbara]]''
|[[George Bernard Shaw]]
|-
|rowspan=2|2009
|''[[England People Very Nice]]''
|[[Richard Bean]]
|
|-
|''[[Phèdre]]''
|[[Jean Racine]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2|2010
|''[[The Habit of Art]]''
|[[Alan Bennett]]
|
|-
|''[[London Assurance]]''
|[[Dion Boucicault]]
|
|-
|2010-11
|''[[Hamlet]]''
|[[William Shakespeare]]
|Olivier Theatre, [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]
|
|-
| 2011 <br/> 2011-15 <br/> 2012
|''[[One Man, Two Guvnors]]''
|[[Richard Bean]]
|Lyttleton Theatre, [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] <br/> [[Adelphi Theatre]], West End <br/> [[Music Box Theatre]], [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]
|<ref>[http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=491201 "One Man, Two Guvnors"], ''IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information''. Retrieved 4 November 2012.</ref>
|-
|2011-12
|''[[Collaborators (play)|Collaborators]]''
|[[John Hodge (screenwriter)|John Hodge]]
| Cottesloe Theatre, [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] 
|-
|rowspan=2|2012
|''Travelling Light''
|[[Nicholas Wright (playwright)|Nicholas Wright]]
|[[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]
|
|-
|''[[Timon of Athens]]''
|rowspan=2|[[William Shakespeare]]
|rowspan=2|Olivier Theatre, [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]
|
|-
|2013
|''[[Othello]]''
|
|-
|2014
| ''[[Great Britain (play)|Great Britain]]''
| [[Richard Bean]]
| Lyttleton Theatre <br/> Haymarket Theatre
|
|-
|2015
|''[[The Hard Problem]]''
|[[Tom Stoppard]]
| Dorfman, [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]
|<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jan/28/the-hard-problem-review-tom-stoppard The Hard Problem review – Tom Stoppard tackles momentous ideas]. Michael Billington, January 29, 2015</ref>
|-
|2017
|''[[Young Marx (play)|Young Marx]]''
|[[Richard Bean]] and [[Clive Coleman]]
|rowspan=11|[[Bridge Theatre]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2|2018
|[[Julius Caesar (play)|''Julius Caesar'']]
|[[William Shakespeare]]
|
|-
|''[[Allelujah!]]''
|[[Alan Bennett]]
|
|-
|rowspan=3|2019
|''Alys, Always''
|[[Lucinda Coxon]]
|
|-
|''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''
|[[William Shakespeare]]
|
|-
|''Two Ladies''
|Nancy Harris
|
|-
|rowspan=2|2020
|''[[Beat the Devil (play)|Beat the Devil]]''
|[[David Hare (playwright)|David Hare]]
|
|-
|[[Talking Heads (British TV series)|''Talking Heads'']]
|[[Alan Bennett]]
|
|-
|2020, 2022
|''[[A Christmas Carol]]''
|[[Charles Dickens]]
adapted by Hytner
|
|-
|2021
|''Bach & Sons''
|[[Nina Raine]]
|
|-
| 2021
|[[La Belle Sauvage (play)|''The Book of Dust:'' <br /> ''La Belle Sauvage'']]
| [[Philip Pullman]]
|
|-
| 2022
|''[[Straight Line Crazy]]''
| [[David Hare (playwright)|David Hare]]
| [[Bridge Theatre]], London <Br/>[[The Shed (arts center)|The Shed]], Off-Broadway
| <ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/mar/24/straight-line-crazy-review-ralph-fiennes-bridge-theatre-london|title= Straight Line Crazy review – Ralph Fiennes enthrals as the man who shaped New York|website= [[The Guardian (website)|The Guardian]]|date= 24 March 2022|accessdate= July 2, 2022}}</ref> <br/><ref>{{cite web|url= https://deadline.com/2022/06/ralph-fiennes-robert-moses-off-broadway-david-hare-straight-line-crazy-1235052577/|title= Ralph Fiennes To Star As Robert Moses In New York Staging Of David Hare's 'Straight Line Crazy'; Nicholas Hytner & Jamie Armitage Direct|website= [[Deadline Hollywood]]|date= 27 June 2022|accessdate= July 2, 2022}}</ref>
|-
|2022
|''[[The Southbury Child]]''
|[[Stephen Beresford]]
|[[Chichester Festival Theatre]]
[[Bridge Theatre]]
|
|-
| 2022
|''[[John Gabriel Borkman]]''
|[[Henrik Ibsen]]
|rowspan=2|[[Bridge Theatre]]
|
|-
|2023-25
|''[[Guys and Dolls]]''
|[[Frank Loesser]], [[Jo Swerling]] and [[Abe Burrows]]
|
|-
|2024
2025
|''[[Giant (play)|Giant]]''
|Mark Rosenblatt
|[[Royal Court Theatre]]
[[Harold Pinter Theatre]]
|<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/mar/04/john-lithgow-to-star-in-royal-court-play-about-roald-dahl-antisemitism |last1=Wiegand |first1=Chris |date=2024-03-04 |title=John Lithgow to star in Royal Court play about Roald Dahl's antisemitism |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |access-date=August 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250409024518/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/mar/04/john-lithgow-to-star-in-royal-court-play-about-roald-dahl-antisemitism |archive-date=April 9, 2025}}</ref>
|-
|2025
|[[Richard II (play)|''Richard II'']]
|[[William Shakespeare]]
|[[Bridge Theatre]]
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wiegand |first=Chris |date=2024-06-21 |title=Bridgerton's Jonathan Bailey to play Richard II on London stage |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/jun/21/jonathan-bailey-richard-ii-nicholas-hytner-bridge-theatre-bridgerton |access-date=2024-06-21 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
|}

===Opera===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+ Opera produced by Nicholas Hytner
|-
! House
! Opera
! Composer
! First production
! Notes
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Kent Opera]]||''[[The Turn of the Screw (opera)|The Turn of the Screw]]''||[[Benjamin Britten]]||{{dts|1979}}||<ref name=OxfordReference>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095954967?rskey=Y5ig0N&result=7&q=nicholas%20hytner "Nicholas Hytner Oxford Reference"], ''Oxford Reference''. Retrieved 3 November 2012.</ref>
|-
|''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]''||[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]||{{dts|1981}}||<ref name=OxfordReference /><ref name=AskonasHolt>[http://www.askonasholt.co.uk/artists/directors-designers/nicholas-hytner "Nicholas Hytner | Artists"], ''Askonas Holt''. Retrieved 3 November 2012.</ref>
|-
|[[Wexford Festival Opera]]||''[[Sakùntala]]''||[[Franco Alfano]]||{{dts|1982}}||<ref>[http://www.operafolks.com/Illing/about.html "About Rosamund"], ''operafolks.com''. Retrieved 2 November 2012.</ref>
|-
|[[Kent Opera]]||''[[King Priam]]''||[[Michael Tippett]]||{{dts|1983}}||<ref name=Debretts /><ref name=OxfordReference /><ref name=AskonasHolt />
|-
|rowspan=2|[[English National Opera]]||''[[Rienzi]]''||[[Richard Wagner|Wagner]]||{{dts|1983}}||<ref name=Debretts /><ref name=UnitedAgents /><ref name=OxfordReference /><ref name=AskonasHolt />
|-
|''[[Serse|Xerxes]]''||rowspan=2|[[George Frideric Handel|Handel]]||{{dts|1985}}||<ref name=Debretts /><ref name=OxfordReference /><ref name=AskonasHolt />
|-
|[[Paris Opera|Paris Opéra]]||''[[Giulio Cesare]]''||{{dts|1987}}||<ref name=Debretts /><ref name=UnitedAgents /><ref name=AskonasHolt />
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Royal Opera House|Royal Opera]]||''[[Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan]]'' (''The King Goes Forth To France'')||[[Aulis Sallinen]]||{{dts|1987}}||<ref name=UnitedAgents /><ref name=OxfordReference /><ref name=AskonasHolt />
|-
|''[[The Knot Garden]]''||[[Michael Tippett]]||{{dts|1988}}||<ref name=UnitedAgents /><ref name=OxfordReference /><ref name=AskonasHolt />
|-
|[[English National Opera]]||''[[The Magic Flute]]''||rowspan=3|[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]||{{dts|1988}}||<ref name=Debretts /><ref name=UnitedAgents /><ref name=OxfordReference />
|-
|[[Grand Théâtre de Genève]]||''[[The Marriage of Figaro|Le Nozze di Figaro]]''||{{dts|1989}}||<ref name=Debretts /><ref name=AskonasHolt />
|-
|[[Glyndebourne]]||''[[La clemenza di Tito]]''||{{dts|1991}}||<ref name=Debretts /><ref name=OxfordReference /><ref name=AskonasHolt />
|-
|[[English National Opera]]||''[[La forza del destino|The Force of Destiny]]''||[[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]]||{{dts|1992}}||<ref name=Debretts /><ref name=UnitedAgents /><ref name=OxfordReference /><ref name=AskonasHolt />
|-
|[[Bavarian State Opera]], Munich||''[[Don Giovanni]]''||[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]||{{dts|1994}}||<ref name=AskonasHolt /><ref>[http://www.bayerische.staatsoper.de/889-ZG9tPWRvbTEmaWQ9MTkyJmw9ZW4-~spielplan~oper~veranstaltungen~vorstellung.html "Don Giovanni (1994) "] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826113911/http://www.bayerische.staatsoper.de/889-ZG9tPWRvbTEmaWQ9MTkyJmw9ZW4-~spielplan~oper~veranstaltungen~vorstellung.html |date=26 August 2014 }}, ''Bavarian State Opera''. Retrieved 3 November 2012.</ref>
|-
|[[Théâtre du Châtelet]], Paris||''[[The Cunning Little Vixen]]''||[[Leoš Janáček|Janáček]]||{{dts|1995}}||<ref name=AskonasHolt />
|-
|[[English National Opera]]||''[[Serse|Xerxes]]''||[[George Frideric Handel|Handel]]||{{dts|2002}}||<ref name=Debretts />
|-
|[[Glyndebourne]]||''[[Così fan tutte]]''||[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]||{{dts|2006}}||<ref name=OxfordReference /><ref>[http://glyndebourne.com/così-fan-tutte "Così fan tutte"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141119033309/http://glyndebourne.com/cos%C3%AC-fan-tutte |date=19 November 2014 }}, ''Glyndebourne''. Retrieved 3 November 2012.</ref>
|-
|[[Royal Opera House|Royal Opera]]||rowspan=2|''[[Don Carlos|Don Carlo]]''||rowspan=2|[[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]]||{{dts|2008}}||<ref name=MetOpera>William Berger, [http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/features/detail.aspx?id=13102 "New Production: Don Carlo"], ''The Metropolitan Opera''. Retrieved 3 November 2012.</ref>
|-
|[[Metropolitan Opera]]||{{dts|2010}}||<ref name=MetOpera />
|}

==Awards and honours==
Hytner is on the Board of Trustees of the Royal Opera House.<ref>[http://www.roh.org.uk/about/board-of-trustees "Board of Trustees < About"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024060439/http://www.roh.org.uk/about/board-of-trustees |date=24 October 2012 }}, ''Royal Opera House''. Retrieved 2012-11-04.</ref> He is a patron of many organisations including [[London International Festival of Theatre]],<ref>[https://www.liftfestival.com/about-us/meet-the-team "Meet The Team"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911012852/https://www.liftfestival.com/about-us/meet-the-team |date=11 September 2016 }}, ''LIFT''. Retrieved 9 August 2016.</ref> [[HighTide|HighTide Festival Theatre]],<ref>[http://www.hightide.org.uk/about/patrons "Patrons"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711230648/http://www.hightide.org.uk/about/patrons |date=11 July 2012 }}, ''HighTide Festival Theatre''. Retrieved 4 November 2012.</ref> the [[Shakespeare Schools Festival]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.shakespeareschools.org/about-us/patrons |title=Shakespeare Schools Foundation Patrons |website=Shakespeare Schools Foundation |publisher=[[Shakespeare Schools Foundation]] |access-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-date=11 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211165434/https://www.shakespeareschools.org/about-us/patrons |url-status=dead }}</ref> Dance UK,<ref>[http://www.danceuk.org/about-us/our-patrons/ "Our Patrons"], ''Dance UK''. Retrieved 3 November 2012.</ref> Action for Children's Arts,<ref>[http://www.childrensarts.org.uk/who/patrons "Patrons"], ''Action for Children's Arts''. Retrieved 4 November 2012.</ref> Pan Intercultural Arts<ref>[http://www.pan-arts.net/pages/trustees-and-patrons.html "Trustees and Patrons"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712043312/http://www.pan-arts.net/pages/trustees-and-patrons.html |date=12 July 2015 }}, ''Pan Arts''. Retrieved 4 November 2012.</ref> and Prisoners' Penfriends.<ref>[http://www.prisonerspenfriends.org/patrons.html "Prisoners' Penfriends"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014100435/http://www.prisonerspenfriends.org/patrons.html |date=14 October 2012 }}, ''Prisoners' Penfriends''. Retrieved 4 November 2012.</ref>

He was elected an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 2005,<ref>[http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/archive-detail.asp?ItemID=2256 "Hall Man Receives Knighthood in New Years Honours List 2010"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819184508/http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/archive-detail.asp?ItemID=2256 |date=19 August 2016 }}, ''Trinity Hall'', 4 January 2010. Retrieved 4 November 2012.</ref> and was Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at [[Oxford University]] in 2000–01.<ref name=GuardianSep2003 />

Hytner was [[knight bachelor|knighted]] in the [[2010 New Year Honours#Knights Bachelor|2010 New Year Honours]] for services to drama.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> In spring 2014, the [[Royal Northern College of Music]] announced it was to confer Honorary Membership of the College upon Hytner. In 2014 he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the [[Royal Academy of Arts]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/royal-academicians#the-ras|title = Royal Academicians &#124; Royal Academy of Arts}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
! Ref.
|-
|rowspan=3|[[49th British Academy Film Awards|1995]]
| rowspan=3|[[British Academy Film Awards]]
|[[BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film|Outstanding British Film]]
| rowspan=3|''[[The Madness of King George]]''
| {{won}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| {{nom}}
|-
|[[BAFTA Award for Best Direction|Best Direction]] || {{nom}}
|-
|[[45th Tony Awards|1991]] || rowspan=4|[[Tony Awards]] || rowspan=2|[[Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical|Best Direction of a Musical]]||	''[[Miss Saigon]]'' || {{nom}}
|-
|[[48th Tony Awards|1994]] || ''[[Carousel (musical)|Carousel]]'' || {{won}}
|-
|[[60th Tony Awards|2006]] || rowspan=2|[[Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play|Best Direction of a Play]] ||  ''[[The History Boys]]'' || {{won}}
|-
|[[66th Tony Awards|2012]] || ''[[One Man, Two Guvnors]]'' || {{nom}}
|-
|[[1990 Laurence Olivier Awards|1990]] || rowspan=8|[[Laurence Olivier Awards]] || [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director|Best Director]] || ''[[Miss Saigon]]'' || {{nom}}
|-
|[[1991 Laurence Olivier Awards|1991]] || [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director of a Play|Best Director of a Play]] || ''[[The Wind in the Willows (play)|The Wind in the Willows]]'' || {{nom}}
|-
|[[1993 Laurence Olivier Awards|1993]] || [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director of a Musical|Best Director of a Musical]] || ''[[Carousel (musical)|Carousel]]'' || {{won}}
|-
|[[2001 Laurence Olivier Awards|2001]] || rowspan=3| [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director|Best Director]] ||''[[Orpheus Descending]]'' || {{nom}}
|-
|[[2005 Laurence Olivier Awards|2005]] || ''[[The History Boys]]'' || {{won}}
|-
|[[2012 Laurence Olivier Awards|2012]] || ''[[One Man, Two Guvnors]]'' || {{nom}}
|-
|[[2014 Laurence Olivier Awards|2014]] || [[Society of London Theatre Special Award]] || || {{won}}
|-
|[[2025 Laurence Olivier Awards|2025]] || [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director|Best Director]] || ''[[Giant (play)|Giant]]'' || {{nom}}
|}

==References==
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