Tom Hiddleston nominated for an Evening Standard Award: will he show up?

Yay, Tom Hiddleston news. These are photos of Tommy Hiddleston at the London Evening Standard Awards in 2012 and 2013. I have every reason to believe he’ll attend this year’s ceremony on November 30th because this year, Tommy was nominated for Best Actor for his role in Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse earlier this year. I’m not incredibly familiar with the levels of awesomeness for British theater awards and how they would compare to American theater awards, but from what I gather, the Evening Standard Awards are lower than the Oliviers but still relatively prestigious.

Tom Hiddleston has been nominated for the best actor prize at Britain’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards for his role in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Coriolanus. The Thor actor starred as the titular Roman leader in the production at the Donmar Warehouse in London in December (13) and he has now landed a top nod for the part.

He will compete against Zero Dark Thirty actor Mark Strong, who is nominated for his role in Arthur Miller’s play A View from the Bridge, and V for Vendetta actor Ben Miles, who starred in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies – a double bill stage adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s two novels.

Gillian Anderson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Harry Potter star Helen MCCrory and singer-turned-actress Billie Piper will battle it out for the best actress prize.

Billy Elliott film maker Stephen Daldry is nominated for best direction for Skylight, and Sunny Afternoon, the new production telling the story of The Kinks, is in the running for best musical. The winners will be announced at a ceremony hosted by comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon at the London Palladium on 30 November (14).

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So, will Hiddleston show up? Will I Saw the Light be finished by then? It’s such a small film, I kind of assumed that the film schedule would be pretty tight. I think if Hiddles is still filming in Louisiana, he probably won’t fly to London just for this theater awards show. But if he’s done… maybe. That’s the Sunday after Thanksgiving too. Will Tommy still be in America for Thanksgiving?! He can come to my mom’s house if he wants to eat some turkey, Virginia ham, made-from-scratch mashed potatoes and some Southern-style corn. Damn… now I kind of want Tommy to come over for Thanksgiving and play with my mom’s cats. I bet that would be adorable.