Cate Blanchett and Sally Field received acting nominations for Broadway’s Tony Awards on Tuesday, while “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812” led the pack with 12 nods including the top prize, best musical.

Best play nominees were led by “A Doll’s House, Part 2” with eight nominations including ones for stars Laurie Metcalf and Chris Cooper; “Oslo,” about the 1993 Oslo peace accords; Pulitzer Prize winning drama “Sweat” and “Indecent.”

In a year crowded with dozens of new plays and musicals, major productions of “Cats,” “Sunset Boulevard” starring Glenn Close, “A Bronx Tale” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” were shut out.

Big names appearing this season who were not nominated included Diane Lane, Mark Ruffalo and Allison Janney.

The best play revival nominees were “Present Laughter,” “August Wilson’s Jitney,” “Six Degrees of Separation” and “Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes,” which won nominations for actresses Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon.

Nixon, who has been exchanging roles with Linney during the play’s run, said she found out about her featured actress nomination by text message and had not yet heard from Linney. “I’m sure we will be chatting this morning,” she added.

Blanchett, who made her Broadway debut in “The Present,” is joined by Jennifer Ehle (“Oslo”) in addition to Field (“The Glass Menagerie”), Linney and Metcalf.

Best play actor nominees included Denis Arndt in “Heisenberg,” Kevin Kline in “Present Laughter,” Jefferson Mays in “Oslo” and Corey Hawkins in “Six Degrees of Separation.”

The Tony Awards will be presented on June 11 at Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall in a ceremony headlined by film and stage star Kevin Spacey.

Reuters