Stage veteran Carey Mulligan has received two nods for her work in An Education (which received a total of eight nominations): one for Leading Actress and one for the Orange Rising Star Award.

Other stage actors who received acting nominations include Alec Baldwin (It's Complicated), Anne-Marie Duff (Nowhere Boy), Colin Firth (A Single Man), Anna Kendrick (Up in the AIr), Christian McKay (Me & Orson Welles), Alfred Molina (An Education), Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia), Audrey Tautou (Coco Before Chanel), Kristin Scott Thomas (Nowhere Boy), and Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones).