South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have landed 14 Tony nominations in the US for their Broaday musical The Book of Mormon.

The show about two missionaries who find more than they bargained for in Africa, is up for original score, best musical and lead actor in a musical.

The stage awards ceremony takes place in New York on 12 June.

The Scottsboro Boys, based on the 1930s case in which nine black men were unjustly accused of attacking two white women on an Alabama train, picked up 12 nominations.