Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play | |
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2023 Recipient: Sean Hayes, Good Night, Oscar | |
Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play |
Location | New York City |
Presented by | American Theatre Wing The Broadway League |
Currently held by | Sean Hayes for Good Night, Oscar (2023) |
Website | TonyAwards.com |
The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actors for quality leading roles in a Broadway play. The awards are named after Antoinette Perry, an American actress who died in 1946. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year."[1] Despite the award first being presented in 1947, there were no nominees announced until 1956.
Winners and nominees
1940s
Year | Actor | Role(s) | Project | Ref. |
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1947 (1st) | José Ferrer | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano De Bergerac | |
Fredric March | Years Ago | Clinton Jones | ||
1948 (2nd) | Henry Fonda | Mister Roberts | Lt. Roberts | |
Paul Kelly | Command Decision | Brigadier General K.C. Dennis | ||
Basil Rathbone | The Heiress | Dr. Austin Sloper | ||
1949 (3rd) | ||||
Rex Harrison | Anne of the Thousand Days | Henry VIII |
1950s
Year | Actor | Role(s) | Project | Ref. |
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1950 (4th) | ||||
Sidney Blackmer | Come Back, Little Sheba | Doc | ||
1951 (5th) | ||||
Claude Rains | Darkness at Noon | Rubashov | ||
1952 (6th) | ||||
José Ferrer | The Shrike | Jim Downs | ||
1953 (7th) | ||||
Tom Ewell | The Seven Year Itch | Richard Sherman | ||
1954 (8th) | ||||
David Wayne | The Teahouse of the August Moon | Sakini | ||
1955 (9th) | ||||
Alfred Lunt | Quadrille | Diensen | ||
1956 (10th) | ||||
Paul Muni | Inherit the Wind | Henry Drummond | [2] | |
Ben Gazzara | A Hatful of Rain | Johnny Pope | ||
Boris Karloff | The Lark | Pierre Cauchon | ||
Michael Redgrave | Tiger at the Gates | Hector | ||
Edward G. Robinson | Middle of the Night | The Manufacturer | ||
1957 (11th) | ||||
Fredric March | Long Day's Journey into Night | James Tyrone Sr. | [3] | |
Maurice Evans | The Apple Cart | King Magnus | ||
Wilfrid Hyde-White | The Reluctant Debutante | Jimmy Broadbent | ||
Eric Portman | Separate Tables | Mr. Malcolm / Major Pollock | ||
Ralph Richardson | The Waltz of the Toreadors | General St. Pé | ||
Cyril Ritchard | Visit to a Small Planet | Kreton | ||
1958 (12th) | ||||
Ralph Bellamy | Sunrise at Campobello | Franklin D. Roosevelt | [4] | |
Richard Burton | Time Remembered | Prince Albert | ||
Hugh Griffith | Look Homeward, Angel | W.O. Gant | ||
Laurence Olivier | The Entertainer | Archie Rice | ||
Anthony Perkins | Look Homeward, Angel | Eugene Gant | ||
Peter Ustinov | Romanoff and Juliet | The General | ||
Emlyn Williams | A Boy Growing Up | Himself | ||
1959 (13th) | ||||
Jason Robards | The Disenchanted | Manley Halliday | [5] | |
Cedric Hardwicke | A Majority of One | Koichi Asano | ||
Alfred Lunt | The Visit | Anton Schill | ||
Christopher Plummer | J.B. | Nickles | ||
Cyril Ritchard | The Pleasure of His Company | Biddeford Poole | ||
Robert Stephens | Epitaph for George Dillon | George Dillon |
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Multiple wins
Multiple nominationsMultiple character wins
Multiple character nominations
Productions with multiple nominationsboldface=winner
Multiple awards and nominationsActors who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories Trivia
See also
References
External links
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1976–2000 |
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2001–present |
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