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Year Category Nominee Show Nom
1965 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Walter Matthau The Odd Couple Award winner
1965 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John Gielgud Tiny Alice Production took place the previous year.
1965 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Donald Pleasence Poor Bitos Production took place the previous year.
1965 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jason Robards Hughie Production took place the previous year.
1975 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John Kani Sizwe Banzi is Dead Joint nomination with Winston Ntshona for "Sizwe Banzi is Dead" and "The Island" Award winner
1975 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Winston Ntshona Sizwe Banzi is Dead Joint nomination with John Kani for "Sizwe Banzi is Dead" and "The Island" Award winner
1975 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play James Dale Scapino
1975 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Peter Firth Equus
1975 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Henry Fonda Clarence Darrow
1975 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ben Gazzara Hughie and Duet
1975 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John Wood Sherlock Holmes
1995 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ralph Fiennes Hamlet Award winner
1995 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Brian Bedford The Moliere Comedies
1995 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Roger Rees Indiscretions
1995 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Joe Sears A Tuna Christmas production took place the previous year
1976 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John Wood Travesties Award winner
1976 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Moses Gunn The Poison Tree
1976 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play George C. Scott Death of a Salesman
1976 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Donald Sinden Habeas Corpus
1996 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play George Grizzard A Delicate Balance Award winner
1996 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Philip Bosco Moon Over Buffalo production took place the previous year
1996 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play George C. Scott Inherit the Wind
1996 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Martin Shaw An Ideal Husband
1966 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Hal Holbrook Mark Twain Tonight! Award winner
1966 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Roland Culver Ivanov
1966 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Donal Donnelly Philadelphia, Here I Come!
1966 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Patrick Bedford Philadelphia, Here I Come!
1966 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Nicol Williamson Inadmissible Evidence
1967 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Paul Rogers The Homecoming Award winner
1967 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Hume Cronyn A Delicate Balance
1967 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Donald Madden Black Comedy
1967 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Donald Moffat Right You Are
1967 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Donald Moffat The Wild Duck
1968 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Martin Balsam You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running Award winner
1968 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Albert Finney Joe Egg
1968 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Milo O'Shea Staircase
1968 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alan Webb I Never Sang for My Father
1969 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play James Earl Jones The Great White Hope Production took place the previous year. Award winner
1969 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Art Carney Lovers
1969 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alec McCowen Hadrian VII
1969 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Donald Pleasance The Man in the Glass Booth
1997 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Christopher Plummer Barrymore Award winner
1997 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Brian Bedford London Assurance
1997 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Michael Gambon Skylight production took place the previous year
1997 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Antony Sher Stanley
1998 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Anthony LaPaglia A View From the Bridge Award winner
1998 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Richard Briers The Chairs
1998 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John Leguizamo Freak
1998 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alfred Molina Art
1999 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Brian Dennehy Death of a Salesman Award winner
1999 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Brian F. O'Byrne The Lonesome West
1999 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Corin Redgrave Not About Nightingales
1999 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Kevin Spacey The Iceman Cometh
1977 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Al Pacino The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel Award winner
1977 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tom Courtenay Otherwise Engaged
1977 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ben Gazzara Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf production took place the previous year
1977 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ralph Richardson No Man's Land production took place the previous year
2000 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Stephen Dillane The Real Thing Award winner
2000 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Gabriel Byrne A Moon for the Misbegotten
2000 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Philip Seymour Hoffman True West
2000 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John C. Reilly True West
2000 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play David Suchet Amadeus production took place the previous year
1978 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Barnard Hughes Da Award winner
1978 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Hume Cronyn The Gin Game production took place the previous year
1978 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Frank Langella Dracula production took place the previous year
1978 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jason Robards A Touch of the Poet Production took place the previous year.
2001 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Richard Easton The Invention of Love Award winner
2001 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Sean Campion Stones in His Pockets
2001 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Conleth Hill Stones in His Pockets
2001 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Brian Stokes Mitchell King Hedley II
2001 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Gary Sinise One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1979 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tom Conti Who's Life Is It Anyway? Award winner
1979 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Philip Anglim The Elephant Man
1979 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jack Lemmon Tribute
1979 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alec McCowen St. Mark's Gospel production took place the previous year
2002 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alan Bates Fortune's Fool Award winner
2002 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Billy Crudup The Elephant Man
2002 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Liam Neeson The Crucible
2002 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alan Rickman Private Lives
2002 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jeffrey Wright Topdog/Underdog
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John Rubinstein Children of a Lesser God Award winner
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Charles Brown Home production took place the previous year
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Gerlad Hiken Strider producer, production took place the previous year
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Judd Hirsch Talley's Folly
1981 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ian McKellen Amadeus production took place the previous year. Award winner
1981 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tim Curry Amadeus production took place the previous year
1981 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Roy Dotrice A Life production took place the previous year
1981 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jack Weston The Floating Light Bulb
1982 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Roger Rees The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby producer, production took place the previous year. Award winner
1982 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tom Courtenay The Dresser
1982 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Milo O'Shea Mass Appeal
1983 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Harvey Fierstein Torch Song Trilogy Award winner
1983 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jeffrey DeMunn K2
1983 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Edward Herrmann Plenty
1983 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tony Lo Bianco A View from the Bridge
1984 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jeremy Irons The Real Thing Award winner
1984 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Calvin Levels Open Admissions
1984 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Rex Harrison Heartbreak House production took place the previous year.
1984 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ian McKellen Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare
1985 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Derek Jacobi Much Ado About Nothing producer, production took place the previous year. Award winner

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