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Year Category Nominee Show Nom
2003 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Brian Bedford Tartuffe
2003 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Eddie Izzard A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
2003 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Paul Newman Our Town
2003 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Stanley Tucci Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1994 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Stephen Spinella Angels in America: Perestroika production took place the previous year Award winner
1994 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Brian Bedford Timon of Athens production took place the previous year
1994 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Christopher Plummer No Man's Land
1994 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Sam Waterston Abe Lincoln in Illinois production took place the previous year
1993 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ron Leibman Angels in America: Millennium Approaches Award winner
1993 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play K. Todd Freeman The Song of Jacob Zulu
1993 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Liam Neeson Anna Christie
1993 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Stephen Rea Someone Who'll Watch Over Me production took place the previous year
1992 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Judd Hirsch Conversations With My Father Award winner
1992 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alan Alda Jake's Women
1992 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alec Baldwin A Streetcar Named Desire
1992 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Brian Bedford Two Shakespearean Actors
1991 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Nigel Hawthorne Shadowlands production took place the previous year Award winner
1991 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Peter Frechette Our Country's Good
1991 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tom McGowan La Bête
1991 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Courtney B. Vance Six Degrees of Separation production took place the previous year
1990 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Robert Morse Tru production took place the previous year Award winner
1990 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play David Carroll Grand Hotel production took place the previous year
1990 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Dustin Hoffman The Merchant of Venice production took place the previous year
1990 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tom Hulce A Few Good Men production took place the previous year
1989 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Victor Garber Lend Me a Tenor
1989 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Philip Bosco Lend Me a Tenor Award winner
1989 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Bill Irwin Largely New York
1989 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Mikhail Baryshnikov Metamorphosis
1988 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ron Silver Speed-the-Plow Award winner
1988 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Derek Jacobi Breaking the Code producer, production took place the previous year
1988 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John Lithgow M. Butterfly
1988 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Robert Prosky A Walk in the Woods
1987 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play James Earl Jones Fences Award winner
1987 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Philip Bosco You Never Can Tell Production took place the previous year.
1987 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Richard Kiley All My Sons
1987 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alan Rickman Les Liaisons Dangereuses
1986 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Judd Hirsch I'm Not Rappaport production took place the previous year Award winner
1986 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Hume Cronyn The Petition
1986 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ed Harris Precious Sons
1986 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jack Lemmon Long Day's Journey Into Night
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
1985 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jim Dale Joe Egg
1985 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jonathan Hogan As Is
1985 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John Lithgow Requiem for a Heavyweight
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
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
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
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
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
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

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