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Browse Awards By Year for 1985
| Note: Award winners will appear on a | RED BACKGROUND |
| Awards | Category | Nominee | Show |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Daniel H. Jenkins | Big River |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Harry Groener | Harrigan 'n Hart |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | David Carroll | La Boheme |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Jonathan Pryce | Accidental Death of an Anarchist |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Jonathan Hogan | As Is |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Derek Jacobi | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Anthony Heald | Digby |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Jim Dale | Joe Egg |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Derek Jacobi | Much Ado About Nothing |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Patrick McGoohan | Pack of Lies |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | John Lithgow | Requiem for a Heavyweight |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Anthony Heald | The Foreigner |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Lynn Redgrave | Aren't We All? |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Roxanne Hart | Digby |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Stockard Channing | Joe Egg |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Rosemary Harris | Pack of Lies |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Elizabeth Wilson | Salonika |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Book of a Musical | Jerry Colker | Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Patricia McGourty | Big River |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Anne Roth | Design for Living |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Rita Ryack | Digby |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Alexander Reid | Much Ado About Nothing |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Robert Morgan | The Loves of Anatol |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Carrie Robbins | The Octette Bridge Club |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Marshall W. Mason | As Is |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | John Malkovich | Balm in Gilead |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Gene Saks | Biloxi Blues |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Ron Lagomarsino | Digby |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Claudia Weill | Found a Peanut |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Ensemble Performances | Balm in Gilead | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Ensemble Performances | Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Rene Auberjonois | Big River |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Timothy Nolen | Grind |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Howard McGillin | La Boheme |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Ken Kliban | As Is |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Barry Miller | Biloxi Blues |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Charles S. Dutton | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | David Proval | Requiem for a Heavyweight |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Edward Petherbridge | Strange Interlude |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Patti Cohenour | Big River |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Leilani Jones | Grind |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Charlaine Woodard | Hang on to the Good Times |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Marianne Tatum | The Three Musketeers |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Judith Ivey | Hurlyburly |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Joanna Gleason | Joe Egg |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Sudie Bond | The Foreigner |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Nancy Marchand | The Octette Bridge Club |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Margaret Tyzack | Tom and Viv |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Kevin Rigdon | Balm in Gilead |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Richard Riddell | Big River |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Ken Billington | Grind |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Ron Wallace | Requiem for a Heavyweight |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Terry Wuthrich | Tracers |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Jennifer Tipton | Whoopi Goldberg |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Roger Miller | Big River |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Ellen Fitzhugh | Grind |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Jerry Colker | Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Roger Miller | Big River |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Larry Grossman | Grind |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Michael Rupert | Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestrations | Steven Margoshes | Big River |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestrations | Bill Byers | Grind |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestrations | Michael Starobin | La Boheme |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestrations | Michael Starobin | Three Naked Guys from the Waist Down |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | William F. Hoffman | As Is |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Neil Simon | Biloxi Blues |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Joseph Dougherty | Digby |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | August Wilson | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Aren't We All? | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Balm in Gilead | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Joe Egg | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | On Approval | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Pacific Overtures | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Kevin Rigdon | Balm in Gilead |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Heidi Landesman | Big River |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | James Leonard Joy | Digby |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Clarke Dunham | Grind |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Ralph Koltai | Much Ado About Nothing |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Marjorie Bradley Kellogg | Requiem for a Heavyweight |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | John Lee Beatty | The Octette Bridge Club |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Solo Performance | Ekkehard Schall | An Evening with Ekkehard Schall |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Solo Performance | Avner Eisenberg | Avner the Eccentric |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Solo Performance | Lori Wilner | Hannah Senesh |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Solo Performance | Alec McCowan | Kipling |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Solo Performance | Spalding Gray | Swimming to Cambodia |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Solo Performance | Whoopi Goldberg | Whoopi Goldberg |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | John Malkovich | Balm in Gilead |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Nigel Hess | Cyrano de Bergerac / Much Ado About Nothing |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | John DiFusco | Tracers |
| Drama Desk Awards | Special Awards | Claudette Colbert | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Special Awards | Gerard Alessandrini | Forbidden Broadway |
| Drama Desk Awards | Special Awards | The Cast and Crew | The Mystery of Irma Vep |
| Drama Desk Awards | Unique Theatrical Experience | La Tempesta | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Unique Theatrical Experience | The Garden of Earthly Delights | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Unique Theatrical Experience | The Golden Land | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Unique Theatrical Experience | The Normal Heart |
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