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Browse Awards By Year for 1971
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| Awards | Category | Nominee | Show |
| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | George Furth | Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Herb Schapiro | The Me Nobody Knows
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| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Sherman Yellen | The Rothschilds
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Michael Bennett | Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Donald Saddler | No, No Nanette
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Michael Kidd | The Rothschilds
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Jane Greenwood | Hay Fever
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Jane Greenwood | Les Blancs |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Freddy Wittop | Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Raoul Pene Du Bois | No, No Nanette
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Harold Prince | Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Burt Shevelove | No, No Nanette
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Robert H. Livingston | The Me Nobody Knows |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Michael Kidd | The Rothschilds
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Peter Brook | A Midsummer Night's Dream
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Lindsay Anderson | Home
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Clifford Williams | Sleuth
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Stephen Porter | The School for Wives
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| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Robert Ornbo | Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | William Ritman | Sleuth
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| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | R.H. Poindexter | Story Theatre
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| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Harold Prince | Company Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Jeff Britton | The Me Nobody Knows Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Lester Osterman | The Rothschilds production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Stephen Sondheim | Company |
| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Gary William Friedman | The Me Nobody Knows producer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Jerry Bock | The Rothschilds production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Ronald Radd | Abelard and Heloise
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Donald Pickering | Conduct Unbecoming
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Paul Sand | Story Theatre
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Ed Zimmermann | The Philanthropist
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Larry Kert | Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | David Burns | Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Bobby Van | No, No Nanette
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Hal Linden | The Rothschilds
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Walter Willison | Two by Two
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Ralph Richardson | Home
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Alec McCowen | The Philanthropist
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Brian Bedford | The School for Wives
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Pamela Myers | Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Patsy Kelly | No, No Nanette
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Rae Allen | And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Mona Washbourne | Home
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Lili Darvas | Les Blancs
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Joan Van Ark | The School for Wives
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Susan Browning | Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Helen Gallagher | No, No Nanette
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Sandy Duncan | The Boy Friend
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Diana Rigg | Abelard and Heloise
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Estelle Parsons | And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Marian Seldes | Father's Day
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Maureen Stapleton | The Gingerbread Lady
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Morton Gottlieb | Sleuth
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | David Storey | Home |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Anthony Shaffer | Sleuth Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Zev Bufman | Story Theatre Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | David Merrick | The Philanthropist
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Sally Jacobs | A Midsummer Night's Dream
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Boris Aronson | Company Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Jo Mielziner | Father's Day
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | John Bury | The Rothschilds production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Special Tony Award | Roger L. Stevens | |
| Tony Awards | Special Tony Award | Elliot Norton | 0 Distinguished Theatrical Commentary |
| Tony Awards | Special Tony Award | Ingram Ash | Blaine-Thompson Advertising Production took place the previous year |
| Pulitzer Prize for Drama | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Paul Zindel | The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds
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| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Composer | Stephen Schwartz | Godspell 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Composer | Yutaka Higashi | Golden Bat 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Costume Designe | Susan Tsu | Godspell 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Director | John-Michael Tebelak | Godspell 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Director | Jeff Bleckner | The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Director | Russel Treyz | Whitsuntide 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Playwright | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | Happy Birthday, Wanda June 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Playwright | A.R. Gurney, Jr. | Scenes From American Life 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Playwright | Robert Mntgomery | Subject to Fits 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Playwright | David Rabe | The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Set Design | Alfred Newman | Alice in Wonderland 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Oustanding Performance | Ralph Richardson | Home 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Book | Burt Shevelove | No, No, Nanette 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Michael Bennett | Follies 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Donald Saddler | No, No, Nanette 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Florence Klotz | Follies 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Raoul Pene Du Bois | No, No, Nanette 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Peter Brook | A Midsummer Night's Dream 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Andre Gregory | Alice in Wonderland 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Robert Wilson | Deafman Glance 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Harold Prince | Follies 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Tom O'Horgan | Lenny 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Paul Sills | Metamorphosis 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Paul Sills | Story Theatre 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Stephen Sondheim | Follies 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Stephen Sondheim | Follies 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Claire Bloom | A Doll's House 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Mildred Dunnock | A Place Without Doors 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Colleen Dewhurst | All Over 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Ruby Dee | Boesman and Lena 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Marian Seldes | Father's Day 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Alexis Smith | Follies 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Claire Bloom | Hedda Gabler 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Siobhan McKenna | Here Are Ladies 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | John Gielgud | Home 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Madeleine Renaud | L'Amante Anglaise 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Cliff Gorman | Lenny 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | James Earl Jones | Les Blancs 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Paul Sand | Metamorphosis 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Helen Gallagher | No, No, Nanette 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Roberta Maxwell | Slag 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Anthony Quayle | Sleuth 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Paul Sand | Story Theatre 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Maureen Stapleton | The Gingerbread Lady 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Alec McCowen | The Philanthropist 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Brian Bedford | The School for Wives 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Jack MacGowran | The Works of Samuel Beckett 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performances | Keith Baxter | Sleuth 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Sally Jacobs | A Midsummer Night's Dream 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Boris Aronson | Follies 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Robin Wagner | Lenny 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Vernon Rice Award | Arvin Brown | Long Day's Journey Into Night 1970-71 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best American Play | John Guare | The House of Blue Leaves 1970-1971 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best American Play | Daniel Berrigan | The Trial of the Catonsville Nine 1970-1971 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Musical | William Goldman | Follies 1970-1971 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Play | David Storey | Home 1970-1971 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Production | 0 | Follies 1970-71 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Production | 0 | No, No, Nanette 1970-71 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Productions | 0 | A Midsummer Night's Dream 1970-71 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Other Awards | Claire Bloom | A Doll's House 1970-71 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Other Awards | Claire Bloom | Hedda Gabler 1970-71 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Other Awards | John Guare | The House of Blue Leaves 1970-71 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Achievement Awards | Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival | 0 1970-71 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Achievement Awards | Paul Sills | Paulo Sills' Story Theatre 1970-71 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Achievement Awards | 0 | The School for Wives 1970-71 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Achievment Awards | 0 | The Trial of the Cantonsville Nine 1970-71 season |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Foreign Play | Heathcote Williams | AC/DC
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Foreign Play | Athol Fugard | Bowman and Lena
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Foreign Play | Derek Walcott | Dream on Monkey Mountain
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best New American Play | John Guare | House of Blue Leaves
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Performance By An Actor | Jack MacGowran | Beckett
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Performance By An Actress | Ruby Dee | Bowman and Lena
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Citations | Orlando Furioso | 0
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Design | John Scheffler | AC/DC
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | John Hirsch | AC/DC
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | Jeff Blackner | Basic Training of Paulo Hummel
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | John Berry | Bossman and Lona
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | Larry Kornfeild | Dracular Sabbat
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | Gordon Davidson | The Trial of the Catonsville 9
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Play | 0 | The Trial of the Catonsville 9
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Plays | David Rabe | Basic Training of Paul Hummel
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Plays | Ed Bullins | In New England Winter
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Plays | Ed Bullins | The Fabulous Miss Maria
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Susan Batson | AC/DC
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Joan MacIntosh | Com
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Stacy Keach | Long Day's Journey Into Night
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Margaret Braidwood | Saved
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Hector Elizondo | Steambath
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Sonny Jin | The Fabulous Miss Marie
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | William Schallert | The Trial of the Catonsville 9
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Harris Laskawy | Uncle Vanya
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance (consistent excellence) | Kirk Kirksey | 0
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| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Martha Henry | Antigone Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Kipp Osborne | Butterflies Are Free Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Clifton Davis | Do It Again Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Jennifer Salt | Father's Day Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | James Naughton | Long Day's Journey Into Night Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Roger Rathburn | No, No, Nanette Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Michael Douglas | Pinkville Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Martha Henry | Scenes From American Life Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Joan Van Ark | School for Wives Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Ayn Ruymen | The Gingerbread Lady Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Martha Henry | The Playboy of the Western World Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Walter Willison | Two by Two Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Julie Garfield | Uncle Vanya Season 1970–1971 |
| Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Sir Anthony Quayle | 0
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| Henry Hewes Awards | Costume Design | Raoul Pene Du Bois | No No Nanette
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| Henry Hewes Awards | Scenic Design | Boris Aronson | Follies
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| Henry Hewes Awards | Scenic Design | Peter Larkin | Les Blancs
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| Henry Hewes Awards | Special Citation | Clark Dunham | The Me Nobody Knows
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Actor | Alan Bates | Butley
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Comedy | Alan Bennett | Getting On
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Play | Simon Grey | Butley
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright | E A Whitehead | The Foursoe
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress | Peggy Ashcroft | The Loves of Viorne
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