| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Jim Dale | Barnum |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Christopher Durang | Das Lusitania Songspiel |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Mandy Patinkin | Evita |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Mickey Rooney | Sugar Babies |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Giorgio Tozzi | The Most Happy Fella |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Jerry Zaks | Tintypes |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | John Rubinstein | Children of a Lesser God |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Charles Brown | Home |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Philip Bosco | Major Barbara |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Gerald Hiken | Strider |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Judd Hirsch | Talley's Folly |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | F. Murray Abraham | Teibele and Her Demon |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Sigourney Weaver | Das Lusitania Songspiel |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Patti LuPone | Evita |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Sandy Duncan | Peter Pan |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Ann Miller | Sugar Babies |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Susan Sarandon | A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Blythe Danner | Betrayal |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Phyllis Frelich | Children of a Lesser God |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Pat Carroll | Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Mary Tyler Moore | Whose Life Is It Anyway? |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Tommy Tune | A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Joe Layton | Barnum |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Larry Fuller | Evita |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Mary Kyte | Tintypes |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Tazeena Firth, Timothy O'Brien | Evita |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Pierre Balmain | Happy New Year |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Rostislav Doboujinsky | Heartaches of a Pussycat |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Linda Fisher | Morning's at Seven |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | William Ivey Long | The 1940's Radio Hour |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Joe Layton | Barnum |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Harold Prince | Evita |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Walton Jones | The 1940's Radio Hour |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Gary Pearle | Tintypes |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Gordon Davidson | Children of a Lesser God |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Alan Schneider | Loose Ends |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Kevin Conway | Mecca |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Vivian Matalon | Morning's at Seven |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Robert Kalfin, Lynne Gannaway | Strider |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Marshall W. Mason | Talley's Folly |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Bob Gunton | Evita |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Don Novello | Gilda Radner — Live From New York |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Harry Groener, Martin Vidnovic | Oklahoma! |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Jeff Keller, Joe Grifasi | The 1940's Radio Hour |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Michael Gross, David Dukes | Bent |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Hansford Rowe | Nuts |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | David Rounds | Morning's at Seven |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Fritz Weaver | The Price |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Doug McClure | The Roast |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Peggy Hewett | A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Janie Sell | God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Crissy Wilza | The 1940's Radio Hour |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Carolyn Mignini, Mary Catherine Wright | Tintypes |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Debbie Allen | West Side Story |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Pamela Brook | Goodbye Fidel |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Lois de Banzie | Morning's at Seven |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Mia Dillon | Once a Catholic |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Frances Conroy | Othello |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Dianne Wiest | The Art of Dining |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Tharon Musser | Children of a Lesser God |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | John McLain | Emigres |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | David Hersey | Evita |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Richard Nelson | Morning's at Seven |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Dennis Parichy | Talley's Folly |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Duane Schuler | Teibele and Her Demon |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Tim Rice | Evita |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Steve Brown | Strider |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Cy Coleman | Barnum |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Andrew Lloyd Weber | Evita |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | | Barnum |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | | Evita |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | | Sidewalkin' |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | | The 1940's Radio Hour |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | | Tintypes |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Mark Medoff | Children of a Lesser God |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Samm-Art Williams | Home |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Tom Stoppard | Night and Day |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Lanford Wilson | Talley's Folly |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Eve Le Friedman, Isaac Bashevis Singer | Teibele and Her Demon |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Wolf Mankowitz | The Irish Hebrew Lesson |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | David Mitchell | Barnum |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | David Jenkins | I Ought to Be in Pictures & The Art of Dining |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | William Ritman | Morning's at Seven |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Douglas W. Schmidt | Sidewalkin' |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | John Lee Beatty | Talley's Folly |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | David Jenkins | The Art of Dining |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Stanley Silverman | Bent |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Norman L. Berman | Strider |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Sound Design in a Play | Richard Peaslee | Teibele and Her Demon |
| Drama Desk Awards | Special Awards | Maureen O'Sullivan, Nancy Marchand, La MaMa E.T.C., Teresa Wright, Elizabeth Wilson | |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Special Awards | | Morning's at Seven |
| Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Roy Scheider | |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Actor | Tom Courtenay | The Dresser |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Comedy | Michael Hastings | Gloo-Joo |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Director | John Caird, Trevor Nunn | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Play | Ronald Harwood | The Dresser |
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright | Paul Kember | Not Quite Jerusalem |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Lebedev Special Award | Sir Ralph Richardson | |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress | Judi Dench | Duet for One |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress | Judi Dench | Frances de la Tour |
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress | Judi Dench | Juno and the Paycock |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical | | Sweeney Todd |
| Henry Hewes Awards | Costume Design | Linda Fischer | Morning's At Seven |
| Henry Hewes Awards | Lighting Design | Dennis Parichy | Talley's Folly |
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| Henry Hewes Awards | Scenic Design | David Mitchell | Barnum |
| Henry Hewes Awards | Scenic Design | Stuart Wurtzel | The Sorrows Of Stephen |
| Henry Hewes Awards | Scenic, Costume and Puppet Design | Julie Taymor | The Haggadah |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Musical | John Diedrich | Oklahoma! |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Musical | Denis Lawson | Pal Joey |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Musical | Denis Quilley | Sweeney Todd |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Musical | Tom Conti | They're Playing Our Song |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a New Play | Paul Scofield | Amadeus |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a New Play | Roger Rees | Nicholas Nickleby |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a New Play | Tom Courtenay | The Dresser |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a New Play | David Schofield | The Elephant Man |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Revival | Jonathan Pryce | Hamlet |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Revival | Bob Peck | Othello |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Revival | Alec McCowen | The Browning Version and Harlequinade |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Revival | Michael Gambon | The Life Of Galileo |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Supporting Role | Simon Callow | Amadeus |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Supporting Role | John Rogan | Juno And The Paycock |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Supporting Role | David Threlfall | Nicholas Nickleby |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Supporting Role | Edward Petherbridge | Nicholas Nickleby |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Musical | Julia McKenzie | On The Twentieth Century |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Musical | Sian Phillips | Pal Joey |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Musical | Sheila Hancock | Sweeney Todd |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Musical | Gemma Craven | They're Playing Our Song |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a New Play | Shelagh Holliday | A Lesson From Aloes |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a New Play | Frances De La Tour | Duet For One |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a New Play | Joan Plowright | Enjoy |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a New Play | Glenda Jackson | Rose |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Revival | Susan Tracy | Anna Christie, RSC |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Revival | Judi Dench | Juno And The Paycock, RSC |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Revival | Maria Aitken | Private Lives |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Revival | Geraldine McEwan | The Browning Version and Harlequinade |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Supporting Role | Prunella Scales | Make And Break |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Supporting Role | Suzanne Bertish | Nicholas Nickleby |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Supporting Role | Lynn Dearth | The Greeks |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Supporting Role | Susan Tracy | Three Sisters |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Comedy of the Year | Peter Nichols | Born In The Gardens |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Comedy of the Year | Willy Russell | Educating Rita |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Comedy of the Year | Michael Frayn | Make And Break |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Comedy of the Year | Alan Ayckbourn | Sisterly Feelings |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Comedy Performance of the Year | Beryl Reid | Born In The Gardens |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Comedy Performance of the Year | Julie Walters | Educating Rita |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Comedy Performance of the Year | Edward Duke | Jeeves Takes Charge |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Comedy Performance of the Year | Ben Kingsley | The Merry Wives Of Windsor |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Designer of the Year | John Bury | Amadeus |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Designer of the Year | John Gunter | Juno And The Paycock, RSC |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Designer of the Year | John Napier and Dermot Hayes | Nicholas Nickleby |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Designer of the Year | Jocelyn Herbert | The Life Of Galileo |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Director of the Year | Peter Hall | Amadeus |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Director of the Year | John Caird, Trevor Nunn and John Caird | Nicholas Nickleby |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Director of the Year | John Barton | The Greeks |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Director of the Year | John Dexter | The Life Of Galileo |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Most Promising Newcomer of the Year in Theatre | Gavin Richards | Accidental Death Of An Anarchistfor the adaptation, direction and performance in Accidental Death Of An Anarchist at the Wyndham's |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Most Promising Newcomer of the Year in Theatre | Edward Duke | Jeeves Takes Chargefor the creation, adaptation and performance in Jeeves Takes Charge at the Fortune |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Most Promising Newcomer of the Year in Theatre | Alfred Molina | Oklahoma! |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Most Promising Newcomer of the Year in Theatre | Robert Walker | Pal Joey |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Musical of the Year | Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Cy Coleman | On The 20th Century |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Musical of the Year | Stephen Sondheim, C G Bond, Hugh Wheeler | Sweeney Todd |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Musical of the Year | Neil Simon, Marvin Hamlisch | They're Playing Our Song |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Musical of the Year | Tom Lehrer | Tom Foolery |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Opera | English National Opera | Cosi Fan Tutte |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Opera | English National Opera | Julius Caesar |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Opera | Kent Opera, English National Opera | The Turn Of The Screw |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement of the Year in Ballet | Gaite Parisienne | Ballet Of The 20th Century Of Maurice Bejart |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement of the Year in Ballet | London Festival Ballet | Sphinx |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement of the Year in Ballet | Gloria | The Royal Ballet |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement of the Year in Ballet | Rhapsody | The Royal Ballet |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding First Achievement of the Year in Opera or Ballet | Felicity Lott | English National Opera's Cosi Fan Tutte |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding First Achievement of the Year in Opera or Ballet | Michael Pink | London Festival Ballet's 1914 |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding First Achievement of the Year in Opera or Ballet | Roland Price | Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet's Danses Concertantes |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding First Achievement of the Year in Opera or Ballet | Rosalind Plowright | The Turn of the Screw |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Play of the Year | Athol Fugard | A Lesson From Aloes |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Play of the Year | Tom Kempinski | Duet For One |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Play of the Year | Ronald Harewood | The Dresser |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Play of the Year | Charles Dickens | The Life And Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | The Society's Special Award | Sir Ralph Richardson | |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Foreign Play | Harold Pinter | Betrayal1979-1980 season |
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| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Musical | Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber | Evita1979-1980 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Play | Lanford Wilson | Talley's Folly1979-1980 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Special Citation | Peter Brook | Le Centre International de Créations Théâtricales at La Mama1979-1980 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Auspicious Debut | Phyllis Frelich | Children of a Lesser God1979-80 season |
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Broadway Musical | | Barnum1979-80 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Broadway Play | | Children of a Lesser God1979-80 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Direction and Choreography | Tommy Tune | A Day in Hollywod / A Night in the Ukraine1979-80 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Lyricist | Tim Rice | Evita1979-80 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Performance | Elizabeth Wilson, Lois De Banzie, Teresa Wright, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nancy Marchand | Morning's at Seven1979-80 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Performance | Gerald Hiken | Strider1979-80 season |
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Performance in an Off Broadway Play | Pat Carroll | Getrude Stein Gertrude Stein Getrude Stein1979-80 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Set Design | John Lee Beatty | Hide and Seek1979-80 season |
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Set Design | John Lee Beatty | Talley's Folly1979-80 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Consistent Contribution to the Theatre | The Ensemble Studio Theatre (Curt Dempster: Artistic Director) | 1979-80 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | John Gassner Playwriting Award | Samm-Art Williams | 1979-80 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Special Awards | Paul Myers | 1979-80 season |
| Pulitzer Prize for Drama | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Lanford Wilson | Talley's Folly |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Boyd Gaines | A Month in the CountrySeason 1979–1980 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Marianne Tatum | BarnumSeason 1979–1980 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Richard Gere | BentSeason 1979–1980 |
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| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Lonny Price, Maxwell Caulfield | Class EnemySeason 1979–1980 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Leslie Denniston | Happy New YearSeason 1979–1980 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Dinah Manoff | I Ought to Be in PicturesSeason 1979–1980 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Susan Kellermann | Last LicksSeason 1979–1980 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Anne Twomey | NutsSeason 1979–1980 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Harry Groener | Oklahoma!Season 1979–1980 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Mickey Rooney | Special AwardSeason 1979–1980 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Stephen James | The 1940's Radio HourSeason 1979–1980 |
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| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Dianne Wiest | The Art of DiningSeason 1979–1980 |
| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Dick Vosburgh | A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine |
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| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Mark Bramble | Barnum |
| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Tim Rice | Evita |
| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Harry Rigby, Ralph G. Allen | Sugar Babies |
| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Tommy Tune, Thommie Walsh | A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine |
| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Joe Layton | Barnum |
| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Larry Fuller | Evita |
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Ernest Flatt | Sugar Babies |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Theoni V. Aldredge | Barnum |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Harold Prince | Evita |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Tazeena Firth, Timothy O'Brien | Evita |
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Pierre Balmain | Happy New Year |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Raoul Pene Du Bois | Sugar Babies |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Tommy Tune | A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Joe Layton | Barnum |
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Harold Prince | Evita |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Ernest Flatt and Rudy Tronto | Sugar Babies |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Peter Hall | Betrayal |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Gordon Davidson | Children of a Lesser God |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Vivian Matalon | Morning's at Seven |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Marshall W. Mason | Talley's Folly |
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| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Beverly Emmons | A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine |
| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Craig Miller | Barnum |
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| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | David Hersey | Evita |
| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Dennis Parichy | Talley's Folly |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | David Merrick | 42nd Street |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Alexander H. Cohen, Hildy Parks | A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Cy Coleman, Lois Rosenfield, Maurice Rosenfield | Barnum |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Robert Stigwood | Evita |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Terry Allen Kramer, Harry Rigby | Sugar Babies |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Warner Theater Productions | Woman of the Year |
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| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Dick Vosburgh, Frank Lazarus | A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine |
| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Michael Stewart, Cy Coleman | Barnum |
| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber | Evita |
| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Arthur Malvin | Sugar Babies |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | David Garrison | A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Mandy Patinkin | Evita |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Bob Gunton | Evita |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Harry Groener | Oklahoma! |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | David Dukes | Bent |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | David Rounds | Morning's at Seven |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Joseph Maher | Night and DayProduction took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Earle Hyman | The Lady from Dubuque |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | George Hearn | Watch on the Rhine |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Jim Dale | Barnum |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Gregory Hines | Comin' Uptownproducer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Mickey Rooney | Sugar Babies |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Giorgio Tozzi | The Most Happy Fella |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | John Rubinstein | Children of a Lesser God |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Charles Brown | Homeproduction took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Gerlad Hiken | Striderproducer, production took place the previous year |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Judd Hirsch | Talley's Folly |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Priscilla Lopez | A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Glenn Close | Barnum |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Debbie Allen, Josie de Guzman | West Side Story |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Dinah Manoff | I Ought to be in Pictures |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Lois de Banzie | Morning's at Seven |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Pamela Burrell | Striderproduction took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Maureen Anderman | The Lady from Dubuque |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Patti LuPone | Evita |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Christine Andreas | Oklahoma! |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Sandy Duncan | Peter Pan |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Ann Miller | Sugar Babies |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Blythe Danner | Betrayal |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Phyllis Frelich | Children of a Lesser God |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Maggie Smith | Night and Dayproduction took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Anne Twomey | Nuts |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Jack Schlissel | Bent |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Steven Steinlauf | Bent |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Dasha Epstein, The Shubert Organization, Emanuel Azenberg, Mark Medoff, Ron Dante | Children of a Lesser God |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Nelle Nugent, Ray Larsen, Gerald S. Krone, Elizabeth Ireland McCann, Samm-Art Williams | Home |
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Lanford Wilson, Nancy Cooperstein, Porter Van Zandt | Talley's Folly |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Marc Howard | Talley's Folly |
| Tony Awards | Best Revival | Peter Pan, Circle in the Square | Major Barbara |
| Tony Awards | Best Revival | Ray Larson, Nelle Nugent, Elizabeth Ireland McCann | Morning's at Seven |
| Tony Awards | Best Revival | Zev Bufman | Peter Pan |
| Tony Awards | Best Revival | Gladys Rackmil, The John F. Kennedy Center, James M. Nederlander, Ruth Mitchell | West Side Story |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Tony Walton | A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | David Mitchell | Barnum |
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Tazeena Firth | Evita |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | John Lee Beatty | Talley's Folly |
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| Tony Awards | Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre | Helen Hayes | |
| Tony Awards | Regional Theater Tony Award | Actors Theatre of Louisville | |
| Tony Awards | Special Tony Award | Mary Tyler Moore, East Haddam, Goodspeed Opera House | Whose Life Is It Anyway? |
| Tony Awards | Theatre Award '80 | Richard Fitzgerald, Hobe Morrison | Variety |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Ensemble Performance | See CITATIONS | |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Design | Sally Jacobs | Conference of the Birds |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Design | Laura Crow | Mary Stuart |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Design | Ruth Maleczech, Julie Archer | Vanishing Pictures |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Design for distinguished lighting | Beverly Emmons | |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | Edward Cornell | Johnny on a Spot |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | Elizabeth LeCompte | Point Judith |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | A.J. Antoon | The Art of Dining |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Obie Committee | Ross Wetzsteon, Eileen Blumenthal, Julius Novick, Harold Clurman, Erika Munk, Terry Curtis Fox, Michael Feingold | |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Jon Polito | For performances with Dodger Theatre Company and the BAM Theater Company. |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Bill Raymond | A Prelude to Death in Venice |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Michael Cristofer | Chinchilla |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Morgan Freeman | Coriolanus |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Michael Burrell | Hess |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Madeleine le Roux | La Justice |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Morgan Freeman, Hattie Winston | Mother Courage |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | John Heard | Othello |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Lindsay Crouse, Michael Higgins | Reunion |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Elizabeth Franz | Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | John Heard | Split |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Dianne Wiest | The Art of Dining |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Hattie Winston | The Michigan |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Playwriting | Lee Breuer | A Prelude to Death in Venice |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Playwriting | Roland Muldoon | Full Confessions of a Socialist |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Playwriting | Christopher Durang | Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Playwriting | Romulus Linney | Tennessee |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Playwriting | Jeff Weiss | That's How the Rent Gets Paid (Part Three) |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Special Citations | Ellen Stewart, La Mama E.T.C, Richard Nelson, David Jones | For contribution to the American theatre by the importation of foreign companies. |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Special Citations | Ntozake Shange | Mother Courage |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Special Citations | | The Flying Karamazov Brothers |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Special Citations for outstanding ensemble performance | The Actors of Le Centre International de Creations Theatrales | |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Sustained Achievement | Sam Shepard | |
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