| Best New Play | Hugh Leonard | Da1977-78 season |
| Best New Play | Lanford Wilson | Fifth of July1977-78 season |
| Best New Play | John Guare | Landscape of the Body1977-78 season |
| Best New Play | D.L. Coburn | The Gin Game1977-78 season |
| Best New Play | Arnold Wesker | The Merchant1977-78 season |
| Best New Play | David Mamet | The Water Engine1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Gary Bayer | A History of the American Film1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Ken Page | Ain't Misbehavin'1977-78 season |
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| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Richard Kiley | Man of La Mancha1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Henderson Forsythe | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas1977-78 season |
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| Outstanding Actor - Play | Judd Hirsch | Chapter Two1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Barnard Hughes | Da1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Brian Murray | Da1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Frank Langella | Dracula1977-78 |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | James Earl Jones | Paul Robeson1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Hume Cronyn | The Gin Game1977-78 season |
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| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Nell Carter | Ain't Misbehavin'1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Charlaine Woodard | Ain't Misbehavin'1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Phyllis Newman | My Mother was a Fortune Teller1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Judy Kaye | On the 20th Century1977-78 season |
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| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Angela Lansbury | The King and I1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Carlin Glynn | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Helen Burns | Catsplay1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Shirley Knight | Landscape of the Body1977-78 season |
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| Outstanding Actress - Play | Tammy Grimes, Patricia Elliott | Tartuffe1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Jessica Tandy | The Gin Game1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Carol Mayo Jenkins | Zinnia1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Choreography | Arthur Faria | Ain't Misbehavin'1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Choreography | Bob Fosse | Dancin'1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Choreography | Tommy Tune | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas1977-78 season |
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| Outstanding Choreography | Geoffrey Holder | Timbuktu!1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Edward Gorey | Dracula1977-78 season |
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| Outstanding Costume Design | Florence Klotz | On the 20th Century1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Zack Brown | Saint Joan1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Zack Brown | Tartuffe1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Geoffrey Holder | Timbuktu!1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Director - Musical | Elizabeth Swados | Runaways1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Director - Musical | Peter Masterson, Tommy Tune | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Director - Musical | Stephen Schwartz | Working1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Melvin Bernhardt | Da1977-78 season |
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| Outstanding Director - Play | Peter Bennett | Dracula1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Garland Wright | K1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Joseph Chaikin | The Dybbuk1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Mike Nichols | The Gin Game1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Steven Robman | Uncommon Women and Others1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Feature Actress - Play | Carol Kane | The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Joel Higgins | Angel1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Charles Ward | Dancin'1977-78 season |
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| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Kevin Kline | On the 20th Century1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Lee S. Wilkof | The Present Tense1977-78 season |
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| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Brad Sullivan, Matt Landers | Working1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Jeffery DeMunn | A Prayer for My Daughter1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | George Dzunda | A Prayer for My Daughter1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Lester Rawlins | Da1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Jerome Dempsey | Dracula1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Michael Higgins | Molly1977-78 season |
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| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Vasili Bogazianos | P.S. Your Cat Is Dead!1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Morgan Freeman | The Mighty Gents1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Swoosie Kurtz | A History of the American Film1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Pamela Blair | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas1977-78 season |
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| Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Bobo Lewis | Working1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Lenora Nemetz | Working1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Pamela Reed | Curse of the Starving Class1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Martha Gaylord | The Elusive Angel1977-78 season |
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| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Eileen Atkins | The Night of the Tribades1977-78 |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Swoosie Kurtz | Uncommon Women and Others1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Jules Fisher | Dancin'1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Marc B. Weiss | Deathtrap1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Roger Morgan | Dracula1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Garland Wright, John Arnone | K1977-78 season |
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| Outstanding Lighting Design | Ronald Wallace | The Gin Game1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Gilbert V. Hemsley, Jr. | The Mighty Gents1977-78 season |
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| Outstanding Lyrics | Elizabeth Swados | Runaways1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Carol Hall | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Music | Cy Coleman | On the 20th Century1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Music | Elizabeth Swados | Runaways1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Music | Carol Hall | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Musical | | Ain't Misbehavin'1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Musical | | Dancin'1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Musical | | Runaways1977-78 season |
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| Outstanding Musical | | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Musical | | Working1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Set Design | William Ritman | Deathtrap1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Set Design | Edward Gorey | Dracula1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Set Design | Robin Wagner | On the 20th Century1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Set Design | Judie Juracek | P.S. Your Cat Is Dead1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Set Design | David Mitchell | The Gin Game1977-78 season |
| Outstanding Set Design | Santo Loquasto | The Play's the Thing1977-78 season |
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| Unique Theatrical Experience | Off Off Broadway Theatre Movement | 1977-78 season |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | Barry Humphries | Housewife! Superstar!1977-78 season |
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| Unique Theatrical Experience | Estelle Parsons | Miss Magarida's Way1977-78 season |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | Colonnades Theatre Lab | Moliere in Spite of Himself1977-78 season |
| Unique Theatrical Experience | Dick Shawn | The 2nd Greatest Entertainer in the Whole Wide World1977-78 season |
