| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Matthew Broderick | Brighton Beach Memoirs |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | James Russo | Extremities |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Jeff Daniels | Johnny Got His Gun |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Remak Ramsay | Quartermaine's Terms |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | John Rubinstein | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Harvey Fierstein | Torch Song Trilogy |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | John Malkovich | True West |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Betty Buckley | Cats |
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| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Mara Beckerman | Charlotte Sweet |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Ellen Greene | Little Shop of Horrors |
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| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Twiggy | My One and Only |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Natalia Makarova | On Your Toes |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Susan Sarandon | Extremities |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Jessica Tandy | Foxfire |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Thuli Dumakude | Poppie Nongena |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Suzanne Bertish | Skirmishes |
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| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Colleen Dewhurst | The Queen and the Rebels |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Christine Estabrook | Win/Lose/Draw |
| Outstanding Choreography | Tommy Tune, Thommie Walsh | My One and Only |
| Outstanding Choreography | Donald Saddler, Peter Martins | On Your Toes |
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| Outstanding Costume Design | Patricia Zipprodt | Alice in Wonderland |
| Outstanding Costume Design | John Napier | Cats |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Patricia McGourty | Death of Von Richtofen Witnessed from Earth |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Rita Ryack | My One and Only |
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| Outstanding Costume Design | Zack Brown | On Your Toes |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Howard Ashman | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | George Abbott | On Your Toes |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Trevor Nunn | All's Well That Ends Well |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Robert Allan Ackerman | Extremities |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | George C. Scott | Present Laughter |
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| Outstanding Director of a Play | Arthur Sherman | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Michael Bennett | Third Street |
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| Outstanding Director of a Play | Gary Sinise | True West |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Franc Luz | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Charles "Honi" Coles | My One and Only |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Bruce Hubbard | Show Boat |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Randle Mell | The Cradle Will Rock |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Alan Feinstein | A View from the Bridge |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Stephen Moore | All's Well That Ends Well |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Nathan Lane | Present Laughter |
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| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Stephen Joyce, Michael Moriarty | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Stephen D. Newman | The Misanthrope |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Frank Maraden | The Workroom |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Rebecca Wright | Merlin |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Karla Burns | Show Boat |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Michele-Denise Woods | The Cradle Will Rock |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Kate McGregor-Stewart | Beyond Therapy |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Dana Ivey | Present Laughter & Quartermaine's Terms |
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| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Judith Ivey | Steaming |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Anne Twomey | Vieux Carre |
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| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Maureen Anderman | You Can't Take It with You |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | David Heresy | Cats |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Richard Nelson | Death of Von Richtofen as Witnessed from Earth |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Ken Billington | Foxfire |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Mal Sturchio | Johnny Got His Gun |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Allen Lee Hughes | K2 |
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| Outstanding Lyrics | T.S. Eliot | Cats |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Michael Colby | Charlotte Sweet |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Des McAnuff | Death of Von Richtofen Witnessed from Earth |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Howard Ashman | Little Shop of Horrors |
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| Outstanding Music | Larry Grossman, Larry Grossman | A Doll's Life |
| Outstanding Music | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Cats |
| Outstanding Music | Gerald Jay Markee | Charlotte Sweet |
| Outstanding Music | Des McAnuff | Death of Von Richtofen Witnessed from Earth |
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| Outstanding Music | Alan Menken | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Outstanding Musical | | My One and Only |
| Outstanding Musical | | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Michael Gibson | My One and Only |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | Hans Spialek | On Your Toes |
| Outstanding Play | Neil Simon | Brighton Beach Memoirs |
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| Outstanding Play | David Mamet | Edmund |
| Outstanding Play | William Mastrosimone | Extremities |
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| Outstanding Play | Jonathan Reynolds | Geniuses |
| Outstanding Play | Harvey Fierstein | Torch Song Trilogy |
| Outstanding Play | Sam Shepard | True West |
| Outstanding Projection Design | Ron Taylor, Martin P. Robinson | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Outstanding Projection Design | Charles Reynolds, Glen Priest, Jim Steinmeyer, John Gaughan, Robin Wagner, Doug Henning | Merlin |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | | All's Well That Ends Well |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | | On Your Toes |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | | Present Laughter |
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| Outstanding Revival of a Play | | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | | The Cradle Will Rock |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | | Vieux Carre |
| Outstanding Set Design | John Gunter | All's Well That Ends Well |
| Outstanding Set Design | Douglas Schmidt | Death of Von Richtofen Witnessed from Earth |
| Outstanding Set Design | Marjorie Bradley Kellogg | Extremities |
| Outstanding Set Design | Andrew Jackness | Geniuses |
| Outstanding Set Design | Kert Lundell | Johnny Got His Gun |
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| Outstanding Set Design | Ming Cho Lee | K2 |
| Outstanding Set Design | Marjorie Bradley Kellogg | Present Laughter |
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| Outstanding Set Design | Marjorie Bradley Kellogg | Steaming |
| Outstanding Set Design | Andrew Jackness | Whodunnit |
| Special Awards | Douglas Watt (The Daily News) | |
| Special Awards | Richard Wilbur, WPA Theatre and Its Artistic Director, Kyle Renick | |
