| Best Book of a Musical | Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Claude-Michel Schonberg | Miss Saigon |
| Best Book of a Musical | Lynn Ahrens | Once on this Islandproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Book of a Musical | Marsha Norman | The Secret Garden |
| Best Book of a Musical | Peter Stone | The Will Rogers Follies |
| Best Choreography | Bob Avian | Miss Saigon |
| Best Choreography | Dan Siretta | Oh, Kay!production took place the previous year |
| Best Choreography | Graciela Daniele | Once on this Island |
| Best Choreography | Tommy Tune | The Will Rogers Follies |
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| Best Costume Design | Judy Dearing | Once on this Islandproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Costume Design | Patricia Zipprodt | Shogun: The Musicalproduction took place the previous year |
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| Best Costume Design | Theoni V. Aldredge | The Secret Garden |
| Best Costume Design | Willa Kim | The Will Rogers Follies |
| Best Direction of a Musical | Nicholas Hytner | Miss Saigon |
| Best Direction of a Musical | Graciela Daniele | Once on this Islandproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Direction of a Musical | Tommy Tune | The Will Rogers Follies |
| Best Direction of a Musical | Eleanor Reissa | Those Were the Daysproduction took place the previous year |
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| Best Direction of a Play | Richard Jones | La Bête |
| Best Direction of a Play | Gene Saks | Lost in Yonkers |
| Best Direction of a Play | Mark Lamos | Our Country's Good |
| Best Direction of a Play | Jerry Zaks | Six Degrees of Separationtook place the previous year |
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| Best Direction of a Play | Jerry Zaks | Six Degrees of Separationproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Lighting Design | Jennifer Tipton | La Bête |
| Best Lighting Design | David Hersey | Miss Saigon |
| Best Lighting Design | Allen Lee Hughes | Once on this Island |
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| Best Lighting Design | Jules Fisher | The Will Rogers Follies |
| Best Musical | Cameron Mackintosh | Miss Saigon |
| Best Musical | Playwrights Horizons, James Walsh, Suntory International, Capital Cities/ABC Inc, The Shubert Organization | Once on this Islandproducer, production took place the previous year |
| Best Musical | Heidi Landesman, Rick Steiner, Elizabeth Williams, Frederic H. Mayerson, Jujamcyn Theaters, TV Asahi, Dodger Theatricals | The Secret Garden |
| Best Musical | Stewart F. Lane, Max Weitzenhoffer, Pierre Cossette, James M. Nederlander, Sam Crothers, Martin Richards, Japan Satellite Broadcasting, Inc. | The Will Rogers Folliesproducer |
| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Richard Maltby, Jr., Claude-Michel Schonberg | Miss Saigonlyrics |
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| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens | Once on this Islandmusic |
| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Lucy Simon, Marsha Norman | The Secret Gardenmusic |
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| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Cy Coleman | The Will Rogers Follieslyrics |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Lee Roy Reams | 42nd Streetproduction took place the previous year. |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Hinton Battle | Miss Saigon |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Willy Falk | Miss Saigon |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Gregg Burge | Oh, Kay!production took place the previous year |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Bruce Adler | Those Were the Daysproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Adam Arkin | I Hate Hamlet |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Dylan Baker | La Bête |
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| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Kevin Spacey | Lost in Yonkers |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Stephen Lang | The Speed of Darkness |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Paul Hipp | Buddyproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Topol | Fiddler on the Roofproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Jonathan Pryce | Miss Saigon |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Keith Carradine | The Will Rogers Follies |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Tom McGowan | La Bête |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Peter Frechette | Our Country's Good |
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| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Nigel Hawthorne | Shadowlandsproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Courtney B. Vance | Six Degrees of Separationproduction took place the previous year |
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| Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | LaChanze | Once on this Islandproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Daisy Eagan | The Secret Garden |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Alison Fraser | The Secret Garden |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Cady Huffman | The Will Rogers Follies |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Irene Worth | Lost in Yonkers |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | J. Smith-Cameron, Amelia Campbell | Our Country's Good |
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| Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Kathryn Erbe | The Speed of Darkness |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Lea Salonga | Miss Saigon |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Cathy Rigby | Peter Pan |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | June Angela | Shogun: The Musicalproduction took place the previous year |
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| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Dee Hoty | The Will Rogers Follies |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Mercedes Ruehl | Lost in Yonkers |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Julie Harris | Lucifer's Child |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Cherry Jones | Our Country's Good |
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| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Stockard Channing | Six Degrees of Separationproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Play | Neil Simon, Emanuel Azenberg | Lost in Yonkers |
| Best Play | Terry Allen Kramer, Hartford Stage Company, Diana Bliss, Raymond L. Gaspard, Karl Sydow, Frank and Woji Gero, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Frederick Zollo | Our Country's Goodproducer, production took place the previous year |
| Best Play | William Nicholson, Elliot Martin, James M. Nederlander, Brian Eastman, Roger L. Stevens | Shadowlandsproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Play | Bernard Gersten, Gregory Mosher, Lincoln Center Theater, John Guare | Six Degrees of Separationproducer, production took place the previous year |
| Best Revival | Barry and Fran Weissler, Pace Theatrical Group, Inc. | Fiddler on the Roofproducer, production took place the previous year |
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| Best Revival | Alain Boublil, John Napier | Miss Saigonlyrics |
| Best Revival | James M. Nederlander, Arthur Rubin, Thomas P. McCoy, Keith Stava, PP Investments, Inc., John B. Platt | Peter Panproducer |
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| Best Revival | Circle in the Square Theatre, Paul Libin, Theodore Mann | The Miserproducer, production took place the previous year |
| Best Revival | Tony Walton | The Will Rogers Follies |
| Best Scenic Design | Richard Hudson | La Bête |
| Best Scenic Design | Heidi Landesman | The Secret Garden |
| Regional Theater Tony Award | Yale Repertory Theatre | |
| Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre | Father George Moore | Given Posthumously |
