| Best Book of a Musical | Willie Reale | A Year with Frog and Toad |
| Best Book of a Musical | Didier van Cauwelaert, Jeremy Sams | Amourproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Book of a Musical | David Henry Hwang | Flower Drum Song |
| Best Book of a Musical | Thomas Meehan, Mark O'Donnell | Hairspray |
| Best Choreography | Jerry Mitchell | Hairspray |
| Best Choreography | Twyla Tharp | Movin' Outproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Choreography | Melinda Roy | Urban Cowboy The Musical |
| Best Costume Design | William Ivey Long | Hairspray |
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| Best Costume Design | Catherine Martin, Angus Strathie | La Bohème |
| Best Direction of a Musical | Jack O'Brien | Hairspray |
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| Best Direction of a Musical | Baz Luhrmann | La Bohèmeproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Direction of a Musical | Twyla Tharp | Movin' Outproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Direction of a Musical | David Leveaux | Nine |
| Best Direction of a Play | Lawrence Boswell | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg |
| Best Direction of a Play | Joe Mantello | Take Me Out |
| Best Lighting Design | Robert Longbottom | Flower Drum Song |
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| Best Lighting Design | Kenneth Posner | Hairspray |
| Best Lighting Design | Nigel Levings | La Bohèmeproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Lighting Design | Donald Holder | Movin' Outproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Lighting Design | Brian MacDevitt | Nine |
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| Best Musical | Roy Furman | A Day in the Death of Joe Eggproducer |
| Best Musical | Lawrence Horowitz, The Children's Theatre Company, Scott E. Nederlander, Michael Gardner, Adrianne Lobel, Bob Boyett | A Year with Frog and Toadproducer |
| Best Musical | The Shubert Organization, Jean Doumanian Productions, Inc., USA Ostar Theatricals | Amourproducer,
production took place the previous year |
| Best Musical | New Line Cinema, GFO, John Osher, Adam Epstein, The Baruch-Viertel-Routh-Frankel Group, James D. Stern/Douglas L. Meyer, Margo Lion, Rick Steiner, Frederic H. Mayerson, SEL, Bonnie Osher, Morton Swinsky, Dede Harris, Elan V. McAllister, Allan S. Gordon, Clear Channel Entertainment | Hairsprayproducer |
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| Best Musical | James L. Nederlander, Hal Luftig, Scott E. Nederlander, Terry Allen Kramer, Clear Channel Entertainment, Emanuel Azenberg | Movin' Outproducer,
production took place the previous year |
| Best Orchestrations | Harold Wheeler | Hairspray |
| Best Orchestrations | Nicholas Kitsopoulos | La Bohèmeproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Orchestrations | Stuart Malina, Billy Joel | Movin' Outproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Orchestrations | Jonathan Tunick | Nine |
| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Robert Reale, Willie Reale | A Year with Frog and Toadmusic |
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| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Michel Legrand, Didier van Cauwelaert, Jeremy Sams | Amourmusic,
production took place the previous year |
| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman | Hairspray |
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| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Clint Black, James Hayden Nicholas, Tommy Conners, Skip Ewing, Charles Daniels, Tom Crain, Fred Edwards, Taz DiGregorio, Jim Marshall, Charlie Hayward, Sara Light, Wanda Mallette, Patti Ryan, Ronnie Dunn, Bob Morrison, Bob Stillman, Marcus Hummon, Jeff Blumenkrantz, Jason Robert Brown, Danny Arena, Lauren Lucas, Jerry Silverstein, Martie Maguire, Bob Lee House, Jerry Chestnut, Roger Brown, Luke Reed, Pevin Byrd-Munoz, Carl L. Byrd, Wayland D. Holyfield | Urban Cowboy The Musicalmusic and lyrics |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | John Dossett | Gypsy |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Dick Latessa | Hairspray |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Corey Reynolds | Hairspray |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Michael Cavanaugh, Keith Roberts, Keith Roberts | Movin' Outproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Robert Sean Leonard | Long Day's Journey into Night |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Thomas Jefferson Byrd | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Long Day's Journey into Night |
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| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Denis O'Hare | Take Me Out |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Daniel Sunjata | Take Me Out |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Antonio Banderas | Nine The Musical |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Malcom Gets | Amour |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Harvey Fierstein | Hairspray |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Brian Stokes Mitchell | Man of La Mancha |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | John Selya | Movin' Outproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Brian Dennehy | Long Day's Journey into Night |
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| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Eddie Izzard | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Stanley Tucci | Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Luneproduction took place the previous year |
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| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Paul Newman | Our Town |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Brian Bedford | Tartuffe |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Tammy Blanchard | Gypsy |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Corey Reynolds | Hairspray |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Ashley Tuttle | Movin' Outproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Jane Krakowski | Nine |
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| Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Chita Rivera, Mary Stuart Masterson | Nine |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Christine Ebersole, Marian Seldes | Dinner at Eightproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Michele Pawk | Hollywood Armsproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Linda Emond | Life (x) 3 |
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| Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Kathryn Meisle | Tartuffe |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Melissa Errico | Amourproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Bernadette Peters | Gypsy |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Marissa Jaret Winokur | Hairspray |
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| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | Man of La Manchaproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Elizabeth Parkinson | Movin' Outproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Victoria Hamilton | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Jayne Atkinson | Enchanted April |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Vanessa Redgrave | Long Day's Journey into Night |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Fiona Shaw | Medea |
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| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Clare Higgins | Vincent in Brixton |
| Best Play | Pearl Berman Greenwald, Dori Berinstein/Barrie & Jim Loeks/Dramatic Forces, Frederic B. Vogel, Terry E. Schnuck, Jerry Frankel, Howard R. Berlin, Mari Glick, Libby Alder Mages, Tonja Walker Davidson, Irving Welzer, Raymond J. Greenwald, Les Goldman, Ellen Berman, Richard Gross, Jeffrey Richards, Matthew Barber | Enchanted Aprilproducer |
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| Best Play | Robert Falls | Long Day's Journey into Night |
| Best Play | Deborah Warner | Medeaproduction took place the previous year |
| Best Play | Anne Gallagher, Lawrence S. Toppall, Jae French, Bruce Lazarus, Martha R. Gasparian, Mari Glick, Libby Adler Mages, Judith Resnick, Larry Spellman, Louise Westergaard, Jay H. Harris, William Franzblau, Rupert Holmes, Elsa Daspin Haft | Say Goodnight Gracieproducer |
| Best Play | Richard Greenberg, The Public Theater, The Donmar Warehouse, Carole Shorenstein Hays, Frederick DeMann | Take Me Out |
| Best Play | Incidental Coleman Tod, The Shubert Organization, Elliott F. Kulick, Maidstone Productions, Ambassador Theatre Group Ltd, The Royal National Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, Nicholas Wright, Robert Fox, Ltd. | Vincent in Brixtonproducer |
| Best Revival of a Musical | Ron Kastner, WWLC, Harvey Weinstein, Michael Watt, Roger Marino, Robert Fox, Bonnie Comley | Gypsyproducer |
| Best Revival of a Musical | Fox Searchlight Pictures, Scott Nederlander, Ira Pittelman, Jeffrey Sine, Doyun Seol, Korea Pictures, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Bazmark Live, Emanuel Azenberg | La Bohèmeproducer,
production took place the previous year |
| Best Revival of a Musical | David Stone, Jon B. Platt, Susan Quint Gallin, Sandy Gallin, Seth M. Siegel, USA Ostar Theatricals, Mary Lu Roffe | Man of La Manchaproducer,
production took place the previous year |
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| Best Revival of a Musical | Julia C. Levy, Roundabout Theatre Company | Nineproducer |
| Best Revival of a Play | Sonia Friedman Productions, Julia C. Levy, Roundabout Theatre Company | A Day in the Death of Joe Eggproducer |
| Best Revival of a Play | Lincoln Center Theater | Dinner at Eightproducer,
production took place the previous year |
| Best Revival of a Play | USA Ostar Theatricals, Jean Doumanian Productions, Jam Theatricals, The Araca Group, Ray Sawyer, Kit Sawyer | Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Luneproducer,
production took place the previous year |
| Best Revival of a Play | Kara Medoff, Gene Korf, Lisa Vioni, Darren Bagert, Anthony Marshall, Eric Falkenstein, Max Cooper, David Richenthal | Long Day's Journey into Nightproducer |
| Best Scenic Design | Catherine Zuber, John Lee Beatty | Dinner at Eight |
| Best Scenic Design | Gregg Barnes | Flower Drum Song |
| Best Scenic Design | David Rockwell | Hairspray |
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| Best Scenic Design | Catherine Martin | La Bohème |
| Best Scenic Design | Santo Loquasto | Long Day's Journey into Night |
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| Best Special Theatrical Event | Adam Friedson, M. Kilburg Reedy, Larry Magid, Allen Spivak, David Friedson, Michael Viner, Anne Strickland Squadron, CTM Productions, Jonathan Reinis, Eric Krebs | Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Homeproducer |
| Best Special Theatrical Event | Jon Stoll, Jyll Rosenfeld | Prune Danishproducer |
| Best Special Theatrical Event | Stacy Carter, Jeffrey Chartier, Kimora Lee Simmons, Allen Spivak, Larry Magid, Richard Martini, Jonathan Reinis, Stan Lathan, Russell Simmons, Island Def Jam Music Group | Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on Broadwayproducer,
production took the previous year |
| Best Special Theatrical Event | Mike Nichols, Stuart Thompson, Charles Whitehead, Hamilton South, Joan Cullman, David Pugh | The Play What I Wroteproducer |
| Regional Theater Tony Award | The Children's Theatre Company | |
| Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre | Cy Feuer | |
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| Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre | Paul Huntley, Johnson-Liff Casting Associates, The Acting Company | |
| Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre | The principal ensemble of La Bohème | La Bohème |
