Tony Award Winners by Year

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Year	Category	Nominee	Show	Nom
1978	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical	Eartha Kitt	Timbuktu!
1978	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical	Frances Sternhagen	Angel
1978	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Anne Bancroft	Golda production took place the previous year
1978	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Anita Gillette	Chapter Two production took place the previous year
1978	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Estelle Parsons	Miss Margarida's Way Production took place the previous year.
1978	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Jessica Tandy	The Gin Game production took place the previous year	Award winner
1978	Best Play	Hugh Leonard	Da Production took place the previous year	Award winner
1978	Best Play	Lester Osterman	Da Production took place the previous year.	Award winner
1978	Best Play	Marilyn Strauss	Da	Award winner
1978	Best Play	Marc Howard	Da Production took place the previous year.	Award winner
1978	Best Play	Neil Simon	Chapter Two Production took place the previous year.
1978	Best Play	Emanuel Azenberg	Chapter Two production took place the previous year
1978	Best Play	Alfred De Liagre, Jr.	Deathtrap
1978	Best Play	Roger L. Stevens	Deathtrap
1978	Best Play	D. L. Coburn	The Gin Game producer, production took place the previous year
1978	Best Play	The Shubert Organization	The Gin Game producer, production took place the previous year
1978	Best Play	Hume Cronyn	The Gin Game producer, production took place the previous year
1978	Best Play	Mike Nichols	The Gin Game producer, production took place the previous year
1978	Best Play	Ira Levin	Deathtrap
1978	Best Scenic Design	Robin Wagner	On the Twentieth Century	Award winner
1978	Best Scenic Design	Zack Brown	The Importance of Being Earnest production took place the previous year
1978	Best Scenic Design	Edward Gorey	Dracula production took place the previous year
1978	Best Scenic Design	David Mitchell	Working
1978	Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre	Irving Berlin	0	Award winner
1978	Most Innovative Production of a Revival	Max Weitzenhoffer	Dracula production took place the previous year	Award winner
1978	Most Innovative Production of a Revival	Nelle Nugent	Dracula production took place the previous year	Award winner
1978	Most Innovative Production of a Revival	Luther Davis	Timbuktu!
1978	Most Innovative Production of a Revival	Circle in the Square	Tartuffe production took place the previous year
1978	Most Innovative Production of a Revival	Victor Lurie	Dracula production took place the previous year	Award winner
1978	Most Innovative Production of a Revival	John Wulp	Dracula production took place the previous year	Award winner
1978	Most Innovative Production of a Revival	Elizabeth Ireland McCann	Dracula Production took place the previous year	Award winner
1978	Most Innovative Production of a Revival	Jujamcyn Theaters	Dracula Production took place the previous year	Award winner
1978	Most Innovative Production of a Revival	Elliot Martin	A Touch of the Poet production took place the previous year
1978	Regional Theater Tony Award	The Long Wharf Theatre	New Haven production took place the previous year
1977	Best Book of a Musical	Thomas Meehan	Annie	Award winner
1977	Best Book of a Musical	Elisabeth Hauptmann	Happy End
1977	Best Book of a Musical	Michael Stewart	I Love My Wife
1977	Best Book of a Musical	Vinnette Carroll	Box With God Production took place the previous year
1977	Best Book of a Musical	Michael Feingold	Adaptation production took place the previous year
1977	Best Choreography	Talley Beatty	Your Arm's Too Short to Box With God producer, production took place the previous year
1977	Best Choreography	Peter Gennaro	Annie	Award winner
1977	Best Choreography	Patricia Birch	Music Is production took place the previous year
1977	Best Costume Design	Nancy Potts	Porgy and Bess
1977	Best Costume Design	Theoni V. Aldredge	Threepenny Opera
1977	Best Costume Design	Santo Loquasto	The Cherry Orchard
1977	Best Costume Design	Theoni V. Aldredge	Annie	Award winner
1977	Best Direction of a Musical	Jack O'Brien	Porgy and Bess producer, production took place the previous year
1977	Best Direction of a Musical	Martin Charnin	Annie
1977	Best Direction of a Musical	Vinnette Carroll	Your Arm's too Short to Box With God production took place the previous year
1977	Best Direction of a Musical	Gene Saks	I Love My Wife	Award winner
1977	Best Direction of a Play	Mike Nichols	Streamers producer, production took place the previous year
1977	Best Direction of a Play	Gordon Davidson	The Shadow Box
1977	Best Direction of a Play	Ulu Grosbard	American Buffalo
1977	Best Direction of a Play	Mike Nichols	Comedians Production took place the previous year.
1977	Best Lighting Design	Jennifer Tipton	The Cherry Orchard
1977	Best Lighting Design	John Bury	Man's Land producer, production took place the previous year
1977	Best Lighting Design	Pat Collins	Threepenny Opera
1977	Best Lighting Design	Neil Peter Jampolis	The Innocents Production took place the previous year.
1977	Best Musical	Lewis Allen	Annie	Award winner
1977	Best Musical	Michael Harvey	Happy End
1977	Best Musical	The Chelsea Theatre Center	Happy End
1977	Best Musical	Terry Allen Kramer	I Love My Wife
1977	Best Musical	Harry Rigby	I Love My Wife
1977	Best Musical	Joseph Kipness	I Love My Wife
1977	Best Musical	Harold Prince	Side by Side by Sondheim
1977	Best Musical	Ruth Mitchell	Side by Side by Sondheim
1977	Best Musical	Irwin Meyer	Annie	Award winner
1977	Best Musical	Stephen R. Friedman	Annie	Award winner
1977	Best Musical	Mike Nichols	Annie	Award winner
1977	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Stephen Schwartz	Godspell
1977	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Martin Charnin	Annie	Award winner
1977	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Charles Strouse	Annie	Award winner
1977	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Cy Coleman	I Love My Wife
1977	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Michael Stewart	I Love My Wife Lyrics
1977	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Kurt Weil	Happy End
1977	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Bertolt Brecht	Happy End
1977	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Michael Feingold	Happy End
1977	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical	Ned Sherrin	Side by Side by Sondheim
1977	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical	David Kernan	Side by Side by Sondheim
1977	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical	Larry Marshall	Porgy and Bess production took place the previous year
1977	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical	Lenny Baker	I Love My Wife	Award winner
1977	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play	Jonathan Pryce	Comedians production took place the previous year	Award winner
1977	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play	Bob Dishy	Sly Fox
1977	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play	Joe Fields	The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
1977	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play	Laurence Luckinbill	The Shadow Box
1977	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical	Reid Shelton	Annie
1977	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical	Raul Julia	Threepenny Opera
1977	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical	Robert Guillaume	Guys and Dolls production took place the previous year
1977	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical	Barry Bostwick	The Robber Bridegroom production took place the previous year	Award winner
1977	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Ralph Richardson	No Man's Land production took place the previous year
1977	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Ben Gazzara	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf production took place the previous year
1977	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Tom Courtenay	Otherwise Engaged
1977	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Al Pacino	The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel	Award winner
1977	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical	Delores Hall	Your Arm's Too Short to Box With God Production took place the previous year.	Award winner
1977	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical	Ellen Green	Threepenny Opera producer, production took place the previous year
1977	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical	Millicent Martin	Side by Side by Sondheim
1977	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical	Julie N. McKenzie	Side by Side by Sondheim
1977	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play	Trazana Beverley	for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf	Award winner
1977	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play	Patricia Elliott	The Shadow Box
1977	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play	Rose Gregorio	The Shadow Box

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