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Year Category Nominee Show Nom
1998 Best Direction of a Play Michael Mayer A View From the Bridge production took place the previous year
1998 Best Direction of a Play Simon McBurney The Chairs
1998 Best Direction of a Play Matthew Warchus Art
1999 Best Direction of a Play Robert Falls Death of a Salesman Award winner
1999 Best Direction of a Play Howard Davies The Iceman Cometh
1999 Best Direction of a Play Garry Hynes The Lonesome West
1999 Best Direction of a Play Trevor Nunn Not About Nightingales
1977 Best Direction of a Play Gordon Davidson The Shadow Box
1977 Best Direction of a Play Ulu Grosbard American Buffalo
2000 Best Direction of a Play Michael Blakemore Copenhagen Award winner
2000 Best Direction of a Play James Lapine Dirty Blonde
2000 Best Direction of a Play David Leveaux The Real Thing
2000 Best Direction of a Play Matthew Warchus True West
1977 Best Direction of a Play Mike Nichols Comedians Production took place the previous year.
1977 Best Direction of a Play Mike Nichols Streamers producer, production took place the previous year
1978 Best Direction of a Play Melvin Bernhardt Da Production took place 1880 year. Award winner
1978 Best Direction of a Play Robert Moore Deathtrap
1978 Best Direction of a Play Mike Nichols The Gin Game Production took place the previous year.
1978 Best Direction of a Play Dennis Rosa Dracula Production took place the previous year.
2001 Best Direction of a Play Daniel Sullivan Proof production took place the previous year Award winner
2001 Best Direction of a Play Marion McClinton King Hedley II
2001 Best Direction of a Play Ian McElhinney Stones in His Pockets
2001 Best Direction of a Play Jack O'Brien The Invention of Love
2001 Best Direction of a Play Paul Gallo 42nd Street
2001 Best Direction of a Play Kenneth Posner The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1979 Best Direction of a Play Jack Hofsiss The Elephant Man Award winner
1979 Best Direction of a Play Alan Ayckbourn Bedroom Farce
1979 Best Direction of a Play Peter Hall Bedroom Farce
1979 Best Direction of a Play Paul Giovanni The Crucifer of Blood producer, production took place the previous year
1979 Best Direction of a Play Michael Lindsay-Hogg Whose Life Is It Anyway
1980 Best Direction of a Play Vivian Matalon Morning's at Seven Award winner
1980 Best Direction of a Play Gordon Davidson Children of a Lesser God
1980 Best Direction of a Play Peter Hall Betrayal
1980 Best Direction of a Play Marshall W. Mason Talley's Folly
1981 Best Direction of a Play Peter Hall Amadeus Production took place the previous year. Award winner
1981 Best Direction of a Play Peter Coe A Life production took place the previous year.
1981 Best Direction of a Play Marshall W. Mason Fifth of July production took place the previous year
1981 Best Direction of a Play Austin Pendleton The Little Foxes
1982 Best Direction of a Play Trevor Nunn The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby producer, production took place the previous year. Award winner
1982 Best Direction of a Play John Caird The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby producer, production took place the previous year. Award winner
1982 Best Direction of a Play Melvin Bernhardt Crimes of the Heart producer, production took place the previous year.
1982 Best Direction of a Play Geraldine Fitzgerald Mass Appeal producer, production took place the previous year.
1982 Best Direction of a Play Athol Fugard 'Master Harold'...and the Boys
1983 Best Direction of a Play Gene Saks Brighton Beach Memoirs Award winner
1983 Best Direction of a Play Marshall W. Mason Angels Fall
1983 Best Direction of a Play Tom Moore 'Night, Mother producer, production took place the1984 year.
1983 Best Direction of a Play Trevor Nunn All's Well That Ends Well
1984 Best Direction of a Play Mike Nichols The Real Thing Award winner
1984 Best Direction of a Play Michael Blakemore Noises Off production took place the previous year.
1984 Best Direction of a Play David Leveaux A Moon for the Misbegotten
1984 Best Direction of a Play Gregory Mosher Glengarry Glen Ross
1985 Best Direction of a Play Gene Saks Biloxi Blues Award winner
1985 Best Direction of a Play Keith Hack Strange Interlude
1985 Best Direction of a Play Terry Hands Much Ado About Nothing producer, production took place the previous year
1985 Best Direction of a Play Marshall W. Mason As Is
2002 Best Direction of a Play Mary Zimmerman Metamorphoses Award winner
2002 Best Direction of a Play Howard Davies Private Lives
2002 Best Direction of a Play Richard Eyre The Crucible
2002 Best Direction of a Play Daniel Sullivan Morning's at Seven
1986 Best Direction of a Play Jerry Zaks The House of Blue Leaves Award winner
1986 Best Direction of a Play Jonathan Miller Long Day's Journey Into Night
1986 Best Direction of a Play Jose Quintero The Iceman Cometh producer, production took place the previous year
1986 Best Direction of a Play John Tillinger Loot
1987 Best Direction of a Play Lloyd Richards Fences Award winner
1987 Best Direction of a Play Howard Davies Les Liaisons Dangereuses
1987 Best Direction of a Play Mbongeni Ngema Asinamali!
1987 Best Direction of a Play Carole Rothman Coastal Disturbances
1988 Best Direction of a Play John Dexter M. Butterfly Award winner
1988 Best Direction of a Play Gregory Mosher Speed-the-Plow
1988 Best Direction of a Play Lloyd Richards Joe Turner's Come and Gone
1988 Best Direction of a Play Clifford Williams Breaking the Code producer, production took place the previous year
2003 Best Direction of a Play Joe Mantello Take Me Out Award winner
2003 Best Direction of a Play Lawrence Boswell A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1989 Best Direction of a Play Jerry Zaks Lend Me a Tenor Award winner
1989 Best Direction of a Play Bill Irwin Largely New York
1989 Best Direction of a Play Gregory Mosher Our Town
1989 Best Direction of a Play Daniel Sullivan The Heidi Chronicles
2004 Best Direction of a Play Jack O'Brien Henry IV production took place the previous year Award winner
2004 Best Direction of a Play Doug Hughes Frozen
2004 Best Direction of a Play Moises Kaufman I Am My Own Wife production took place the previous year
2004 Best Direction of a Play David Leveaux Jumpers
2005 Best Direction of a Play Doug Hughes Doubt Award winner
2005 Best Direction of a Play John Crowley The Pillowman
2005 Best Direction of a Play Scott Ellis Twelve Angry Men production took place the previous year
2005 Best Direction of a Play Joe Mantello Glengarry Glen Ross
2006 Best Direction of a Play Nicholas Hytner The History Boys Award winner
2006 Best Direction of a Play Wilson Milam The Lieutenant of Inishmore
2006 Best Direction of a Play Bartlett Sher Awake and Sing!
2006 Best Direction of a Play Daniel Sullivan Rabbit Hole
2007 Best Direction of a Play Jack O'Brien The Coast of Utopia Award winner
2007 Best Direction of a Play Michael Grandage Frost/Nixon
2007 Best Direction of a Play David Grindley Journey's End
2007 Best Direction of a Play Melly Still Coram Boy
2008 Best Direction of a Play Anna D. Shapiro August: Osage County production took place the previous year Award winner
2008 Best Direction of a Play Maria Aitken The 39 Steps
2008 Best Direction of a Play Conor McPherson The Seafarer production took place the previous year
2008 Best Direction of a Play Matthew Warchus Boeing-Boeing
2009 Best Direction of a Play Matthew Warchus God of Carnage Award winner
2009 Best Direction of a Play Phyllida Lloyd Mary Stuart
2009 Best Direction of a Play Bartlett Sher Joe Turner's Come and Gone

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