Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
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The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play is awarded to the actor who was voted as the best actor in a play, whether a new production or a revival. This Tony Award has been announced since 1947.
1948-1959
1951 - Claude Rains (Darkness At Noon)
1952 - José Ferrer (The Shrike)
1953 - Tom Ewell (The Seven Year Itch)
1954 - David Wayne (The Teahouse of the August Moon)
1955 - Alfred Lunt (Quadrille)
1956 - Paul Muni (Inherit the Wind)- ::Ben Gazzara (A Hatful of Rain)
- ::Boris Karloff (The Lark)
- ::Michael Redgrave (Tiger at the Gates)
- ::Edward G. Robinson (Middle of the Night)
::Maurice Evans (The Apple Cart)
::Wilfred Hyde-White (The Reluctant Debutante)
::Eric Portman (Separate Table)
::Ralph Richardson (The Waltz Of The Toreadors)
::Cyril Ritchard (A Visit To A Small Planet)
::Richard Burton (Time Remembered)
::Hugh Griffith (Look Homeward, Angel)
::Laurence Olivier (The Entertainer)
::Anthony Perkins (Look Homeward, Angel)
::Peter Ustinov (Romanoff and Juliet)
::Emlyn Williams (A Boy Growing Up)
::Cedric Hardwicke (A Majority of One)
::Alfred Lunt (The Visit)
::Christopher Plummer (J. B.)
::Cyril Ritchard (The Pleasure of His Company)
::Robert Stephens (Epitaph for George Dillon)
1960-1969
- ::Lee Tracy (The Best Man)
- ::Jason Robards, Jr., (Toys in the Attic)
- ::Sidney Poitier (A Raisin in the Sun)
- ::George C. Scott (The Andersonville Trial)
:: Hume Cronyn (Big Fish, Little Fish)
::Sam Levene (The Devil's Advocate)
::Anthony Quinn (Beckett)
1962 - Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons)::Fredric March (Gideon)
::John Mills (Ross)
::Donald Pleasence (The Caretaker)
1963 - Arthur Hill (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)::Charles Boyer (Lord Pengo)
::Paul Ford (Never Too Late)
::Bert Lahr (The Beauty Part)
1964 - Alec Guinness (Dylan)::Richard Burton (Hamlet)
::Albert Finney (Luther)
::Jason Robards, Jr. (After the Fall)
::John Gielgud (Tiny Alice)
::Donald Pleasence (Poor Bitos)
::Jason Robards (Hughie)
1966 - Hal Holbrook (Mark Twain Tonight!)::Roland Culber (Ivanov)
::Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford (Philadelphia, Here I Come!)
::Nicol Williamson (Inadmissible Evidence)
1967 - Paul Rogers (The Homecoming)::Hume Cronyn (A Delicate Balance)
::Donald Madden (Black Comedy)
::Donald Moffat (Right You Are and The Wild Duck)
1968 - Martin Balsam (You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running)::Albert Finney (Joe Egg)
::Milo O'Shea (Staircase)
::Alan Webb (I Never Sang for My Father)
::Art Carney (Lovers)
::Alec McGowen (Hadrian VII)
::Donald Pleasence (The Man in the Glass Booth)
1970-1979
- ::James Coco (Last of the Red Hot Lovers)
- ::Frank Grimes (Borstal Boy)
- ::Stacy Keach (Indians)
1971 - Brian Bedford (The School for Wives)::John Gielgud (Home)
::Alec McGowen (The Philanthropist)
::Ralph Richardson (Home)
- 1972 - Cliff Gorman (Lenny)
::Tom Aldredge (Sticks and Bones)
::Donald Pleasence (Wise Child)
::Jason Robards (The Country Girl)
1973 - Alan Bates(Butley)::Jack Albertson (The Sunshine Boys)
::Wilfrid Hyde-White (The Jockey Club Stakes)
::Paul Sorvino (That Championship Season)
1974 - Michael Moriarty (Find Your Way Home)::Zero Mostel (Ulysses in Nighttown)
::Jason Robards (A Moon for the Misbegotten)
::George C. Scott (Uncle Vanya)
::Nicol Williamson (Uncle Vanya)
::James Dale (Scapino)
::Peter Firth (Equus)
::Henry Fonda (Clarence Darrow)
::Ben Gazzara (Hughie and Duet)
::John Wood (Sherlock Holmes)
1976 - John Wood (Travesties)::Moses Gunn (The Poison Tree)
::George C. Scott(Death of a Salesman)
::Donald Sinden (Habeas Corpus)
- 1977 - Al Pacino (The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel)
::Tom Courtenay (Otherwise Engaged)
::Ben Gazzara (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
::Ralph Richardson (No Man's Land)
::Hume Cronyn (The Gin Game)
::Frank Langella (Dracula)
::Jason Robards (A Touch of the Poet)
1979 - Tom Conti (Who's Life Is It Anyway?)::Philip Anglim (The Elephant Man)
::Jack Lemmon (Tribute)
::Alec McCowen (St. Mark's Gospel)
1980-1989
- ::Charles Brown (Home)
- ::Gerald Hiken (Strider)
- ::Judd Hirsch (Talley's Folly)
1981 - Ian McKellen (Amadeus)::Tim Curry (Amadeus)
::Roy Dotrice (A Life)
::Jack Weston (The Floating Light Bulb)
1982 - Roger Rees (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)::Tom Courtenay (The Dresser)
::Milo O'Shea (Mass Appeal)
::Christopher Plummer (Othello)
::Jeffrey DeMunn (K2)
::Edward Herrmann (Plenty)
::Tony Lo Bianco (A View from the Bridge)
1984 - Jeremy Irons (The Real Thing)::Calvin Levels (Open Admissions)
::Rex Harrison (Heartbreak House)
::Ian McKellen(Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare)
1985 - Derek Jacobi (Much Ado About Nothing")::Jim Dale (Joe Egg)
::Jonathan Hogan (As Is)
::John Lithgow (Requiem for a Heavyweight)
1986 - Judd Hirsch (I'm Not Rappaport)::Hume Cronyn (The Petition)
::Ed Harris (Precious Sons)
::Jack Lemmon (Long Day's Journey Into Night)
1987 - James Earl Jones (Fences)::Philip Bosco (You Never Can Tell)
::Richard Kiley (All My Sons)
::Alan Rickman (Les Liaisons Dangereuses)
1988 - Ron Silver (Speed the Plow)::Derek Jacobi (Breaking the Code)
::John Lithgow (M. Butterfly)
::Robert Prosky (A Walk in the Woods)
1989 - Philip Bosco (Lend Me a Tenor)::Mikhail Baryshnikov (Metamorphosis)
::Victor Garber (Lend Me a Tenor)
::Bill Irwin (Largely New York)
1990-1999
- ::Charles S. Dutton (The Piano Lesson)
- ::Dustin Hoffman (The Merchant of Venice)
- ::Tom Hulce (A Few Good Men)
1991 - Nigel Hawthorne (Shadowlands)::Peter Frechette (Our Country's Good)
::Tom McGowan (La Bête)
::Courtney B. Vance (Six Degrees of Separation)
::Alan Alda (Jake's Women)
::Alec Baldwin (A Streetcar Named Desire)
::Brian Bedford (Two Shakespearean Actors)
1993 - Ron Leibman ()::K. Todd Freeman (The Song of Jacob Zulu)
::Liam Neeson (Anna Christie)
::Stephen Rea (Someone Who'll Watch Over Me)
1994 - Stephen Spinella ()::Brian Bedford (Timon of Athens)
::Christopher Plummer (No Man's Land)
::Sam Waterston (Abe Lincoln in Illinois)
::Brian Bedford (The Moliere Comedies)
::Roger Rees (Indiscretions)
::Joe Sears (A Tuna Christmas)
1996 - George Grizzard (A Delicate Balance)::Philip Bosco (Moon Over Buffalo)
::George C. Scott (Inherit the Wind)
::Martin Shaw (An Ideal Husband)
::Brian Bedford (London Assurance)
::Michael Gambon (Skylight)
::Antony Sher (Stanley)
1998 - Anthony LaPaglia (A View From the Bridge)::Richard Briers (The Chairs)
::John Leguizamo (Freak)
::Alfred Molina (Art)
::Brian F. O'Byrne (The Lonesome West)
::Corin Redgrave (Not About Nightingales)
::Kevin Spacey (The Iceman Cometh)
2000-2009
- ::Gabriel Byrne (A Moon for the Misbegotten)
- ::Philip Seymour Hoffman (True West)
- ::John C. Reilly (True West)
- ::David Suchet (Amadeus)
2001 - Richard Easton (The Invention of Love)::Seán Campion (Stones in His Pockets)
::Conleth Hill (Stones in His Pockets)
::Brian Stokes Mitchell (King Hedley II)
::Gary Sinise (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
::Billy Crudup, The Elephant Man
::Liam Neeson, The Crucible
::Alan Rickman, Private Lives
::Jeffrey Wright, Topdog/Underdog
2003 - Brian Dennehy, Long Day's Journey into Night::Brian Bedford, Tartuffe
::Eddie Izzard, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
::Paul Newman, Our Town
::Stanley Tucci, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
2004 - Jefferson Mays, I Am My Own Wife::Simon Russell Beale, Jumpers
::Kevin Kline, Henry IV
::Frank Langella, Match
::Christopher Plummer, King Lear
::Philip Bosco, Twelve Angry Men
::Billy Crudup, The Pillowman
::James Earl Jones, On Golden Pond
::Brian F. O'Byrne, Doubt
::Ralph Fiennes, Faith Healer
::Željko Ivanek, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial
::Oliver Platt, The Drowsy Chaperone
::David Wilmot, The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Winners with Multiple Tony Awards for Leading Actor in a Play
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