Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

This is a list of the winners and nominations of Tony Award for the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play. The award has been presented since 1949.

Contents

1 Awards and nominations
- 1.1 1940s
- 1.2 1950s
- 1.3 1960s
- 1.4 1970s
- 1.5 1980s
- 1.6 1990s
- 1.7 2000s

Awards and nominations

1940s

1949: Arthur Kennedy – Death of a Salesman

1950s

1951: Eli Wallach – The Rose Tattoo

1952: John Cromwell – Point of No Return

1953: John Williams – Dial M for Murder

1954: John Kerr – Tea and Sympathy

1955: Francis L. Sullivan – Witness for the Prosecution

1956: Ed Begley – Inherit the Wind
- Anthony Franciosa – A Hatful of Rain
- Andy Griffith – No Time for Sergeants
- Anthony Quayle – Tamburlaine the Great
- Fritz Weaver – The Chalk Garden

1957: Frank Conroy – The Potting Shed
- Eddie Mayehoff – Visit to a Small Planet
- William Podmore – Separate Tables
- Jason Robards, Jr. – Long Day's Journey into Night

1958: Henry Jones – Sunrise at Campobello
- Sig Arno – Time Remembered
- Theodore Bikel – The Rope Dancers
- Pat Hingle – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- George Relph – The Entertainer

1959: Charlie Ruggles – The Pleasure of His Company
- Marc Connelly – Tall Story
- George Grizzard – The Disenchanted
- Walter Matthau – Once More, With Feeling
- Robert Morse – Say, Darling
- George Scott – Comes a Day

1960s

1960: Roddy McDowall – The Fighting Cock
- Warren Beatty – A Loss of Roses
- Harry Guardino – One More River
- Rip Torn – Sweet Bird of Youth
- Lawrence Winters – The Long Dream

1961: Martin Gabel – Big Fish, Little Fish
- Philip Bosco – The Rape of the Belt
- Eduardo Ciannelli – The Devil's Advocate
- George Grizzard – Big Fish, Little Fish

1962: Walter Matthau – A Shot in the Dark
- Godfrey M. Cambridge – Purlie Victorious
- Joseph Campanella – A Gift of Time
- Paul Sparer – Ross

1963: Alan Arkin – Enter Laughing
- Barry Gordon – A Thousand Clowns
- Paul Rogers – Photo Finish
- Frank Silvera – The Lady of the Carnellias

1964: Hume Cronyn – Hamlet
- Lee Allen – Marathon '33
- Michael Dunn – The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
- Larry Gates – A Case of Libel

1965: Jack Albertson – The Subject Was Roses
- Murray Hamilton – Absence of a Cello
- Martin Sheen – The Subject Was Roses
- Clarence Williams III – Slow Dance on the Killing Ground

1966: Patrick Magee – Marat/Sade
- Burt Brinckerhoff – Cactus Flower
- A. Larry Haines – Generation
- Eamon Kelly – Philadelphia, Here I Come!

1967: Ian Holm – The Homecoming
- Clayton Corzatte – The School for Scandal
- Stephen Elliot – Marat/Sade
- Sydney Walker – The Wild Duck

1968: James Patterson – The Birthday Party
- Paul Hecht – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- Brian Murray – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- John Wood – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

1969: Al Pacino – Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?
- Richard Castellano – Lovers and Other Strangers
- Anthony Roberts – Play It Again, Sam
- Louis Zorich – Hadrian VII

1970s

1970: Ken Howard – Child's Play
- Joseph Bova – The Chinese and Dr. Fish
- Dennis King – A Patriot for Me

1971: Paul Sand – Paul Sill's Story Theatre
- Ronald Radd – Abelard and Heloise
- Donald Pickering – Conduct Unbecoming
- Ed Zimmermann – The Philanthropist

1972: Vincent Gardenia – The Prisoner of Second Avenue
- Douglas Rain – Vivat! Vivat Regina!
- Lee Richardson – Vivat! Vivat Regina!
- Joe Silver – Lenny

1973: John Lithgow – The Changing Room
- Barnard Hughes – Much Ado About Nothing
- John McMartin – Don Juan
- Hayward Morse – Butley

1974: Ed Flanders – A Moon for the Misbegotten
- Rene Auberjonois – The Good Doctor
- Douglas Turner Ward – The River Niger
- Dick Anthony Williams – What the Wine-Sellers Buy

1975: Frank Langella – Seascape
- Larry Blyden – Absurd Person Singular
- Leonard Frey – The National Health
- Philip Locke – Sherlock Holmes
- George Rose – My Fat Friend
- Dick Anthony Williams – Black Picture Show

1976: Edward Herrmann – Mrs. Warren's Profession
- Barry Bostwick – They Knew What They Wanted
- Gabriel Dell – Lamppost Reunion
- Daniel Seltzer – Knock Knock

1977: Jonathan Pryce – Comedians
- Bob Dishy – Sly Fox
- Joe Fields – The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
- Laurence Luckinbill – The Shadow Box

1978: Lester Rawlins – Da
- Morgan Freeman – The Mighty Gents
- Victor Garber – Deathtrap
- Cliff Gorman – Chapter Two

1979: Michael Gough – Bedroom Farce
- Bob Balaban – The Inspector General
- Joseph Maher – Spokesong
- Edward James Olmos – Zoot Suit

1980s

1980: David Rounds – Morning's at Seven
- David Dukes – Bent
- George Hearn – Watch on the Rhine
- Earle Hyman – The Lady from Dubuque
- Joseph Maher – Night and Day

1981: Brian Backer – The Floating Light Bulb
- Tom Aldredge – The Little Foxes
- Adam Redfield – A Life
- Shepperd Strudwick – To Grandmother's House We Go

1982: Zakes Mokae – Master Harold...and the Boys
- Richard Kavanaugh – The Hothouse
- Edward Petherbridge – The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
- David Threlfall – The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

1983: Matthew Broderick – Brighton Beach Memoirs
- Zeljko Ivanek – Brighton Beach Memoirs
- George N. Martin – Plenty
- Stephen Moore – All's Well That Ends Well

1984: Joe Mantegna – Glengarry Glen Ross
- Philip Bosco – Heartbreak House
- Robert Prosky – Glengarry Glen Ross
- Douglas Seale – Noises Off

1985: Barry Miller – Biloxi Blues
- Charles S. Dutton – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- William Hurt – Hurlyburly
- Edward Petherbridge – Strange Interlude

1986: John Mahoney – The House of Blue Leaves
- Peter Gallagher – Long Day's Journey Into Night
- Charles Keating – Loot
- Joseph Maher – Loot

1987: John Randolph – Broadway Bound
- Frankie R. Faison – Fences
- Jamey Sheridan – All My Sons
- Courtney B. Vance – Fences

1988: B.D. Wong – M. Butterfly
- Michael Gough – Breaking the Code
- Lou Liberatore – Burn This
- Delroy Lindo – Joe Turner's Come and Gone

1989: Boyd Gaines – The Heidi Chronicles
- Peter Frechette – Eastern Standard
- Eric Stoltz – Our Town
- Gordon Joseph Weiss – Ghetto

1990s

1990: Charles Durning – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Rocky Carroll – The Piano Lesson
- Terry Kinney – The Grapes of Wrath
- Gary Sinise – The Grapes of Wrath

1991: Kevin Spacey – Lost in Yonkers
- Adam Arkin – I Hate Hamlet
- Dylan Baker – La Bête
- Stephen Lang – The Speed of Darkness

1992: Larry Fishburne – Two Trains Running
- Roscoe Lee Browne – Two Trains Running
- Željko Ivanek – Two Shakespearean Actors
- Tony Shalhoub – Conversations with My Father

1993: Stephen Spinella – Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
- Robert Sean Leonard – Candida
- Joe Mantello – Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
- Zakes Mokae – The Song of Jacob Zulu

1994: Jeffrey Wright – Angels in America: Perestroika
- Larry Bryggman – Picnic
- David Marshall Grant – Angels in America: Perestroika
- Gregory Itzin – The Kentucky Cycle

1995: John Glover – Love! Valour! Compassion!
- Stephen Bogardus – Love! Valour! Compassion!
- Anthony Heald – Love! Valour! Compassion!
- Jude Law – Indiscretions

1996: Ruben Santiago-Hudson – Seven Guitars
- James Gammon – Buried Child
- Roger Robinson – Seven Guitars
- Reg Rogers – Holiday

1997: Owen Teale – A Doll's House
- Terry Beaver – The Last Night of Ballyhoo
- Brian Murray – The Little Foxes
- William Biff McGuire – The Young Man From Atlanta

1998: Tom Murphy – The Beauty Queen of Leenane
- Brían F. O'Byrne – The Beauty Queen of Leenane
- Sam Trammell – Ah, Wilderness!
- Max Wright – Ivanov

1999: Frank Wood – Side Man
- Kevin Anderson – Death of a Salesman
- Finbar Lynch – Not About Nightingales
- Howard Witt – Death of a Salesman

2000s

2000: Roy Dotrice – A Moon for the Misbegotten
- Kevin Chamberlin – Dirty Blonde
- Daniel Davis – Wrong Mountain
- Derek Smith – The Green Bird
- Bob Stillman – Dirty Blonde

2001: Robert Sean Leonard – The Invention of Love
- Charles Brown – King Hedley II
- Larry Bryggman – Proof
- Michael Hayden – Judgment at Nuremberg
- Ben Shenkman – Proof

2002: Frank Langella – Fortune's Fool
- Brian Murray – The Crucible
- William Biff McGuire – Morning's at Seven
- Sam Robards – The Man Who Had All the Luck
- Stephen Tobolowsky – Morning's at Seven

2003: Denis O'Hare – Take Me Out
- Thomas Jefferson Byrd – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- Philip Seymour Hoffman – Long Day's Journey into Night
- Robert Sean Leonard – Long Day's Journey into Night
- Daniel Sunjata – Take Me Out

2004: Brían F. O'Byrne – Frozen
- Tom Aldredge – Twentieth Century
- Ben Chaplin – The Retreat from Moscow
- Aidan Gillen – The Caretaker
- Omar Metwally – Sixteen Wounded

2005: Liev Schreiber – Glengarry Glen Ross
- Alan Alda – Glengarry Glen Ross
- Gordon Clapp – Glengarry Glen Ross
- David Harbour – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Michael Stuhlbarg – The Pillowman

2006: Ian McDiarmid – Faith Healer
- Samuel Barnett – The History Boys
- Domhnall Gleason – The Lieutenant of Inishmore
- Mark Ruffalo – Awake and Sing!
- Pablo Schreiber – Awake and Sing!

2007: Billy Crudup – The Coast of Utopia
- Anthony Chisholm – Radio Golf
- Ethan Hawke – The Coast of Utopia
- John Earl Jelks – Radio Golf
- Stark Sands – Journey's End

2008: Jim Norton – The Seafarer
- Bobby Cannavale – Mauritius
- Raúl Esparza – The Homecoming
- Conleth Hill – The Seafarer
- David Pittu – Is He Dead?

2009: Roger Robinson - Joe Turner's Come and Gone
- John Glover - Waiting for Godot
- Zach Grenier - 33 Variations
- Stephen Mangan - The Norman Conquests
- Paul Ritter - The Norman Conquests

v • d • e Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

Arthur Kennedy (1949) · Eli Wallach (1951) · John Cromwell (1952) · John Williams (1953) · John Kerr (1954) · Francis L. Sullivan (1955) · Ed Begley (1956) · Frank Conroy (1957) · Henry Jones (1958) · Charlie Ruggles (1959) · Roddy McDowall (1960) · Martin Gabel (1961) · Walter Matthau (1962) · Alan Arkin (1963) · Hume Cronyn (1964) · Jack Albertson (1965) · Patrick Magee (1966) · Ian Holm (1967) · James Patterson (1968) · Al Pacino (1969) · Ken Howard (1970) · Paul Sand (1971) · Vincent Gardenia (1972) · John Lithgow (1973) · Ed Flanders (1974) · Frank Langella (1975) · Edward Herrmann (1976) · Jonathan Pryce (1977) · Lester Rawlins (1978) · Michael Gough (1979) · David Rounds (1980) · Brian Backer (1981) · Zakes Mokae (1982) · Matthew Broderick (1983) · Joe Mantegna (1984) · Barry Miller (1985) · John Mahoney (1986) · John Randolph (1987) · B. D. Wong (1988) · Boyd Gaines (1989) · Charles Durning (1990) · Kevin Spacey (1991) · Laurence Fishburne (1992) · Stephen Spinella (1993) · Jeffrey Wright (1994) · John Glover (1995) · Ruben Santiago-Hudson (1996) · Owen Teale (1997) · Tom Murphy (1998) · Frank Wood (1999) · Roy Dotrice (2000) · Robert Sean Leonard (2001) · Frank Langella (2002) · Denis O'Hare (2003) · Brían F. O'Byrne (2004) · Liev Schreiber (2005) · Ian McDiarmid (2006) · Billy Crudup (2007) · Jim Norton (2008) · Roger Robinson (2009)

Complete list: (1947–1975) · (1976–2000) · (2001–present)

v • d • e Tony Awards

Play	Best Play · Best Direction of a Play · Best Leading Actor in a Play · Best Leading Actress in a Play · Best Featured Actor in a Play · Best Featured Actress in a Play · Best Costume Design of a Play · Best Lighting Design of a Play · Best Revival of a Play · Best Scenic Design of a Play · Best Sound Design of a Play

Musical	Best Musical · Best Direction of a Musical · Best Leading Actor in a Musical · Best Leading Actress in a Musical · Best Featured Actor in a Musical · Best Featured Actress in a Musical · Best Book of a Musical · Best Choreography · Best Costume Design of a Musical · Best Lighting Design of a Musical · Best Orchestrations · Best Original Score · Best Revival of a Musical · Best Scenic Design of a Musical · Best Sound Design of a Musical

Special	Regional Theatre Tony Award · Special Tony Award · Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre

Retired	Best Author · Best Conductor and Musical Director · Best Director · Best Revival · Best Special Theatrical Event · Best Stage Technician ·

Ceremonies	1947 · 1948 · 1949 · 1950 · 1951 · 1952 · 1953 · 1954 · 1955 · 1956 · 1957 · 1958 · 1959 · 1960 · 1961 · 1962 · 1963 · 1964 · 1965 · 1966 · 1967 · 1968 · 1969 · 1970 · 1971 · 1972 · 1973 · 1974 · 1975 · 1976 · 1977 · 1978 · 1979 · 1980 · 1981 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985 · 1986 · 1987 · 1988 · 1989 · 1990 · 1991 · 1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010

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