Tony Award for Best Scenic Design
American theatre award
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design | |
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Awarded for | Best Scenic Design |
Location | United States New York City |
Presented by | American Theatre Wing The Broadway League |
Currently held by | Eugene Lee for Wicked (2004) |
Website | TonyAwards.com |
This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design for outstanding set design of a play or musical. The award was first presented in 1947. In 1960, 1961, and since 2005, the category was divided into Scenic Design in a Play and Scenic Design in a Musical with each genre receiving its own award.
Winners and nominees
indicates the winner
1940s
Year | Designer | Production |
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1947 1st Tony Awards | ||
David Folkes | Henry VIII | |
1948 2nd Tony Awards | ||
Horace Armistead | The Medium | |
1949 3rd Tony Awards | ||
Jo Mielziner | Anne of the Thousand Days, Death of a Salesman, Sleepy Hollow, South Pacific and Summer and Smoke |
1950s
Year | Designer | Production |
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1950 4th Tony Awards | ||
Jo Mielziner | The Innocents | |
1951 5th Tony Awards | ||
Boris Aronson | The Country Girl, The Rose Tattoo and Season in the Sun | |
1952 6th Tony Awards | ||
Jo Mielziner | The King and I | |
1953 7th Tony Awards | ||
Raoul Penè Du Bois | Wonderful Town | |
1954 8th Tony Awards | ||
Peter Larkin | Ondine and The Teahouse of the August Moon | |
1955 9th Tony Awards | ||
Oliver Messel | House of Flowers | |
1956 10th Tony Awards | ||
Peter Larkin | Inherit the Wind and No Time for Sergeants | |
Boris Aronson | The Diary of Anne Frank, Bus Stop, Once Upon a Tailor and A View from the Bridge | |
Ben Edwards | The Ponder Heart, Someone Waiting and The Honeys | |
Jo Mielziner | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Lark, Middle of the Night and Pipe Dream | |
Raymond Sovey | The Great Sebastians | |
1957 11th Tony Awards | ||
Oliver Smith | My Fair Lady | |
Boris Aronson | A Hole in the Head and Small War on Murray Hill | |
Ben Edwards | The Waltz of the Toreadors | |
George Jenkins | The Happiest Millionaire and Too Late the Phalarope | |
Donald Oenslager | Major Barbara | |
Oliver Smith | A Clearing in the Woods, Candide, Auntie Mame, Eugenia and Visit to a Small Planet | |
1958 12th Tony Awards | ||
Oliver Smith | West Side Story | |
Boris Aronson | Orpheus Descending, A Hole in the Head and The Rope Dancers | |
Ben Edwards | The Dark at the Top of the Stairs | |
Peter Larkin | Blue Denim, Compulsion, Good as Gold and Miss Isobel | |
Jo Mielziner | Look Homeward, Angel, Miss Lonelyhearts, The Square Root of Wonderful, Oh, Captain! and The Day the Money Stopped | |
Oliver Smith | Brigadoon, Carousel, Jamaica, Nude with Violin and Time Remembered | |
1959 13th Tony Awards | ||
Donald Oenslager | A Majority of One | |
Boris Aronson | J.B. | |
David R. Ballou | The Legend of Lizzie | |
Ben Edwards | Jane Eyre | |
Oliver Messel | Rashomon | |
Teo Otto | The Visit |
1960s
1970s
1980s
Year | Designer | Production |
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1980 34th Tony Awards | ||
John Lee Beatty | Talley's Folly | |
David Mitchell | Barnum | |
Tazeena Firth and Timothy O'Brien | Evita | |
Tony Walton | A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine | |
1981 35th Tony Awards | ||
John Bury | Amadeus | |
John Lee Beatty | Fifth of July | |
Santo Loquasto | The Suicide | |
David Mitchell | Can-Can | |
1982 36th Tony Awards | ||
Dermot Hayes and John Napier | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | |
Ben Edwards | Medea | |
Lawrence Miller | Nine | |
Robin Wagner | Dreamgirls | |
1983 37th Tony Awards | ||
Ming Cho Lee | K2 | |
John Gunter | All's Well That Ends Well | |
David Mitchell | Foxfire | |
John Napier | Cats | |
1984 38th Tony Awards | ||
Tony Straiges | Sunday in the Park with George | |
Clarke Dunham | End of the World | |
Peter Larkin | The Rink | |
Tony Walton | The Real Thing | |
1985 39th Tony Awards | ||
Heidi Landesman | Big River | |
Clarke Dunham | Grind | |
Ralph Koltai | Much Ado About Nothing | |
Voytek and Michael Levine | Strange Interlude | |
1986 40th Tony Awards | ||
Tony Walton | The House of Blue Leaves | |
Ben Edwards | The Iceman Cometh | |
David Mitchell | The Boys in Winter | |
Beni Montresor | The Marriage of Figaro | |
1987 41st Tony Awards | ||
John Napier | Les Misérables | |
Bob Crowley | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | |
Martin Johns | Me and My Girl | |
Tony Walton | The Front Page | |
1988 42nd Tony Awards | ||
Maria Björnson | The Phantom of the Opera | |
Eiko Ishioka | M. Butterfly | |
Tony Straiges | Into the Woods | |
Tony Walton | Anything Goes | |
1989 43rd Tony Awards | ||
Santo Loquasto | Cafe Crown | |
Thomas Lynch | The Heidi Chronicles | |
Héctor Orezzoli and Claudio Segovia | Black and Blue | |
Tony Walton | Lend Me a Tenor |
1990s
2000s
Year | Designer | Production |
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2000 54th Tony Awards | ||
Bob Crowley | Aida | |
Thomas Lynch | The Music Man | |
Robin Wagner | Kiss Me, Kate | |
Tony Walton | Uncle Vanya | |
2001 55th Tony Awards | ||
Robin Wagner | The Producers | |
Bob Crowley | The Invention of Love | |
Heidi Ettinger | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | |
Douglas W. Schmidt | 42nd Street | |
2002 56th Tony Awards | ||
Tim Hatley | Private Lives | |
John Lee Beatty | Morning's at Seven | |
Daniel Ostling | Metamorphoses | |
Douglas W. Schmidt | Into the Woods | |
2003 57th Tony Awards | ||
Catherine Martin | La bohème | |
John Lee Beatty | Dinner at Eight | |
Santo Loquasto | Long Day's Journey into Night | |
David Rockwell | Hairspray | |
2004 58th Tony Awards | ||
Eugene Lee | Wicked | |
Robert Brill | Assassins | |
Ralph Funicello | Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2 | |
Tom Pye | Fiddler on the Roof |
Award Records
These include wins for the Best Scenic Design in a Play and Best Scenic Design in a Musical.
Multiple wins
- 7 Wins
- Oliver Smith
- 6 Wins
- 4 Wins
- Peter Larkin
- Jo Mielziner
- 3 Wins
- Rob Howell
- Eugene Lee
- John Napier
- Scott Pask
- Robin Wagner
- Tony Walton
- Catherine Zuber
- 2 Wins
- Howard Bay
- John Lee Beatty
- Bunny Christie
- Heidi Landesman
- Desmond Heeley
- Katrina Lindsay
- Derek McLane
- David Mitchell
- David Zinn
- Motley Theatre Design Group
See also
- Tony Award for Best Scenic Design in a Musical
- Tony Award for Best Scenic Design in a Play
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design
- Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design
- List of Tony Award-nominated productions
External links
- Tony Awards Official site
- Tony Awards at Internet Broadway database Listing
- Tony Awards at broadwayworld.com
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Tony Award for Best Scenic Design
- David Folks (1947)
- Horace Armistead (1948)
- Jo Mielziner (1949)
- Jo Mielziner (1950)
- Boris Aronson (1951)
- Jo Mielziner (1952)
- Raoul Penè Du Bois (1953)
- Peter Larkin (1954)
- Oliver Messel (1955)
- Peter Larkin (1956)
- Oliver Smith (1957)
- Oliver Smith (1958)
- Donald Oenslager (1959)
- Will Steven Armstrong (1962)
- Sean Kenny (1963)
- Oliver Smith (1964)
- Oliver Smith (1965)
- Howard Bay (1966)
- Boris Aronson (1967)
- Desmond Heeley (1968)
- Boris Aronson (1969)
- Jo Mielziner (1970)
- Boris Aronson (1971)
- Boris Aronson (1972)
- Tony Walton (1973)
- Eugene Lee and Franne Lee (1974)
- Carl Toms (1975)
- Boris Aronson (1976)
- David Mitchell (1977)
- Robin Wagner (1978)
- Eugene Lee (1979)
- John Lee Beatty / David Mitchell (1980)
- John Bury (1981)
- John Napier and Dermot Hayes (1982)
- Ming Cho Lee (1983)
- Tony Straiges (1984)
- Heidi Landesman (1985)
- Tony Walton (1986)
- John Napier (1987)
- Maria Björnson (1988)
- Santo Loquasto (1989)
- Robin Wagner (1990)
- Heidi Landesman (1991)
- Tony Walton (1992)
- John Arnone (1993)
- Bob Crowley (1994)
- John Napier (1995)
- Brian Thomson (1996)
- Stewart Laing(1997)
- Richard Hudson (1998)
- Richard Hoover (1999)
- Bob Crowley (2000)
- Robin Wagner (2001)
- Tim Hatley (2002)
- Catherine Martin (2003)
- Eugene Lee (2004)