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The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play has been given since 1960. Before 1960 there was only one award for both play direction and musical direction, then in 1960 the award was split into two categories: Dramatic and Musical. In 1976 the Dramatic category was renamed to Play. For pre-1960 direction awards please reference Tony Award for Best Director.

1 Award winners
- 1.1 1960s
- 1.2 1970s
- 1.3 1980s
- 1.4 1990s
- 1.5 2000s

Award winners

1960s

1960 Arthur Penn – The Miracle Worker

Joseph Anthony - The Best Man

Tyrone Guthrie - The Tenth Man

Elia Kazan - Sweet Bird of Youth

Lloyd Richards - A Raisin in the Sun

1961 John Gielgud – Big Fish, Little Fish

Joseph Anthony - Rhinoceros

Joan Littlewood - The Hostage

Arthur Penn - All the Way Home

1962 Noel Willman – A Man for All Seasons

Tyrone Guthrie - Gideon

Donald McWhinie - The Caretaker

José Quintero - Great Day in the Morning

1963 Alan Schneider – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

George Abbott - Never Too Late

John Gielgud - The School for Scandal

Peter Glenville - Tchin - Tchin

1964 Mike Nichols – Barefoot in the Park

June Havoc - Marathon '33

Alan Schneider - The Ballad of the Sad Caf?

Herman Shumlin - The Deputy

1965 Mike Nichols – The Odd Couple and Luv

William Ball - Tartuffe

Ulu Grosbard - The Subject Was Roses

Alan Schneider - Tiny Alice

1966 Peter Brook – Marat/Sade

Hilton Edwards - Philadelphia, Here I Come

Ellis Rabb - You Can't Take It With You

Noel Willman - The Lion on the Winter

1967 Peter Hall – The Homecoming

John Dexter - Black Comedy

Donald Driver - Marat/Sade

Alan Schneider - A Delicate Balance

1968 Mike Nichols – Plaza Suite

Michael Blakemore - Joe Egg

Derek Goldby - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Alan Schneider - You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running

1969 Peter Dews – Hadrian VII

Joseph Hardy - Play It Again Sam

Harold Pinter - The Man in the Glass Booth

Michael A. Schultz - Does A Tiger Wear a Necktie?

1970s

1970 Joseph Hardy – Child's Play

Milton Katselas - Butterflies Are Free

Thomas MacAnna - Borstal Boy

Robert Moore - Last of the Red Hot Lovers

1971 Peter Brook – A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lindsay Anderson - Home

Stephen Porter - The School for Wives

Clifford Williams - Sleuth

1972 Mike Nichols – The Prisoner of Second Avenue

Jeff Bleckner - Sticks and Bones

Gordon Davidson - The Trial of the Catsville Nine

Peter Hall - Old Times

1973 A. J. Antoon – That Championship Season

A. J. Antoon - Much Ado About Nothing

Alan Arkin - The Sunshine Boys

Michael Rudman - The Changing Room

1974 José Quintero – A Moon for the Misbegotten

Burgess Meredith - Ulysses in Nighttown

Mike Nichols - Uncle Vanya

Stephen Porter - Chemin de Fer

Edwin Sherin - Find Your Way Home

1975 John Dexter – Equus

Arvin Brown - The National Health

Frank Dunlop - Scapino

Ronald Eyre - London Assurance

Athol Fugard - Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island

Gene Saks - Same Time Next Year

1976 Ellis Rabb – The Royal Family

Arvin Brown - Ah Wilderness

Marshall W. Mason - Knock Knock

Peter Wood - Travesties

1977 Gordon Davidson – The Shadow Box

Ulu Grosbard - American Buffalo

Mike Nichols - Comedians

Mike Nichols - Streamers

1978 Melvin Bernhardt – Da

Robert Moore - Deathtrap

Mike Nichols - The Gin Game

Dennis Rosa - Dracula

1979 Jack Hofsiss – The Elephant Man

Alan Ayckbourn/Peter Hall - Bedroom Farce

Paul Giovanni - The Crucifier of Blood

Michael Lindsay-Pegg - Whoose Life Is It Anyway?

1980s

1980 Vivian Matalon – Morning's at Seven

Gordon Davidson - Children of a Lesser God

Peter Hall - Betrayal

Marshall W. Mason - Taley's Folly

1981 Peter Hall – Amadeus

Peter Coe - A Life

Marshall W. Mason -Fifth of July

Austin Pendleton - The Little Foxes

1982 Trevor Nunn / John Caird – The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Melvin Bernhardt – Crimes of the Heart

Geraldine Fitzgerald – Mass Appeal

Athol Fugard – 'Master Harold'...and the Boys

1983 Gene Saks – Brighton Beach Memoirs

Marshall W. Mason – Angels Fall

Tom Moore – 'Night, Mother

Trevor Nunn – All's Well That Ends Well

1984 Mike Nichols – The Real Thing

Michael Blakemore - Noises Off

David Leveaux - A Moon for the Misbegotten

Gregory Mosher - Glengarry Glen Ross

1985 Gene Saks – Biloxi Blues

Keith Hack - Strange Interlude

Terry Hands - Much Ado About Nothing

Marshall W. Mason - As Is

1986 Jerry Zaks – The House of Blue Leaves

Jonathan Miller - Long Day's Journey Into Night

José Quintero - The Iceman Cometh

John Tillinger - Loot

1987 Lloyd Richards – Fences

Howard Davies - Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Mbongeni Ngema - Asinamali!

Carole Rothman - Coastal Disturbances

1988 John Dexter – M. Butterfly

Gregory Mosher - Speed-the-Plow

Lloyd Richards - Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Clifford Williams - Breaking the Code

1989 Jerry Zaks – Lend Me a Tenor

Bill Irwin - Largely New York

Gregory Mosher - Our Town

Daniel J. Sullivan - The Heidi Chronicles

1990s

1990 Frank Galati – The Grapes of Wrath

Michael Blakemore - Lettice and Lovage

Peter Hall - The Merchant of Venice

Lloyd Richards - The Piano Lesson

1991 Jerry Zaks – Six Degrees of Separation

Richard Jones - La Bête

Mark Lamos - Our Country's Good

Gene Saks - Lost in Yonkers

1992 Patrick Mason – Dancing at Lughnasa

Peter Hall - Four Baboons Adoring the Sun

Jack O'Brien - Two Shakespearean Actors

Daniel J. Sullivan - Conversations with My Father

1993 George C. Wolfe – Angels in America: Millennium Approaches

David Leveaux - Anna Christie

Eric Simonson - The Song of Jacob Zulu

Daniel J. Sullivan - The Sisters Rosensweig

1994 Stephen Daldry – An Inspector Calls

Gerald Gutierrez - Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Michael Langham - Timon of Athens

George C. Wolfe - Angels in America: Perestroika

1995 Gerald Gutierrez – The Heiress

Emily Mann - Having Our Say

Joe Mantello - Love! Valour! Compassion!

Sean Mathias - Indiscretions

1996 Gerald Gutierrez – A Delicate Balance

Peter Hall - An Ideal Husband

Lloyd Richards - Seven Guitars

Gary Sinise - Buried Child

1997 Anthony Page – A Doll's House

John Caird - Stanley

Richard Eyre - Skylight

Charles Nelson Reilly - The Gin Game

1998 Garry Hynes – The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Michael Mayer - A View from the Bridge

Simon McBurney - The Chairs

Matthew Warchus - Art

1999 Robert Falls – Death of a Salesman

Howard Davies - The Iceman Cometh

Garry Hynes - The Lonesome West

Trevor Nunn - Not About Nightingales

2000s

2000 Michael Blakemore – Copenhagen

James Lapine - Dirty Blonde

David Leveaux - The Real Thing

Matthew Warchus - True West

2001 Daniel J. Sullivan – Proof

Marion McClinton - King Hedley II

Ian McElhinney - Stones in His Pockets

Jack O'Brien - The Invention of Love

2002 Mary Zimmerman – Metamorphoses

Howard Davies - Private Lives

Richard Eyre - The Crucible

Daniel J. Sullivan - Morning's at Seven

2003 Joe Mantello – Take Me Out

Laurence Boswell - A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Robert Falls - Long Day's Journey Into Night

Deborah Warner - Medea

2004 Jack O'Brien – Henry IV

Doug Hughes - Frozen

Moises Kaufman - I Am My Own Wife

David Leveaux - Jumpers

2005 Doug Hughes – Doubt: A Parable

John Crowley - The Pillowman

Scott Ellis - Twelve Angry Men

Joe Mantello - Glengarry Glen Ross

2006 Nicholas Hytner – The History Boys

Wilson Milam - The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Bartlett Sher - Awake and Sing!

Daniel J. Sullivan - Rabbit Hole

2007 Jack O'Brien – The Coast of Utopia

Michael Grandage - Frost/Nixon

David Grindley - Journey's End

Melly Still - Coram Boy

2008 Anna D. Shapiro – August: Osage County

Maria Aitken - The 39 Steps

Conor McPherson - The Seafarer

Matthew Warchus - Boeing Boeing

2009 Matthew Warchus - God of Carnage

Phyllida Lloyd - Mary Stuart

Bartlett Sher - Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Matthew Warchus - The Norman Conquests

v • d • e Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play

Elia Kazan (1947) · Joshua Logan (1948) · Elia Kazan (1949) · José Ferrer (1952) · Joshua Logan (1953) · Alfred Lunt (1954) · Robert Montgomery (1955) · Tyrone Guthrie (1956) · Vincent J. Donehue (1958) · Elia Kazan (1959) · Arthur Penn (1960) · John Gielgud (1961) · Noel Willman (1962) · Alan Schneider (1963) · Mike Nichols (1964) · Mike Nichols (1965) · Peter Brook (1966) · Peter Hall (1967) · Mike Nichols (1968) · Peter Dews (1969) · Joseph Hardy (1970) · Peter Brook (1971) · Mike Nichols (1972) · A. J. Antoon (1973) · José Quintero (1974) · John Dexter (1975) · Ellis Rabb (1976) · Gordon Davidson (1977) · Melvin Bernhardt (1978) · Jack Hofsiss (1979) · Vivian Matalon (1980) · Peter Hall (1981) · Trevor Nunn / John Caird (1982) · Gene Saks (1983) · Mike Nichols (1984) · Gene Saks (1985) · Jerry Zaks (1986) · Lloyd Richards (1987) · John Dexter (1988) · Jerry Zaks (1989) · Frank Galati (1990) · Jerry Zaks (1991) · Mike Nichols (1992) · George C. Wolfe (1993) · Stephen Daldry (1994) · Gerald Gutierrez (1995) · Gerald Gutierrez (1996) · Anthony Page (1997) · Garry Hynes (1998) · Robert Falls (1999) · Michael Blakemore (2000) · Daniel J. Sullivan (2001) · Mary Zimmerman (2002) · Joe Mantello (2003) · Jack O'Brien (2004) · Doug Hughes (2005) · Nicholas Hytner (2006) · Jack O'Brien (2007) · Anna D. Shapiro (2008) · Matthew Warchus (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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