Winners / Special Tony Award

Harvey Fierstein

The musicians who make up the band of Buena Vista Social Club

The Illusions & Technical Effects of Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Jack O'Brien

George C. Wolfe

Abe Jacob

Alex Edelman

Nikiya Mathis

Joel Grey

John Kander

Angela Lansbury

James C. Nicola

Graciela Daniele

The Broadway Advocacy Coalition

David Byrne’s American Utopia

Freestyle Love Supreme

Rosemary Harris

Terrence McNally

Harold Wheeler

Marin Mazzie

Sonny Tilders and Creature Technology Company

Jason Michael Webb

John Leguizamo

Bruce Springsteen

Chita Rivera

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Gareth Fry & Pete Malkin, Sound Designers for The Encounter

James Earl Jones

National Endowment for the Arts

Miles Wilkin

Sheldon Harnick

Marshall W. Mason

John Cameron Mitchell

Tommy Tune

Jane Greenwood

Bernard Gersten

Paul Libin

Ming Cho Lee

Actors' Equity Association and Hugh Jackman

Emanuel Azenberg

Handspring Puppet Company

Athol Fugard

Philip J. Smith

Alan Ayckbourn

Marian Seldes

Jerry Herman

Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981), in recognition of his historic contribution to American musical theatre in the field of orchestrations, as represented on Broadway this season by Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific.

Stephen Sondheim

Sarah Jones

Harold Prince

Edward Albee

James M. Nederlander

Cy Feuer

Robert Whitehead

Julie Harris

Paul Gemignani

Dame Edna: The Royal Tour. Producers: Leonard Soloway, Chase Mishkin, Steven M. Levy and Jonathan Reinis

T. Edward Hambleton

Fool Moon. Producers: James B. Freydberg, Jeffrey Ash, Dori Berinstein, CTM Productions

Uta Hagen

Arthur Miller

Isabelle Stevenson

Ben Edwards

Edward E. Colton

Bernard B. Jacobs (posthumously)

Carol Channing

Harvey Sabinson

Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn

Oklahoma!--50th Anniversary

Brooklyn Academy of Music

George Abbott, on the occasion of his 100th birthday

Jackie Mason, for The World According to Me

Yul Brynner, honoring his 4,525 performances in The King and I

New York State Council on the Arts

La Tragedie de Carmen, for outstanding achievement in musical theatre

Peter Feller, a master craftsman who has devoted forty years to theatre stagecraft and magic.

A Chorus Line was presented with a special Gold Tony Award in honor of becoming Broadway's longest-running musical

Al Hirschfeld received the Brooks Atkinson Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre

The Actors' Fund of America

Warner Communications

Radio City Music Hall

Lena Horne, for Lena Home: The Lady and Her Music

Helen Hayes

Mary Tyler Moore, Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, Connecticut

Richard Fitzgerald, honored for his installing the infrared system in Broadway theatres, thus bringing the compassion and dedication of making theatergoing for those with impaired hearing, rewarding, stimulating and enjoyable.

Hobe Morrison, theater editor of Variety

Richard Rodgers

Henry Fonda

Walter F. Diehl, International President of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Operators, has been an active force in advancing the well-being of the Broadway theatre and of theatre nationally.

Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre Center, Waterford, Connecticut

Irving Berlin

To the creators, Charles Moss and Stan Dragoti (of Wells, Rich, Greene, Inc.) of the I Love New York Broadway Show Tours and its sponsor, the New York State Department of Commerce

Cheryl Crawford

Lily Tomlin

Barry Manilow

Diana Ross

National Theatre For the Deaf

Equity Library Theatre

George Abbott

Mathilde Pincus, for outstanding service to the Broadway musical theatre.

Thomas H. Fitzgerald, to the gifted lighting technician of countless Broadway shows and many Tony telecasts. (Posthumous)

Circle in the Square, for twenty-five continuous years of quality productions.

Richard Burton

Al Hirschfeld for 50 years of theatrical cartoons.

Neil Simon

Liza Minnelli, for adding lustre to the Broadway season.

Bette Midler, for adding lustre to the Broadway season.

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, co-stars and authors of Good Evening.

A Moon for the Misbegotten, an outstanding dramatic revival of an American classic. Produced by Lester Osterman, Elliott Martin and Richard Hurner.

Candide, an outstanding contribution to the artistic development of the musical theatre. Produced by Chelsea Theatre Group, Harold Prince and Ruth Mitchell.

Actor's Equity Association

Theatre Development Fund

John F. Wharton, veteran theatrical attorney.

Harold Friedlander, the industry's foremost printing expert.

John Lindsay, Mayor of New York City

Actor's Fund of America

Shubert Organization

The Theatre Guild-American Theatre Society, for its many years of service to audiences for touring shows.

Fiddler on the Roof, on becoming the longest-running musical in Broadway history. Presented to Harold S. Prince.

Ethel Merman

Richard Rodgers

Elliot Norton, drama critic, for distinguished theatrical commentary.

Ingram Ash, president of Blaine-Thompson Advertising, for decades of devoted service to the theatre.

Playbill, for chronicling Broadway through the years.

Roger L. Stevens

Sir Noel Coward for his multiple and immortal contributions to the theatre

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne

New York Shakespeare Festival, for pioneering efforts on behalf of new plays

Barbra Streisand

The National Theatre Company of Great Britain

The Negro Ensemble Company

Rex Harrison

Leonard Bernstein

Carol Burnett

Audrey Hepburn

Carol Channing

Pearl Bailey

David Merrick

Maurice Chevalier

APA-Phoenix Theatre

Marlene Dietrich

Helen Menken (posthumous), for a lifetime of devotion and dedicated service to the Broadway theatre.

Gilbert Miller, for having produced 88 plays and musicals and for his perseverance which has helped to keep New York and theatre alive.

Oliver Smith

Eva Le Gallienne, celebrating her 50th year as an actress, honored for her work with the National Repertory Theatre.

W. McNeil Lowry, on behalf of the Ford Foundation for his and their distinguished support of the American Theatre.

Irving Berlin, for his distinguished contribution to the musical theatre for these many years.

Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore, for Beyond the Fringe, for their brilliance which has shattered all the old concepts of comedy.

Brooks Atkinson, retired drama critic of the New York Times.

Franco Zeffirelli, for designs and direction of the Old Vic's Romeo and Juliet.

Richard Rodgers, for all he has done for young people in the theatre and for taking the men of the orchestra out of the pit and putting them on stage in No Strings.

David Merrick, in recognition of a fabulous production record over the last seven years.

The Theatre Guild, for organizing the first repertory to go abroad for the State Department.

John D. Rockefeller III, for vision and leadership in creating the Lincoln Center, a landmark of theatre encompassing the performing arts.

James Thurber and Burgess Meredith, A Thurber Carnival

John Gielgud, for contribution to theatre for his extraordinary insight into the writings of Shakespeare as demonstrated in his one-man play, Ages of Man.

Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse, for a collaboration that lasted longer than Gilbert and Sullivan.

Cast of La Plume de Ma Tante (Pamela Austin, Colette Brosset, Roger Caccia, Yvonne Constant, Genevieve Coulombel, Robert Dhery, Michael Kent, Jean Lefevre, Jacques Legras, Michael Modo, Pierre Olaf, Nicole Parent, Ross Parker, Henri Pennec), for contribution to the theatre.

New York Shakespeare Festival, for presenting free performances in Central Park and the Hecksher Theater.

Mrs. Martin Beck, for fifteen years of untiring dedication to the American Theatre Wing, which she served as treasurer, secretary and chairman of the board of directors. Presented by Elaine Perry, daughter of Antoinette Perry.

Circle in the Square

Phoenix Theatre

Esther Hawley

American Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Connecticut

Jean-Louis Barrault--French Repertory

Robert Russell Bennett

William Hammerstein

Paul Shyre

City Center

Fourth Street Chekov Theatre

The Shakespearewrights

The Threepenny Opera, distinguished Off-Broadway production; Carmen Capalbo, Stanley Chase, producers.

The Theatre Collection of the N.Y. Public Library on it's twenty-fifth anniversary, for its distinguished service to the theatre. George Freedley, founder and curator, accepted.

Proscenium Productions, an Off-Broadway company at the Cherry Lane Theatre, for generally high quality and viewpoint shown in The Way of the World and Thieves Carnival. Presented to Warren Enters, Robert Merriman and Sybil Trubin.

Beatrice Lillie, for An Evening with Beatrice Lillie.

Danny Kaye, for heading a variety bill at the Palace Theatre.

Equity Community Theatre.

Judy Garland, for an important contribution to the revival of vaudeville through her recent stint at the Palace Theatre.

Edward Kook, for his contributing to and encouraging the development of stage lighting and electronics.

Charles Boyer, for distinguished performance in Don Juan in Hell, thereby assisting in a new theatre trend.

Ruth Green, for her services as a volunteer in arranging reservation and seating for the five Tony Awards.

Maurice Evans, for work he did in guiding the City Center Theatre Company through a highly successful season.

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt presented a special award to volunteer worker Philip Faversham of the American Theatre Wing's hospital program.

Brock Pemberton, founder of awards and its original chairman (posthumous).

Rosalind Gilder, editor, Theatre Arts

Vera Allen

Experimental Theatre Inc., John Garfield accepting.

The cast of The Importance of Being Earnest

Robert W. Dowling, president of City Investing Company, owner of several theatres in New York. Paul Beisman, operator of the American Theatre, St. Louis.

George Pierce, for twenty-five years of courteous and efficient service as a backstage doorman (Empire Theatre).

Mary Martin, Annie Get Your Gun

Joe E. Brown, Harvey

Dora Chamberlain (for unfailing courtesy as treasurer of the Martin Beck Theatre)

Mr. and Mrs. Ira Katzenberg (for enthusiasm as inveterate first-nighters)

Jules Leventhal (for the season's most prolific backer and producer)

Burns Mantle (for the annual publication of The Ten Best Plays)

P. A. MacDonald (for intricate construction for the production of If the Shoe Fits

Vincent Sardi (for providing a transient home and comfort station for theatre folk at Sardi's for 20 years)