Tony Award for Best Costume Design

These are the winners and nominees for the Tony Award for Best Costume Design. The award was first presented in 1947 and included both plays and musicals. In 1961, and since 2005 the category was divided into Costume Design in a Play and Costume Design in a Musical with each genre receiving its own award.

Tony Award for Best Costume Design
Awarded for	Best Costume Design
Location	United States New York City
Presented by	American Theatre Wing The Broadway League
Currently held by	Susan Hilferty for Wicked (2004)
Website	TonyAwards.com

Winners and nominees

  indicates the winner

1940s

Year	Designer	Production
1947 1st Tony Awards
	Lucinda Ballard	Another Part of the Forest, The Chocolate Soldier, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary and Street Scene
1948 2nd Tony Awards
	Mary Percy Schenck	The Heiress
1949 3rd Tony Awards
	Lemuel Ayers	Kiss Me, Kate

1950s

Year	Designer	Production
1950 4th Tony Awards
	Aline Bernstein	Regina
1951 5th Tony Awards
	Miles White	Bless You All
1952 6th Tony Awards
	Irene Sharaff	The King and I
1953 7th Tony Awards
	Miles White	Hazel Flagg
1954 8th Tony Awards
Richard Whorf	Ondine
1955 9th Tony Awards
	Cecil Beaton	Quadrille
1956 10th Tony Awards
	Alvin Colt	Pipe Dream
	Alvin Colt	The Lark and Phoenix '55
	Mainbocher	The Great Sebastians
	Helene Pons	A View from the Bridge, The Diary of Anne Frank and Heavenly Twins
1957 11th Tony Awards
	Cecil Beaton	My Fair Lady
	Cecil Beaton	Little Glass Clock
	Alvin Colt	Li'l Abner and The Sleeping Prince
	Dorothy Jeakins	Major Barbara and Too Late the Phalarope
	Irene Sharaff	Candide, Happy Hunting, Shangri La and Small War on Murray Hill
1958 12th Tony Awards
	Motley Theatre Design Group	The First Gentleman
	Lucinda Ballard	Orpheus Descending
	Motley Theatre Design Group	The Country Wife, Look Back in Anger, Look Homeward, Angel and Shinbone Alley
	Irene Sharaff	West Side Story
	Miles White	Jamaica, Oh, Captain! and Time Remembered
1959 13th Tony Awards
	Rouben Ter-Arutunian	Redhead
	Antonio Castillo	Goldilocks
	Dorothy Jeakins	The World of Suzie Wong
	Oliver Messel	Rashomon
	Irene Sharaff	Flower Drum Song

1960s

Year	Designer	Production
1960 14th Tony Awards
	Cecil Beaton	Saratoga
	Alvin Colt	Greenwillow
	Raoul Pene Du Bois	Gypsy
	Miles White	Take Me Along
1961 15th Tony Awards	—N/a
1962 16th Tony Awards
	Lucinda Ballard	The Gay Life
	Donald Brooks	No Strings
	Motley Theatre Design Group	Kwamina
	Miles White	Milk and Honey
1963 17th Tony Awards
	Anthony Powell	The School for Scandal
	Marcel Escoffier	The Lady of the Camellias
	Robert Fletcher	Little Me
	Motley Theatre Design Group	Mother Courage and Her Children
1964 18th Tony Awards
	Freddy Wittop	Hello, Dolly!
	Beni Montresor	Marco Millions
	Irene Sharaff	The Girl Who Came to Supper
	Rouben Ter-Arutunian	Arturo Ui
1965 19th Tony Awards
	Patricia Zipprodt	Fiddler on the Roof
	Jane Greenwood	Tartuffe
	Motley Theatre Design Group	Baker Street
	Freddy Wittop	The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd
1966 20th Tony Awards
	Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss	Marat/Sade
	Howard Bay and Patton Campbell	Man of La Mancha
	Loudon Sainthill	The Right Honourable Gentleman
	Irene Sharaff	Sweet Charity
1967 21st Tony Awards
	Patricia Zipprodt	Cabaret
	Nancy Potts	The School for Scandal and The Wild Duck
	Tony Walton	The Apple Tree
	Freddy Wittop	I Do! I Do!
1968 22nd Tony Awards
	Desmond Heeley	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
	Jane Greenwood	More Stately Mansions
	Irene Sharaff	Hallelujah, Baby!
	Freddy Wittop	The Happy Time
1969 23rd Tony Awards
	Loudon Sainthill	Canterbury Tales
	Michael Annals	Morning, Noon and Night
	Robert Fletcher	Hadrian VII
	Patricia Zipprodt	Zorba

1970s

Year	Designer	Production
1970 24th Tony Awards
	Cecil Beaton	Coco
	Ray Aghayan	Applause
	W. Robert Lavine	Jimmy
	Freddy Wittop	A Patriot for Me
1971 25th Tony Awards
	Raoul Pene Du Bois	No, No, Nanette
	Jane Greenwood	Hay Fever and Les Blancs
	Freddy Wittop	Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen
1972 26th Tony Awards
	Florence Klotz	Follies
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Two Gentlemen of Verona
	Randy Barceló	Jesus Christ Superstar
	Carrie F. Robbins	Grease
1973 27th Tony Awards
	Florence Klotz	A Little Night Music
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Much Ado About Nothing
	Miles White	Tricks
	Patricia Zipprodt	Pippin
1974 28th Tony Awards
	Franne Lee	Candide
	Theoni V. Aldredge	The Au Pair Man
	Finlay James	Crown Matrimonial
	Oliver Messel	Gigi
	Carrie F. Robbins	Over Here!
1975 29th Tony Awards
	Geoffrey Holder	The Wiz
	Arthur Boccia	Where's Charley?
	Raoul Pene Du Bois	Doctor Jazz
	Willa Kim	Goodtime Charley
	Tanya Moiseiwitsch	The Misanthrope
	Patricia Zipprodt	Mack and Mabel
1976 30th Tony Awards
	Florence Klotz	Pacific Overtures
	Theoni V. Aldredge	A Chorus Line
	Ann Roth	The Royal Family
	Patricia Zipprodt	Chicago
1977 31st Tony Awards
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Annie
	Santo Loquasto	The Cherry Orchard
	Theoni V. Aldredge	The Threepenny Opera
	Nancy Potts	Porgy and Bess
1978 32nd Tony Awards
	Edward Gorey	Dracula
	Halston	The Act
	Geoffrey Holder	Timbuktu!
	Willa Kim	Dancin'
1979 33rd Tony Awards
	Franne Lee	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Ballroom
	Ann Roth	The Crucifer of Blood
	Julie Weiss	The Elephant Man

1980s

Year	Designer	Production
1980 34th Tony Awards
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Barnum
	Pierre Balmain	Happy New Year
	Raoul Pene Du Bois	Sugar Babies
	Tazeena Firth and Timothy O'Brien	Evita
1981 35th Tony Awards
	Willa Kim	Sophisticated Ladies
	Theoni V. Aldredge	42nd Street
	John Bury	Amadeus
	Franca Squarciapino	Can-Can
1982 36th Tony Awards
	William Ivey Long	Nine
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Dreamgirls
	Jane Greenwood	Medea
	John Napier	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1983 37th Tony Awards
	John Napier	Cats
	Lindy Hemming	All's Well That Ends Well
	Rita Ryack	My One and Only
	Patricia Zipprodt	Alice in Wonderland
1984 38th Tony Awards
	Theoni V. Aldredge	La Cage aux Folles
	Jane Greenwood	Heartbreak House
	Ann Hould-Ward and Patricia Zipprodt	Sunday in the Park with George
	Anthea Sylbert	The Real Thing
1985 39th Tony Awards
	Florence Klotz	Grind
	Patricia McGourty	Big River
	Alexander Reid	Cyrano de Bergerac
		Much Ado About Nothing
1986 40th Tony Awards
	Patricia Zipprodt	Sweet Charity
	Willa Kim	Song and Dance
	Beni Montresor	The Marriage of Figaro
	Ann Roth	The House of Blue Leaves
1987 41st Tony Awards
	John Napier	Starlight Express
	Bob Crowley	Les Liaisons Dangereuses
	Ann Curtis	Me and My Girl
	Andreane Neofitou	Les Misérables
1988 42nd Tony Awards
	Maria Björnson	The Phantom of the Opera
	Ann Hould-Ward	Into the Woods
	Eiko Ishioka	M. Butterfly
	Tony Walton	Anything Goes
1989 43rd Tony Awards
	Héctor Orezzoli and Claudio Segovia	Black and Blue
	Jane Greenwood	Our Town
	Willa Kim	Legs Diamond
	William Ivey Long	Lend Me a Tenor

1990s

Year	Designer	Production
1990 44th Tony Awards
	Santo Loquasto	Grand Hotel
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Gypsy
	Florence Klotz	City of Angels
	Erin Quigley	The Grapes of Wrath
1991 45th Tony Awards
	Willa Kim	The Will Rogers Follies
	Theoni V. Aldredge	The Secret Garden
	Judy Dearing	Once on This Island
	Patricia Zipprodt	Shōgun: The Musical
1992 46th Tony Awards
	William Ivey Long	Crazy for You
	Jane Greenwood	Two Shakespearean Actors
	Toni-Leslie James	Jelly's Last Jam
	Joe Vaněk	Dancing at Lughnasa
1993 47th Tony Awards
	Florence Klotz	Kiss of the Spider Woman
	Jane Greenwood	The Sisters Rosensweig
	Erin Quigley	The Song of Jacob Zulu
	David C. Woolard	The Who's Tommy
1994 48th Tony Awards
	Ann Hould-Ward	Beauty and the Beast
	David Charles and Jane Greenwood	She Loves Me
	Jane Greenwood	Passion
	Yan Tax	Cyrano: The Musical
1995 49th Tony Awards
	Florence Klotz	Show Boat
	Jane Greenwood	The Heiress
	Stephen Brimson Lewis	Indiscretions
	Anthony Powell	Sunset Boulevard
1996 50th Tony Awards
	Roger Kirk	The King and I
	Jane Greenwood	A Delicate Balance
	Allison Reeds	Buried Child
	Paul Tazewell	Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk
1997 51st Tony Awards
	Judith Dolan	Candide
	Ann Curtis	Jekyll and Hyde
	William Ivey Long	Chicago
	Martin Pakledinaz	The Life
1998 52nd Tony Awards
	Julie Taymor	The Lion King
	William Ivey Long	Cabaret
	Santo Loquasto	Ragtime
	Martin Pakledinaz	Golden Child
1999 53rd Tony Awards
	Lez Brotherston	Swan Lake
	Santo Loquasto	Fosse
	John David Ridge	Ring Round the Moon
	Catherine Zuber	Twelfth Night

2000s

Year	Designer	Production
2000 54th Tony Awards
	Martin Pakledinaz	Kiss Me, Kate
	Bob Crowley	Aida
	Constance Hoffman	The Green Bird
	William Ivey Long	The Music Man
2001 55th Tony Awards
	William Ivey Long	The Producers
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Follies
	Roger Kirk	42nd Street
	David C. Woolard	The Rocky Horror Show
2002 56th Tony Awards
	Martin Pakledinaz	Thoroughly Modern Millie
	Jenny Beavan	Private Lives
	Susan Hilferty	Into the Woods
	Jane Greenwood	Morning's at Seven
2003 57th Tony Awards
	William Ivey Long	Hairspray
	Gregg Barnes	Flower Drum Song
	Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie	La bohème
	Catherine Zuber	Dinner at Eight
2004 58th Tony Awards
	Susan Hilferty	Wicked
	Jess Goldstein	Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2
	Mike Nicholls and Bobby Pearce	Taboo
	Mark Thompson	Bombay Dreams

Award Records

These include wins for the Best Costume Design in a Play and Best Costume Design in a Musical.

Multiple wins

6 Wins

• Florence Klotz
• William Ivey Long

4 Wins

• Cecil Beaton

3 Wins

• Theoni V. Aldredge
• Eugene Lee
• Santo Loquasto
• Patricia Zipprodt
• Catherine Zuber

2 Wins

• Lucinda Ballard
• Gregg Barnes
• Linda Cho
• Desmond Heeley
• Rob Howell
• Willa Kim
• Franne Lee
• Katrina Lindsay
• Motley Theatre Design Group
• John Napier
• Martin Pakledinaz

See also

• Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Musical
• Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play
• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design
• Laurence Olivier Award for Best Costume 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