Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Musical

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Musical for outstanding costume design of a musical. The award was first presented in 1961 after the category of Best Costume Design was divided into Costume Design in a Play and Costume Design in a Musical with each genre receiving its own award. That lasted for only one year, but the Costume Design category was split in two again in 2005 and has remained that way since.

Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Musical
Awarded for	Best Costume Design in a Musical
Location	United States New York City
Presented by	American Theatre Wing The Broadway League
Currently held by	Paul Tazewell for Death Becomes Her (2025)
Website	TonyAwards.com

Winners and nominees

  indicates the winner

1960s

Year	Production	Nominees
1961 (15th) [1]
	Camelot	Adrian and Tony Duquette
	Tenderloin	Cecil Beaton
	Irma la Douce	Rolf Gerard

2000s

Year	Production	Nominees
2005 (59th) [2]
	The Light in the Piazza	Catherine Zuber
	La Cage aux Folles	William Ivey Long
	Monty Python's Spamalot	Tim Hatley
	Pacific Overtures	Junko Kushino
2006 (60th) [3]
	The Drowsy Chaperone	Gregg Barnes
	The Color Purple	Paul Tazewell
	Lestat	Susan Hilferty
	The Pajama Game	Martin Pakledinaz
2007 (61st) [4]
	Grey Gardens	William Ivey Long
	Legally Blonde	Gregg Barnes
	Mary Poppins	Bob Crowley
	Spring Awakening	Susan Hilferty
2008 (62nd) [5]
	South Pacific	Catherine Zuber
	Gypsy	Martin Pakledinaz
	In the Heights	Paul Tazewell
	Sunday in the Park with George	David Farley
2009 (63rd) [6]
	Shrek the Musical	Tim Hatley
	Billy Elliot the Musical	Nicky Gillibrand
	Hair	Michael McDonald
	Rock of Ages	Gregory Gale

2010s

Year	Production	Nominees
2010 (64th) [7]
	Fela!	Marina Draghici
	La Cage aux Folles	Matthew Wright
	Memphis	Paul Tazewell
2011 (65th) [8]
	Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner
	Anything Goes	Martin Pakledinaz
	The Book of Mormon	Ann Roth
	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying	Catherine Zuber
2012 (66th) [9]
	Follies	Gregg Barnes
	Nice Work If You Can Get It	Martin Pakledinaz
	Porgy and Bess	Emilio Sosa
	Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark	Eiko Ishioka
2013 (67th) [10]
	Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella	William Ivey Long
	Kinky Boots	Gregg Barnes
	Matilda the Musical	Rob Howell
	Pippin	Dominique Lemieux
2014 (68th) [11]
	A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder	Linda Cho
	After Midnight	Isabel Toledo
	Bullets Over Broadway	William Ivey Long
	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Arianne Phillips
2015 (69th) [12]
	The King and I	Catherine Zuber
	An American in Paris	Bob Crowley
	On the Twentieth Century	William Ivey Long
	Something Rotten!	Gregg Barnes
2016 (70th) [13]
	Hamilton	Paul Tazewell
	She Loves Me	Jeff Mahshie
	Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed	Ann Roth
	Tuck Everlasting	Gregg Barnes
2017 (71st) [14]
	Hello, Dolly!	Santo Loquasto
	Anastasia	Linda Cho
	Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812	Paloma Young
	War Paint	Catherine Zuber
2018 (72nd) [15]
	My Fair Lady	Catherine Zuber
	Carousel	Ann Roth
	Mean Girls	Gregg Barnes
	Once on This Island	Clint Ramos
	SpongeBob SquarePants	David Zinn
2019 (73rd) [16]
	The Cher Show	Bob Mackie
	Ain’t Too Proud	Paul Tazewell
	Beetlejuice	William Ivey Long
	Hadestown	Michael Krass
	Tootsie	William Ivey Long

2020s

Year	Production	Nominees
2020 (74th)
	Moulin Rouge!	Catherine Zuber
	Jagged Little Pill	Emily Rebholz
	Tina	Mark Thompson
2022 (75th) [17]
	Six	Gabriella Slade
	Caroline, or Change	Fly James
	Diana: The Musical	William Ivey Long
	MJ	Paul Tazewell
	The Music Man	Santo Loquasto
	Paradise Square	Toni-Leslie James
2023 (76th) [18]
	Some Like It Hot	Gregg Barnes
	& Juliet	Paloma Young
	KPOP	Clint Ramos and Sophia Choi
	Lerner & Loewe's Camelot	Jennifer Moeller
	New York, New York	Donna Zakowska
	Parade	Susan Hilferty
2024 (77th) [19]
	The Great Gatsby	Linda Cho
	Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club	Tom Scutt
	Hell's Kitchen	Dede Ayite
	Suffs	Paul Tazewell
	Water for Elephants	David Israel Reynoso
2025 (78th)
	Death Becomes Her	Paul Tazewell
	Boop! The Musical	Gregg Barnes
	Buena Vista Social Club	Dede Ayite
	Just in Time	Catherine Zuber
	Maybe Happy Ending	Clint Ramos

Trivia

In 2010, Santo Loquasto received a nomination for Best Costume Design for a Musical for Ragtime. Loquasto, who was previously nominated for the same show in the same category in 1998, was later disqualified because the designs were predominantly recycled work from the earlier production. No replacement was made for the nomination.^[20]

Multiple wins

Award wins includes the former Best Costume Design category and the nominations includes only the specific category.

6 Wins Florence Klotz William Ivey Long 5 Wins Catherine Zuber 3 Wins Gregg Barnes Cecil Beaton Patricia Zipprodt

2 Wins Theoni V. Aldredge Lucinda Ballard Linda Cho Willa Kim Franne Lee Santo Loquasto John Napier Martin Pakledinaz Paul Tazewell

Multiple nominations

9 Nominations Gregg Barnes 8 Nominations William Ivey Long Paul Tazewell Catherine Zuber 4 Nominations Martin Pakledinaz

3 Nominations Linda Cho Susan Hilferty Clint Ramos Ann Roth 2 Nominations Dede Ayite Bob Crowley Tim Hatley Santo Loquasto Paloma Young

See also

• Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play
• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design of a Musical
• Laurence Olivier Award for Best Costume Design
• List of Tony Award-nominated productions