Tony Award for Best Scenic Design

Tony Award for
Best Scenic Design
Tony Award for ; Best Scenic Design
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.

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Year	Designer	Production
1947 1st Tony Awards
1947 1st Tony Awards	David Folkes	Henry VIII
1948 2nd Tony Awards
1948 2nd Tony Awards	Horace Armistead	The Medium
1949 3rd Tony Awards
1949 3rd Tony Awards	Jo Mielziner	Anne of the Thousand Days, Death of a Salesman, Sleepy Hollow, South Pacific and Summer and Smoke

Year	Designer	Production
1950 4th Tony Awards
1950 4th Tony Awards	Jo Mielziner	The Innocents
1951 5th Tony Awards
1951 5th Tony Awards	Boris Aronson	The Country Girl, The Rose Tattoo and Season in the Sun
1952 6th Tony Awards
1952 6th Tony Awards	Jo Mielziner	The King and I
1953 7th Tony Awards
1953 7th Tony Awards	Raoul Penè Du Bois	Wonderful Town
1954 8th Tony Awards
1954 8th Tony Awards	Peter Larkin	Ondine and The Teahouse of the August Moon
1955 9th Tony Awards
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

Year	Designer	Production
1960 – 1961	N/a
1962 16th Tony Awards
	Will Steven Armstrong	Carnival!
	David Hays	No Strings
	Oliver Smith	The Gay Life
	Rouben Ter-Arutunian	A Passage to India
1963 17th Tony Awards
	Sean Kenny	Oliver!
	Will Steven Armstrong	Tchin-Tchin
	Anthony Powell	The School for Scandal
	Franco Zeffirelli	The Lady of the Camellias
1964 18th Tony Awards
	Oliver Smith	Hello, Dolly!
	Raoul Penè Du Bois	The Student Gypsy
	Ben Edwards	The Ballad of the Sad Café
	David Hays	Marco Millions
1965 19th Tony Awards
	Oliver Smith	Baker Street, Luv and The Odd Couple
	Boris Aronson	Fiddler on the Roof and Incident at Vichy
	Sean Kenny	The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd
	Beni Montresor	Do I Hear a Waltz?
1966 20th Tony Awards
	Howard Bay	Man of La Mancha
	William and Jean Eckart	Mame
	David Hays	Drat! The Cat!
	Robert Randolph	Anya, Skyscraper and Sweet Charity
1967 21st Tony Awards
	Boris Aronson	Cabaret
	John Bury	The Homecoming
	Oliver Smith	I Do! I Do!
	Alan Tagg	Black Comedy
1968 22nd Tony Awards
	Desmond Heeley	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
	Boris Aronson	The Price
	Robert Randolph	Golden Rainbow
	Peter Wexler	The Happy Time
1969 23rd Tony Awards
	Boris Aronson	Zorba
	Derek Cousins	Canterbury Tales
	Jo Mielziner	1776
	Oliver Smith	Dear World

Year	Designer	Production
1970 24th Tony Awards
	Jo Mielziner	Child's Play
	Howard Bay	Cry for Us All
	Ming Cho Lee	Billy
	Robert Randolph	Applause
1971 25th Tony Awards
	Boris Aronson	Company
	John Bury	The Rothschilds
	Sally Jacobs	A Midsummer Night's Dream
	Jo Mielziner	Father's Day
1972 26th Tony Awards
	Boris Aronson	Follies
	John Bury	Old Times
	Kert Lundell	Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death
	Robin Wagner	Jesus Christ Superstar
1973 27th Tony Awards
	Tony Walton	Pippin
	Boris Aronson	A Little Night Music
	David Jenkins	The Changing Room
	Santo Loquasto	That Championship Season
1974 28th Tony Awards
	Eugene Lee and Franne Lee	Candide
	John Conklin	The Au Pair Man
	Santo Loquasto	What the Wine-Sellers Buy
	Oliver Smith	Gigi
	Ed Wittstein	Ulysses in Nighttown
1975 29th Tony Awards
	Carl Toms	Sherlock Holmes
	Scott Johnson	Dance With Me
	Tanya Moiseiwitsch	The Misanthrope
	William Ritman	God's Favorite
	Rouben Ter-Arutunian	Goodtime Charley
	Robin Wagner	Mack and Mabel
1976 30th Tony Awards
	Boris Aronson	Pacific Overtures
	Ben Edwards	A Matter of Gravity
	David Mitchell	Trelawny of the 'Wells'
	Tony Walton	Chicago
1977 31st Tony Awards
	David Mitchell	Annie
	Santo Loquasto	American Buffalo and The Cherry Orchard
	Robert Randolph	Porgy and Bess
1978 32nd Tony Awards
	Robin Wagner	On the Twentieth Century
	Zack Brown	The Importance of Being Earnest
	Edward Gorey	Dracula
	David Mitchell	Working
1979 33rd Tony Awards
	Eugene Lee	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
	Karl Eigsti	Knockout
	David Jenkins	The Elephant Man
	John Wulp	The Crucifer of Blood

Year	Designer	Production
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

Tony Award for Best Scenic Design

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