Tony Award/Bester Hauptdarsteller
Für den Tony Award/Bester Hauptdarsteller können alle Darsteller, die in Theaterstücken und Musicals im Laufe des Jahres am Broadway in New York gespielt haben, nominiert werden. Der Tony Award als bester (männlicher) Hauptdarsteller in einem Drama ging bisher an:
- 1947 José Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac)
- 1947 Fredric March (Years Ago)
- 1948 Henry Fonda (Mister Roberts)
- 1948 Paul Kelly (Command Decision)
- 1948 Basil Rathbone (The Heiress)
- 1949 Rex Harrison (Anne of the Thousand Days)
- 1950 Sidney Blackmer (Come Back, Little Sheba)
- 1951 Claude Rains (Darkness At Noon)
- 1952 José Ferrer (The Shrike)
- 1953 Tom Ewell (The Seven Year Itch)
- 1954 David Wayne (The Teahouse of the August Moon)
- 1955 Alfred Lunt (Quadrille)
- 1956 Paul Muni (Inherit the Wind)
- 1957 Fredric March (Long Day's Journey Into Night)
- 1958 Ralph Bellamy (Sunrise At Campobello)
- 1959 Jason Robards, Jr. (The Disenchanted)
- 1960 Melvyn Douglas (The Best Man)
- 1961 Zero Mostel (Rhinoceros)
- 1962 Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons)
- 1963 Arthur Hill (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
- 1964 Alec Guinness (Dylan)
- 1965 Walter Matthau (The Odd Couple)
- 1966 Hal Holbrook (Mark Twain Tonight!)
- 1967 Paul Rogers (The Homecoming)
- 1968 Martin Balsam (You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running)
- 1969 James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope)
- 1970 Fritz Weaver (Child's Play)
- 1971 Brian Bedford (The School for Wives)
- 1972 Cliff Gorman (Lenny)
- 1973 Alan Bates (Butley)
- 1974 Michael Moriarty (Find Your Way Home)
- 1975 John Kani and Winston Ntshona (Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island)
- 1976 John Wood (Travesties)
- 1977 Al Pacino (The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel)
- 1978 Barnard Hughes (Da)
- 1979 Tom Conti (Who's Life Is It Anyway?)
- 1980 John Rubinstein (Children of a Lesser God)
- 1981 Ian McKellen (Amadeus)
- 1982 Roger Rees (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)
- 1983 Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy)
- 1984 Jeremy Irons (The Real Thing)
- 1985 Derek Jacobi (Much Ado About Nothing")
- 1986 Judd Hirsch (I'm Not Rappaport)
- 1987 James Earl Jones (Fences)
- 1988 Ron Silver (Speed the Plow)
- 1989 Philip Bosco (Lend Me a Tenor)
- 1990 Robert Morse (Tru)
- 1991 Nigel Hawthorne (Shadowlands)
- 1992 Judd Hirsch (Conversations With My Father)
- 1993 Ron Leibman (Angels in America: Millennium Approaches)
- 1994 Stephen Spinella (Angels in America: Perestroika)
- 1995 Ralph Fiennes (Hamlet)
- 1996 George Grizzard (A Delicate Balance)
- 1997 Christopher Plummer (Barrymore)
- 1998 Anthony LaPaglia (A View From the Bridge)
- 1999 Brian Dennehy (Death of a Salesman)
- 2000 Stephen Dillane (The Real Thing)
- 2001 Richard Easton (The Invention of Love)
- 2002 Alan Bates (Fortune's Fool)
- 2003 Brian Dennehy (Long Day's Journey into Night)
- 2004 Jefferson Mays (I Am My Own Wife)
- 2005 Bill Irwin (Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
- 2006 Richard Griffiths (The History Boys)