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