Tony Award for Best Director

The Tony Award for Best Director was one of the original 11 awards given in 1947 when the Tony Awards originated. The Award was presented until 1960 when it was split into two categories: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical.

Award winners

1940s

• 1947: Elia Kazan – All My Sons
  • No nominees
• 1948: Joshua Logan – Mister Roberts
  • No nominees

• 1949: Elia Kazan – Death of a Salesman
  • No nominees

1950s

• 1950: Joshua Logan – South Pacific
  • No nominees
• 1951: George S. Kaufman – Guys and Dolls
  • No nominees
• 1952: José Ferrer – The Shrike, The Fourposter and Stalag 17
  • No nominees
• 1953: Joshua Logan – Picnic
  • No nominees
• 1954: Alfred Lunt – Ondine
  • No nominees
• 1955: Robert Montgomery – The Desperate Hours
  • No nominees
• 1956: Tyrone Guthrie – The Matchmaker
  • Joseph Anthony – The Lark
  • Harold Clurman – Bus Stop, Pipe Dream and Tiger at the Gates
  • Tyrone Guthrie – The Matchmaker, Six Characters in Search of an Author and Tamburline the Great
  • Garson Kanin – The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Elia Kazan – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Albert Marre – The Chalk Garden
  • Herman Shumlin – Inherit the Wind

• 1957: Moss Hart – My Fair Lady
  • Joseph Anthony – A Clearing in the Woods and The Most Happy Fella
  • Harold Clurman – The Waltz of the Toreadors
  • Peter Glenville – Separate Lives
  • José Quintero – Long Day's Journey Into Night
• 1958: Vincent J. Donehue – Sunrise at Campobello
  • Morton da Costa – The Music Man
  • Peter Hall – The Rope Dancers
  • George Roy Hill – Look Homeward, Angel
  • Elia Kazan – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
  • Arthur Penn – Two for the Seesaw
• 1959: Elia Kazan – J.B.
  • Peter Brook – The Visit
  • Robert Dhery – La Plume de Ma Tante
  • William Gaskill – Epitaph for George Dillon
  • Peter Glenville – Rashomon
  • Cyril Ritchard – The Pleasure of His Company
  • Dore Schary – A Majority of One

External links

• Official Tony Awards website