2011 Tony Awards results (65th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the winners and nominees of the 65th Tony Awards, held on June 12, 2011. The 2011 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “The Book of Mormon.”

Best musical

Winner:

• The Book of Mormon

Nominees:

• Catch Me If You Can
• The Scottsboro Boys
• Sister Act

Best play

Winner:

• War Horse

Nominees:

• Good People
• Jerusalem
• The Motherf**ker with the Hat

Best book of a musical

Winner:

• Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone (The Book of Mormon)

Nominees:

• Alex Timbers (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson)
• David Thompson (The Scottsboro Boys)
• Cheri Steinkellner, Bill Steinkellner, and Douglas Carter Beane (Sister Act)

Best original score

Winner:

• Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone (The Book of Mormon)

Nominees:

• John Kander and Fred Ebb (The Scottsboro Boys)
• Alan Menken and Glenn Slater (Sister Act)
• David Yazbek (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown)

Best revival of a play

Winner:

• The Normal Heart

Nominees:

• Arcadia
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• The Merchant of Venice

Best revival of a musical

Winner:

• Anything Goes

Nominees:

• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

Winner:

• Mark Rylance (Jerusalem)

Nominees:

• Brian Bedford (The Importance of Being Earnest)
• Bobby Cannavale (The Motherf**ker with the Hat)
• Joe Mantello (The Normal Heart)
• Al Pacino (The Merchant of Venice)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

Winner:

• Frances McDormand (Good People)

Nominees:

• Nina Arianda (Born Yesterday)
• Lily Rabe (The Merchant of Venice)
• Vanessa Redgrave (Driving Miss Daisy)
• Hannah Yelland (Brief Encounter)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

Winner:

• Norbert Leo Butz (Catch Me If You Can)

Nominees:

• Josh Gad (The Book of Mormon)
• Joshua Henry (The Scottsboro Boys)
• Andrew Rannells (The Book of Mormon)
• Tony Sheldon (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

Winner:

• Sutton Foster (Anything Goes)

Nominees:

• Beth Leavel (Baby It’s You!)
• Patina Miller (Sister Act)
• Donna Murphy (The People in the Picture)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

Winner:

• John Benjamin Hickey (The Normal Heart)

Nominees:

• Mackenzie Crook (Jerusalem)
• Billy Crudup (Arcadia)
• Arian Moayed (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo)
• Yul Vazquez (The Motherf**ker with the Hat)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

Winner:

• Ellen Barkin (The Normal Heart)

Nominees:

• Edie Falco (The House of Blue Leaves)
• Judith Light (Lombardi)
• Joanna Lumley (La Bête)
• Elizabeth Rodriguez (The Motherf**ker with the Hat)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

Winner:

• John Larroquette (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)

Nominees:

• Colman Domingo (The Scottsboro Boys)
• Adam Godley (Anything Goes)
• Forrest McClendon (The Scottsboro Boys)
• Rory O’Malley (The Book of Mormon)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

Winner:

• Nikki M. James (The Book of Mormon)

Nominees:

• Laura Benanti (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown)
• Tammy Blanchard (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)
• Victoria Clark (Sister Act)
• Patti LuPone (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown)

Best scenic design in a play

Winner:

• Rae Smith (War Horse)

Nominees:

• Todd Rosenthal (The Motherf**ker with the Hat)
• Ultz (Jerusalem)
• Mark Wendland (The Merchant of Venice)

Best scenic design in a musical

Winner:

• Scott Pask (The Book of Mormon)

Nominees:

• Beowulf Boritt (The Scottsboro Boys)
• Derek McLane (Anything Goes)
• Donyale Werle (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson)

Best costume design in a play

Winner:

• Desmond Heeley (The Importance of Being Earnest)

Nominees:

• Jess Goldstein (The Merchant of Venice)
• Mark Thompson (La Bête)
• Catherine Zuber (Born Yesterday)

Best costume design in a musical

Winner:

• Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert)

Nominees:

• Martin Pakledinaz (Anything Goes)
• Ann Roth (The Book of Mormon)
• Catherine Zuber (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)

Best lighting design in a play

Winner:

• Paule Constable (War Horse)

Nominees:

• David Lander (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo)
• Kenneth Posner (The Merchant of Venice)
• Mimi Jordan Sherin (Jerusalem)

Best lighting design in a musical

Winner:

• Brian MacDevitt (The Book of Mormon)

Nominees:

• Ken Billington (The Scottsboro Boys)
• Howell Binkley (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)
• Peter Kaczorowski (Anything Goes)

Best direction of a play

Winner:

• Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris (War Horse)

Nominees:

• Joel Grey and George C. Wolfe (The Normal Heart)
• Anna D. Shapiro (The Motherf**ker with the Hat)
• Daniel Sullivan (The Merchant of Venice)

Best direction of a musical

Winner:

• Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker (The Book of Mormon)

Nominees:

• Rob Ashford (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)
• Kathleen Marshall (Anything Goes)
• Susan Stroman (The Scottsboro Boys)

Best choreography

Winner:

• Kathleen Marshall (Anything Goes)

Nominees:

• Rob Ashford (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)
• Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon)
• Susan Stroman (The Scottsboro Boys)

Best orchestrations

Winner:

• Larry Hochman and Stephen Oremus (The Book of Mormon)

Nominees:

• Doug Besterman (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)
• Larry Hochman (The Scottsboro Boys)
• Marc Shaiman and Larry Blank (Catch Me If You Can)

Regional theatre Tony Award

• Lookingglass Theatre Company, IL

Isabelle Stevenson award

• Eve Ensler

Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre

• Athol Fugard and Philip J. Smith

Tony honors for excellence in theatre

• William Berloni
• The Drama Book Shop
• Sharon Jensen, Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts

Special Tony Award

• Handspring Puppet Company

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