2016 Tony awards results (70th) – winners & nominees

This page provides a complete list of the winners and nominees from the 70th Tony Awards, held on June 12, 2016. The 2016 Tony Award for Best Musical was awarded to Hamilton.

Best musical

Winner:

• Hamilton

Nominees:

• Bright Star
• School of Rock – The Musical
• Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed
• Waitress

Best play

Winner:

• The Humans

Nominees:

• Eclipsed
• The Father
• King Charles III

Best book of a musical

Winner:

• Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton)

Nominees:

• Steve Martin (Bright Star)
• Julian Fellowes (School of Rock)
• George C. Wolfe (Shuffle Along)

Best original score

Winner:

• Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton)

Nominees:

• Steve Martin, Edie Brickell (Bright Star)
• Andrew Lloyd Webber, Glenn Slater (School of Rock)
• Sara Bareilles (Waitress)

Best revival of a play

Winner:

• Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge

Nominees:

• Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
• Blackbird
• Long Day’s Journey Into Night
• Noises Off

Best revival of a musical

Winner:

• The Color Purple

Nominees:

• Fiddler on the Roof
• She Loves Me
• Spring Awakening

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

Winner:

• Frank Langella (The Father)

Nominees:

• Gabriel Byrne (Long Day’s Journey Into Night)
• Jeff Daniels (Blackbird)
• Tim Pigott-Smith (King Charles III)
• Mark Strong (Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

Winner:

• Jessica Lange (Long Day’s Journey Into Night)

Nominees:

• Laurie Metcalf (Misery)
• Lupita Nyong’o (Eclipsed)
• Sophie Okonedo (Arthur Miller’s The Crucible)
• Michelle Williams (Blackbird)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

Winner:

• Leslie Odom, Jr. (Hamilton)

Nominees:

• Alex Brightman (School of Rock)
• Danny Burstein (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Zachary Levi (She Loves Me)
• Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

Winner:

• Cynthia Erivo (The Color Purple)

Nominees:

• Laura Benanti (She Loves Me)
• Carmen Cusack (Bright Star)
• Jessie Mueller (Waitress)
• Phillipa Soo (Hamilton)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

Winner:

• Reed Birney (The Humans)

Nominees:

• Bill Camp (Arthur Miller’s The Crucible)
• David Furr (Noises Off)
• Richard Goulding (King Charles III)
• Michael Shannon (Long Day’s Journey Into Night)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

Winner:

• Jayne Houdyshell (The Humans)

Nominees:

• Pascale Armand (Eclipsed)
• Megan Hilty (Noises Off)
• Andrea Martin (Noises Off)
• Saycon Sengbloh (Eclipsed)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

Winner:

• Daveed Diggs (Hamilton)

Nominees:

• Brandon Victor Dixon (Shuffle Along)
• Christopher Fitzgerald (Waitress)
• Jonathan Groff (Hamilton)
• Christopher Jackson (Hamilton)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

Winner:

• Renée Elise Goldsberry (Hamilton)

Nominees:

• Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple)
• Jane Krakowski (She Loves Me)
• Jennifer Simard (Disaster!)
• Adrienne Warren (Shuffle Along)

Best scenic design in a play

Winner:

• David Zinn (The Humans)

Nominees:

• Beowulf Boritt (Thérèse Raquin)
• Christopher Oram (Hughie)
• Jan Versweyveld (Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge)

Best scenic design in a musical

Winner:

• David Rockwell (She Loves Me)

Nominees:

• Es Devlin, Finn Ross (American Psycho)
• David Korins (Hamilton)
• Santo Loquasto (Shuffle Along)

Best costume design in a play

Winner:

• Clint Ramos (Eclipsed)

Nominees:

• Jane Greenwood (Long Day’s Journey Into Night)
• Michael Krass (Noises Off)
• Tom Scutt (King Charles III)

Best costume design in a musical

Winner:

• Paul Tazewell (Hamilton)

Nominees:

• Gregg Barnes (Tuck Everlasting)
• Jeff Mahshie (She Loves Me)
• Ann Roth (Shuffle Along)

Best lighting design in a play

Winner:

• Natasha Katz (Long Day’s Journey Into Night)

Nominees:

• Justin Townsend (The Humans)
• Jan Versweyveld (Arthur Miller’s The Crucible)
• Jan Versweyveld (Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge)

Best lighting design in a musical

Winner:

• Howell Binkley (Hamilton)

Nominees:

• Jules Fisher, Peggy Eisenhauer (Shuffle Along)
• Ben Stanton (Spring Awakening)
• Justin Townsend (American Psycho)

Best direction of a play

Winner:

• Ivo Van Hove (Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge)

Nominees:

• Rupert Goold (King Charles III)
• Jonathan Kent (Long Day’s Journey Into Night)
• Joe Mantello (The Humans)
• Liesl Tommy (Eclipsed)

Best direction of a musical

Winner:

• Thomas Kail (Hamilton)

Nominees:

• Michael Arden (Spring Awakening)
• John Doyle (The Color Purple)
• Scott Ellis (She Loves Me)
• George C. Wolfe (Shuffle Along)

Best choreography

Winner:

• Andy Blankenbuehler (Hamilton)

Nominees:

• Savion Glover (Shuffle Along)
• Hofesh Shechter (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Randy Skinner (Dames at Sea)
• Sergio Trujillo (On Your Feet!)

Best orchestrations

Winner:

• Alex Lacamoire (Hamilton)

Nominees:

• August Eriksmoen (Bright Star)
• Larry Hochman (She Loves Me)
• Daryl Waters (Shuffle Along)

Regional theatre Tony Award

• Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, NJ

Isabelle Stevenson award

• Brian Stokes Mitchell

Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre

• Sheldon Harnick
• Marshall W. Mason

Tony honors for excellence in theatre

• Seth Gelblum
• Joan Lader
• Sally Ann Parsons

Special Tony Award

• National Endowment for the Arts
• Miles Wilkin

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