Tony Award/Bester Hauptdarsteller

1947–1949

• 1947: José Ferrer (in Cyrano de Bergerac) und Fredric March (in Years Ago)
• 1948: Henry Fonda (in Mister Roberts), Paul Kelly (in Command Decision) und Basil Rathbone (in The Heiress)
• 1949: Rex Harrison (in Anne of the Thousand Days)

1950–1959

• 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 Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht)
• 1958: Ralph Bellamy (in Sunrise At Campobello)
• 1959: Jason Robards (in The Disenchanted)

1960–1969

• 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 Wer hat Angst vor 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)

1970–1979

• 1970: Fritz Weaver (in Child's Play)
• 1971: Brian Bedford (in Die Schule der Frauen)
• 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?)

1980–1989

• 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 Viel Lärm um Nichts)
• 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)

1990–1999

• 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 Tod eines Handlungsreisenden)

2000–2009

• 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 Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht)
• 2004: Jefferson Mays (in I Am My Own Wife)
• 2005: Bill Irwin (in Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf?)
• 2006: Richard Griffiths (in The History Boys)
• 2007: Frank Langella (in Frost/Nixon)
• 2008: Mark Rylance (in Boeing-Boeing)
• 2009: Geoffrey Rush (in Exit the King )

seit 2010

• 2010: Denzel Washington (in Fences)
• 2011: Mark Rylance (in Jerusalem)