# Tony Award for Best Costume Design

These are the winners and nominees for the Tony Award for Best Costume Design. The award was first presented in 1947 and included both plays and musicals. In 1961, and since 2005 the category was divided into Costume Design in a Play and Costume Design in a Musical with each genre receiving its own award.

## Winners and nominees
### 1940s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 1947 1st Tony Awards |
| 1947 1st Tony Awards | Lucinda Ballard | Another Part of the Forest, The Chocolate Soldier, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary and Street Scene |
| 1948 2nd Tony Awards |
| 1948 2nd Tony Awards | Mary Percy Schenck | The Heiress |
| 1949 3rd Tony Awards |
| 1949 3rd Tony Awards | Lemuel Ayers | Kiss Me, Kate |

### 1950s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 1950 4th Tony Awards |
| 1950 4th Tony Awards | Aline Bernstein | Regina |
| 1951 5th Tony Awards |
| 1951 5th Tony Awards | Miles White | Bless You All |
| 1952 6th Tony Awards |
| 1952 6th Tony Awards | Irene Sharaff | The King and I |
| 1953 7th Tony Awards |
| 1953 7th Tony Awards | Miles White | Hazel Flagg |
| 1954 8th Tony Awards |
| 1954 8th Tony Awards | Richard Whorf | Ondine |
| 1955 9th Tony Awards |
| 1955 9th Tony Awards | Cecil Beaton | Quadrille |
| 1956 10th Tony Awards |
| 1956 10th Tony Awards | Alvin Colt | Pipe Dream |
| 1956 10th Tony Awards | Alvin Colt | The Lark and Phoenix '55 |
| 1956 10th Tony Awards | Mainbocher | The Great Sebastians |
| 1956 10th Tony Awards | Helene Pons | A View from the Bridge, The Diary of Anne Frank and Heavenly Twins |
| 1957 11th Tony Awards |
| 1957 11th Tony Awards | Cecil Beaton | My Fair Lady |
| 1957 11th Tony Awards | Cecil Beaton | Little Glass Clock |
| 1957 11th Tony Awards | Alvin Colt | Li'l Abner and The Sleeping Prince |
| 1957 11th Tony Awards | Dorothy Jeakins | Major Barbara and Too Late the Phalarope |
| 1957 11th Tony Awards | Irene Sharaff | Candide, Happy Hunting, Shangri La and Small War on Murray Hill |
| 1958 12th Tony Awards |
| 1958 12th Tony Awards | Motley Theatre Design Group | The First Gentleman |
| 1958 12th Tony Awards | Lucinda Ballard | Orpheus Descending |
| 1958 12th Tony Awards | Motley Theatre Design Group | The Country Wife, Look Back in Anger, Look Homeward, Angel and Shinbone Alley |
| 1958 12th Tony Awards | Irene Sharaff | West Side Story |
| 1958 12th Tony Awards | Miles White | Jamaica, Oh, Captain! and Time Remembered |
| 1959 13th Tony Awards |
| 1959 13th Tony Awards | Rouben Ter-Arutunian | Redhead |
| 1959 13th Tony Awards | Antonio Castillo | Goldilocks |
| 1959 13th Tony Awards | Dorothy Jeakins | The World of Suzie Wong |
| 1959 13th Tony Awards | Oliver Messel | Rashomon |
| 1959 13th Tony Awards | Irene Sharaff | Flower Drum Song |

### 1960s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 1960 14th Tony Awards |
| 1960 14th Tony Awards | Cecil Beaton | Saratoga |
| 1960 14th Tony Awards | Alvin Colt | Greenwillow |
| 1960 14th Tony Awards | Raoul Pene Du Bois | Gypsy |
| 1960 14th Tony Awards | Miles White | Take Me Along |
| 1961 15th Tony Awards | — | — |
| 1962 16th Tony Awards |
| 1962 16th Tony Awards | Lucinda Ballard | The Gay Life |
| 1962 16th Tony Awards | Donald Brooks | No Strings |
| 1962 16th Tony Awards | Motley Theatre Design Group | Kwamina |
| 1962 16th Tony Awards | Miles White | Milk and Honey |
| 1963 17th Tony Awards |
| 1963 17th Tony Awards | Anthony Powell | The School for Scandal |
| 1963 17th Tony Awards | Marcel Escoffier | The Lady of the Camellias |
| 1963 17th Tony Awards | Robert Fletcher | Little Me |
| 1963 17th Tony Awards | Motley Theatre Design Group | Mother Courage and Her Children |
| 1964 18th Tony Awards |
| 1964 18th Tony Awards | Freddy Wittop | Hello, Dolly! |
| 1964 18th Tony Awards | Beni Montresor | Marco Millions |
| 1964 18th Tony Awards | Irene Sharaff | The Girl Who Came to Supper |
| 1964 18th Tony Awards | Rouben Ter-Arutunian | Arturo Ui |
| 1965 19th Tony Awards |
| 1965 19th Tony Awards | Patricia Zipprodt | Fiddler on the Roof |
| 1965 19th Tony Awards | Jane Greenwood | Tartuffe |
| 1965 19th Tony Awards | Motley Theatre Design Group | Baker Street |
| 1965 19th Tony Awards | Freddy Wittop | The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd |
| 1966 20th Tony Awards |
| 1966 20th Tony Awards | Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss | Marat/Sade |
| 1966 20th Tony Awards | Howard Bay and Patton Campbell | Man of La Mancha |
| 1966 20th Tony Awards | Loudon Sainthill | The Right Honourable Gentleman |
| 1966 20th Tony Awards | Irene Sharaff | Sweet Charity |
| 1967 21st Tony Awards |
| 1967 21st Tony Awards | Patricia Zipprodt | Cabaret |
| 1967 21st Tony Awards | Nancy Potts | The School for Scandal and The Wild Duck |
| 1967 21st Tony Awards | Tony Walton | The Apple Tree |
| 1967 21st Tony Awards | Freddy Wittop | I Do! I Do! |
| 1968 22nd Tony Awards |
| 1968 22nd Tony Awards | Desmond Heeley | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| 1968 22nd Tony Awards | Jane Greenwood | More Stately Mansions |
| 1968 22nd Tony Awards | Irene Sharaff | Hallelujah, Baby! |
| 1968 22nd Tony Awards | Freddy Wittop | The Happy Time |
| 1969 23rd Tony Awards |
| 1969 23rd Tony Awards | Loudon Sainthill | Canterbury Tales |
| 1969 23rd Tony Awards | Michael Annals | Morning, Noon and Night |
| 1969 23rd Tony Awards | Robert Fletcher | Hadrian VII |
| 1969 23rd Tony Awards | Patricia Zipprodt | Zorba |

### 1970s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 1970 24th Tony Awards |
| 1970 24th Tony Awards | Cecil Beaton | Coco |
| 1970 24th Tony Awards | Ray Aghayan | Applause |
| 1970 24th Tony Awards | W. Robert Lavine | Jimmy |
| 1970 24th Tony Awards | Freddy Wittop | A Patriot for Me |
| 1971 25th Tony Awards |
| 1971 25th Tony Awards | Raoul Pene Du Bois | No, No, Nanette |
| 1971 25th Tony Awards | Jane Greenwood | Hay Fever and Les Blancs |
| 1971 25th Tony Awards | Freddy Wittop | Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen |
| 1972 26th Tony Awards |
| 1972 26th Tony Awards | Florence Klotz | Follies |
| 1972 26th Tony Awards | Theoni V. Aldredge | Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| 1972 26th Tony Awards | Randy Barceló | Jesus Christ Superstar |
| 1972 26th Tony Awards | Carrie F. Robbins | Grease |
| 1973 27th Tony Awards |
| 1973 27th Tony Awards | Florence Klotz | A Little Night Music |
| 1973 27th Tony Awards | Theoni V. Aldredge | Much Ado About Nothing |
| 1973 27th Tony Awards | Miles White | Tricks |
| 1973 27th Tony Awards | Patricia Zipprodt | Pippin |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards | Franne Lee | Candide |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards | Theoni V. Aldredge | The Au Pair Man |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards | Finlay James | Crown Matrimonial |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards | Oliver Messel | Gigi |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards | Carrie F. Robbins | Over Here! |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | Geoffrey Holder | The Wiz |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | Arthur Boccia | Where's Charley? |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | Raoul Pene Du Bois | Doctor Jazz |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | Willa Kim | Goodtime Charley |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | Tanya Moiseiwitsch | The Misanthrope |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | Patricia Zipprodt | Mack and Mabel |
| 1976 30th Tony Awards |
| 1976 30th Tony Awards | Florence Klotz | Pacific Overtures |
| 1976 30th Tony Awards | Theoni V. Aldredge | A Chorus Line |
| 1976 30th Tony Awards | Ann Roth | The Royal Family |
| 1976 30th Tony Awards | Patricia Zipprodt | Chicago |
| 1977 31st Tony Awards |
| 1977 31st Tony Awards | Theoni V. Aldredge | Annie |
| 1977 31st Tony Awards | Santo Loquasto | The Cherry Orchard |
| 1977 31st Tony Awards | Theoni V. Aldredge | The Threepenny Opera |
| 1977 31st Tony Awards | Nancy Potts | Porgy and Bess |
| 1978 32nd Tony Awards |
| 1978 32nd Tony Awards | Edward Gorey | Dracula |
| 1978 32nd Tony Awards | Halston | The Act |
| 1978 32nd Tony Awards | Geoffrey Holder | Timbuktu! |
| 1978 32nd Tony Awards | Willa Kim | Dancin' |
| 1979 33rd Tony Awards |
| 1979 33rd Tony Awards | Franne Lee | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| 1979 33rd Tony Awards | Theoni V. Aldredge | Ballroom |
| 1979 33rd Tony Awards | Ann Roth | The Crucifer of Blood |
| 1979 33rd Tony Awards | Julie Weiss | The Elephant Man |

### 1980s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 1980 34th Tony Awards |
| 1980 34th Tony Awards | Theoni V. Aldredge | Barnum |
| 1980 34th Tony Awards | Pierre Balmain | Happy New Year |
| 1980 34th Tony Awards | Raoul Pene Du Bois | Sugar Babies |
| 1980 34th Tony Awards | Tazeena Firth and Timothy O'Brien | Evita |
| 1981 35th Tony Awards |
| 1981 35th Tony Awards | Willa Kim | Sophisticated Ladies |
| 1981 35th Tony Awards | Theoni V. Aldredge | 42nd Street |
| 1981 35th Tony Awards | John Bury | Amadeus |
| 1981 35th Tony Awards | Franca Squarciapino | Can-Can |
| 1982 36th Tony Awards |
| 1982 36th Tony Awards | William Ivey Long | Nine |
| 1982 36th Tony Awards | Theoni V. Aldredge | Dreamgirls |
| 1982 36th Tony Awards | Jane Greenwood | Medea |
| 1982 36th Tony Awards | John Napier | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
| 1983 37th Tony Awards |
| 1983 37th Tony Awards | John Napier | Cats |
| 1983 37th Tony Awards | Lindy Hemming | All's Well That Ends Well |
| 1983 37th Tony Awards | Rita Ryack | My One and Only |
| 1983 37th Tony Awards | Patricia Zipprodt | Alice in Wonderland |
| 1984 38th Tony Awards |
| 1984 38th Tony Awards | Theoni V. Aldredge | La Cage aux Folles |
| 1984 38th Tony Awards | Jane Greenwood | Heartbreak House |
| 1984 38th Tony Awards | Ann Hould-Ward and Patricia Zipprodt | Sunday in the Park with George |
| 1984 38th Tony Awards | Anthea Sylbert | The Real Thing |
| 1985 39th Tony Awards |
| 1985 39th Tony Awards | Florence Klotz | Grind |
| 1985 39th Tony Awards | Patricia McGourty | Big River |
| 1985 39th Tony Awards | Alexander Reid | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| 1985 39th Tony Awards | Alexander Reid | Much Ado About Nothing |
| 1986 40th Tony Awards |
| 1986 40th Tony Awards | Patricia Zipprodt | Sweet Charity |
| 1986 40th Tony Awards | Willa Kim | Song and Dance |
| 1986 40th Tony Awards | Beni Montresor | The Marriage of Figaro |
| 1986 40th Tony Awards | Ann Roth | The House of Blue Leaves |
| 1987 41st Tony Awards |
| 1987 41st Tony Awards | John Napier | Starlight Express |
| 1987 41st Tony Awards | Bob Crowley | Les Liaisons Dangereuses |
| 1987 41st Tony Awards | Ann Curtis | Me and My Girl |
| 1987 41st Tony Awards | Andreane Neofitou | Les Misérables |
| 1988 42nd Tony Awards |
| 1988 42nd Tony Awards | Maria Björnson | The Phantom of the Opera |
| 1988 42nd Tony Awards | Ann Hould-Ward | Into the Woods |
| 1988 42nd Tony Awards | Eiko Ishioka | M. Butterfly |
| 1988 42nd Tony Awards | Tony Walton | Anything Goes |
| 1989 43rd Tony Awards |
| 1989 43rd Tony Awards | Héctor Orezzoli and Claudio Segovia | Black and Blue |
| 1989 43rd Tony Awards | Jane Greenwood | Our Town |
| 1989 43rd Tony Awards | Willa Kim | Legs Diamond |
| 1989 43rd Tony Awards | William Ivey Long | Lend Me a Tenor |

### 1990s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 1990 44th Tony Awards |
| 1990 44th Tony Awards | Santo Loquasto | Grand Hotel |
| 1990 44th Tony Awards | Theoni V. Aldredge | Gypsy |
| 1990 44th Tony Awards | Florence Klotz | City of Angels |
| 1990 44th Tony Awards | Erin Quigley | The Grapes of Wrath |
| 1991 45th Tony Awards |
| 1991 45th Tony Awards | Willa Kim | The Will Rogers Follies |
| 1991 45th Tony Awards | Theoni V. Aldredge | The Secret Garden |
| 1991 45th Tony Awards | Judy Dearing | Once on This Island |
| 1991 45th Tony Awards | Patricia Zipprodt | Shōgun: The Musical |
| 1992 46th Tony Awards |
| 1992 46th Tony Awards | William Ivey Long | Crazy for You |
| 1992 46th Tony Awards | Jane Greenwood | Two Shakespearean Actors |
| 1992 46th Tony Awards | Toni-Leslie James | Jelly's Last Jam |
| 1992 46th Tony Awards | Joe Vaněk | Dancing at Lughnasa |
| 1993 47th Tony Awards |
| 1993 47th Tony Awards | Florence Klotz | Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| 1993 47th Tony Awards | Jane Greenwood | The Sisters Rosensweig |
| 1993 47th Tony Awards | Erin Quigley | The Song of Jacob Zulu |
| 1993 47th Tony Awards | David C. Woolard | The Who's Tommy |
| 1994 48th Tony Awards |
| 1994 48th Tony Awards | Ann Hould-Ward | Beauty and the Beast |
| 1994 48th Tony Awards | David Charles and Jane Greenwood | She Loves Me |
| 1994 48th Tony Awards | Jane Greenwood | Passion |
| 1994 48th Tony Awards | Yan Tax | Cyrano: The Musical |
| 1995 49th Tony Awards |
| 1995 49th Tony Awards | Florence Klotz | Show Boat |
| 1995 49th Tony Awards | Jane Greenwood | The Heiress |
| 1995 49th Tony Awards | Stephen Brimson Lewis | Indiscretions |
| 1995 49th Tony Awards | Anthony Powell | Sunset Boulevard |
| 1996 50th Tony Awards |
| 1996 50th Tony Awards | Roger Kirk | The King and I |
| 1996 50th Tony Awards | Jane Greenwood | A Delicate Balance |
| 1996 50th Tony Awards | Allison Reeds | Buried Child |
| 1996 50th Tony Awards | Paul Tazewell | Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk |
| 1997 51st Tony Awards |
| 1997 51st Tony Awards | Judith Dolan | Candide |
| 1997 51st Tony Awards | Ann Curtis | Jekyll and Hyde |
| 1997 51st Tony Awards | William Ivey Long | Chicago |
| 1997 51st Tony Awards | Martin Pakledinaz | The Life |
| 1998 52nd Tony Awards |
| 1998 52nd Tony Awards | Julie Taymor | The Lion King |
| 1998 52nd Tony Awards | William Ivey Long | Cabaret |
| 1998 52nd Tony Awards | Santo Loquasto | Ragtime |
| 1998 52nd Tony Awards | Martin Pakledinaz | Golden Child |
| 1999 53rd Tony Awards |
| 1999 53rd Tony Awards | Lez Brotherston | Swan Lake |
| 1999 53rd Tony Awards | Santo Loquasto | Fosse |
| 1999 53rd Tony Awards | John David Ridge | Ring Round the Moon |
| 1999 53rd Tony Awards | Catherine Zuber | Twelfth Night |

### 2000s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 2000 54th Tony Awards |
| 2000 54th Tony Awards | Martin Pakledinaz | Kiss Me, Kate |
| 2000 54th Tony Awards | Bob Crowley | Aida |
| 2000 54th Tony Awards | Constance Hoffman | The Green Bird |
| 2000 54th Tony Awards | William Ivey Long | The Music Man |
| 2001 55th Tony Awards |
| 2001 55th Tony Awards | William Ivey Long | The Producers |
| 2001 55th Tony Awards | Theoni V. Aldredge | Follies |
| 2001 55th Tony Awards | Roger Kirk | 42nd Street |
| 2001 55th Tony Awards | David C. Woolard | The Rocky Horror Show |
| 2002 56th Tony Awards |
| 2002 56th Tony Awards | Martin Pakledinaz | Thoroughly Modern Millie |
| 2002 56th Tony Awards | Jenny Beavan | Private Lives |
| 2002 56th Tony Awards | Susan Hilferty | Into the Woods |
| 2002 56th Tony Awards | Jane Greenwood | Morning's at Seven |
| 2003 57th Tony Awards |
| 2003 57th Tony Awards | William Ivey Long | Hairspray |
| 2003 57th Tony Awards | Gregg Barnes | Flower Drum Song |
| 2003 57th Tony Awards | Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie | La bohème |
| 2003 57th Tony Awards | Catherine Zuber | Dinner at Eight |
| 2004 58th Tony Awards |
| 2004 58th Tony Awards | Susan Hilferty | Wicked |
| 2004 58th Tony Awards | Jess Goldstein | Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2 |
| 2004 58th Tony Awards | Mike Nicholls and Bobby Pearce | Taboo |
| 2004 58th Tony Awards | Mark Thompson | Bombay Dreams |

## Award Records

These include wins for the Best Costume Design in a Play and Best Costume Design in a Musical.

### Multiple wins
#### 6 Wins

* Florence Klotz
* William Ivey Long

#### 4 Wins

* Cecil Beaton

#### 3 Wins

* Theoni V. Aldredge
* Eugene Lee
* Santo Loquasto
* Patricia Zipprodt
* Catherine Zuber

#### 2 Wins

* Lucinda Ballard
* Gregg Barnes
* Linda Cho
* Desmond Heeley
* Rob Howell
* Willa Kim
* Franne Lee
* Katrina Lindsay
* Motley Theatre Design Group
* John Napier
* Martin Pakledinaz