# Tony Award for Best Lighting Design

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for outstanding lighting design of a play or musical. The award was first presented in 1970. Since 2005, the category was divided into Lighting Design in a Play and Lighting Design in a Musical with each genre receiving its own award.

## Winners and nominees
### 1970s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 1970 24th Tony Awards |
| 1970 24th Tony Awards | Jo Mielziner | Child's Play |
| 1970 24th Tony Awards | Tharon Musser | Applause |
| 1970 24th Tony Awards | Thomas R. Skelton | Indians |
| 1971 25th Tony Awards |
| 1971 25th Tony Awards | R.H. Poindexter | Paul Sill's Story Theatre |
| 1971 25th Tony Awards | Robert Ornbo | Company |
| 1971 25th Tony Awards | William Ritman | Sleuth |
| 1972 26th Tony Awards |
| 1972 26th Tony Awards | Tharon Musser | Follies |
| 1972 26th Tony Awards | Martin Aronstein | Ain't Supposed To Die a Natural Death |
| 1972 26th Tony Awards | John Bury | Old Times |
| 1972 26th Tony Awards | Jules Fisher | Jesus Christ Superstar |
| 1973 27th Tony Awards |
| 1973 27th Tony Awards | Jules Fisher | Pippin |
| 1973 27th Tony Awards | Martin Aronstein | Much Ado About Nothing |
| 1973 27th Tony Awards | Ian Calderon | That Championship Season |
| 1973 27th Tony Awards | Tharon Musser | A Little Night Music |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards | Jules Fisher | Ulysses in Nighttown |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards | Martin Aronstein | Boom Boom Room |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards | Ken Billington | The Visit |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards | Ben Edwards | A Moon for the Misbegotten |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards | Tharon Musser | The Good Doctor |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | Neil Peter Jampolis | Sherlock Holmes |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | Abe Feder | Goodtime Charley |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | Chip Monck | The Rocky Horror Show |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | Andy Phillips | Equus |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | Thomas R. Skelton | All God's Chillun Got Wings |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | James Tilton | Seascape |
| 1976 30th Tony Awards |
| 1976 30th Tony Awards | Tharon Musser | A Chorus Line |
| 1976 30th Tony Awards | Ian Calderon | Trelawny of the Wells |
| 1976 30th Tony Awards | Jules Fisher | Chicago |
| 1976 30th Tony Awards | Tharon Musser | Pacific Overtures |
| 1977 31st Tony Awards |
| 1977 31st Tony Awards | Jennifer Tipton | The Cherry Orchard |
| 1977 31st Tony Awards | John Bury | No Man's Land |
| 1977 31st Tony Awards | Pat Collins | Threepenny Opera |
| 1977 31st Tony Awards | Neil Peter Jampolis | The Innocents |
| 1978 32nd Tony Awards |
| 1978 32nd Tony Awards | Jules Fisher | Dancin' |
| 1978 32nd Tony Awards | Ken Billington | Working |
| 1978 32nd Tony Awards | Jules Fisher | Beatlemania |
| 1978 32nd Tony Awards | Tharon Musser | The Act |
| 1979 33rd Tony Awards |
| 1979 33rd Tony Awards | Roger Morgan | The Crucifer of Blood |
| 1979 33rd Tony Awards | Ken Billington | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| 1979 33rd Tony Awards | Beverly Emmons | The Elephant Man |
| 1979 33rd Tony Awards | Tharon Musser | Ballroom |

### 1980s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 1980 34th Tony Awards |
| 1980 34th Tony Awards | David Hersey | Evita |
| 1980 34th Tony Awards | Beverly Emmons | A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine |
| 1980 34th Tony Awards | Craig Miller | Barnum |
| 1980 34th Tony Awards | Dennis Parichy | Talley's Folly |
| 1981 35th Tony Awards |
| 1981 35th Tony Awards | John Bury | Amadeus |
| 1981 35th Tony Awards | Tharon Musser | 42nd Street |
| 1981 35th Tony Awards | Dennis Parichy | Fifth of July |
| 1981 35th Tony Awards | Jennifer Tipton | Sophisticated Ladies |
| 1982 36th Tony Awards |
| 1982 36th Tony Awards | Tharon Musser | Dreamgirls |
| 1982 36th Tony Awards | Martin Aronstein | Medea |
| 1982 36th Tony Awards | David Hersey | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
| 1982 36th Tony Awards | Marcia Madeira | Nine |
| 1983 37th Tony Awards |
| 1983 37th Tony Awards | David Hersey | Cats |
| 1983 37th Tony Awards | Ken Billington | Foxfire |
| 1983 37th Tony Awards | Robert Bryan | All's Well That Ends Well |
| 1983 37th Tony Awards | Allen Lee Hughes | K2 |
| 1984 38th Tony Awards |
| 1984 38th Tony Awards | Richard Nelson | Sunday in the Park with George |
| 1984 38th Tony Awards | Ken Billington | End of the World |
| 1984 38th Tony Awards | Jules Fisher | La Cage aux Folles |
| 1984 38th Tony Awards | Marc B. Weiss | A Moon for the Misbegotten |
| 1985 39th Tony Awards |
| 1985 39th Tony Awards | Richard Riddell | Big River |
| 1985 39th Tony Awards | Terry Hands | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| 1985 39th Tony Awards | Terry Hands | Much Ado About Nothing |
| 1985 39th Tony Awards | Allen Lee Hughes | Strange Interlude |
| 1986 40th Tony Awards |
| 1986 40th Tony Awards | Pat Collins | I'm Not Rappaport |
| 1986 40th Tony Awards | Jules Fisher | Song and Dance |
| 1986 40th Tony Awards | Paul Gallo | The House of Blue Leaves |
| 1986 40th Tony Awards | Thomas R. Skelton | The Iceman Cometh |
| 1987 41st Tony Awards |
| 1987 41st Tony Awards | David Hersey | Les Misérables |
| 1987 41st Tony Awards | Martin Aronstein | Wild Honey |
| 1987 41st Tony Awards | Beverly Emmons and Chris Parry | Les Liaisons Dangereuses |
| 1987 41st Tony Awards | David Hersey | Starlight Express |
| 1988 42nd Tony Awards |
| 1988 42nd Tony Awards | Andrew Bridge | The Phantom of the Opera |
| 1988 42nd Tony Awards | Paul Gallo | Anything Goes |
| 1988 42nd Tony Awards | Richard Nelson | Into the Woods |
| 1988 42nd Tony Awards | Andy Phillips | M. Butterfly |
| 1989 43rd Tony Awards |
| 1989 43rd Tony Awards | Jennifer Tipton | Jerome Robbins' Broadway |
| 1989 43rd Tony Awards | Neil Peter Jampolis and Jane Reisman | Black and Blue |
| 1989 43rd Tony Awards | Brian Nason | Metamorphoses |
| 1989 43rd Tony Awards | Nancy Schertler | Largely New York |

### 1990s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 1990 44th Tony Awards |
| 1990 44th Tony Awards | Jules Fisher | Grand Hotel |
| 1990 44th Tony Awards | Paul Gallo | City of Angels |
| 1990 44th Tony Awards | Neil Peter Jampolis and Paul Pyant | Orpheus Descending |
| 1990 44th Tony Awards | Kevin Rigdon | The Grapes of Wrath |
| 1991 45th Tony Awards |
| 1991 45th Tony Awards | Jules Fisher | The Will Rogers Follies |
| 1991 45th Tony Awards | David Hersey | Miss Saigon |
| 1991 45th Tony Awards | Allen Lee Hughes | Once on This Island |
| 1991 45th Tony Awards | Jennifer Tipton | La Bête |
| 1992 46th Tony Awards |
| 1992 46th Tony Awards | Jules Fisher | Jelly's Last Jam |
| 1992 46th Tony Awards | Paul Gallo | Crazy for You |
| 1992 46th Tony Awards | Paul Gallo | Guys and Dolls |
| 1992 46th Tony Awards | Richard Pilbrow | Four Baboons Adoring the Sun |
| 1993 47th Tony Awards |
| 1993 47th Tony Awards | Chris Parry | The Who's Tommy |
| 1993 47th Tony Awards | Howell Binkley | Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| 1993 47th Tony Awards | Jules Fisher | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches |
| 1993 47th Tony Awards | Dennis Parichy | Redwood Curtain |
| 1994 48th Tony Awards |
| 1994 48th Tony Awards | Rick Fisher | An Inspector Calls |
| 1994 48th Tony Awards | Beverly Emmons | Passion |
| 1994 48th Tony Awards | Jules Fisher | Angels in America: Perestroika |
| 1994 48th Tony Awards | Natasha Katz | Beauty and the Beast |
| 1995 49th Tony Awards |
| 1995 49th Tony Awards | Andrew Bridge | Sunset Boulevard |
| 1995 49th Tony Awards | Beverly Emmons | The Heiress |
| 1995 49th Tony Awards | Mark Henderson | Indiscretions |
| 1995 49th Tony Awards | Paul Pyant | Arcadia |
| 1996 50th Tony Awards |
| 1996 50th Tony Awards | Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher | Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk |
| 1996 50th Tony Awards | Christopher Akerlind | Seven Guitars |
| 1996 50th Tony Awards | Blake Burba | Rent |
| 1996 50th Tony Awards | Nigel Levings | The King and I |
| 1997 51st Tony Awards |
| 1997 51st Tony Awards | Ken Billington | Chicago |
| 1997 51st Tony Awards | Beverly Emmons | Jekyll and Hyde |
| 1997 51st Tony Awards | Donald Holder | Juan Darién |
| 1997 51st Tony Awards | Richard Pilbrow | The Life |
| 1998 52nd Tony Awards |
| 1998 52nd Tony Awards | Donald Holder | The Lion King |
| 1998 52nd Tony Awards | Paul Anderson | The Chairs |
| 1998 52nd Tony Awards | Mike Baldassari and Peggy Eisenhauer | Cabaret |
| 1998 52nd Tony Awards | Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher | Ragtime |
| 1999 53rd Tony Awards |
| 1999 53rd Tony Awards | Andrew Bridge | Fosse |
| 1999 53rd Tony Awards | Mark Henderson | The Iceman Cometh |
| 1999 53rd Tony Awards | Natasha Katz | Twelfth Night |
| 1999 53rd Tony Awards | Chris Parry | Not About Nightingales |

### 2000s

| Year | Award Type | Designer | Production |
| 2000 54th Tony Awards |
| 2000 54th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Natasha Katz | Aida |
| 2000 54th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher | Marie Christine |
| 2000 54th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher | The Wild Party |
| 2000 54th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Peter Kaczorowski | Kiss Me, Kate |
| 2001 55th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design |
| 2001 55th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Peter Kaczorowski | The Producers |
| 2001 55th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher | Jane Eyre |
| 2001 55th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Paul Gallo | 42nd Street |
| 2001 55th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Kenneth Posner | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| 2002 56th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design |
| 2002 56th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Brian MacDevitt | Into the Woods |
| 2002 56th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | David Hersey | Oklahoma! |
| 2002 56th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Natasha Katz | Sweet Smell of Success |
| 2002 56th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Paul Gallo | The Crucible |
| 2003 57th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design |
| 2003 57th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Nigel Levings | La bohème |
| 2003 57th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Donald Holder | Movin' Out |
| 2003 57th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Brian MacDevitt | Nine |
| 2003 57th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Kenneth Posner | Hairspray |
| 2004 58th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design |
| 2004 58th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher | Assassins |
| 2004 58th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Brian MacDevitt | Fiddler on the Roof |
| 2004 58th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Brian MacDevitt | Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2 |
| 2004 58th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Kenneth Posner | Wicked |
| 2005 59th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design |
| 2005 59th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Brian MacDevitt | The Pillowman |
| 2005 59th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Pat Collins | Doubt: A Parable |
| 2005 59th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Donald Holder | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| 2005 59th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Donald Holder | Gem of the Ocean |
| 2005 59th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Christopher Akerlind | The Light in the Piazza |
| 2005 59th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Mark Henderson | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| 2005 59th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Kenneth Posner | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
| 2005 59th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Hugh Vanstone | Monty Python's Spamalot |
| 2006 60th Tony Awards |
| 2006 60th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Mark Henderson | The History Boys |
| 2006 60th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Christopher Akerlind | Awake and Sing! |
| 2006 60th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Paul Gallo | Three Days of Rain |
| 2006 60th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Mark Henderson | Faith Healer |
| 2006 60th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Howell Binkley | Jersey Boys |
| 2006 60th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Ken Billington and Brian Monahan | The Drowsy Chaperone |
| 2006 60th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Natasha Katz | Tarzan |
| 2006 60th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Brian MacDevitt | The Color Purple |
| 2007 61st Tony Awards |
| 2007 61st Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Natasha Katz, Brian MacDevitt and Kenneth Posner | The Coast of Utopia |
| 2007 61st Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Paule Constable | Coram Boy |
| 2007 61st Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Brian MacDevitt | Inherit the Wind |
| 2007 61st Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Jason Taylor | Journey's End |
| 2007 61st Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Kevin Adams | Spring Awakening |
| 2007 61st Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Christopher Akerlind | 110 in the Shade |
| 2007 61st Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Howard Harrison | Mary Poppins |
| 2007 61st Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Peter Kaczorowski | Grey Gardens |
| 2008 62nd Tony Awards |
| 2008 62nd Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Kevin Adams | The 39 Steps |
| 2008 62nd Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Howard Harrison | Macbeth |
| 2008 62nd Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Donald Holder | Les Liaisons Dangereuses |
| 2008 62nd Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Ann G. Wrightson | August: Osage County |
| 2008 62nd Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Donald Holder | South Pacific |
| 2008 62nd Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Ken Billington | Sunday in the Park with George |
| 2008 62nd Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Howell Binkley | In the Heights |
| 2008 62nd Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Natasha Katz | The Little Mermaid |
| 2009 63rd Tony Awards |
| 2009 63rd Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Brian MacDevitt | Joe Turner's Come and Gone |
| 2009 63rd Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | David Hersey | Equus |
| 2009 63rd Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | David Lander | 33 Variations |
| 2009 63rd Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Hugh Vanstone | Mary Stuart |
| 2009 63rd Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Rick Fisher | Billy Elliot the Musical |
| 2009 63rd Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Kevin Adams | Hair |
| 2009 63rd Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Kevin Adams | Next to Normal |
| 2009 63rd Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Howell Binkley | West Side Story |

### 2010s

| Year | Award Type | Designer | Production |
| 2010 64th Tony Awards |
| 2010 64th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Neil Austin | Red |
| 2010 64th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Neil Austin | Hamlet |
| 2010 64th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Mark Henderson | ENRON |
| 2010 64th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Brian MacDevitt | Fences |
| 2010 64th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Kevin Adams | American Idiot |
| 2010 64th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Donald Holder | Ragtime |
| 2010 64th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Nick Richings | La Cage aux Folles |
| 2010 64th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Robert Wierzel | Fela! |
| 2011 65th Tony Awards |
| 2011 65th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Paule Constable | War Horse |
| 2011 65th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | David Lander | Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo |
| 2011 65th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Kenneth Posner | The Merchant of Venice |
| 2011 65th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Mimi Jordan Sherin | Jerusalem |
| 2011 65th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Brian MacDevitt | The Book of Mormon |
| 2011 65th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Ken Billington | The Scottsboro Boys |
| 2011 65th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Howell Binkley | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
| 2011 65th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Peter Kaczorowski | Anything Goes |
| 2012 66th Tony Awards |
| 2012 66th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Jeff Croiter | Peter and the Starcatcher |
| 2012 66th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Peter Kaczorowski | The Road to Mecca |
| 2012 66th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Brian MacDevitt | Death of a Salesman |
| 2012 66th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Kenneth Posner | Other Desert Cities |
| 2012 66th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Natasha Katz | Once |
| 2012 66th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Christopher Akerlind | Porgy and Bess |
| 2012 66th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Natasha Katz | Follies |
| 2012 66th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Hugh Vanstone | Ghost the Musical |
| 2013 67th Tony Awards |
| 2013 67th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher | Lucky Guy |
| 2013 67th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Donald Holder | Golden Boy |
| 2013 67th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Jennifer Tipton | The Testament of Mary |
| 2013 67th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Japhy Weideman | The Nance |
| 2013 67th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Hugh Vanstone | Matilda the Musical |
| 2013 67th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Kenneth Posner | Kinky Boots |
| 2013 67th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Kenneth Posner | Pippin |
| 2013 67th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Kenneth Posner | Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella |
| 2014 68th Tony Awards |
| 2014 68th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Natasha Katz | The Glass Menagerie |
| 2014 68th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Paule Constable | The Cripple of Inishmaan |
| 2014 68th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Jane Cox | Machinal |
| 2014 68th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Japhy Weideman | Of Mice and Men |
| 2014 68th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Kevin Adams | Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
| 2014 68th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Christopher Akerlind | Rocky the Musical |
| 2014 68th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Howell Binkley | After Midnight |
| 2014 68th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Donald Holder | The Bridges of Madison County |
| 2015 69th Tony Awards |
| 2015 69th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Paule Constable | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| 2015 69th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Paule Constable and David Plater | Wolf Hall Parts One & Two |
| 2015 69th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Natasha Katz | Skylight |
| 2015 69th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Japhy Weideman | Airline Highway |
| 2015 69th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Natasha Katz | An American in Paris |
| 2015 69th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Donald Holder | The King and I |
| 2015 69th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Ben Stanton | Fun Home |
| 2015 69th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Japhy Weideman | The Visit |
| 2016 70th Tony Awards |
| 2016 70th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Natasha Katz | Long Day's Journey into Night |
| 2016 70th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Justin Townsend | The Humans |
| 2016 70th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Jan Versweyveld | A View from the Bridge |
| 2016 70th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Jan Versweyveld | The Crucible |
| 2016 70th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Howell Binkley | Hamilton |
| 2016 70th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher | Shuffle Along |
| 2016 70th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Ben Stanton | Spring Awakening |
| 2016 70th Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Justin Townsend | American Psycho |
| 2017 71st Tony Awards |
| 2017 71st Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Christopher Akerlind | Indecent |
| 2017 71st Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Jane Cox | Jitney |
| 2017 71st Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Donald Holder | Oslo |
| 2017 71st Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Jennifer Tipton | A Doll's House, Part 2 |
| 2017 71st Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Bradley King | Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 |
| 2017 71st Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Howell Binkley | Come from Away |
| 2017 71st Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Natasha Katz | Hello, Dolly! |
| 2017 71st Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Japhy Weideman | Dear Evan Hansen |
| 2018 72nd Tony Awards |
| 2018 72nd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Neil Austin | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child |
| 2018 72nd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Paule Constable | Angels in America |
| 2018 72nd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher | The Iceman Cometh |
| 2018 72nd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Paul Russell | Farinelli and the King |
| 2018 72nd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Ben Stanton | Junk |
| 2018 72nd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Tyler Micoleau | The Band's Visit |
| 2018 72nd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Kevin Adams | SpongeBob SquarePants |
| 2018 72nd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher | Once on This Island |
| 2018 72nd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Donald Holder | My Fair Lady |
| 2018 72nd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Brian MacDevitt | Carousel |
| 2019 73rd Tony Awards |
| 2019 73rd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Neil Austin | Ink |
| 2019 73rd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer | Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus |
| 2019 73rd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Peter Mumford | The Ferryman |
| 2019 73rd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Jennifer Tipton | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| 2019 73rd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Play | Jan Versweyveld and Tal Yarden | Network |
| 2019 73rd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Bradley King | Hadestown |
| 2019 73rd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Kevin Adams | The Cher Show |
| 2019 73rd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Howell Binkley | Ain’t Too Proud |
| 2019 73rd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Peter Mumford | King Kong |
| 2019 73rd Tony Awards | Lighting Design for a Musical | Kenneth Posner and Peter Nigrini | Beetlejuice |

### 2020s

| Year | Award Type | Designer | Production |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Hugh Vanstone | A Christmas Carol |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Jiyoun Chang | Slave Play |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Jon Clark | The Inheritance |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Heather Gilbert | The Sound Inside |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Allen Lee Hughes | A Soldier's Play |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Justin Townsend | Moulin Rouge! |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Bruno Poet | Tina |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Justin Townsend | Jagged Little Pill |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Jon Clark | The Lehman Trilogy |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Joshua Carr | Hangmen |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Jiyoun Chang | For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Jane Cox | Macbeth |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Yi Zhao | The Skin of Our Teeth |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Natasha Katz | MJ the Musical |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Neil Austin | Company |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Tim Deiling | Six |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Donald Holder | Paradise Square |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Bradley King | Flying Over Sunset |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Jen Schriever | A Strange Loop |
| 2023 (76th) | Best Lighting Design for a Play |
| 2023 (76th) | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Life of Pi | Tim Lutkin |
| 2023 (76th) | Best Lighting Design for a Play | A Christmas Carol | Ben Stanton |
| 2023 (76th) | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Death of a Salesman | Jen Schriever |
| 2023 (76th) | Best Lighting Design for a Play | A Doll's House | Jon Clark |
| 2023 (76th) | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Fat Ham | Bradley King |
| 2023 (76th) | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Leopoldstadt | Neil Austin |
| 2023 (76th) | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Prima Facie | Natasha Chivers |
| 2023 (76th) | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Natasha Katz | Some Like It Hot |
| 2023 (76th) | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Natasha Katz | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| 2023 (76th) | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Howard Hudson | & Juliet |
| 2023 (76th) | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Lap Chi Chu | Lerner & Loewe's Camelot |
| 2023 (76th) | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Ken Billington | New York, New York |
| 2023 (76th) | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Heather Gilbert | Parade |
| 2024 (77th) | Best Lighting Design for a Play | |
| 2024 (77th) | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Jane Cox | Appropriate |
| 2024 (77th) | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Isabella Byrd | An Enemy of the People |
| 2024 (77th) | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Natasha Katz | Grey House |
| 2024 (77th) | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Amith Chandrashaker | Prayer for the French Republic |
| 2024 (77th) | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Jiyoun Chang | Stereophonic |
| 2024 (77th) | Best Lighting Design for a Musical |
| 2024 (77th) | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Hana S. Kim and Brian MacDevitt | The Outsiders |
| 2024 (77th) | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Isabella Byrd | Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club |
| 2024 (77th) | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Natasha Katz | Hell's Kitchen |
| 2024 (77th) | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Brandon Stirling Baker | Illinoise |
| 2024 (77th) | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | David Bengali and Bradley King | Water for Elephants |

## Award records
### Multiple wins
#### 9 Wins

* Jules Fisher

   #### 8 Wins

* Natasha Katz

   #### 5 Wins

* Brian MacDevitt

#### 4 Wins

* Kevin Adams

#### 3 Wins

* Neil Austin
* Andrew Bridge
* Peggy Eisenhauer
* David Hersey
* Tharon Musser

#### 2 Wins

* Christopher Akerlind
* Howell Binkley
* Paule Constable
* Donald Holder
* Bradley King
* Jennifer Tipton
* Hugh Vanstone

### Multiple nominations
   #### 24 Nominations

* Jules Fisher

   #### 19 Nominations

* Natasha Katz

   #### 14 Nominations

* Donald Holder

   #### 12 Nominations

* Brian MacDevitt

   #### 11 Nominations

* Kenneth Posner

   #### 9 Nominations

* Ken Billington
* Howell Binkley
* Peggy Eisenhauer
* Tharon Musser

   #### 8 Nominations

* Paul Gallo
* Kevin Adams

   #### 7 Nominations

* David Hersey

   #### 6 Nominations

* Paule Constable

   #### 5 Nominations

* Christopher Akerlind
* Martin Aronstein
* Peter Kaczorowski
* Jennifer Tipton
* Neil Austin
* Hugh Vanstone

#### 4 Nominations

* Neil Peter Jampolis
* Justin Townsend
* Allen Lee Hughes
* Jane Cox

#### 3 Nominations

* Andrew Bridge
* Pat Collins
* Mark Henderson
* Thomas R. Skelton
* Ben Stanton
* Jan Versweyveld
* Jane Cox
* Bradley King

#### 2 Nominations

* John Bury
* Ian Calderon
* Howard Harrison
* Peter Mumford
* Richard Nelson
* Jiyoun Chang
* Jon Clark