# Tony Award for Best Scenic Design

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design for outstanding set design of a play or musical. The award was first presented in 1947. In 1960, 1961, and since 2005, the category was divided into Scenic Design in a Play and Scenic 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 | David Folkes | Henry VIII |
| 1948 2nd Tony Awards |
| 1948 2nd Tony Awards | Horace Armistead | The Medium |
| 1949 3rd Tony Awards |
| 1949 3rd Tony Awards | Jo Mielziner | Anne of the Thousand Days, Death of a Salesman, Sleepy Hollow, South Pacific and Summer and Smoke |

### 1950s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 1950 4th Tony Awards |
| 1950 4th Tony Awards | Jo Mielziner | The Innocents |
| 1951 5th Tony Awards |
| 1951 5th Tony Awards | Boris Aronson | The Country Girl, The Rose Tattoo and Season in the Sun |
| 1952 6th Tony Awards |
| 1952 6th Tony Awards | Jo Mielziner | The King and I |
| 1953 7th Tony Awards |
| 1953 7th Tony Awards | Raoul Penè Du Bois | Wonderful Town |
| 1954 8th Tony Awards |
| 1954 8th Tony Awards | Peter Larkin | Ondine and The Teahouse of the August Moon |
| 1955 9th Tony Awards |
| 1955 9th Tony Awards | Oliver Messel | House of Flowers |
| 1956 10th Tony Awards |
| 1956 10th Tony Awards | Peter Larkin | Inherit the Wind and No Time for Sergeants |
| 1956 10th Tony Awards | Boris Aronson | The Diary of Anne Frank, Bus Stop, Once Upon a Tailor and A View from the Bridge |
| 1956 10th Tony Awards | Ben Edwards | The Ponder Heart, Someone Waiting and The Honeys |
| 1956 10th Tony Awards | Jo Mielziner | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Lark, Middle of the Night and Pipe Dream |
| 1956 10th Tony Awards | Raymond Sovey | The Great Sebastians |
| 1957 11th Tony Awards |
| 1957 11th Tony Awards | Oliver Smith | My Fair Lady |
| 1957 11th Tony Awards | Boris Aronson | A Hole in the Head and Small War on Murray Hill |
| 1957 11th Tony Awards | Ben Edwards | The Waltz of the Toreadors |
| 1957 11th Tony Awards | George Jenkins | The Happiest Millionaire and Too Late the Phalarope |
| 1957 11th Tony Awards | Donald Oenslager | Major Barbara |
| 1957 11th Tony Awards | Oliver Smith | A Clearing in the Woods, Candide, Auntie Mame, Eugenia and Visit to a Small Planet |
| 1958 12th Tony Awards |
| 1958 12th Tony Awards | Oliver Smith | West Side Story |
| 1958 12th Tony Awards | Boris Aronson | Orpheus Descending, A Hole in the Head and The Rope Dancers |
| 1958 12th Tony Awards | Ben Edwards | The Dark at the Top of the Stairs |
| 1958 12th Tony Awards | Peter Larkin | Blue Denim, Compulsion, Good as Gold and Miss Isobel |
| 1958 12th Tony Awards | Jo Mielziner | Look Homeward, Angel, Miss Lonelyhearts, The Square Root of Wonderful, Oh, Captain! and The Day the Money Stopped |
| 1958 12th Tony Awards | Oliver Smith | Brigadoon, Carousel, Jamaica, Nude with Violin and Time Remembered |
| 1959 13th Tony Awards |
| 1959 13th Tony Awards | Donald Oenslager | A Majority of One |
| 1959 13th Tony Awards | Boris Aronson | J.B. |
| 1959 13th Tony Awards | David R. Ballou | The Legend of Lizzie |
| 1959 13th Tony Awards | Ben Edwards | Jane Eyre |
| 1959 13th Tony Awards | Oliver Messel | Rashomon |
| 1959 13th Tony Awards | Teo Otto | The Visit |

### 1960s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 1960 – 1961 | — | — |
| 1962 16th Tony Awards |
| 1962 16th Tony Awards | Will Steven Armstrong | Carnival! |
| 1962 16th Tony Awards | David Hays | No Strings |
| 1962 16th Tony Awards | Oliver Smith | The Gay Life |
| 1962 16th Tony Awards | Rouben Ter-Arutunian | A Passage to India |
| 1963 17th Tony Awards |
| 1963 17th Tony Awards | Sean Kenny | Oliver! |
| 1963 17th Tony Awards | Will Steven Armstrong | Tchin-Tchin |
| 1963 17th Tony Awards | Anthony Powell | The School for Scandal |
| 1963 17th Tony Awards | Franco Zeffirelli | The Lady of the Camellias |
| 1964 18th Tony Awards |
| 1964 18th Tony Awards | Oliver Smith | Hello, Dolly! |
| 1964 18th Tony Awards | Raoul Penè Du Bois | The Student Gypsy |
| 1964 18th Tony Awards | Ben Edwards | The Ballad of the Sad Café |
| 1964 18th Tony Awards | David Hays | Marco Millions |
| 1965 19th Tony Awards |
| 1965 19th Tony Awards | Oliver Smith | Baker Street, Luv and The Odd Couple |
| 1965 19th Tony Awards | Boris Aronson | Fiddler on the Roof and Incident at Vichy |
| 1965 19th Tony Awards | Sean Kenny | The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd |
| 1965 19th Tony Awards | Beni Montresor | Do I Hear a Waltz? |
| 1966 20th Tony Awards |
| 1966 20th Tony Awards | Howard Bay | Man of La Mancha |
| 1966 20th Tony Awards | William and Jean Eckart | Mame |
| 1966 20th Tony Awards | David Hays | Drat! The Cat! |
| 1966 20th Tony Awards | Robert Randolph | Anya, Skyscraper and Sweet Charity |
| 1967 21st Tony Awards |
| 1967 21st Tony Awards | Boris Aronson | Cabaret |
| 1967 21st Tony Awards | John Bury | The Homecoming |
| 1967 21st Tony Awards | Oliver Smith | I Do! I Do! |
| 1967 21st Tony Awards | Alan Tagg | Black Comedy |
| 1968 22nd Tony Awards |
| 1968 22nd Tony Awards | Desmond Heeley | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| 1968 22nd Tony Awards | Boris Aronson | The Price |
| 1968 22nd Tony Awards | Robert Randolph | Golden Rainbow |
| 1968 22nd Tony Awards | Peter Wexler | The Happy Time |
| 1969 23rd Tony Awards |
| 1969 23rd Tony Awards | Boris Aronson | Zorba |
| 1969 23rd Tony Awards | Derek Cousins | Canterbury Tales |
| 1969 23rd Tony Awards | Jo Mielziner | 1776 |
| 1969 23rd Tony Awards | Oliver Smith | Dear World |

### 1970s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 1970 24th Tony Awards |
| 1970 24th Tony Awards | Jo Mielziner | Child's Play |
| 1970 24th Tony Awards | Howard Bay | Cry for Us All |
| 1970 24th Tony Awards | Ming Cho Lee | Billy |
| 1970 24th Tony Awards | Robert Randolph | Applause |
| 1971 25th Tony Awards |
| 1971 25th Tony Awards | Boris Aronson | Company |
| 1971 25th Tony Awards | John Bury | The Rothschilds |
| 1971 25th Tony Awards | Sally Jacobs | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 1971 25th Tony Awards | Jo Mielziner | Father's Day |
| 1972 26th Tony Awards |
| 1972 26th Tony Awards | Boris Aronson | Follies |
| 1972 26th Tony Awards | John Bury | Old Times |
| 1972 26th Tony Awards | Kert Lundell | Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death |
| 1972 26th Tony Awards | Robin Wagner | Jesus Christ Superstar |
| 1973 27th Tony Awards |
| 1973 27th Tony Awards | Tony Walton | Pippin |
| 1973 27th Tony Awards | Boris Aronson | A Little Night Music |
| 1973 27th Tony Awards | David Jenkins | The Changing Room |
| 1973 27th Tony Awards | Santo Loquasto | That Championship Season |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards | Eugene Lee and Franne Lee | Candide |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards | John Conklin | The Au Pair Man |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards | Santo Loquasto | What the Wine-Sellers Buy |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards | Oliver Smith | Gigi |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards | Ed Wittstein | Ulysses in Nighttown |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | Carl Toms | Sherlock Holmes |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | Scott Johnson | Dance With Me |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | Tanya Moiseiwitsch | The Misanthrope |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | William Ritman | God's Favorite |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | Rouben Ter-Arutunian | Goodtime Charley |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | Robin Wagner | Mack and Mabel |
| 1976 30th Tony Awards |
| 1976 30th Tony Awards | Boris Aronson | Pacific Overtures |
| 1976 30th Tony Awards | Ben Edwards | A Matter of Gravity |
| 1976 30th Tony Awards | David Mitchell | Trelawny of the 'Wells' |
| 1976 30th Tony Awards | Tony Walton | Chicago |
| 1977 31st Tony Awards |
| 1977 31st Tony Awards | David Mitchell | Annie |
| 1977 31st Tony Awards | Santo Loquasto | American Buffalo and The Cherry Orchard |
| 1977 31st Tony Awards | Robert Randolph | Porgy and Bess |
| 1978 32nd Tony Awards |
| 1978 32nd Tony Awards | Robin Wagner | On the Twentieth Century |
| 1978 32nd Tony Awards | Zack Brown | The Importance of Being Earnest |
| 1978 32nd Tony Awards | Edward Gorey | Dracula |
| 1978 32nd Tony Awards | David Mitchell | Working |
| 1979 33rd Tony Awards |
| 1979 33rd Tony Awards | Eugene Lee | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| 1979 33rd Tony Awards | Karl Eigsti | Knockout |
| 1979 33rd Tony Awards | David Jenkins | The Elephant Man |
| 1979 33rd Tony Awards | John Wulp | The Crucifer of Blood |

### 1980s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 1980 34th Tony Awards |
| 1980 34th Tony Awards | John Lee Beatty | Talley's Folly |
| 1980 34th Tony Awards | David Mitchell | Barnum |
| 1980 34th Tony Awards | Tazeena Firth and Timothy O'Brien | Evita |
| 1980 34th Tony Awards | Tony Walton | A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine |
| 1981 35th Tony Awards |
| 1981 35th Tony Awards | John Bury | Amadeus |
| 1981 35th Tony Awards | John Lee Beatty | Fifth of July |
| 1981 35th Tony Awards | Santo Loquasto | The Suicide |
| 1981 35th Tony Awards | David Mitchell | Can-Can |
| 1982 36th Tony Awards |
| 1982 36th Tony Awards | Dermot Hayes and John Napier | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
| 1982 36th Tony Awards | Ben Edwards | Medea |
| 1982 36th Tony Awards | Lawrence Miller | Nine |
| 1982 36th Tony Awards | Robin Wagner | Dreamgirls |
| 1983 37th Tony Awards |
| 1983 37th Tony Awards | Ming Cho Lee | K2 |
| 1983 37th Tony Awards | John Gunter | All's Well That Ends Well |
| 1983 37th Tony Awards | David Mitchell | Foxfire |
| 1983 37th Tony Awards | John Napier | Cats |
| 1984 38th Tony Awards |
| 1984 38th Tony Awards | Tony Straiges | Sunday in the Park with George |
| 1984 38th Tony Awards | Clarke Dunham | End of the World |
| 1984 38th Tony Awards | Peter Larkin | The Rink |
| 1984 38th Tony Awards | Tony Walton | The Real Thing |
| 1985 39th Tony Awards |
| 1985 39th Tony Awards | Heidi Landesman | Big River |
| 1985 39th Tony Awards | Clarke Dunham | Grind |
| 1985 39th Tony Awards | Ralph Koltai | Much Ado About Nothing |
| 1985 39th Tony Awards | Voytek and Michael Levine | Strange Interlude |
| 1986 40th Tony Awards |
| 1986 40th Tony Awards | Tony Walton | The House of Blue Leaves |
| 1986 40th Tony Awards | Ben Edwards | The Iceman Cometh |
| 1986 40th Tony Awards | David Mitchell | The Boys in Winter |
| 1986 40th Tony Awards | Beni Montresor | The Marriage of Figaro |
| 1987 41st Tony Awards |
| 1987 41st Tony Awards | John Napier | Les Misérables |
| 1987 41st Tony Awards | Bob Crowley | Les Liaisons Dangereuses |
| 1987 41st Tony Awards | Martin Johns | Me and My Girl |
| 1987 41st Tony Awards | Tony Walton | The Front Page |
| 1988 42nd Tony Awards |
| 1988 42nd Tony Awards | Maria Björnson | The Phantom of the Opera |
| 1988 42nd Tony Awards | Eiko Ishioka | M. Butterfly |
| 1988 42nd Tony Awards | Tony Straiges | Into the Woods |
| 1988 42nd Tony Awards | Tony Walton | Anything Goes |
| 1989 43rd Tony Awards |
| 1989 43rd Tony Awards | Santo Loquasto | Cafe Crown |
| 1989 43rd Tony Awards | Thomas Lynch | The Heidi Chronicles |
| 1989 43rd Tony Awards | Héctor Orezzoli and Claudio Segovia | Black and Blue |
| 1989 43rd Tony Awards | Tony Walton | Lend Me a Tenor |

### 1990s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 1990 44th Tony Awards |
| 1990 44th Tony Awards | Robin Wagner | City of Angels |
| 1990 44th Tony Awards | Alexandra Byrne | Some Americans Abroad |
| 1990 44th Tony Awards | Kevin Rigdon | The Grapes of Wrath |
| 1990 44th Tony Awards | Tony Walton | Grand Hotel |
| 1991 45th Tony Awards |
| 1991 45th Tony Awards | Heidi Landesman | The Secret Garden |
| 1991 45th Tony Awards | Richard Hudson | La Bête |
| 1991 45th Tony Awards | John Napier | Miss Saigon |
| 1991 45th Tony Awards | Tony Walton | The Will Rogers Follies |
| 1992 46th Tony Awards |
| 1992 46th Tony Awards | Tony Walton | Guys and Dolls |
| 1992 46th Tony Awards | John Lee Beatty | A Small Family Business |
| 1992 46th Tony Awards | Joe Vaněk | Dancing at Lughnasa |
| 1992 46th Tony Awards | Robert Wagner | Jelly's Last Jam |
| 1993 47th Tony Awards |
| 1993 47th Tony Awards | John Arnone | The Who's Tommy |
| 1993 47th Tony Awards | John Lee Beatty | Redwood Curtain |
| 1993 47th Tony Awards | Jerome Sirlin | Kiss of the Spiderwoman |
| 1993 47th Tony Awards | Robin Wagner | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches |
| 1994 48th Tony Awards |
| 1994 48th Tony Awards | Bob Crowley | Carousel |
| 1994 48th Tony Awards | Peter Davidson | Medea |
| 1994 48th Tony Awards | Ian MacNeil | An Inspector Calls |
| 1994 48th Tony Awards | Tony Walton | She Loves Me |
| 1995 49th Tony Awards |
| 1995 49th Tony Awards | John Napier | Sunset Boulevard |
| 1995 49th Tony Awards | John Lee Beatty | The Heiress |
| 1995 49th Tony Awards | Stephen Brimson Lewis | Indiscretions |
| 1995 49th Tony Awards | Mark Thompson | Arcadia |
| 1996 50th Tony Awards |
| 1996 50th Tony Awards | Brian Thomson | The King and I |
| 1996 50th Tony Awards | John Lee Beatty | A Delicate Balance |
| 1996 50th Tony Awards | Scott Bradley | Seven Guitars |
| 1996 50th Tony Awards | Anthony Ward | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 1997 51st Tony Awards |
| 1997 51st Tony Awards | Stewart Laing | Titanic |
| 1997 51st Tony Awards | John Lee Beatty | The Little Foxes |
| 1997 51st Tony Awards | G.W. Mercier and Julie Taymor | Juan Darién |
| 1997 51st Tony Awards | Tony Walton | Steel Pier |
| 1998 52nd Tony Awards |
| 1998 52nd Tony Awards | Richard Hudson | The Lion King |
| 1998 52nd Tony Awards | Bob Crowley | The Capeman |
| 1998 52nd Tony Awards | Eugene Lee | Ragtime |
| 1998 52nd Tony Awards | Quay Brothers | The Chairs |
| 1999 53rd Tony Awards |
| 1999 53rd Tony Awards | Richard Hoover | Not About Nightingales |
| 1999 53rd Tony Awards | Bob Crowley | The Iceman Cometh |
| 1999 53rd Tony Awards | Bob Crowley | Twelfth Night |
| 1999 53rd Tony Awards | Ricardo Hernández | Parade |

### 2000s

| Year | Designer | Production |
| 2000 54th Tony Awards |
| 2000 54th Tony Awards | Bob Crowley | Aida |
| 2000 54th Tony Awards | Thomas Lynch | The Music Man |
| 2000 54th Tony Awards | Robin Wagner | Kiss Me, Kate |
| 2000 54th Tony Awards | Tony Walton | Uncle Vanya |
| 2001 55th Tony Awards |
| 2001 55th Tony Awards | Robin Wagner | The Producers |
| 2001 55th Tony Awards | Bob Crowley | The Invention of Love |
| 2001 55th Tony Awards | Heidi Ettinger | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| 2001 55th Tony Awards | Douglas Schmidt | 42nd Street |
| 2002 56th Tony Awards |
| 2002 56th Tony Awards | Tim Hatley | Private Lives |
| 2002 56th Tony Awards | John Lee Beatty | Morning's at Seven |
| 2002 56th Tony Awards | Daniel Ostling | Metamorphoses |
| 2002 56th Tony Awards | Douglas Schmidt | Into the Woods |
| 2003 57th Tony Awards |
| 2003 57th Tony Awards | Catherine Martin | La bohème |
| 2003 57th Tony Awards | John Lee Beatty | Dinner at Eight |
| 2003 57th Tony Awards | Santo Loquasto | Long Day's Journey into Night |
| 2003 57th Tony Awards | David Rockwell | Hairspray |
| 2004 58th Tony Awards |
| 2004 58th Tony Awards | Eugene Lee | Wicked |
| 2004 58th Tony Awards | Robert Brill | Assassins |
| 2004 58th Tony Awards | Ralph Funicello | Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2 |
| 2004 58th Tony Awards | Tom Pye | Fiddler on the Roof |

## Award Records

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

### Multiple wins
#### 7 Wins

* Oliver Smith

#### 6 Wins

* Boris Aronson
* Bob Crowley

#### 4 Wins

* Peter Larkin
* Jo Mielziner

#### 3 Wins

* Rob Howell
* Eugene Lee
* John Napier
* Scott Pask
* Robin Wagner
* Tony Walton
* Catherine Zuber

#### 2 Wins

* Howard Bay
* John Lee Beatty
* Bunny Christie
* Heidi Landesman
* Desmond Heeley
* Katrina Lindsay
* Derek McLane
* David Mitchell
* David Zinn
* Motley Theatre Design Group