Tony Award untuk Aktor Terbaik dalam Drama

Tony Award untuk Penampilan Terbaik oleh Aktor Utama dalam Sebuah Drama adalah sebuah kehormatan yang diberikan pada Tony Awards, acara yang ditetapkan pada tahun 1947 sebagai Antoinette Perry Awards untuk Keunggulan dalam Teater, untuk aktor yang memiliki peran utama yang berkualitas dalam sebuah drama Broadway. Penghargaan ini dinamai berdasarkan Antoinette Perry, seorang aktris Amerika yang meninggal pada tahun 1946.

Penghargaan dalam beberapa kategori diberikan pada acara tahunan oleh Tony Award Productions, anak perusahaan The Broadway League dan American Theatre Wing, untuk "menghormati pertunjukan dan produksi panggung terbaik tahun sebelumnya." 

Penghargaan ini awalnya disebut Tony Award untuk Aktor—Drama. Penghargaannya masing-masing pertama kali diberikan kepada José Ferrer dan Fredric March di Penghargaan Tony ke-1 untuk peran mereka sebagai Cyrano de Bergerac dan Clinton Jones dalan Cyrano de Bergerac dan Years Ago. Sebelum tahun 1956, nama-nama nominasi tidak dipublikasikan; Perubahan ini dilakukan oleh komite penghargaan untuk "memberikan dampak yang lebih besar pada penonton teater". 

Sembilan aktor memegang rekor kemenangan terbanyak dalam kategori ini, dengan total dua. Brian Bedford dan Jason Robards memiliki nominasi terbanyak, yakni sebanyak tujuh. George dalam Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? adalah karakter yang paling banyak menerima penghargaan, menang tiga kali.

Pemenang dan nominasi

1940-an
 Tahun Aktor  Proyek Peran  1947   José Ferrer Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano De Bergerac Fredric March Years Ago Clinton Jones 1948   Henry Fonda Mister Roberts Lt. Roberts Paul Kelly Command Decision Brigadier General K.C. Dennis Basil Rathbone The Heiress Dr. Austin Sloper 1949   Rex Harrison Anne of the Thousand Days Henry VIII 
1950-an
 Tahun Aktor  Proyek Peran  1950   Sidney Blackmer Come Back, Little Sheba Doc 1951   Claude Rains Darkness at Noon Rubashov 1952   José Ferrer The Shrike Jim Downs 1953   Tom Ewell The Seven Year Itch Richard Sherman 1954   David Wayne The Teahouse of the August Moon Sakini 1955   Alfred Lunt Quadrille Diensen 1956   Paul Muni Inherit the Wind Henry Drummond  Ben Gazzara A Hatful of Rain Johnny Pope Boris Karloff The Lark Pierre Cauchon Michael Redgrave Tiger at the Gates Hector Edward G. Robinson Middle of the Night The Manufacturer 1957   Fredric March Long Day's Journey into Night James Tyrone Sr.  Maurice Evans The Apple Cart King Magnus Wilfrid Hyde-White The Reluctant Debutante Jimmy Broadbent Eric Portman Separate Tables Mr. Malcolm / Major Pollock Ralph Richardson The Waltz of the Toreadors General St. Pé Cyril Ritchard Visit to a Small Planet Kreton 1958   Ralph Bellamy Sunrise at Campobello Franklin D. Roosevelt  Richard Burton Time Remembered Prince Albert Hugh Griffith Look Homeward, Angel W.O. Gant Laurence Olivier The Entertainer Archie Rice Anthony Perkins Look Homeward, Angel Eugene Gant Peter Ustinov Romanoff and Juliet The General Emlyn Williams A Boy Growing Up Himself 1959   Jason Robards The Disenchanted Manley Halliday  Cedric Hardwicke A Majority of One Koichi Asano Alfred Lunt The Visit Anton Schill Christopher Plummer J.B. Nickles Cyril Ritchard The Pleasure of His Company Biddeford Poole Robert Stephens Epitaph for George Dillon George Dillon
1960-an
 Tahun Aktor Proyek Peran  1960   Melvyn Douglas The Best Man William Russell  Sidney Poitier A Raisin in the Sun Walter Lee Younger Jason Robards Toys in the Attic Julian Berniers George C. Scott The Andersonville Trial Lt. Col. N. P. Chipman Lee Tracy The Best Man Arthur Hockstader 1961   Zero Mostel Rhinocéros John  Hume Cronyn Big Fish, Little Fish Jimmie Luton Anthony Quinn Becket Henry II Sam Levene The Devil's Advocate Dr. Aldo Meyer 1962   Paul Scofield A Man for All Seasons Sir Thomas More  Fredric March Gideon Angel John Mills Ross Aircraftman Ross Donald Pleasence The Caretaker Davies 1963   Arthur Hill Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? George  Charles Boyer Lord Pengo Lord Pengo Paul Ford Never Too Late Harry Lambert Bert Lahr The Beauty Part Various Characters 1964   Alec Guinness Dylan Dylan Thomas  Richard Burton Hamlet Hamlet Albert Finney Luther Martin Luther Jason Robards After the Fall Quentin 1965   Walter Matthau The Odd Couple Oscar Madison  John Gielgud Tiny Alice Julian Donald Pleasence Poor Bitos Bitos (Robespieere) Jason Robards Hughie "Erie" Smith 1966   Hal Holbrook Mark Twain Tonight! Mark Twain  Patrick Bedford & Donal Donnelly Philadelphia, Here I Come! Gareth O'Donnell Roland Culver Ivanov Pavel Lebedev Nicol Williamson Inadmissible Evidence Bill Maitland 1967   Paul Rogers The Homecoming Max  Hume Cronyn A Delicate Balance Tobias Donald Madden Black Comedy Harold Gorringe Donald Moffat Right You Are (If You Think You Are) Laudisi The Wild Duck Hjalmar Ekdal 1968   Martin Balsam You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running Various Characters  Albert Finney A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Bri Milo O'Shea Staircase Harry C. Leeds Alan Webb I Never Sang for My Father Tom Garrison 1969   James Earl Jones The Great White Hope Jack Jefferson  Art Carney Lovers Andy Tracey Alec McCowen Hadrian the Seventh Fr. William Rolfe Donald Pleasence The Man in the Glass Booth Arthur Goldman
1970-an
 Tahun Aktor Proyek Peran  1970   Fritz Weaver Child's Play Jerome Malley  James Coco Last of the Red Hot Lovers Barney Cashman Frank Grimes Borstal Boy Young Behan Stacy Keach Indians Buffalo Bill 1971   Brian Bedford The School for Wives Arnolphe  John Gielgud Home Harry Alec McCowen The Philanthropist Philip Ralph Richardson Home Jack 1972   Cliff Gorman Lenny Lenny Bruce  Tom Aldredge Sticks and Bones Ozzie Donald Pleasence Wise Child Mrs. Artminster Jason Robards The Country Girl Frank Elgin 1973   Alan Bates Butley Ben Butley  Jack Albertson The Sunshine Boys Willie Clark Wilfrid Hyde-White The Jockey Club Stakes Marquis of Candover Paul Sorvino That Championship Season Phil Romano 1974   Michael Moriarty Find Your Way Home Julian Weston  Zero Mostel Ulysses in Nighttown Leopold Bloom Jason Robards A Moon for the Misbegotten James Tyrone Jr. George C. Scott Uncle Vanya Mikhail lvovich Astrov Nicol Williamson Ivan Petrovich Voinitsky 1975   John Kani & Winston Ntshona Sizwe Banzi Is Dead / The Island Berbagai Karakter  Jim Dale Scapino! Scapino Peter Firth Equus Alan Strang Henry Fonda Clarence Darrow Clarence Darrow Ben Gazzara Hughie and Duet "Erie" Smith John Wood Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes 1976   John Wood Travesties Henry Carr  Moses Gunn The Poison Tree Benjamin Hurspool George C. Scott Death of a Salesman Willy Loman Donald Sinden Habeas Corpus Arthur Wicksteed 1977   Al Pacino The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel Pavlo Hummel  Tom Courtenay Otherwise Engaged Simon Ben Gazzara Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? George Ralph Richardson No Man's Land Hirst 1978   Barnard Hughes Da Da  Hume Cronyn The Gin Game Weller Martin Frank Langella Dracula Dracula Jason Robards A Touch of the Poet Cornelius Melody 1979   Tom Conti Whose Life Is It Anyway? Ken Harrison  Philip Anglim The Elephant Man John Merrick Jack Lemmon Tribute Scottie Templeton Alec McCowen St. Mark's Gospel Mark
1980-an
 Tahun Aktor  Proyek Peran  1980   John Rubinstein Children of a Lesser God James Leeds  Charles Brown Home Cephus Miles Gerald Hiken Strider Strider Judd Hirsch Talley's Folly Matt Friedman 1981   Ian McKellen Amadeus Antonio Salieri  Tim Curry Amadeus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Roy Dotrice A Life Drumm Jack Weston The Floating Light Bulb Jerry Wexler 1982   Roger Rees The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Nicholas Nickleby  Tom Courtenay The Dresser Norman Milo O'Shea Mass Appeal Father Tim Farley Christopher Plummer Othello Iago 1983   Harvey Fierstein Torch Song Trilogy Arnold Beckoff  Jeffrey DeMunn K2 Taylor Edward Herrmann Plenty Raymond Brock Tony Lo Bianco A View from the Bridge Eddie Carbone 1984   Jeremy Irons The Real Thing Henry  Rex Harrison Heartbreak House Captain Shotover Calvin Levels Open Admissions Calvin Jefferson Ian McKellen Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare Dirinya sendiri  1985   Derek Jacobi Much Ado About Nothing Benedick  Jim Dale A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Bri Jonathan Hogan As Is Rich John Lithgow Requiem for a Heavyweight Harlan "Mountain" McClintock 1986   Judd Hirsch I'm Not Rappaport Nat  Hume Cronyn The Petition General Sir Edmund Milne Ed Harris Precious Sons Fred Jack Lemmon Long Day's Journey into Night James Tyrone Sr. 1987   James Earl Jones Fences Troy Maxson  Philip Bosco You Never Can Tell Waiter Richard Kiley All My Sons Joe Keller Alan Rickman Les Liaisons Dangereuses Le Vicomte de Valmont 1988   Ron Silver Speed-the-Plow Charlie Fox  Derek Jacobi Breaking the Code Alan Turing John Lithgow M. Butterfly Rene Gallimard Robert Prosky A Walk in the Woods Andrey Botvinnik 1989   Philip Bosco Lend Me a Tenor Saunders  Mikhail Baryshnikov Metamorphosis Gregor Samsa Victor Garber Lend Me a Tenor Max Bill Irwin Largely New York The Post-Modern Hoofer
1990-an
 Tahun Aktor  Proyek Peran  1990   Robert Morse Tru Truman Capote  Charles S. Dutton The Piano Lesson Boy Willie Dustin Hoffman The Merchant of Venice Shylock Tom Hulce A Few Good Men Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, USN, JAG Corps 1991   Nigel Hawthorne Shadowlands C. S. Lewis  Peter Frechette Our Country's Good 2nd Lieutenant Ralph Clark Tom McGowan La Bête Valere Courtney B. Vance Six Degrees of Separation Paul 1992   Judd Hirsch Conversations with My Father Eddie  Alan Alda Jake's Women Jake Alec Baldwin A Streetcar Named Desire Stanley Kowalski Brian Bedford Two Shakespearean Actors William Charles Macready 1993   Ron Leibman Angels in America: Millennium Approaches Roy Cohn, et al.  K. Todd Freeman The Song of Jacob Zulu Jacob Zulu Liam Neeson Anna Christie Mat Burke Stephen Rea Someone Who'll Watch Over Me Edward 1994   Stephen Spinella Angels in America: Perestroika Prior Walter  Brian Bedford Timon of Athens Timon Christopher Plummer No Man's Land Spooner Sam Waterston Abe Lincoln in Illinois Abraham Lincoln 1995   Ralph Fiennes Hamlet Prince Hamlet  Brian Bedford The Molière Comedies Sganarelle Roger Rees Indiscretions George Joe Sears A Tuna Christmas Various Characters 1996   George Grizzard A Delicate Balance Tobias  Philip Bosco Moon Over Buffalo George Hay George C. Scott Inherit the Wind Henry Drummond Martin Shaw An Ideal Husband Lord Goring 1997   Christopher Plummer Barrymore John Barrymore  Brian Bedford London Assurance Sir Harcourt Courtly Michael Gambon Skylight Tom Sergeant Antony Sher Stanley Stanley 1998   Anthony LaPaglia A View from the Bridge Eddie Carbone  Richard Briers The Chairs Old Man John Leguizamo Freak Diri sendiri Alfred Molina Art Yvan 1999   Brian Dennehy Death of a Salesman Willy Loman  Brían F. O'Byrne The Lonesome West Valene Connor Corin Redgrave Not About Nightingales Bert "Boss" Whalen Kevin Spacey The Iceman Cometh Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
2000-an
 Tahun Aktor  Proyek Peran  2000   Stephen Dillane The Real Thing Henry  Gabriel Byrne A Moon for the Misbegotten James Tyrone Jr. Philip Seymour Hoffman True West Austin / Lee  John C. Reilly David Suchet Amadeus Antonio Salieri 2001   Richard Easton The Invention of Love A. E. Housman, umur 77 tahun  Sean Campion Stones in His Pockets Jake Quinn Conleth Hill Charlie Conlon Gary Sinise One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Randle P. McMurphy Brian Stokes Mitchell King Hedley II King 2002   Alan Bates Fortune's Fool Vassily Semyonitch Kuzovkin  Billy Crudup The Elephant Man John Merrick Liam Neeson The Crucible John Proctor Alan Rickman Private Lives Elyot Chase Jeffrey Wright Topdog/Underdog Lincoln 2003   Brian Dennehy Long Day's Journey into Night James Tyrone Sr.  Brian Bedford Tartuffe Orgon Eddie Izzard A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Bri Paul Newman Our Town Stage Manager Stanley Tucci Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune Johnny 2004   Jefferson Mays I Am My Own Wife Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, et al.  Simon Russell Beale Jumpers George Kevin Kline Henry IV Sir John Falstaff Frank Langella Match Tobi Christopher Plummer King Lear King Lear 2005   Bill Irwin Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? George  Philip Bosco Twelve Angry Men Juror #3 Billy Crudup The Pillowman Katurian James Earl Jones On Golden Pond Norman Thayer Jr. Brían F. O'Byrne Doubt Father Flynn 2006   Richard Griffiths The History Boys Douglas Hector  Ralph Fiennes Faith Healer Francis Hardy Željko Ivanek The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Lt. Com. Phillip Francis Queeg Oliver Platt Shining City John David Wilmot The Lieutenant of Inishmore Padraic 2007   Frank Langella Frost/Nixon Richard Nixon  Boyd Gaines Journey's End Lieut. Osborne Brían F. O'Byrne The Coast of Utopia Alexander Herzen Christopher Plummer Inherit the Wind Henry Drummond Liev Schreiber Talk Radio Barry Champlain 2008   Mark Rylance Boeing-Boeing Robert Lambert  Ben Daniels Les Liaisons Dangereuses Le Vicomte de Valmont Laurence Fishburne Thurgood Thurgood Marshall Rufus Sewell Rock 'n' Roll Jan Patrick Stewart Macbeth Lord Macbeth 2009   Geoffrey Rush Exit the King King Berenger  Jeff Daniels God of Carnage Alan Raúl Esparza Speed-the-Plow Charlie Fox James Gandolfini God of Carnage Michael Thomas Sadoski reasons to be pretty Greg
2010-an
 Tahun Aktor  Proyek Peran  2010   Denzel Washington Fences Troy Maxson  Jude Law Hamlet Hamlet Alfred Molina Red Mark Rothko Liev Schreiber A View from the Bridge Eddie Carbone Christopher Walken A Behanding in Spokane Carmichael 2011   Mark Rylance Jerusalem Johnny "Rooster" Byron  Brian Bedford The Importance of Being Earnest Lady Bracknell Bobby Cannavale The Motherfucker with the Hat Jackie Joe Mantello The Normal Heart Ned Weeks Al Pacino The Merchant of Venice Shylock 2012   James Corden One Man, Two Guvnors Francis Henshall  James Earl Jones The Best Man President Art Hockstader Philip Seymour Hoffman Death of a Salesman Willy Loman Frank Langella Man and Boy Gregor Antonescu John Lithgow The Columnist Joseph Alsop 2013   Tracy Letts Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? George  Tom Hanks Lucky Guy Mike McAlary Nathan Lane The Nance Chauncey Miles David Hyde Pierce Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Vanya Tom Sturridge Orphans Phillip 2014   Bryan Cranston All the Way Lyndon B. Johnson  Samuel Barnett Twelfth Night Viola Chris O'Dowd Of Mice and Men Lennie Small Mark Rylance Richard III Richard III Tony Shalhoub Act One Moss Hart / Barnett Hart / George S. Kaufman 2015   Alex Sharp The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Christopher Boone  Steven Boyer Hand to God Jason / Tyrone Bradley Cooper The Elephant Man John Merrick Ben Miles Wolf Hall Parts One & Two Thomas Cromwell Bill Nighy Skylight Tom Sergeant 2016   Frank Langella The Father Andre  Gabriel Byrne Long Day's Journey into Night James Tyrone Sr. Jeff Daniels Blackbird Ray Brooks Tim Pigott-Smith King Charles III Raja Charles III Mark Strong A View from the Bridge Eddie Carbone 2017   Kevin Kline Present Laughter Garry Essendine  Denis Arndt Heisenberg Alex Priest Chris Cooper A Doll's House, Part 2 Torvald Helmer Corey Hawkins Six Degrees of Separation Paul Jefferson Mays Oslo Terje Rød-Larsen 2018   Andrew Garfield Angels in America Prior Walter, et al.  Tom Hollander Travesties Henry Carr Jamie Parker Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Harry Potter Mark Rylance Farinelli and the King Philip V dari Spanyol Denzel Washington The Iceman Cometh Theodore "Hickey" Hickman 2019   Bryan Cranston Network Howard Beale  Paddy Considine The Ferryman Quinn Carney Jeff Daniels To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus Finch Adam Driver Burn This Pale Jeremy Pope Choir Boy Pharus Jonathan Young
2020-an
 Tahun Aktor  Proyek Peran   2020   Andrew Burnap The Inheritance Toby Darling  Ian Barford Linda Vista Wheeler Jake Gyllenhaal Sea Wall/A Life Abe Tom Hiddleston  Betrayal Robert Tom Sturridge  Sea Wall/A Life Alex Blair Underwood  A Soldier's Play Captain Richard Davenport 2021 Ditiadakan2022   Simon Russell Beale The Lehman Trilogy Henry Lehman  Adam Godley The Lehman Trilogy Mayer Lehman Adrian Lester Emanuel Lehman David Morse How I Learned to Drive Uncle Peck Sam Rockwell American Buffalo Teach Ruben Santiago-Hudson Lackawanna Blues Various Characters David Threlfall Hangmen Harry Wade2023   Sean Hayes Good Night, Oscar Oscar Levant  Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Topdog/Underdog Booth Corey Hawkins Lincoln Stephen McKinley Henderson Between Riverside and Crazy Pops Wendell Pierce Death of a Salesman Willy Loman2024   Jeremy Strong An Enemy of the People Doctor Thomas Stockmann  William Jackson Harper  Uncle Vanya Astrov Leslie Odom Jr.  Purlie Victorious Purlie Victorious Judson Liev Schreiber Doubt Father Brendan Flynn Michael Stuhlbarg Patriots Boris Berezovsky2025   Cole Escola Oh, Mary! Mary Todd Lincoln  George Clooney Good Night, and Good Luck Edward R. Murrow   Jon Michael Hill Purpose Nazareth "Naz" Jasper	 Daniel Dae Kim Yellow Face DHH Harry Lennix Purpose Solomon "Sonny" Jasper	 Louis McCartney Stranger Things: The First Shadow Henry Creel 

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