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Tony Awards - Scenic Design
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The Tony Awards, presented by the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, have two categories for Scenic Design, for a Musical and a Play (except between 1947-1959 and 1962-2004, when there was one category, listed below). 

Best Scenic Design of a Musical

  • 2025: Maybe Happy Ending (Dane Lafrey and George Reeve)
  • 2024: Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (Tom Scutt)
  • 2023: New York, New York (Beowulf Boritt)
  • 2022: Company (Bunny Christie)
  • 2020: Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Derek McLane)
  • 2019: Hadestown (Rachal Hauck)
  • 2018: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical (David Zinn)
  • 2017: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Mimi Lien)
  • 2016: She Loves Me (David Rockwell)
  • 2015: An American In Paris (Bob Crowley, 59 Productions)
  • 2014: Rocky (Christopher Barreca)
  • 2013: Matilda The Musical (Rob Howell)
  • 2012: Once (Bob Crowley)
  • 2011: The Book of Mormon (Scott Pask)
  • 2010: American Idiot (Christine Jones)
  • 2009: Billy Elliot, The Musical (Ian MacNeil)
  • 2008: Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific (Michael Yeargan)
  • 2007: Mary Poppins (Bob Crowley)
  • 2006: The Drowsy Chaperone (David Gallo)
  • 2005: The Light in the Piazza (Michael Yeargan)
  • 1961: Camelot (Olive Smith)
  • 1960: The Sound of Music (Oliver Smith)

Best Scenic Design of a Play

  • 2025: Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Miriam Buether and 59 Productions)
  • 2024: Stereophonic (David Zinn)
  • 2023: Life of Pi (Tim Hatley & Andrzej Goulding)
  • 2022: The Lehman Trilogy (Es Devlin)
  • 2020: A Christmas Carol (2019) (Rob Howell)
  • 2019: The Ferryman (Rob Howell)
  • 2018: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two (Christine Jones)
  • 2017: The Play That Goes Wrong (Nigel Hook)
  • 2016: The Humans (David Zinn)
  • 2015: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Bunny Christie)
  • 2014: Act One (Beowulf Boritt)
  • 2013: The Nance (John Lee Beatty)
  • 2012: Peter and the Starcatcher (Donyale Werle)
  • 2011: War Horse (Rae Smith)
  • 2010: Red (Christopher Oram)
  • 2009: 33 Variations (Derek McLane)
  • 2008: August: Osage County (Todd Rosenthal)
  • 2007: The Coast of Utopia (Bob Crowley & Scott Pask)
  • 2006: The History Boys (Bob Crowley)
  • 2005: The Pillowman (Scott Pask)
  • 1961: Becket (Oliver Smith)
  • 1960: Toys in the Attic (Howard Bay)

Best Scenic Design Play or Musical

  • 2004: Wicked (Eugene Lee)
  • 2003: La Boheme (Catherine Martin)
  • 2002: Private Lives (Tim Hatley)
  • 2001: The Producers (Robin Wagner)
  • 2000: Aida (Bob Crowley)
  • 1999: Not About Nightingales (Richard Hoover)
  • 1998: The Lion King (Richard Hudson)
  • 1997: Titanic (Stewart Laing)
  • 1996: The King and I (Brian Thomson)
  • 1995: Sunset Boulevard (John Napier)
  • 1994: Carousel (Bob Crowley)
  • 1993: The Who's Tommy (John Arnone)
  • 1992: Guys and Dolls (Tony Walton)
  • 1991: The Secret Garden (Heidi Landesman)
  • 1990: City of Angels (Robin Wagner)
  • 1989: Cafe Crown (Santo Loquasto)
  • 1988: The Phantom of the Opera (Maria Björnson)
  • 1987: Les Miserable (John Napier)
  • 1986: The House of Blue Leaves (Tony Walton)
  • 1985: Big River (Heidi Landesman)
  • 1984: Sunday in the Park with George (Tony Straiges)
  • 1983: K2 (Ming Cho Lee)
  • 1982: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (John Napier / Dermot Hayes)
  • 1981: Amadeus (John Bury)
  • 1980: Talley's Folly (John Lee Beatty) and Barnum (David Mitchell)
  • 1979: Sweeney Todd (Eugene Lee)
  • 1978: On the Twentieth Century (Robin Wagner)
  • 1977: Annie (David Mitchell)
  • 1976: Pacific Overtures (Boris Aronson)
  • 1975: Sherlock Holmes (Carl Toms)
  • 1974: Candide (Franne & Eugene Lee)
  • 1973: Pippin (Tony Walton)
  • 1972: Follies (Boris Aronson)
  • 1971: Company (Boris Aronson)
  • 1970: Child's Play (Jo Mielziner)
  • 1969: Zorba (Boris Aronson)
  • 1968: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Desmond Heeley)
  • 1967: Cabaret (Boris Aronson)
  • 1966: Man of La Mancha (Howard Bay)
  • 1965: Baker Street, Luv and The Odd Couple (Oliver Smith)
  • 1964: Hello Dolly! (Oliver Smith)
  • 1963: Oliver! (Sean Kenny)
  • 1962: Carnival (Will Steven Armstrong)
  • 1959: A Majority of One (Donald Oenslager)
  • 1958: West Side Story (Oliver Smith)
  • 1957: My Fair Lady (Oliver Smith)
  • 1956: Inherit the Wind / No Time for Sergeants (Peter Larkin)
  • 1955: House of Flowers (Oliver Messell)
  • 1954: Ondine / The Teahouse of the August Moon (Peter Larkin)
  • 1953: Wonderful Town (Raoul Pene Du Bois)
  • 1952: The King and I (Jo Mielziner)
  • 1951: The Rose Tattoo / The Country Girl / Season in the Sun (Boris Aronson)
  • 1950: The Innocents (Jo Mielziner)
  • 1949: Sleepy Hollow / Summer and Smoke / Anne of the Thousand Days / Death of a Salesman / South Pacific (Jo Mielziner)
  • 1948: The Medium (Horace Armistead)
  • 1947: Henry VIII (David Folks)