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.
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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.
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Aline Bernstein
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Theatre Magazine , Volume 53, Number 2, February 1931 (page 33)

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Geoffrey Holder
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Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss
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John Napier
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Loudon Sainthill
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• Name — Tony Award for Best Costume Design • Awarded For — Best Costume Design • Presenter — American Theatre Wing The Broadway League • Location — United States New York City • Holder — Susan Hilferty for Wicked (2004) • Website — TonyAwards.com
1940s
1940s
• Year — Designer — Production • 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 • Mary Percy Schenck — The Heiress • 1949 3rd Tony Awards • Lemuel Ayers — Kiss Me, Kate
1950s
1950s
• Year — Designer — Production • 1950 4th Tony Awards • Aline Bernstein — Regina • 1951 5th Tony Awards • Miles White — Bless You All • 1952 6th Tony Awards • Irene Sharaff — The King and I • 1953 7th Tony Awards • Miles White — Hazel Flagg • 1954 8th Tony Awards • Richard Whorf — Ondine • 1955 9th Tony Awards • Cecil Beaton — Quadrille • 1956 10th Tony Awards • Alvin Colt — Pipe Dream • Alvin Colt — The Lark and Phoenix '55 • Mainbocher — The Great Sebastians • Helene Pons — A View from the Bridge, The Diary of Anne Frank and The Heavenly Twins • 1957 11th Tony Awards • Cecil Beaton — My Fair Lady • Cecil Beaton — Little Glass Clock • Alvin Colt — Li'l Abner and The Sleeping Prince • Dorothy Jeakins — Major Barbara and Too Late the Phalarope • Irene Sharaff — Candide, Happy Hunting, Shangri La and Small War on Murray Hill • 1958 12th Tony Awards • Motley Theatre Design Group — The First Gentleman • Lucinda Ballard — Orpheus Descending • Motley Theatre Design Group — The Country Wife, Look Back in Anger, Look Homeward, Angel and Shinbone Alley • Irene Sharaff — West Side Story • Miles White — Jamaica, Oh, Captain! and Time Remembered • 1959 13th Tony Awards • Rouben Ter-Arutunian — Redhead • Antonio Castillo — Goldilocks • Dorothy Jeakins — The World of Suzie Wong • Oliver Messel — Rashomon • Irene Sharaff — Flower Drum Song
1960s
1960s
• Year — Designer — Production • 1960 14th Tony Awards • Cecil Beaton — Saratoga • Alvin Colt — Greenwillow • Raoul Pene Du Bois — Gypsy • Miles White — Take Me Along • 1961 15th Tony Awards — colspan="2" • 1962 16th Tony Awards • Lucinda Ballard — The Gay Life • Donald Brooks — No Strings • Motley Theatre Design Group — Kwamina • Miles White — Milk and Honey • 1963 17th Tony Awards • Anthony Powell — The School for Scandal • Marcel Escoffier — The Lady of the Camellias • Robert Fletcher — Little Me • Motley Theatre Design Group — Mother Courage and Her Children • 1964 18th Tony Awards • Freddy Wittop — Hello, Dolly! • Beni Montresor — Marco Millions • Irene Sharaff — The Girl Who Came to Supper • Rouben Ter-Arutunian — Arturo Ui • 1965 19th Tony Awards • Patricia Zipprodt — Fiddler on the Roof • Jane Greenwood — Tartuffe • Motley Theatre Design Group — Baker Street • Freddy Wittop — The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd • 1966 20th Tony Awards • Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss — Marat/Sade • Howard Bay and Patton Campbell — Man of La Mancha • Loudon Sainthill — The Right Honourable Gentleman • Irene Sharaff — Sweet Charity • 1967 21st Tony Awards • Patricia Zipprodt — Cabaret • Nancy Potts — The School for Scandal and The Wild Duck • Tony Walton — The Apple Tree • Freddy Wittop — I Do! I Do! • 1968 22nd Tony Awards • Desmond Heeley — Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead • Jane Greenwood — More Stately Mansions • Irene Sharaff — Hallelujah, Baby! • Freddy Wittop — The Happy Time • 1969 23rd Tony Awards • Loudon Sainthill — Canterbury Tales • Michael Annals — Morning, Noon and Night • Robert Fletcher — Hadrian VII • Patricia Zipprodt — Zorba
1970s
1970s
• Year — Designer — Production • 1970 24th Tony Awards • Cecil Beaton — Coco • Ray Aghayan — Applause • W. Robert Lavine — Jimmy • Freddy Wittop — A Patriot for Me • 1971 25th Tony Awards • Raoul Pene Du Bois — No, No, Nanette • Jane Greenwood — Hay Fever and Les Blancs • Freddy Wittop — Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen • 1972 26th Tony Awards • Florence Klotz — Follies • Theoni V. Aldredge — Two Gentlemen of Verona • Randy Barceló — Jesus Christ Superstar • Carrie F. Robbins — Grease • 1973 27th Tony Awards • Florence Klotz — A Little Night Music • Theoni V. Aldredge — Much Ado About Nothing • Miles White — Tricks • Patricia Zipprodt — Pippin • 1974 28th Tony Awards • Franne Lee — Candide • Theoni V. Aldredge — The Au Pair Man • Finlay James — Crown Matrimonial • Oliver Messel — Gigi • Carrie F. Robbins — Over Here! • 1975 29th Tony Awards • Geoffrey Holder — The Wiz • Arthur Boccia — Where's Charley? • Raoul Pene Du Bois — Doctor Jazz • Willa Kim — Goodtime Charley • Tanya Moiseiwitsch — The Misanthrope • Patricia Zipprodt — Mack and Mabel • 1976 30th Tony Awards • Florence Klotz — Pacific Overtures • Theoni V. Aldredge — A Chorus Line • Ann Roth — The Royal Family • Patricia Zipprodt — Chicago • 1977 31st Tony Awards • Theoni V. Aldredge — Annie • Santo Loquasto — The Cherry Orchard • Theoni V. Aldredge — The Threepenny Opera • Nancy Potts — Porgy and Bess • 1978 32nd Tony Awards • Edward Gorey — Dracula • Halston — The Act • Geoffrey Holder — Timbuktu! • Willa Kim — Dancin • 1979 33rd Tony Awards • Franne Lee — Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street • Theoni V. Aldredge — Ballroom • Ann Roth — The Crucifer of Blood • Julie Weiss — The Elephant Man
1980s
1980s
• Year — Designer — Production • 1980 34th Tony Awards • Theoni V. Aldredge — Barnum • Pierre Balmain — Happy New Year • Raoul Pene Du Bois — Sugar Babies • Tazeena Firth and Timothy O'Brien — Evita • 1981 35th Tony Awards • Willa Kim — Sophisticated Ladies • Theoni V. Aldredge — 42nd Street • John Bury — Amadeus • Franca Squarciapino — Can-Can • 1982 36th Tony Awards • William Ivey Long — Nine • Theoni V. Aldredge — Dreamgirls • Jane Greenwood — Medea • John Napier — The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby • 1983 37th Tony Awards • John Napier — Cats • Lindy Hemming — All's Well That Ends Well • Rita Ryack — My One and Only • Patricia Zipprodt — Alice in Wonderland • 1984 38th Tony Awards • Theoni V. Aldredge — La Cage aux Folles • Jane Greenwood — Heartbreak House • Ann Hould-Ward and Patricia Zipprodt — Sunday in the Park with George • Anthea Sylbert — The Real Thing • 1985 39th Tony Awards • Florence Klotz — Grind • Patricia McGourty — Big River • Alexander Reid — Cyrano de Bergerac • Much Ado About Nothing • 1986 40th Tony Awards • Patricia Zipprodt — Sweet Charity • Willa Kim — Song and Dance • Beni Montresor — The Marriage of Figaro • Ann Roth — The House of Blue Leaves • 1987 41st Tony Awards • John Napier — Starlight Express • Bob Crowley — Les Liaisons Dangereuses • Ann Curtis — Me and My Girl • Andreane Neofitou — Les Misérables • 1988 42nd Tony Awards • Maria Björnson — The Phantom of the Opera • Ann Hould-Ward — Into the Woods • Eiko Ishioka — M. Butterfly • Tony Walton — Anything Goes • 1989 43rd Tony Awards • Héctor Orezzoli and Claudio Segovia — Black and Blue • Jane Greenwood — Our Town • Willa Kim — Legs Diamond • William Ivey Long — Lend Me a Tenor
1990s
1990s
• Year — Designer — Production • 1990 44th Tony Awards • Santo Loquasto — Grand Hotel • Theoni V. Aldredge — Gypsy • Florence Klotz — City of Angels • Erin Quigley — The Grapes of Wrath • 1991 45th Tony Awards • Willa Kim — The Will Rogers Follies • Theoni V. Aldredge — The Secret Garden • Judy Dearing — Once on This Island • Patricia Zipprodt — Shōgun: The Musical • 1992 46th Tony Awards • William Ivey Long — Crazy for You • Jane Greenwood — Two Shakespearean Actors • Toni-Leslie James — Jelly's Last Jam • Joe Vaněk — Dancing at Lughnasa • 1993 47th Tony Awards • Florence Klotz — Kiss of the Spider Woman • Jane Greenwood — The Sisters Rosensweig • Erin Quigley — The Song of Jacob Zulu • David C. Woolard — The Who's Tommy • 1994 48th Tony Awards • Ann Hould-Ward — Beauty and the Beast • David Charles and Jane Greenwood — She Loves Me • Jane Greenwood — Passion • Yan Tax — Cyrano: The Musical • 1995 49th Tony Awards • Florence Klotz — Show Boat • Jane Greenwood — The Heiress • Stephen Brimson Lewis — Indiscretions • Anthony Powell — Sunset Boulevard • 1996 50th Tony Awards • Roger Kirk — The King and I • Jane Greenwood — A Delicate Balance • Allison Reeds — Buried Child • Paul Tazewell — Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk • 1997 51st Tony Awards • Judith Dolan — Candide • Ann Curtis — Jekyll and Hyde • William Ivey Long — Chicago • Martin Pakledinaz — The Life • 1998 52nd Tony Awards • Julie Taymor — The Lion King • William Ivey Long — Cabaret • Santo Loquasto — Ragtime • Martin Pakledinaz — Golden Child • 1999 53rd Tony Awards • Lez Brotherston — Swan Lake • Santo Loquasto — Fosse • John David Ridge — Ring Round the Moon • Catherine Zuber — Twelfth Night
2000s
2000s
• Year — Designer — Production • 2000 54th Tony Awards • Martin Pakledinaz — Kiss Me, Kate • Bob Crowley — Aida • Constance Hoffman — The Green Bird • William Ivey Long — The Music Man • 2001 55th Tony Awards • William Ivey Long — The Producers • Theoni V. Aldredge — Follies • Roger Kirk — 42nd Street • David C. Woolard — The Rocky Horror Show • 2002 56th Tony Awards • Martin Pakledinaz — Thoroughly Modern Millie • Jenny Beavan — Private Lives • Susan Hilferty — Into the Woods • Jane Greenwood — Morning's at Seven • 2003 57th Tony Awards • William Ivey Long — Hairspray • Gregg Barnes — Flower Drum Song • Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie — La bohème • Catherine Zuber — Dinner at Eight • 2004 58th Tony Awards • Susan Hilferty — Wicked • Jess Goldstein — Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2 • Mike Nicholls and Bobby Pearce — Taboo • Mark Thompson — Bombay Dreams
Multiple wins
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
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These include wins for the Best Costume Design in a Play and Best Costume Design in a Musical.
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