Awards & Winners

1947 Tony Award

Check winners and nominations of 1947 Tony Award. Check awards winners of 1st Tony Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1st Tony Awards

Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play

Fredric March

Honored for : Years Ago
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play

José Ferrer

Honored for : Cyrano de Bergerac
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical

David Wayne

Honored for : Finian's Rainbow
Tony Award for Best Choreography

Agnes de Mille

Honored for : Brigadoon

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Agnes de Mille Brigadoon
Michael Kidd Finian's Rainbow
Tony Award for Best Choreography

Michael Kidd

Honored for : Finian's Rainbow

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Agnes de Mille Brigadoon
Michael Kidd Finian's Rainbow
Tony Award for Best Director

Elia Kazan

Honored for : All My Sons - 1949 in New York at the Coronet Theatre
Tony Award for Best Original Score

Kurt Weill

Honored for : Street Scene
Tony Award for Best Author

Arthur Miller

Honored for : All My Sons
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play

Ingrid Bergman, Helen Hayes

Honored for : Joan of Lorraine, Happy Birthday

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Ingrid Bergman Joan of Lorraine
Helen Hayes Happy Birthday
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play

Patricia Neal

Honored for : Another Part of the Forest
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design

David Ffolkes

Honored for : Henry VIII
Special Tony Award

Dora Chamberlain

(for unfailing courtesy as treasurer of the Martin Beck Theatre)
Special Tony Award

Rita Katzenberg, Ira Katzenberg

(for enthusiasm as inveterate first-nighters)
Special Tony Award

Jules Leventhal

(for the season's most prolific backer and producer)
Special Tony Award

Burns Mantle

(for the annual publication of The Ten Best Plays)
Special Tony Award

P. A. MacDonald

(for intricate construction for the production of If the Shoe Fits)
Special Tony Award

Vincent Sardi Jr.

(for providing a transient home and comfort station for theatre folk at Sardi's for 20 years)
Tony Award for Best Costume Design

Lucinda Ballard

Honored for : Another Part of the Forest, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary, Street Scene, The Chocolate Soldier