Awards & Winners

1948 Tony Award

Check winners and nominations of 1948 Tony Award. Check awards winners of 2nd Tony Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

2nd Tony Awards

Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play

Henry Fonda

Honored for : Mister Roberts
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play

Basil Rathbone

Honored for : The Heiress
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play

Paul Kelly

Honored for : Command Decision
Tony Award for Best Choreography

Jerome Robbins

Honored for : High Button Shoes
Tony Award for Best Director

Joshua Logan

Honored for : Mister Roberts
Tony Award for Best Stage Technician
Tony Award for Best Author

Thomas Heggen, Joshua Logan

Honored for : Mister Roberts
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical

Paul Hartman

Honored for : Angel In The Wings
Tony Award for Best Play

Joshua Logan, Thomas Heggen, Leland Hayward

Honored for : Mister Roberts

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Joshua Logan Mister Roberts
Thomas Heggen Mister Roberts
Leland Hayward Mister Roberts
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play

Judith Anderson

Honored for : Medea

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Judith Anderson Medea
Katharine Cornell Antony and Cleopatra
Jessica Tandy A Streetcar Named Desire
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

Grace Hartman

Honored for : Angel In The Wings
Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director

Milton Rosenstock

Honored for : Finian's Rainbow
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design

Horace Armistead

Honored for : The Telephone / The Medium
Special Tony Award

Joe E. Brown

(Harvey Spreading Theatre To The Country While The Originals Perform In New York)
Special Tony Award

Mary Martin

(Annie Get Your Gun Spreading Theatre To The Country While The Originals Perform In New York)
Special Tony Award

George Pierce

(for twenty-five years of courteous and efficient service as a backstage doorman (Empire Theatre))
Special Tony Award

Robert W. Dowling

(Progressive Theatre Operators to President of City Investing Company)
Special Tony Award

Paul Beisman

(Progressive Theatre Operators to Operator of the American Theatre, St. Louis)
Special Tony Award

James Whitmore

Honored for : Command Decision
(Outstanding Performance By Newcomers)
Special Tony Award

June Lockhart

Honored for : For Love or Money
(Outstanding Performance By Newcomers)
Special Tony Award

Donald Bain, Pamela Brown, Stringer Davis, Robert Flemyng, John Gielgud, John Kidd, Margaret Rutherford, Richard Wordsworth

Honored for : The Importance of Being Earnest
(Outstanding Foreign Company)
Special Tony Award

Experimental Theatre Inc.

(For Experiment In Theatre, John Garfield Accepted)
Special Tony Award

Vera Allen

(Distinguished Wing Volunteer Worker Through The War And After)
Special Tony Award

Rosalind Gilder

(Contribution To Theatre Through A Publication for Editor, Theatre Arts)
Tony Award for Best Costume Design

Mary Percy Schenck

Honored for : The Heiress
Regional Theatre Tony Award
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play

June Lockhart

Honored for : For Love or Money