Awards & Winners

1959 Tony Award

Check winners and nominations of 1959 Tony Award. Check awards winners of 13th Tony Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

13th Tony Awards

Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play

Jason Robards Jr.

Honored for : The Disenchanted

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Nominee Nominated Work
Cyril Ritchard The Pleasure of His Company
Robert Stephens Epitaph for George Dillon
Christopher Plummer J. B.
Cedric Hardwicke A Majority of One
Jason Robards Jr. The Disenchanted
Alfred Lunt The Visit
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical

Russell Nype

Honored for : Goldilocks

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Nominee Nominated Work
Russell Nype Goldilocks
Leonard Stone Redhead
Tony Award for Best Choreography

Bob Fosse

Honored for : Redhead

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Nominee Nominated Work
Bob Fosse Redhead
Carol Haney Flower Drum Song
Agnes de Mille Goldilocks
Onna White Whoop-Up
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play

Charles Ruggles

Honored for : The Pleasure of His Company

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Nominee Nominated Work
Charles Ruggles The Pleasure of His Company
Robert Morse Say, Darling
Walter Matthau Once More, with Feeling
Marc Connelly Tall Story
George C. Scott Comes a Day
George Grizzard The Disenchanted
Tony Award for Best Director

Elia Kazan

Honored for : J. B.

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Nominee Nominated Work
Elia Kazan J. B.
Dore Schary A Majority of One
William Gaskill Epitaph for George Dillon
Robert Dhéry La Plume de Ma Tante
Peter Glenville Rashomon
Cyril Ritchard The Pleasure of His Company
Peter Brook The Visit
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical

Pat Stanley

Honored for : Goldilocks

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Nominee Nominated Work
Pat Stanley Goldilocks
Julienne Marie Whoop-Up
Tony Award for Best Play

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Nominee Nominated Work
Archibald MacLeish J. B.
Alfred De Liagre Jr. J. B.
Eugene O'Neill A Touch of the Poet
The Producers Theatre A Touch of the Poet
John Osborne Epitaph for George Dillon
Anthony Creighton Epitaph for George Dillon
David Merrick Epitaph for George Dillon
Joshua Logan Epitaph for George Dillon
Harvey Breit The Disenchanted
Budd Schulberg The Disenchanted
Eleanore Saidenberg The Disenchanted
William Darrid The Disenchanted
Friedrich Dürrenmatt The Visit
The Producers Theatre The Visit
Tony Award for Best Stage Technician

Sammy Knapp

Honored for : The Music Man
Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director

Salvatore Dell'Isola

Honored for : Flower Drum Song

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Nominee Nominated Work
Salvatore Dell'Isola Flower Drum Song
Jay Blackton Redhead
Lehman Engel Goldilocks
Gershon Kingsley La Plume de Ma Tante
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical

Richard Kiley

Honored for : Redhead

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Nominee Nominated Work
Richard Kiley Redhead
Larry Blyden Flower Drum Song
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play

Gertrude Berg

Honored for : A Majority of One

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Nominee Nominated Work
Gertrude Berg A Majority of One
Kim Stanley A Touch of the Poet
Maureen Stapleton The Cold Wind and the Warm
Claudette Colbert The Marriage-Go-Round
Lynn Fontanne The Visit
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

Gwen Verdon

Honored for : Redhead

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Nominee Nominated Work
Gwen Verdon Redhead
Miyoshi Umeki Flower Drum Song
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design

Donald Oenslager

Honored for : A Majority of One

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Nominee Nominated Work
Donald Oenslager A Majority of One
Boris Aronson J. B.
David R. Ballou The Legend of Lizzie
Ben Edwards Jane Eyre
Oliver Messel Rashomon
Teo Otto The Visit
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play

Julie Newmar

Honored for : The Marriage-Go-Round

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Nominee Nominated Work
Julie Newmar The Marriage-Go-Round
Maureen Delaney God and Kate Murphy
Dolores Hart The Pleasure of His Company
Nan Martin J. B.
Bertice Reading Requiem for a Nun
Special Tony Award

Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse

(for a collaboration that lasted longer than Gilbert and Sullivan)
Special Tony Award

John Gielgud

(for contribution to theatre for his extraordinary insight into the writings of Shakespeare as demonstrated in his one-man play, Ages of Man)
Tony Award for Best Musical

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Nominee Nominated Work
Herbert Fields Redhead
Dorothy Fields Redhead
Sidney Sheldon Redhead
Robert Fryer Redhead
Lawrence Carr Redhead
David Shaw Redhead
Oscar Hammerstein II Flower Drum Song
Joseph Fields Flower Drum Song
Richard Rodgers Flower Drum Song
Robert Dhéry La Plume de Ma Tante
David Merrick La Plume de Ma Tante
Joseph Kipness La Plume de Ma Tante
Tony Award for Best Costume Design

Rouben Ter-Arutunian

Honored for : Redhead

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Nominee Nominated Work
Rouben Ter-Arutunian Redhead
Irene Sharaff Flower Drum Song
Antonio Castillo Goldilocks
Oliver Messel Rashomon
Dorothy Jeakins The World of Suzie Wong