Awards & Winners

1962 Tony Award

Check winners and nominations of 1962 Tony Award. Check awards winners of 16th Tony Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

16th Tony Awards

Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play

Paul Scofield

Honored for : A Man for All Seasons

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Nominee Nominated Work
Paul Scofield A Man for All Seasons
Fredric March Gideon
John Mills Ross
Donald Pleasence The Caretaker
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical

Charles Nelson Reilly

Honored for : How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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Nominee Nominated Work
Charles Nelson Reilly How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Pierre Olaf Carnival!
Severn Darden From The Second City
Orson Bean Subways Are For Sleeping
Tony Award for Best Choreography

Joe Layton

Honored for : No Strings

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Nominee Nominated Work
Joe Layton No Strings
Agnes de Mille Kwamina
Michael Kidd Subways Are For Sleeping
Dania Krupska The Happiest Girl in the World
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play

Walter Matthau

Honored for : A Shot in the Dark

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Nominee Nominated Work
Godfrey Cambridge Purlie Victorious
Walter Matthau A Shot in the Dark
Paul Sparer Ross
Joseph Campanella A Gift Of Time
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical

Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert

Honored for : How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Tony Award for Best Original Score

Richard Rodgers

Honored for : No Strings

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Nominee Nominated Work
Frank Loesser How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Richard Rodgers No Strings
Richard Adler Kwamina
Jerry Herman Milk and Honey
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical

Phyllis Newman

Honored for : Subways Are For Sleeping

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Nominee Nominated Work
Phyllis Newman Subways Are For Sleeping
Barbara Harris From The Second City
Barbra Streisand I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Elizabeth Allen The Gay Life
Tony Award for Best Play

Robert Bolt, Roger L. Stevens, Robert Whitehead

Honored for : A Man for All Seasons

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Whitehead A Man for All Seasons
Robert Bolt A Man for All Seasons
Roger L. Stevens A Man for All Seasons
Paddy Chayefsky Gideon
Fred Coe Gideon
Arthur Cantor Gideon
Harold Pinter The Caretaker
Frederick Brisson The Caretaker
Roger L. Stevens The Caretaker
Gilbert Miller The Caretaker
Charles Bowden The Night of the Iguana
Tennessee Williams The Night of the Iguana
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play

Noel Willman

Honored for : A Man for All Seasons

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Nominee Nominated Work
Noel Willman A Man for All Seasons
Tyrone Guthrie Gideon
Donald McWhinnie The Caretaker
José Quintero Great Day in the Morning
Tony Award for Best Author

Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert

Honored for : How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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Nominee Nominated Work
Michael Stewart Carnival
Helen Deutsch Carnival
Abe Burrows How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Jack Weinstock How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Willie Gilbert How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director

Elliot Lawrence

Honored for : How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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Nominee Nominated Work
Elliot Lawrence How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Pembroke Davenport Kean
Herbert Greene The Gay Life
Peter Matz No Strings
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical

Robert Morse

Honored for : How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Morse How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Ray Bolger All American
Alfred Drake Kean
Richard Kiley No Strings
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play

Margaret Leighton

Honored for : The Night of the Iguana

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Nominee Nominated Work
Margaret Leighton The Night of the Iguana
Gladys Cooper A Passage to India
Colleen Dewhurst Great Day in the Morning
Kim Stanley A Far Country
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

Anna Maria Alberghetti

Honored for : Carnival!

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Nominee Nominated Work
Anna Maria Alberghetti Carnival!
Diahann Carroll No Strings
Molly Picon Milk and Honey
Elaine Stritch Sail Away
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

Diahann Carroll

Honored for : No Strings

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Nominee Nominated Work
Anna Maria Alberghetti Carnival!
Diahann Carroll No Strings
Molly Picon Milk and Honey
Elaine Stritch Sail Away
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical

Abe Burrows

Honored for : How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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Nominee Nominated Work
Abe Burrows How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Joshua Logan All American
Gower Champion Carnival!
Joe Layton No Strings
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play

Elizabeth Ashley

Honored for : Take Her She's Mine

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Nominee Nominated Work
Elizabeth Ashley Take Her She's Mine
Janet Margolin Daughter Of Silence
Zohra Lampert Look, We've Come Through
Pat Stanley Sunday in New York
Special Tony Award

Richard Rodgers

(For all he has done for young people in the theatre and for taking the men of the orchestra out of the pit and putting them on stage in No Strings)
Special Tony Award

Franco Zeffirelli

(For designs and direction of the Old Vic's Romeo and Juliet)
Special Tony Award

Brooks Atkinson

(Retired drama critic of the New York Times)
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design

Will Steven Armstrong

Honored for : Carnival!

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Nominee Nominated Work
Will Steven Armstrong Carnival!
Rouben Ter-Arutunian A Passage to India
David Hays No Strings
Oliver Smith The Gay Life
Tony Award for Best Musical

Cy Feuer, Ernest H. Martin, Willie Gilbert, Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock

Honored for : How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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Nominee Nominated Work
Cy Feuer How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Ernest H. Martin How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Willie Gilbert How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Abe Burrows How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Jack Weinstock How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Michael Stewart Carnival!
David Merrick Carnival!
Don Appell Milk and Honey
Gerard Oestreicher Milk and Honey
Samuel A. Taylor No Strings
Richard Rodgers No Strings
Tony Award for Best Costume Design

Lucinda Ballard

Honored for : The Gay Life

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Nominee Nominated Work
Lucinda Ballard The Gay Life
Motley Theatre Design Group Kwamina
Miles White Milk and Honey
Donald Brooks No Strings