1985 Tony Award Winners - Browse by Year

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Category	Nominee	Show
Actor (Play)	Derek Jacobi	Much Ado About Nothing
Actor (Play)	Jim Dale	Joe Egg
Actor (Play)	Jonathan Hogan	As Is
Actor (Play)	John Lithgow	Requiem for a Heavyweight
Actress (Play)	Stockard Channing	Joe Egg
Actress (Play)	Sinead Cusack	Much Ado About Nothing
Actress (Play)	Rosemary Harris	Pack of Lies
Actress (Play)	Glenda Jackson	Strange Interlude
Book (Musical)	William Hauptmann	Big River
Book (Musical)	Fay Kanin	Grind
Book (Musical)	Michael Stewart	Harrigan 'n Hart
Book (Musical)	Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek	Quilters
Costume Designer	Florence Klotz	Grind
Costume Designer	Patricia McGourty	Big River
Costume Designer	Alexander Reid	Cyrano de Bergerac
Costume Designer	Alexander Reid	Much Ado About Nothing
Director (Musical)	Des McAnuff	Big River
Director (Musical)	Barbara Damashek	Quilters
Director (Musical)	Mitch Leigh	The King and I
Director (Musical)	Harold Prince	Grind
Director (Play)	Gene Saks	Biloxi Blues
Director (Play)	Keith Hack	Strange Interlude
Director (Play)	Terry Hands	Much Ado About Nothing
Director (Play)	Marshall W. Mason	As Is
Featured Actor (Musical)	Ron Richardson	Big River
Featured Actor (Musical)	René Auberjonois	Big River
Featured Actor (Musical)	Daniel H. Jenkins	Big River
Featured Actor (Musical)	Kurt Knudson	Take Me Along
Featured Actor (Play)	Barry Miller	Biloxi Blues
Featured Actor (Play)	Charles S. Dutton	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Featured Actor (Play)	William Hurt	Hurlyburly
Featured Actor (Play)	Edward Petherbridge	Strange Interlude
Featured Actress (Musical)	Leilani Jones	Grind
Featured Actress (Musical)	Evalyn Baron	Quilters
Featured Actress (Musical)	Mary Beth Peil	The King and I
Featured Actress (Musical)	Lenka Peterson	Quilters
Featured Actress (Play)	Judith Ivey	Hurlyburly
Featured Actress (Play)	Joanna Gleason	Joe Egg
Featured Actress (Play)	Theresa Merritt	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Featured Actress (Play)	Sigourney Weaver	Hurlyburly
Lighting Designer	Richard Riddell	Big River
Lighting Designer	Terry Hands	Cyrano de Bergerac
Lighting Designer	Terry Hands	Much Ado About Nothing
Lighting Designer	Allen Lee Hughes	Strange Interlude
Musical		Big River Produced by Rocco Landesman, Heidi Landesman, Rick Steiner, M. Anthony Fisher, and Dodger Productions
Musical		Grind Produced by Kenneth D. Greenblatt, John J. Pomerantz, Mary Lea Johnson, Martin Richards, James M. Nederlander, Harold Prince, Michael Frazier, Susan Madden Samson, and Jonathan Farkas
Musical		Leader of the Pack Produced by Elizabeth I. McCann, Nelle Nugent, Francine LeFrak, Clive Davis, John Hart Associates, Inc., Rodger Hess, and Richard Kagan
Musical		Quilters Produced by The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The American National Theatre and Academy, and Brockman Seawel
Play		Biloxi Blues By Neil Simon. Produced by Emanuel Azenberg, and the Center Theater Group/Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles.
Play		As Is By William M. Hoffman. Produced by John Glines/Lawrence Lane, Lucille Lortel, and The Shubert Organization.
Play		Hurlyburly By David Rabe. Produced by Icarus Productions, Frederick M. Zollo, Ivan Bloch and ERB Productions.
Play		Ma Rainey's Black Bottom By August Wilson. Produced by Ivan Bloch, Robert Cole, and Frederick M. Zollo.
Regional Theatre Award	Steppenwolf Theater Company, Chicago, Illinois
Revival (Play)		Joe Egg Category name was Best Reproduction until 1986, then Best Revival, split into Play/Musical categories in 1994; Produced by The Shubert Organization, Emanuel Azenberg, Roger Berlind, Ivan Bloch and MTM Enterprises, Inc.
Revival (Play)		Cyrano de Bergerac Category name was Best Reproduction until 1986, then Best Revival, split into Play/Musical categories in 1994; Produced by James M. Nederlander, Elizabeth I. McCann, Nelle Nugent, Cynthia Wood, Dale Duffy, and Allan Carr
Revival (Play)		Much Ado About Nothing Category name was Best Reproduction until 1986, then Best Revival, split into Play/Musical categories in 1994; Produced by James M. Nederlander, Elizabeth I. McCann, Nelle Nugent, Cynthia Wood, Dale Duffy and Allan Carr
Revival (Play)		Strange Interlude Category name was Best Reproduction until 1986, then Best Revival, split into Play/Musical categories in 1994; Produced by Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, Douglas Urbanski, James M. Nederlander, Duncan C. Weldon, Paul Gregg, Lionel Becker and Jerome Minskoff
Scenic Designer	Heidi Landesman	Big River
Scenic Designer	Clarke Dunham	Grind
Scenic Designer	Ralph Koltai	Much Ado About Nothing
Scenic Designer	Voytek and Michael Levine	Strange Interlude
Score	Music and lyrics by Roger Miller	Big River
Score	Music by Larry Grossman, and lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh	Grind
Score	Music and lyrics by Barbara Damashek	Quilters
Special Tony Awards	Yul Brynner	Honoring his 4,525 performances in The King and I
Special Tony Awards	New York State Council on the Arts