Tony Award: Best Actor in a Musical

Entertainment Stage

No award presented in 1985 Missing: * Ben Harvey (1982) * Robert Lindsay (1987) * James Naughton (1990) * Brent Carver (1993) * Boyd Gaines (1994) * James Naughton (1997) * Norbert Leo Butz (2005) * Paulo Szot (2008) * David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish (2009) * Douglas Hodge (2010) * Norbert Leo Butz (2011) * Steve Kazee (2012) * Michael Cerveris (2015) * Leslie Odom, Jr (2016) * Santino Fontana (2019)

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38

1947

David Wayne

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

37

1948

Paul Hartman

Actor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

52

1949

Ray Bolger

Actor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

50

1950

Ezio Pinza

Vocalist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

47

1951

Robert Alda

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

23

1952

Phil Silvers

Comedian

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

53

1953

Thomas Mitchell

Actor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

49

1954

Alfred Drake

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

39

1955

Walter Slezak

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

48

1956

Ray Walston

Actor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

10

1957

Rex Harrison

Actor

66.67% (4 of 6 votes)

31

1958

Robert Preston

Actor

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

1

1959

Richard Kiley

Actor

100% (1 of 1 votes)

3

1960

Jackie Gleason

Comedian

100% (10 of 10 votes)

55

1961

Richard Burton

Actor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

33

1962

Robert Morse

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

6

1963

Zero Mostel

Actor

100% (3 of 3 votes)

51

1964

Bert Lahr

Comedian

0% (0 of 1 votes)

7

1965

Zero Mostel

Actor

100% (3 of 3 votes)

2

1966

Richard Kiley

Actor

100% (1 of 1 votes)

32

1967

Robert Preston

Actor

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

30

1968

Robert Goulet

Actor

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

25

1969

Jerry Orbach

Actor

30.77% (4 of 13 votes)

44

1970

Cleavon Little

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

43

1971

Hal Linden

Actor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

24

1972

Phil Silvers

Comedian

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

29

1973

Ben Vereen

Vocalist

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

9

1974

Christopher Plummer

Actor

68.85% (84 of 122 votes)

4

1975

John Cullum

Actor

100% (1 of 1 votes)

35

1976

George Rose

Actor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

46

1977

Barry Bostwick

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

5

1978

John Cullum

Actor

100% (1 of 1 votes)

16

1979

Len Cariou

Actor

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

15

1980

Jim Dale

Comedian

59.68% (74 of 124 votes)

40

1981

Kevin Kline

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

42

1983

Tommy Tune

Dancer

0% (0 of 3 votes)

56

1984

George Hearn

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

36

1986

George Rose

Actor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

34

1988

Michael Crawford

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

17

1989

Jason Alexander

Actor

50.0% (2 of 4 votes)

57

1991

Jonathan Pryce

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

45

1992

Gregory Hines

Actor

0% (0 of 8 votes)

22

1995

Matthew Broderick

Actor

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

12

1996

Nathan Lane

Actor

63.33% (19 of 30 votes)

18

1998

Alan Cumming

Actor

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

14

1999

Martin Short

Comedian

61.76% (21 of 34 votes)

27

2000

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Actor

25.00% (2 of 8 votes)

13

2001

Nathan Lane

Actor

63.33% (19 of 30 votes)

58

2002

John Lithgow

Actor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

26

2003

Harvey Fierstein

Actor

28.57% (2 of 7 votes)

11

2004

Hugh Jackman

Actor

64.00% (16 of 25 votes)

41

2006

John Lloyd Young

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

21

2007

David Hyde Pierce

Actor

38.24% (13 of 34 votes)

8

2013

Billy Porter

Performance Artist

90.0% (18 of 20 votes)

20

2014

Neil Patrick Harris

Actor

42.86% (48 of 112 votes)

54

2016

Leslie Odom Jr.

Vocalist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

28

2017

Ben Platt

Actor

20.0% (4 of 20 votes)

19

2018

Tony Shalhoub

Actor

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)