Tony Award Nominees
At the Tony Awards, Fela! and American Idiot face off for Best Musical, Jude Law and Denzel Washington vie for Best Actor, and Sean Hayes hosts. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the nominees.

Johan Persson

Jude Law,
Hamlet (Pictured)
Alfred Molina,
Red
Liev Schreiber,
A View from the Bridge
Christopher Walken,
A Behanding in Spokane
Denzel Washington,
Fences
Johan Persson

Viola Davis,
Fences
Valerie Harper,
Looped
Linda Lavin,
Collected Stories
Laura Linney,
Time Stands Still (Pictured)
Jan Maxwell,
The Royal Family
Joan Marcus

Kelsey Grammer,
La Cage aux Folles
Sean Hayes,
Promises, Promises (Pictured)
Douglas Hodge,
La Cage aux Folles
Chad Kimball,
Memphis
Sahr Ngaujah,
Fela!
Joan Marcus

Kate Baldwin,
Finian’s Rainbow
Montego Glover,
Memphis
Christiane Noll,
Ragtime
Sherie Rene Scott,
Everyday Rapture
Catherine Zeta-Jones,
A Little Night Music (Pictured)
Joan Marcus

David Alan Grier,
Race (Pictured)
Stephen McKinley Henderson,
Fences
Jon Michael Hill,
Superior Donuts
Stephen Kunken,
Enron
Eddie Redmayne,
Red
Robert J. Saferstein

Maria Dizzia,
In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play
Rosemary Harris,
The Royal Family
Jessica Hecht,
A View from the Bridge
Scarlett Johansson,
A View from the Bridge (Pictured)
Jan Maxwell,
Lend Me a Tenor
Joan Marcus

Kevin Chamberlin,
The Addams Family
Robin De Jesús,
La Cage aux Folles
Christopher Fitzgerald,
Finian's Rainbow (Pictured)
Levi Kreis,
Million Dollar Quartet
Bobby Steggert,
Ragtime
Joan Marcus

Barbara Cook,
Sondheim on Sondheim
Katie Finneran,
Promises, Promises
Angela Lansbury,
A Little Night Music (Pictured)
Karine Plantadit,
Come Fly Away
Lillias White,
Fela!
Joan Marcus

Michael Grandage,
Red (Pictured)
Sheryl Kaller,
Next Fall
Kenny Leon,
Fences
Gregory Mosher,
A View from the Bridge

Christopher Ashley,
Memphis
Marcia Milgrom Dodge,
Ragtime
Terry Johnson,
La Cage aux Folles
Bill T. Jones,
Fela! (Pictured)
Kevin Fitzsimmons / Courtesy Wexner Center for the Arts

The Addams Family (Pictured)
Enron
Fences
Memphis
Joan Marcus

In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play
Next Fall (Pictured)
Red
Time Stands Still
Carol Rosegg

American Idiot
Fela!
Memphis (Pictured)
Million Dollar Quartet

Fences (Pictured)
Lend Me a Tenor
The Royal Family
A View from the Bridge
Joan Marcus

Finian’s Rainbow
La Cage aux Folles (Pictured)
A Little Night Music
Ragtime
Joan Marcus
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