Tony Award / Best Supporting Actor
All actors who have appeared in plays and musicals on Broadway in New York during the year can be nominated for the Tony Award / Best Supporting Actor . The Tony Award for best performance in a male supporting role in a play has gone to:
1947-1949
- 1949: Arthur Kennedy (in Death of a Salesman )
1950-1959
- 1950: no award given
- 1951: Eli Wallach (in The Tattooed Rose )
- 1952: John Cromwell (in Point of No Return )
- 1953: John Williams (in Dial M for Murder )
- 1954: John Kerr (in Tea and Sympathy )
- 1955: Francis L. Sullivan (in Witness for the Prosecution )
- 1956: Ed Begley (in Inherit the Wind )
- 1957: Frank Conroy (in The Potting Shed )
- 1958: Henry Jones (in Sunrise At Campobello )
- 1959: Charlie Ruggles (in The Pleasure of His Company )
1960-1969
- 1960: Roddy McDowall (in The Fighting Cock )
- 1961: Martin Gabel (in Big Fish, Little Fish )
- 1962: Walter Matthau (in A Shot in the Dark )
- 1963: Alan Arkin (in Enter Laughing )
- 1964: Hume Cronyn (in Hamlet )
- 1965: Jack Albertson (in The Subject was Roses )
- 1966: Patrick Magee (in Marat / Sade )
- 1967: Ian Holm (in The Homecoming )
- 1968: James Patterson (in The Birthday Party )
- 1969: Al Pacino (in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? )
1970-1979
- 1970: Ken Howard (in Child's Play )
- 1971: Paul Sand (in Story Theater )
- 1972: Vincent Gardenia (in The Prisoner of Second Avenue )
- 1973: John Lithgow (in The Changing Room )
- 1974: Ed Flanders (in A Moon for the Misbegotten )
- 1975: Frank Langella (in Seascape )
- 1976: Edward Herrmann (in Mrs. Warren's Profession )
- 1977: Jonathan Pryce (in Comedians )
- 1978: Lester Rawlins (in Da )
- 1979: Michael Gough (in Bedroom Farce )
1980-1989
- 1980: David Rounds (in Morning's at Seven )
- 1981: Brian Backer (in The Floating Light Bulb )
- 1982: Zakes Mokae (in ' Master Harold'… and the Boys )
- 1983: Matthew Broderick (in Brighton Beach Memoirs )
- 1984: Joe Mantegna (in Glengarry Glen Ross )
- 1985: Barry Miller (in Biloxi Blues )
- 1986: John Mahoney (in The House of Blue Leaves )
- 1987: John Randolph (in Broadway Bound )
- 1988: BD Wong (in M. Butterfly )
- 1989: Boyd Gaines (in The Heidi Chronicles )
1990-1999
- 1990: Charles Durning (in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof )
- 1991: Kevin Spacey (in Lost in Yonkers )
- 1992: Laurence Fishburne (in Two Trains Running )
- 1993: Stephen Spinella (in Angels in America: Millennium Approaches )
- 1994: Jeffrey Wright (in Angels in America: Perestroika )
- 1995: John Glover (in Love! Valor! Compassion! )
- 1996: Ruben Santiago-Hudson (in Seven Guitars )
- 1997: Owen Teale (in Nora or A Doll's House )
- 1998: Tom Murphy (in The Beauty Queen of Leenane )
- 1999: Frank Wood (in Side Man )
2000-2009
- 2000: Roy Dotrice (in A Moon for the Misbegotten )
- 2001: Robert Sean Leonard (in The Invention of Love )
- 2002: Frank Langella (in Fortune's Fool )
- 2003: Denis O'Hare (in Take Me Out )
- 2004: Brian F. O'Byrne (in Frozen )
- 2005: Liev Schreiber (in Glengarry Glen Ross )
- 2006: Ian McDiarmid (in Faith Healer )
- 2007: Billy Crudup (in The Coast of Utopia )
- 2008: Jim Norton (in The Seafarer )
- 2009: Roger Robinson (in Joe Turner's Come and Gone )
Since 2010
- 2010: Eddie Redmayne (in Red )
- 2011: John Benjamin Hickey (in The Normal Heart )
- 2012: Christian Borle (in Peter and the Starcatcher )
- 2013: Courtney B. Vance (in Lucky Guy )
- 2014: Mark Rylance (in Twelfth Night )
- 2015: Richard McCabe (in The Audience )
- 2016: Reed Birney (in The Humans )