Tony Award / Best Choreography
The Tony Award for the best choreography has been given since 1947 (indented nominees are listed).
1947-1949
- 1947: Agnes de Mille (for Brigadoon )
- Michael Kidd (for Finian's Rainbow )
- 1948: Jerome Robbins (for High Button Shoes )
- 1949: Gower Champion (for Lend An Ear )
1950-1959
- 1950: Helen Tamiris for ( Touch and Go )
- 1951: Michael Kidd (for Guys and Dolls )
- 1952: Robert Alton (for Pal Joey )
- 1953: Donald Saddler (for Wonderful Town )
- 1954: Michael Kidd (for Can-Can )
- 1955: Bob Fosse (for The Pajama Game )
- 1956: Bob Fosse (for Damn Yankees )
- Robert Alton (for The Vamp )
- Boris Runanin (for Phoenix '55 / Pipe Dream )
- Anna Sokolow (for Red Roses For Me )
- 1957: Michael Kidd (for Li'l Abner )
- Hanya Holm (for My Fair Lady )
- Dania Krupska (for The Most Happy Fella )
- Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse (for Bells Are Ringing )
- 1958: Jerome Robbins (for West Side Story )
- Bob Fosse (for New Girl In Town )
- Onna White (for The Music Man )
- 1959: Bob Fosse (for Redhead )
- Agnes de Mille (for Goldilocks )
- Carol Haney (for Flower Drum Song )
- Onna White (for whoop-up )
1960-1969
- 1960: Michael Kidd (for Destry Rides Again )
- Peter Gennaro (for Fiorello! )
- Joe Layton (for Greenwillow )
- Lee Scot (for Happy Town )
- Onna White (for Take Me Along )
- 1961: Gower Champion (for Bye Bye Birdie )
- Onna White (for Irma La Douce )
- 1962: Joe Layton (for No Strings )
- Agnes de Mille (for Kwamina )
- Michael Kidd (for Subways Are For Sleeping )
- Dania Krupska (for The Happiest Girl in the World )
- 1963: Bob Fosse (for Little Me )
- Carol Haney (for Bravo Giovanni )
- 1964: Gower Champion (for Hello, Dolly! )
- Danny Daniels (for High Spirits )
- Carol Haney (for Funny Girl )
- Herbert Ross (for Anyone Can Whistle )
- 1965: Jerome Robbins (for Anatevka )
- Peter Gennaro (for Bajour )
- Donald McKayle (for Golden Boy )
- Onna White (for Half a Sixpence )
- 1966: Bob Fosse (for Sweet Charity )
- Jack Cole (for The Man from La Mancha )
- Michael Kidd (for Skyscraper )
- Onna White (for Mame )
- 1967: Ron Field (for cabaret )
- Michael Bennett (for A Joyful Noise )
- Danny Daniels (for Walking Happy and Annie Get Your Gun )
- Lee Theodore (for The Apple Tree )
- 1968: Gower Champion (for The Happy Time )
- Michael Bennett (for Henry, Sweet Henry )
- Kevin Carlisle (for Hallelujah, baby! )
- Onna White (for Ilya Darling )
- 1969: Joe Layton (for George M! )
- Sammy Bayes (for Canterbury Tales )
- Ronald Field (for Zorba )
- Michael Bennett (for Promises, Promises )
1970-1979
- 1970: Ron Field (for Applause )
- Michael Bennett (for Coco )
- Grover Dale (for Billy )
- Louis Johnson (for Purlie )
- 1971: Donald Saddler (for No, No, Nanette )
- Michael Bennett (for Company )
- Michael Kidd (for The Rothschilds )
- 1972: Michael Bennett (for Follies )
- Patricia Birch (for Grease )
- Jean Erdman (for Two Gentlemen of Verona )
- 1973: Bob Fosse (for Pippin )
- Gower Champion (for Sugar )
- Peter Gennaro (for Irene )
- Donald Saddler (for Much Ado About Nothing )
- 1974: Michael Bennett (for Seesaw )
- Patricia Birch (for Over Here! )
- Donald McKayle (for Raisin )
- 1975: George Faison (for The Wiz )
- Gower Champion (for Mack and Mabel )
- Donald McKayle (for Doctor Jazz )
- Margo Sappington (for Where's Charley? )
- Robert Tucker (for Shenandoah )
- Joel Zwick (for Dance With Me )
- 1976: Michael Bennett and Bob Avian (for A Chorus Line )
- Patricia Birch (for Pacific Overtures )
- Bob Fosse (for Chicago )
- Billy Wilson (for Bubbling Brown Sugar )
- 1977: Peter Gennaro (for Annie )
- Talley Beatty (for Your Arm's Too Short to Box With God )
- Patricia Birch (for Music Is )
- Onna White (for I Love My Wife )
- 1978: Bob Fosse (for Dancin ' )
- Arthur Faria (for Ain't Misbehavin ' )
- Ron Lewis (for The Act )
- Elizabeth Swados (for Runaways )
- 1979: Michael Bennett and Bob Avian (for Ballroom )
- Henry LeTang and Billy Wilson (for Eubie! )
- Dan Siretta (for Whoopee! )
- Tommy Tune (for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas )
1980-1989
- 1980: Tommy Tune and Thommie Walsh (for A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine )
- Ernest Flatt (for Sugar Babies )
- Larry Fuller (for Evita )
- Joe Layton (for Barnum )
- 1981: Gower Champion (for 42nd Street ) (revival)
- Graciela Daniele (for The Pirates of Penzance )
- Henry le Tan , Donald McKayle , and Michael Smuin (for Sophisticated Ladies )
- Roland Petit (for Can-Can ) (revival)
- 1982: Michael Bennett and Michael Peters (for Dreamgirls )
- Peter Gennaro (for Little Me )
- Tony Tanner (for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat )
- Tommy Tune (for Nine )
- 1983: Tommy Tune and Thommie Walsh (for My One and Only )
- George Faison (for Porgy and Bess )
- Gillian Lynne (for cats )
- Donald Saddler (for On Your Toes )
- 1984: Danny Daniels (for The Tap Dance Kid )
- Wayne Cilento (for baby )
- Graciela Daniele (for The Rink )
- Scott Salmon (for La Cage aux Folles )
- 1986: Bob Fosse (for Big Deal )
- Graciele Daniele (for The Mystery of Edwin Drood )
- Peter Martins (for Song and Dance )
- Tango Argentino Dancers (for Tango Argentino )
- 1987: Gillian Gregory (for Me and My Girl )
- Ron Field (for rags )
- Brian Macdonald (for The Mikado )
- Arlene Philips (for Starlight Express )
- 1988: Michael Smuin (for Anything Goes )
- Lar Lubovitch (for Into the Woods )
- Gillian Lynne (for The Phantom of the Opera )
- Ndaba Mhlongo and Mbongeni Ngema (for Sarafina! )
- 1989: Cholly Atkins , Henry LeTang , Frankie Manning, and Fayard Nicholas (for Black and Blue )
- Michele Assaf (for Starmites )
- Bill Irwin and Kimi Okada (for Largely New York )
- Alan Johnson (for Legs Diamond )
1990-1999
- 1990: Tommy Tune (for Grand Hotel )
- Joan Brickhill (for Meet Me in St. Louis )
- Graciela Daniele and Tina Paul (for Dangerous Games )
- 1991: Tommy Tune (for The Will Rogers Follies )
- Bob Avian (for Miss Saigon )
- Graciela Daniele (for Once on this Island )
- Dan Siretta (for Oh, Kay! )
- 1992: Susan Stroman (for Crazy for You )
- Terry John Bates (for Dancing at Lughnasa )
- Christopher Chadman (for Guys and Dolls )
- Hope Clarke , Ted L. Levy , and Gregory Hines (for Jelly's Last Jam )
- 1993: Wayne Cilento (for Tommy )
- Graciela Daniele (for The Goodbye Girl )
- Vincent Paterson and Rob Marshall (for Spider Woman's Kiss )
- Randy Skinner (for Ain't Broadway Grand )
- 1994: Kenneth MacMillan (for Carousel )
- Jeff Calhoun (for Grease )
- Rob Marshall (for Damn Yankees )
- Rob Marshall (for She Loves Me )
- 1995: Susan Stroman (for Show Boat )
- Bob Avian (for Sunset Boulevard )
- Wayne Cilento (for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ) (revival)
- Joey McKneely (for Smokey Joe's Cafe )
- 1996: Savion Glover (for Bring in 'da Noise / Bring in' da Funk )
- Graciela Daniele (for Chronicle of a Death Foretold )
- Susan Stroman (for Big, The Musical )
- Marlies Yearby (for Rent )
- 1997: Ann Reinking (for Chicago ) (revival)
- Wayne Cilento (for Dream )
- Joey McKneely (for The Life )
- Susan Stroman (for Steel Pier )
- 1998: Garth Fagan (for The Lion King )
- Graciela Daniele (for ragtime )
- Forever Tango Dancers (for Forever Tango )
- Rob Marshall (for cabaret ) (revival)
- 1999: Matthew Bourne (for Swan Lake )
- Patricia Birch (for parade )
- Rob Marshall (for Little Me )
- AC Ciulla (for Footloose )
Since 2000
- 2000: Susan Stroman (for Contact )
- Kathleen Marshall (for Kiss Me, Kate ) (revival)
- Susan Stroman (for The Music Man )
- Lynne Taylor-Corbett (for swing! )
- 2001: Susan Stroman (for The Producers )
- Jerry Mitchell (for The Full Monty )
- Jim Moore , George Pinney and Jonathan Vanderkolff (for Blast )
- Randy Skinner (for 42nd Street ) (revival)
- 2002: Rob Ashford (for Thoroughly Modern Millie )
- John Carrafa (for Into the Woods )
- John Carrafa (for Pinkelstadt )
- Susan Stroman (for Oklahoma! ) (Revival)
- 2003: Twyla Tharp (for Movin 'Out )
- Robert Longbottom (for Flower Drum Song )
- Jerry Mitchell (for Hairspray ) (revival)
- Melinda Roy (for Urban Cowboy: The Musical )
- 2004: Kathleen Marshall (for Wonderful Town )
- Wayne Cilento (for Wicked )
- Jerry Mitchell (for Never Gonna Dance )
- Anthony Van Laast and Farah Khan (for Bombay Dreams )
- 2005: Jerry Mitchell (for La Cage aux Folles ) (revival)
- Wayne Cilento (for Sweet Charity )
- Jerry Mitchell (for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels )
- Casey Nicholaw (for Monty Python's Spamalot )
- 2006: Kathleen Marshall (for The Pajama Game ) (revival)
- Rob Ashford (for The Wedding Singer )
- Donald Bryd (for The Color Purple )
- Casey Nicholaw (for The Drowsy Chaperone )
- 2007: Bill T. Jones for Spring Awaking
- 2008: Andy Blankenbuehler for In The Heights
- 2009: Peter Darling for Billy Elliot
Since 2010
- 2010: Bill T. Jones for Fela!
- 2011: Kathleen Marshall for Anything Goes
- 2012: Christopher Gattelli for Newsies
- 2013: Jerry Mitchell for Kinky Boots
- 2014: Warren Carlyle for After Midnight
- Steven Hogget and Kelly Devine for Rocky
- Casey Nicholaw for Aladdin
- Susan Stroman for Bullets over Broadway