Tony Award for Best Lighting Design

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| Jo Mielziner

| Child's Play

| Applause

| Indians

| R.H. Poindexter

| Paul Sill's Story Theatre

| Company

| Sleuth

| Tharon Musser

| Follies

| Ain't Supposed To Die a Natural Death

| Old Times

| Jesus Christ Superstar

| Jules Fisher

| Pippin

| Much Ado About Nothing

| That Championship Season

| A Little Night Music

| Jules Fisher

| Ulysses in Nighttown

| Boom Boom Room

| The Visit

| A Moon for the Misbegotten

| The Good Doctor

| Neil Peter Jampolis

| Sherlock Holmes

| Goodtime Charley

| The Rocky Horror Show

| Equus

| All God's Chillun Got Wings

| Seascape

| Tharon Musser

| A Chorus Line

| Trelawny of the Wells

| Chicago

| Pacific Overtures

| Jennifer Tipton

| The Cherry Orchard

| No Man's Land

| Threepenny Opera

| The Innocents

| Jules Fisher

| Dancin'

| Working

| Beatlemania

| The Act

| Roger Morgan

| The Crucifer of Blood

| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

| The Elephant Man

| Ballroom

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| David Hersey

| Evita

| A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine

| Barnum

| Talley's Folly

| John Bury

| Amadeus

| 42nd Street

| Fifth of July

| Sophisticated Ladies

| Tharon Musser

| Dreamgirls

| Medea

| The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

| Nine

| David Hersey

| Cats

| Foxfire

| All's Well That Ends Well

| K2

| Richard Nelson

| Sunday in the Park with George

| End of the World

| La Cage aux Folles

| A Moon for the Misbegotten

| Richard Riddell

| Big River

| Cyrano de Bergerac

| Strange Interlude

| Pat Collins

| I'm Not Rappaport

| Song and Dance

| The House of Blue Leaves

| The Iceman Cometh

| David Hersey

| Les Misérables

| Wild Honey

| Les Liaisons Dangereuses

| Starlight Express

| Andrew Bridge

| The Phantom of the Opera

| Anything Goes

| Into the Woods

| M. Butterfly

| Jennifer Tipton

| Jerome Robbins' Broadway

| Black and Blue

| Metamorphoses

| Largely New York

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| Jules Fisher

| Grand Hotel

| City of Angels

| Orpheus Descending

| The Grapes of Wrath

| Jules Fisher

| The Will Rogers Follies

| Miss Saigon

| Once on This Island

| La Bête

| Jules Fisher

| Jelly's Last Jam

| Crazy for You

| Four Baboons Adoring the Sun

| Chris Parry

| The Who's Tommy

| Kiss of the Spider Woman

| Angels in America: Millennium Approaches

| Redwood Curtain

| Rick Fisher

| An Inspector Calls

| Passion

| Angels in America: Perestroika

| Beauty and the Beast

| Andrew Bridge

| Sunset Boulevard

| The Heiress

| Indiscretions

| Arcadia

| Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher

| Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk

| Seven Guitars

| Rent

| The King and I

| Ken Billington

| Chicago

| Jekyll and Hyde

| Juan Darién

| The Life

| Donald Holder

| The Lion King

| The Chairs

| Cabaret

| Ragtime

| Andrew Bridge

| Fosse

| The Iceman Cometh

| Twelfth Night

| Not About Nightingales

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| Natasha Katz

| Aida

| Marie Christine

| Kiss Me, Kate

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| Peter Kaczorowski

| The Producers

| Jane Eyre

| 42nd Street

| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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| Brian MacDevitt

| Into the Woods

| Oklahoma!

| Sweet Smell of Success

| The Crucible

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| Nigel Levings

| La bohème

| Movin' Out

| Nine

| Hairspray

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| Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher

| Assassins

| Fiddler on the Roof

| Wicked

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for a Play

|Brian MacDevitt

|The Pillowman

|Doubt: A Parable

|A Streetcar Named Desire

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for a Musical

|Christopher Akerlind

|The Light in the Piazza

|Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

|Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

|Monty Python's Spamalot

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for a Play

|Mark Henderson

|The History Boys

|Awake and Sing!

|Three Days of Rain

|Faith Healer

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for a Musical

|Howell Binkley

|Jersey Boys

|The Drowsy Chaperone

|Tarzan

|The Color Purple

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for a Play

|Natasha Katz, Brian MacDevitt and Kenneth Posner

|The Coast of Utopia

|Coram Boy

|Inherit the Wind

|Journey's End

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for a Musical

|Kevin Adams

|Spring Awakening

|110 in the Shade

|Mary Poppins

|Grey Gardens

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for a Play

|Kevin Adams

|The 39 Steps

|Macbeth

|Les Liaisons Dangereuses

|August: Osage County

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for a Musical

|Donald Holder

|South Pacific

|Sunday in the Park with George

|In the Heights

|The Little Mermaid

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for a Play

|Brian MacDevitt

|Joe Turner's Come and Gone

|Equus

|33 Variations

|Mary Stuart

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for a Musical

|Rick Fisher

|Billy Elliot the Musical

|Hair

|West Side Story

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for a Play

|Neil Austin

|Red

|Hamlet

|ENRON

|Fences

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for a Musical

|Kevin Adams

|American Idiot

|Ragtime

|La Cage aux Folles

|Fela!

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for a Play

|Paule Constable

|War Horse

|Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

|The Merchant of Venice

|Jerusalem

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for a Musical

|Brian MacDevitt

|The Book of Mormon

|The Scottsboro Boys

|How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

|Anything Goes

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for a Play

|Jeff Croiter

|Peter and the Starcatcher

|The Road to Mecca

|Death of a Salesman

|Other Desert Cities

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for a Musical

|Natasha Katz

|Once

|Porgy and Bess

|Follies

|Ghost the Musical

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for a Play

|Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher

|Lucky Guy

|Golden Boy

|The Testament of Mary

|The Nance

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for a Musical

|Hugh Vanstone

|Matilda the Musical

|Kinky Boots

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for a Play

|Natasha Katz

|The Glass Menagerie

|The Cripple of Inishmaan

|Machinal

|Of Mice and Men

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for a Musical

|Kevin Adams

|Hedwig and the Angry Inch

|Rocky the Musical

|After Midnight

|The Bridges of Madison County

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for a Play

|Paule Constable

|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

|Wolf Hall Parts One & Two

|Skylight

|Airline Highway

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for a Musical

|Natasha Katz

|An American in Paris

|The King and I

|Fun Home

|The Visit

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for a Play

|Natasha Katz

|Long Day's Journey into Night

|The Humans

|A View from the Bridge

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for a Musical

|Howell Binkley

|Hamilton

|Shuffle Along

|Spring Awakening

|American Psycho

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for a Play

|Christopher Akerlind

|Indecent

|Jitney

|Oslo

|A Doll's House, Part 2

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for a Musical

|Bradley King

|Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812

|Come from Away

|Hello, Dolly!

|Dear Evan Hansen

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for a Play

|Neil Austin

|Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

|Angels in America

|The Iceman Cometh

|Farinelli and the King

|Junk

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for a Musical

|Tyler Micoleau

|The Band's Visit

|SpongeBob SquarePants

|Once on This Island

|My Fair Lady

|Carousel

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for a Play

|Neil Austin

|Ink

|Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

|The Ferryman

|To Kill a Mockingbird

|Network

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for a Musical

|Bradley King

|Hadestown

|The Cher Show

|Ain’t Too Proud

|King Kong

|Beetlejuice

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| rowspan="5" style="background:#f8f9fa; padding-left:20px;" | Best Lighting Design
for a Play

|Hugh Vanstone

|A Christmas Carol

|Slave Play

|The Inheritance

|The Sound Inside

|A Soldier's Play

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for a Musical

|Justin Townsend

|Moulin Rouge!

|Tina

|Jagged Little Pill

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for a Play

|Jon Clark

|The Lehman Trilogy

|Hangmen

|For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

|Macbeth

|The Skin of Our Teeth

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for a Musical

|Natasha Katz

|MJ the Musical

|Company

|Six

|Paradise Square

|Flying Over Sunset

|A Strange Loop

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for a Play

|Life of Pi

|Tim Lutkin

|Ben Stanton

|Jen Schriever

|Jon Clark

|Bradley King

|Neil Austin

|Natasha Chivers

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|Some Like It Hot

|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

|& Juliet

|Lerner & Loewe's Camelot

|New York, New York

|Parade

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|Jane Cox

|Appropriate

|An Enemy of the People

|Grey House

|Prayer for the French Republic

|Stereophonic

|Hana S. Kim and Brian MacDevitt

|The Outsiders

|Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club

|Hell's Kitchen

|Illinoise

|Water for Elephants