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Best Direction of a Musical

202679th edition
  1. ★ Winner
    Zhailon Levingston & Bill Rauch
    Cats: The Jellicle Ball
  2. Michael Arden
    The Lost Boys
  3. Lear deBessonet
    Ragtime
  4. Christopher Gattelli
    Schmigadoon!
  5. Tim Jackson
    Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
202578th edition
  1. ★ Winner
    Michael Arden
    Maybe Happy Ending
  2. Saheem Ali
    Buena Vista Social Club
  3. David Cromer
    Dead Outlaw
  4. Christopher Gattelli
    Death Becomes Her
  5. Jamie Lloyd
    Sunset Boulevard
202477th edition
  1. ★ Winner
    Danya Taymor
    The Outsiders
  2. Maria Friedman
    Merrily We Roll Along
  3. Michael Greif
    Hell's Kitchen
  4. Leigh Silverman
    Suffs
  5. Jessica Stone
    Water for Elephants
202376th edition
  1. ★ Winner
    Michael Arden
    Parade
  2. Lear deBessonet
    Into the Woods
  3. Casey Nicholaw
    Some Like It Hot
  4. Jack O'Brien
    Shucked
  5. Jessica Stone
    Kimberly Akimbo
202275th edition
  1. ★ Winner
    Marianne Elliott
    Company
  2. Jamie Armitage & Lucy Moss
    Six
  3. Stephen Brackett
    A Strange Loop
  4. Conor McPherson
    Girl from the North Country
  5. Christopher Wheeldon
    MJ
202174th edition
  1. ★ Winner
    Alex Timbers
    Moulin Rouge!
  2. ★ Winner
    Alex Timbers
    Moulin Rouge! The Musical
  3. Phyllida Lloyd
    Tina
  4. Diane Paulus
    Jagged Little Pill
201973rd edition
  1. ★ Winner
    Rachel Chavkin
    Hadestown
  2. Scott Ellis
    Tootsie
  3. Daniel Fish
    Oklahoma!
  4. Des McAnuff
    Ain't Too Proud
  5. Casey Nicholaw
    The Prom
201872nd edition
  1. ★ Winner
    David Cromer
    The Band's Visit
  2. Michael Arden
    Once on This Island
  3. Tina Landau
    SpongeBob SquarePants
  4. Casey Nicholaw
    Mean Girls
  5. Bartlett Sher
    My Fair Lady
201771st edition
  1. ★ Winner
    Christopher Ashley
    Come from Away
  2. Rachel Chavkin
    Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
  3. Michael Greif
    Dear Evan Hansen
  4. Matthew Warchus
    Groundhog Day
  5. Jerry Zaks
    Hello, Dolly!
201670th edition
  1. ★ Winner
    Thomas Kail
    Hamilton
  2. Michael Arden
    Spring Awakening
  3. John Doyle
    The Color Purple
  4. Scott Ellis
    She Loves Me
  5. George C. Wolfe
    Shuffle Along
2015
  1. ★ Winner
    Sam Gold
    Fun Home
2014
  1. ★ Winner
    Darko Tresnjak
    A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
2013
  1. Jerry Mitchell
    Kinky Boots
  2. Matthew Warchus
    Matilda The Musical
2012
  1. ★ Winner
    John Tiffany
    Once
  2. Jeff Calhoun
    Newsies
2011
  1. ★ Winner
    Casey Nicholaw & Trey Parker
    The Book of Mormon
2010
  1. Christopher Ashley
    Memphis
  2. Marcia Milgrom Dodge
    Ragtime
2009
  1. ★ Winner
    Stephen Daldry
    Billy Elliot, The Musical
  2. Michael Greif
    Next to Normal
2008
  1. Thomas Kail
    In The Heights
2007
  1. ★ Winner
    Michael Mayer
    Spring Awakening
  2. John Doyle
    Company
2006
  1. ★ Winner
    John Doyle
    Sweeney Todd
  2. Des McAnuff
    Jersey Boys
2004

Not presented this year

2003
  1. ★ Winner
    Jack O'Brien
    Hairspray
2002
  1. James Lapine
    Into the Woods
1997
  1. ★ Winner
    Walter Bobbie
    Chicago
1996
  1. Michael Greif
    Rent
1994
  1. Robert Jess Roth
    Beauty and the Beast
1991
  1. Nicholas Hytner
    Miss Saigon
1988
  1. ★ Winner
    Harold Prince
    The Phantom of the Opera
  2. James Lapine
    Into the Woods
1987
  1. ★ Winner
    Trevor Nunn & John Caird
    Les Misérables
1983
  1. ★ Winner
    Trevor Nunn
    Cats
1982

Not presented this year

1958

Not presented this year

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