Drama League Distinguished Performance Award
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The Delia Austrian medal or the Distinguished Performance Award has been awarded each year since 1935 by The Drama League for the "most distinguished" performance of the theater season.[1] The award is named for Delia Austrian a theater reviewer.[2][3][4]
Winners
- 2017 Ben Platt
- 2016 Lin-Manuel Miranda
- 2013 Nathan Lane
- 2012 Audra McDonald
- 2011 Mark Rylance
- 2010 Alfred Molina
- 2009 Geoffrey Rush
- 2008 Patti LuPone
- 2007 Liev Schreiber
- 2006 Christine Ebersole
- 2005 Norbert Leo Butz
- 2004 Hugh Jackman
- 2003 Harvey Fierstein
- 2002 Liam Neeson
- 2001 Mary-Louise Parker and Gary Sinise
- 2000 Eileen Heckart
- 1999 Kathleen Chalfant
- 1998 Brian Stokes Mitchell
- 1997 Charles Durning and Bebe Neuwirth
- 1996 Uta Hagen
- 1995 Cherry Jones
- 1994 Sam Waterston
- 1993 Stephen Rea
- 1992 Glenn Close
- 1991 Stockard Channing
- 1990 Robert Morse
- 1989 Pauline Collins
- 1988 John Lithgow
- 1987 James Earl Jones
- 1986 Bernadette Peters
- 1985 Derek Jacobi
- 1984 Jeremy Irons
- 1983 Kate Nelligan and Edward Herrmann
- 1982 Milo O'Shea
- 1981 Ian McKellen in Amadeus.[5]
- 1980 Roy Scheider in Betrayal.
- 1979 Frances Sternhagen
- 1978 Frank Langella
- 1977 Tom Courtenay
- 1976 Eva Le Gallienne
- 1975 John Wood
- 1974 Christopher Plummer
- 1973 Alan Bates
- 1972 Eileen Atkins and Claire Bloom
- 1971 Anthony Quayle
- 1970 James Stewart
- 1969 Alec McCowen
- 1968 Zoe Caldwell
- 1967 Rosemary Harris
- 1966 Richard Kiley
- 1965 John Gielgud
- 1964 Alec Guinness in Dylan.[4][6]
- 1963 Charles Boyer
- 1962 Paul Scofield
- 1961 Hume Cronyn
- 1960 Albert Paulsen and Estelle Parsons.[7]
- 1959 Geraldine Page.[7]
- 1958 Carroll O'Connor and Al Pacino.[7]
- 1957 Kathleen Nolan.[7]
- 1956 Jack Nicholson.[7]
- 1955 Julie Newmar.[7]
- 1954 Paul Newman.[7]
- 1953 Claude Rains in Darkness at Noon.
- 1945 Mady Christians in I Remember Mama.
- 1944 Elisabeth Bergner in The Two Mrs. Carrolls.[3]
- 1943 Alfred Lunt
- 1942 Judith Evelyn
- 1941 Paul Lukas in Watch on the Rhine.[2]
- 1940 Paul Muni
- 1939 Raymond Massey for Abe Lincoln in Illinois.
- 1938 Cedric Hardwicke
- 1937 Maurice Evans in King Richard II.[8]
- 1936 Helen Hayes for Victoria Regina.[4][9]
- 1935 Katherine Cornell in Romeo and Juliet.[4]
Footnotes
- ^ "Award History". Drama League of New York. Retrieved 2015-01-06.
- ^ a b "Paul Lukas Gets Drama Group Prize. Star of Watch on the Rhine Receives the Delia Austrian Medal for His Acting". The New York Times. May 10, 1941. Retrieved 2013-12-12.
- ^ a b "Receives Delia Austrian Medal for Distinguished Acting". The New York Times. May 10, 1944. Retrieved 2013-12-12.
- ^ a b c d Ken Bloom. "Delia Austrian medal". Broadway: An Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2013-12-13.
- ^ "'Cage Aux Folles' Due As Musical Comedy Set In New Orleans". The New York Times. May 8, 1981. Retrieved 2013-12-12.
- ^ "Alec Guinness". Corbis. Retrieved 2013-12-13.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Delia Austrian medal". Winners, the blue ribbon encyclopedia of awards.
- ^ "Evans Gets Medal Of Drama League. English Actor Is Honored for 'Richard II' in Presentation by Daniel Frohman". The New York Times. May 12, 1937. Retrieved 2013-12-12.
- ^ "Drama League Betows Medal on Helen Hayes". Associated Press in the Reading Eagle. May 22, 1936. Retrieved 2013-12-13.