Delia Austrian medal

The Delia Austrian Medal, also known as the Distinguished Performance Award, is a theater award presented annually since 1935 by The Drama League for the "most distinguished" performance of the theater season.[1] The award is named for theater reviewer Delia Austrian.[2][3][4]

Winners

Year Recipient Work Ref
1935 Katherine Cornell Romeo and Juliet [4]
1936 Helen Hayes Victoria Regina [4][5]
1937 Maurice Evans King Richard II [6]
1938 Cedric Hardwicke
1939 Raymond Massey Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940 Paul Muni
1941 Paul Lukas Watch on the Rhine [2]
1942 Judith Evelyn
1943 Alfred Lunt
1944 Elisabeth Bergner The Two Mrs. Carrolls [3]
1945 Mady Christians I Remember Mama
1953 Claude Rains Darkness at Noon
1954 Paul Newman [7]
1955 Julie Newmar [7]
1956 Jack Nicholson [7]
1957 Kathleen Nolan [7]
1958 Carroll O'Connor
Al Pacino		 [7]
1959 Geraldine Page [7]
1960 Albert Paulsen
Estelle Parsons		 [7]
1961 Hume Cronyn
1962 Paul Scofield
1963 Charles Boyer
1964 Alec Guinness Dylan [4][8]
1965 John Gielgud
1966 Richard Kiley
1967 Rosemary Harris
1968 Zoe Caldwell
1969 Alec McCowen
1970 James Stewart
1971 Anthony Quayle
1972 Eileen Atkins
Claire Bloom
1973 Alan Bates
1974 Christopher Plummer
1975 John Wood
1976 Eva Le Gallienne
1977 Tom Courtenay
1978 Frank Langella
1979 Frances Sternhagen
1980 Roy Scheider Betrayal
1981 Ian McKellen Amadeus [9]
1982 Milo O'Shea
1983 Kate Nelligan
Edward Herrmann
1984 Jeremy Irons
1985 Derek Jacobi
1986 Bernadette Peters
1987 James Earl Jones
1988 John Lithgow
1989 Pauline Collins
1990 Robert Morse
1991 Stockard Channing
1992 Glenn Close
1993 Stephen Rea
1994 Sam Waterston
1995 Cherry Jones
1996 Uta Hagen
1997 Charles Durning
Bebe Neuwirth
1998 Brian Stokes Mitchell
1999 Kathleen Chalfant
2000 Eileen Heckart
2001 Mary-Louise Parker
Gary Sinise
2002 Liam Neeson
2003 Harvey Fierstein
2004 Hugh Jackman
2005 Norbert Leo Butz
2006 Christine Ebersole
2007 Liev Schreiber
2008 Patti LuPone
2009 Geoffrey Rush
2010 Alfred Molina
2011 Mark Rylance
2012 Audra McDonald
2013 Nathan Lane
2014 Neil Patrick Harris
2015 Chita Rivera
2016 Lin-Manuel Miranda
2017 Ben Platt
2018 Glenda Jackson
2019 Bryan Cranston
2020 Danny Burstein
2022 Sutton Foster

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Award History". Drama League of New York. Retrieved 2015-01-06.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b "Receives Delia Austrian Medal for Distinguished Acting". The New York Times. May 10, 1944. Retrieved 2013-12-12.
  4. ^ a b c d Ken Bloom (15 April 2013). "Delia Austrian medal". Broadway: An Encyclopedia. ISBN 9781135950200. Retrieved 2013-12-13.
  5. ^ "Drama League Betows Medal on Helen Hayes". Associated Press in the Reading Eagle. May 22, 1936. Retrieved 2013-12-13.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g "Delia Austrian medal". Winners, the blue ribbon encyclopedia of awards.
  8. ^ "Alec Guinness". Corbis. Retrieved 2013-12-13.
  9. ^ "'Cage Aux Folles' Due As Musical Comedy Set In New Orleans". The New York Times. May 8, 1981. Retrieved 2013-12-12.

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