Drama League Distinguished Performance Award

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The Distinguished Performance Award, originally known as the Delia Austrian Medal, 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] An artist may only win the award once in their lifetime.[4]

Winners[edit]

Year Recipient Work Ref[1]
1935 Katherine Cornell Romeo and Juliet [5]
1936 Helen Hayes Victoria Regina [5][6]
1937 Maurice Evans King Richard II [5][7]
1938 Cedric Hardwicke Shadow and Substance [5]
1939 Raymond Massey Abe Lincoln in Illinois [5][8]
1940 Paul Muni Key Largo [5]
1941 Paul Lukas Watch on the Rhine [5][2]
1942 Judith Evelyn Angel Street [5]
1943 Alfred Lunt
Lynn Fontanne		 The Pirate [5][9]
1944 Elisabeth Bergner[a] The Two Mrs. Carrolls [3]
1945 Mady Christians I Remember Mama [5]
1946 Louis Calhern The Magnificent Yankee [5]
1947 Ingrid Bergman Joan of Lorraine [5]
1948 Judith Anderson Medea [5]
1949 Robert Morley Edward, My Son [5]
1950 Grace George The Velvet Glove [5]
1951 Claude Rains Darkness at Noon [5]
1952 Julie Harris I Am a Camera [5]
1953 Shirley Booth The Time of the Cuckoo [5]
1954 Josephine Hull The Solid Gold Cadillac [5]
1955 Viveca Lindfors Anastasia [5]
1956 David Wayne The Ponder Heart [5]
1957 Eli Wallach Major Barbara [5]
1958 Ralph Bellamy Sunrise at Campobello [5]
1959 Cyril Ritchard The Pleasure of His Company [5]
1960 Jessica Tandy Five Finger Exercise [5]
1961 Hume Cronyn Big Fish, Little Fish [5]
1962 Paul Scofield A Man for All Seasons [5]
1963 Charles Boyer Lord Pengo [5]
1964 Alec Guinness Dylan [5][10]
1965 John Gielgud Tiny Alice [5]
1966 Richard Kiley Man of La Mancha [5]
1967 Rosemary Harris The Wild Duck [5]
1968 Zoe Caldwell The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [5]
1969 Alec McCowen Hadrian the Seventh [5]
1970 James Stewart Harvey [5]
1971 Anthony Quayle Sleuth [5]
1972 Eileen Atkins
Claire Bloom		 Vivat! Vivat Regina! [5]
1973 Alan Bates Butley [5]
1974 Christopher Plummer The Good Doctor [5]
1975 John Wood Sherlock Holmes [5]
1976 Eva Le Gallienne The Royal Family [5]
1977 Tom Courtenay Otherwise Engaged [5]
1978 Frank Langella Dracula [5]
1979 Frances Sternhagen On Golden Pond [5]
1980 Roy Scheider Betrayal [5]
1981 Ian McKellen Amadeus [11]
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 Hedwig and the Angry Inch [12]
2015 Chita Rivera The Visit [13]
2016 Lin-Manuel Miranda Hamilton [4]
2017 Ben Platt Dear Evan Hansen [4]
2018 Glenda Jackson Three Tall Women [4]
2019 Bryan Cranston Network [14]
2020 Danny Burstein Moulin Rouge! [15]
2021 No award presented
2022 Sutton Foster The Music Man [16]
2023 Annaleigh Ashford Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [4]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ The Drama League website does not list Bergner as the recipient in 1944, instead listing Lynn Fontanne, who is listed in other sources as co-recipient with Alfred Lunt in 1943.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Award History". Drama League of New York. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
  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 December 12, 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Elisabeth Bergner Gets Drama Award; Receives Delia Austrian Medal for Distinguished Acting". The New York Times. May 10, 1944. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
  4. ^ a b c d e Culwell-Block, Logan (May 19, 2023). "Some Like It Hot, Annaleigh Ashford, Leopoldstadt, More Win 2023 Drama League Awards". Playbill. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as Walter, Claire, ed. (1982). "Delia Austrian Medal". Winners: The Blue Ribbon Encyclopedia of Awards. New York: Facts on File, Inc. Retrieved February 17, 2024 – via The Internet Archive.
  6. ^ "Drama League Bestows Medal on Helen Hayes". Associated Press. May 22, 1936. Retrieved December 13, 2013 – via Reading Eagle.
  7. ^ "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 December 12, 2013.
  8. ^ "Massey Honored by Drama League; Lincoln Portrayer Wins the Delia Austrian Medal for Distinguished Acting". The New York Times. May 10, 1939. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
  9. ^ "Drama League Prize Given to the Lunts; Their Work in Behrman Play, 'The Pirate,' Is Rewarded". The New York Times. May 19, 1943. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
  10. ^ "Alec Guinness". Corbis. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
  11. ^ "'Cage Aux Folles' Due As Musical Comedy Set In New Orleans". The New York Times. May 8, 1981. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
  12. ^ Gardner, Elysa (May 16, 2014). "Awards for Neil Patrick Harris, 'All the Way'". USA Today. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
  13. ^ "2015 Drama League Awards: And the Winners are..." New York Theatre Guide. October 19, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
  14. ^ McPhee, Ryan (May 17, 2019). "Network's Bryan Cranston, Hadestown Among 2019 Drama League Award Winners". Playbill. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
  15. ^ Kragen, Pam (June 22, 2020). "Reporter's Notebook: UCSD grad Danny Burstein wins major Drama League award". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
  16. ^ Gans, Andrew (May 20, 2022). "The Lehman Trilogy, A Strange Loop, Sutton Foster, More Are Winners of 88th Annual Drama League Awards". Playbill. Retrieved February 17, 2024.

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