Drama League Distinguished Performance Award

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.

The award is named for theater reviewer Delia Austrian. An artist may only win the award once in their lifetime.

Winners

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

Notes

References

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