Clarence Derwent Awards (US) Broadway Awards – 1945 to 2024 awards

All winners of the Clarence Derwent Awards (US) – Broadway Awards.

The Clarence Derwent Awards are prestigious theatre awards that celebrate best supporting performances on Broadway and in the West End.

The awards are handed out annually by Actors’ Equity Association in the US for Broadway performances, and Equity, the performers’ union in the UK, for West End performances.

The awards are named after English actor, director, and manager Clarence Derwent (23 March 1884 – 6 August 1959).

Derwent’s will stipulated that two prizes were to be given out annually to the best individual male and female supporting performances on Broadway, and to the best supporting performances in the West End.

Also see: Clarence Derwent Awards (UK) West End Awards

Most Promising Male

1945: Frederick O’Neal as Frank in Anna Lucasta
1946: Paul Douglas as Harry Brock in Born Yesterday
1947: Tom Ewell as Fred Taylor in John Loves Mary
1948: Lou Gilbert as Charlie in Hope Is the Thing with Feathers
1949: Ray Walston as Traveling Salesman in Summer and Smoke
1950: Douglass Watson as Peter Whitfield in Wisteria Trees
1951: Frederic Warriner as Reverend De Soames in Getting Married
1951: Logan Ramsey as Willie Pentridge in High Ground
1952: Iggie Wolfington as Chef in Mrs. McThing
1953: David J. Stewart as The Baron in Camino Real
1954: David Lewis as Joe Wicks in King of Hearts
1955: Fritz Weaver as Flaminero in The White Devil
1956: Gerald Hiken as Telegen in Uncle Vanya
1957: Ellis Rabb as Alceste in The Misanthrope
1958: George C. Scott as Richard III in Richard III
1959: David Hurst as Police Inspector in Look After Lulu!
1960: William Daniels as Peter in The Zoo Story
1961: Eric Christmas as Rector Olive in Little Moon of Alba
1962: Gene Wilder as Hotel Valet in The Complaisant Lover
1963: Gene Hackman as Charles Widgin Rochambeau in Children from Their Games
1964: Richard McMurray as Fred Alston in A Case of Libel
1965: Jaime Sánchez as Jesus in Conerico Was Here to Stay
1966: Christopher Walken as Philip II of France in The Lion in Winter
1966: Tom Ahearne (special citation) as Edward Quinn in Hogan’s Goat
1967: Austin Pendleton as Irwin Ingham in Hail Scrawdyke!
1967: Philip Bosco (special citation) as Lincoln Center Rep in The Alchemist
1968: David Birney as Troubled Youth in Summertree
1969: Ron O’Neal as Gabe Gabriel in No Place to Be Somebody
1970: Jeremiah Sullivan as Gravedigger in A Scent of Flowers
1971: James Woods as Lenny in Saved
1972: Richard Backus as Willie/Wesley/Walter/Wendall in Promenade, All!
1973: Christopher Murney as Sylvestre in Tricks
1974: Thom Christopher as Felix in Noël Coward in Two Keys
1975: Reyno as Lou Edwards in The First Breeze of Summer
1976: Peter Evans as Richie in Streamers
1977: Barry Preston as Charlie/Count in Bubbling Brown Sugar
1978: Morgan Freeman as Zeke in The Mighty Gents
1979: Richard Cox as Dan Danger in Platinum
1980: Eric Peterson as Billy Bishop in Billy Bishop Goes to War
1981: Bob Gunton as The Historical Event in How I Got That Story
1982: Larry Riley as Pvt. C.J. Memphis in A Soldier’s Play
1983: John Malkovich as Lee in True West
1984: Peter Gallagher as Billy in The Real Thing
1985: Bill Sadler as Sgt. Merwin J. Toomey in Biloxi Blues
1986: John Mahoney as Artie Shaughnessy in The House of Blue Leaves
1987: Courtney B. Vance as Cory Maxson in Fences
1988: BD Wong as Song Liling in M. Butterfly
1989: John Pankow as Eamon in Aristocrats
1990: Michael Jeter as Otto Kringelein in Grand Hotel
1991: Danny Gerard as Arty in Lost in Yonkers
1991: James McDaniel as Paul Poitier in Six Degrees of Separation
1992: Patrick Fitzgerald as Sean O’Casey in Grandchild of Kings
1993: Joe Mantello as Louis Ironson in Angels in America
1994: Robert Stanton in All in the Timing as Various roles
1995: Billy Crudup as Septimus Hodge in Arcadia
1996: Ruben Santiago-Hudson as Canewell in Seven Guitars
1997: Alan Tudyk in Bunny Bunny as Various roles
1998: Sam Trammell as Richard Miller in Ah, Wilderness!
1999: Robert Sella as Clifford in Side Man
2000: Derek Smith as Tartaglia in The Green Bird and as Philip Faulconbridge in King John
2001: David Burtka as The Boy in The Play About the Baby
2002: Sam Robards as Gustav Eberson in The Man Who Had All the Luck
2003: Denis O’Hare as Mason Marzac in Take Me Out
2004: John Tartaglia as Princeton/Rod in Avenue Q
2005: Christian Borle as Historian/Not Dead Fred/French Guard/Minstrel/Prince Herbert in Spamalot
2006: Jason Ritter as Woodson Bull III in Third
2007: Lin-Manuel Miranda as Usnavi de la Vega in In the Heights
2008: Michael Esper as Skip in Crazy Mary
2009: Aaron Tveit as Gabe Goodman in Next to Normal
2010: Bill Heck as Horace Robedaux/Paul Horace Robedaux in The Orphans’ Home Cycle
2011: Santino Fontana as Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest
2012: Finn Wittrock as Happy Loman in Death of a Salesman
2013: Michael Urie as Alex More in Buyer & Cellar
2014: Steven Boyer as Jason/Tyrone in Hand to God
2015: Josh Grisetti as Marty Kaufman in It Shoulda Been You
2016: Ben Platt as Evan Hansen in Dear Evan Hansen
2017: Will Pullen as Jason in Sweat
2018: Sean Carvajal as Angel Cruz in Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train
2019: Ephraim Sykes as David Ruffin in Ain’t Too Proud
2022: Justin Cooley as Seth Weetis in Kimberly Akimbo
2023: Alex Newell as Lulu in Shucked
2024: Andrew Durand in Dead Outlaw

Most Promising Female

1945: Judy Holliday as Alice in Kiss Them for Me
1946: Barbara Bel Geddes as Genevra Langdon in Deep Are the Roots
1947: Margaret Phillips as Birdie Bagtry in Another Part of the Forest
1948: Catherine Ayers as Susie in Moon of the Caribbean
1949: Leora Dana as Irma in The Madwoman of Chaillot
1950: Gloria Lane as Secretary to the Consulate in The Consul
1951: Phyllis Love as Rose Delle Rose in The Rose Tattoo
1952: Anne Meacham as Ensign Jane Hilton in The Long Watch
1953: Jenny Egan as Mary Warren in The Crucible
1954: Vilma Kurer as Hilde Kranzbeck in The Winner
1955: Vivian Nathan as Charwoman in Anastasia
1956: Frances Sternhagen as Shavian Heroine in The Admiral Bashville
1957: Joan Croydon as Miss Connolly in The Potting Shed
1958: Collin Wilcox as Ellen Wells in The Day the Money Stopped
1959: Lois Nettleton as Shelagh O’Conner in God and Kate Murphy
1960: Rochelle Oliver as Lily Berniers in Toys in the Attic
1961: Rosemary Murphy as Dorothea Bates in Period of Adjustment
1962: Rebecca Drake as Helen Cobb in Who’ll Save the Plowboy?
1963: Jessica Walter as Clarice/Ada Cooney in Photo Finish
1964: Joyce Ebert as Andromache in The Trojan Women
1965: Elizabeth Hubbard as Monika Stettler in The Physicists
1966: Jean Hepple as Annie in Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance
1967: Reva Rose as Lucy van Pelt in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
1968: Catherine Burns as Monica in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1969: Marlene Warfield as Clara in The Great White Hope
1970: Pamela Payton-Wright as Tillie in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
1971: Katherine Helmond as Bananas in The House of Blue Leaves
1972: Pamela Bellwood as Jill Tanner in Butterflies Are Free
1973: Mari Gorman as Jackie in The Hot l Baltimore
1974: Ann Reinking as Maggie in Over Here!
1975: Mary Beth Hurt as Miss Prue in Love for Love
1976: Nancy Snyder as Joan of Arc in Knock Knock
1977: Rose Gregorio as Agnes in The Shadow Box
1978: Margaret Hilton as Eve in Molly
1979: Laurie Kennedy as Violet Robinson in Man and Superman
1980: Dianne Wiest as Elizabeth Barrow in On the Art of Dining
1981: Mia Dillon as Babe Botrelle in Crimes of the Heart
1982: Joann Camp as Skye Bullene in Geniuses
1983: Dana Ivey as Monica Reed in Present Laughter and Melanie Garth in Quartermaine’s Terms
1984: Joan Allen as Hellen Stott in And a Nightingale Sang
1985: Joanna Gleason as Pam in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1986: Patti Cohenour as Rosa Bud in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1987: Annette Bening as Holly Dancer in Coastal Disturbances
1988: Christine Estabrook as Sheila in The Boys Next Door
1989: Mercedes Ruehl as Kate Sullivan in Other People’s Money
1990: Mary-Louise Parker as Rita Boyle in Prelude to a Kiss
1991: Jane Adams as Deirdre McDavey in I Hate Hamlet
1992: Tonya Pinkins as Anita in Jelly’s Last Jam
1993: Ann Dowd as Miss Proserpine Garnett in Candida
1994: Jeanne Paulsen as Joleen Rowen in The Kentucky Cycle
1995: Calista Flockhart as Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie
1996: LisaGay Hamilton as Veronica in Valley Song
1997: Allison Janney as Liz Essendine in Present Laughter
1998: Julyana Soelistyo as Eng Ahn in Golden Child
1999: Kristin Chenoweth as Sally Brown in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
2000: Sherie Rene Scott as Amneris in Aida
2001: Spencer Kayden as Little Sally in Urinetown
2002: Anne Hathaway as Lili in Carnival!
2003: Kerry Butler as Penny Pingleton in Hairspray
2004: Anika Noni Rose as Emmie Thibodeaux in Caroline, or Change
2005: Ari Graynor as Alison in Brooklyn Boy
2006: Felicia P. Fields as Sofia in The Color Purple
2007: Leslie Kritzer as Serena in Legally Blonde
2008: Zoe Kazan as Marie in Come Back, Little Sheba, Stella in Things We Want, and Abby in 100 Saints You Should Know
2009: Quincy Tyler Bernstine as Salima in Ruined
2010: Nina Arianda as Vanda Jordan in Venus in Fur
2011: Tracee Chimo as Regan in Bachelorette
2012: Susan Pourfar as Sylvia in Tribes
2013: Annaleigh Ashford as Lauren in Kinky Boots
2014: Whitney Bashor as Marian/Chiara in The Bridges of Madison County
2015: Phillipa Soo as Eliza Schuyler Hamilton in Hamilton
2016: Alana Arenas as Cookie in Head of Passes
2017: Katrina Lenk as Dina in The Band’s Visit
2018: Ashley Park as MwE in KPOP and Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls
2019: Sarah Stiles as Sandy Lester in Tootsie
2022: Kara Young as Letitia in Clyde’s
2023: Bonnie Milligan as Aunt Debra in Kimberly Akimbo
2024: Hannah Cruz in Suffs / The Connector