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

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Award History". Drama League of New York. Retrieved 2015-01-06.
  2. 1 2 "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. 1 2 "Receives Delia Austrian Medal for Distinguished Acting". The New York Times. May 10, 1944. Retrieved 2013-12-12.
  4. 1 2 3 4 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "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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