BEST LIGHTING DESIGN - TONY AWARDS 1970-2019 = 50 YEARS NOMINATION WINNER Year Best Lighting Design of a PLAY Best Lighting Design of a MUSICAL Best Lighting Design of a PLAY Best Lighting Design of a MUSICAL MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE 1970 2 1 1 1971 3 1 No women nominated 1972 3 1 1 1973 3 1 1 1974 4 1 1 1975 6 1 No women nominated 1976 2 2 1 1977 2 2 1 1978 3 1 1 1979 2 2 1 1980 3 1 1 1981 2 2 1 1982 2 2 1 1983 4 1 No women nominated 1984 4 1 No women nominated 1985 4 1 No women nominated 1986 3 1 1 1987 4 1 1 1988 4 1 No women nominated 1989 2 3 1 MORE women nominated 1990 5 1 No women nominated 1991 3 1 1 1992 4 1 No women nominated 1993 4 1 No women nominated 1994 2 2 1 1995 3 1 1 1996 4 1 1 1 1997 3 1 1 1998 4 2 1 1999 3 1 1 2000 2 2 1 2001 4 1 1 2002 3 1 1 2003 4 1 No women nominated 2004 3 1 1 1 2005 3 1 4 1 1 2006 4 4 1 1 1 2007 4 2 4 2 1 1 2008 3 1 3 1 1 1 2009 4 4 1 1 2010 4 4 1 1 2011 2 2 4 1 1 2012 4 2 2 1 1 2013 3 2 4 1 1 1 2014 1 3 4 1 1 MORE women nominated 2015 2 3 3 1 1 MORE women nominated AND women won BOTH 2016 3 1 4 1 1 1 2017 2 2 3 1 1 1 2018 4 2 5 1 1 1 2019 5 2 6 1 1 NOMINATION WINNER Best Lighting Design of a PLAY Best Lighting Design of a MUSICAL Best Lighting Design of a PLAY Best Lighting Design of a MUSICAL MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE TOTALS 161 56 58 7 41 14 13 2 TOTAL NUMBERS All wins: 70 All nominations: 282 Total Play Wins: 55 Total Mus Wins 15 All Noms Play 217 All men noms: 219 All women noms: 63 All Noms Mus 65 All men wins 54 All women wins 16 TOTAL PERCENTAGES Nominated Women - Both Categories Combined 22.3 % Nominated Women - Play 25.8 % Nominated Women - Musical 10.8 % Winning Women - Play 25.5 % Winning Women Musical 13.3 % Winning Women - Both Categories Combined 22.9 % Black Women Nominated 0.0 % Black women Winners 0.0 % Black Men Nominated - Both Categories Combined 1.1 % Black Men Winners - Both Categories Combined 0.0 % BIPOC Nominated - Both Categories Combined 1.1 % BIPOC Winners - Both Categories Combined 0.0 % --Even number of female nominations and male nominations: 8 times = 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1994, 2000, 2017 --More female nominations for Best Lighting Design of a Play: 3 times = 1989, 2014, 2015 --More female nominations for Best Lighting Design of a Musical: 0 times = NEVER --Female winners in BOTH categories: 1 time = 2015 - Natasha Katz for An American in Paris and Paule Constable for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time --Only 2 women have been nominated for Best Lighting Design of a Musical - Natasha Katz and Peggy Eisenhauer. Peggy's were both co- nominations with Jules Fisher. --Only 1 woman has won musical - Natasha Katz twice. --Jean Rosenthal design lights for more than 85 Broadway shows but died the year before there was a Lighting Design Tony. --The same year Jean Rosenthal passed away, Shirley Prendergast because the first African-American woman accepted into the Lighting Category of USA 829. This was 74 years after USA 829 was formed in 1895. --Louise Evans Briggs Hall was first African-American woman accepted into USA 829 in 1953 in the Costume Category. That was 58 years after USA 829 was formed in 1895. --The only three Black designers to have designed lights on Broadway have been Shirley Prendergast, Allen Lee Hughes, and William Grant. Compiled by ArtisticFinance.com - 06/22/2020.