Delia Austrian medal

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The Delia Austrian medal or the Distinguished Performance Award has been awarded each year since 1935 by The Drama League for the "most distinguished" performance of the theater season.[1] The award is named for Delia Austrian a theater reviewer.[2][3][4]

## Winners[edit]

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

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ^ "Award History". Drama League of New York. Retrieved 2015-01-06.
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 2013-12-12.
3. ^ a b "Receives Delia Austrian Medal for Distinguished Acting". The New York Times. May 10, 1944. Retrieved 2013-12-12.
4. ^ a b c d Ken Bloom. "Delia Austrian medal". Broadway: An Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2013-12-13.
5. ^ "'Cage Aux Folles' Due As Musical Comedy Set In New Orleans". The New York Times. May 8, 1981. Retrieved 2013-12-12.
6. ^ "Alec Guinness". Corbis. Retrieved 2013-12-13.
7. ^ a b c d e f g "Delia Austrian medal". Winners, the blue ribbon encyclopedia of awards.
8. ^ "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.
9. ^ "Drama League Betows Medal on Helen Hayes". Associated Press in the Reading Eagle. May 22, 1936. Retrieved 2013-12-13.

## External links[edit]

* Delia Austrian medal at Drama League of New York