Tony Award for Best Lighting Design
This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for outstanding lighting design of a play or musical. The award was first presented in 1970. Since 2005, the category was divided into Lighting Design in a Play and Lighting Design in a Musical with each genre receiving its own award.
Winners and nominees
2010s
2020s
| Year | Award Type | Designer | Production |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | - | - | - |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Hugh Vanstone | A Christmas Carol |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Jiyoun Chang | Slave Play |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Jon Clark | The Inheritance |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Heather Gilbert | The Sound Inside |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Allen Lee Hughes | A Soldier's Play |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Justin Townsend | Moulin Rouge! |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Bruno Poet | Tina |
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Justin Townsend | Jagged Little Pill |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | - | - | - |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Jon Clark | The Lehman Trilogy |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Joshua Carr | Hangmen |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Jiyoun Chang | For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Jane Cox | Macbeth |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Yi Zhao | The Skin of Our Teeth |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Natasha Katz | MJ the Musical |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Neil Austin | Company |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Tim Deiling | Six |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Donald Holder | Paradise Square |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Bradley King | Flying Over Sunset |
| 2022 75th Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Jen Schriever | A Strange Loop |
| 2023 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | - | - |
| 2023 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Life of Pi | Tim Lutkin |
| 2023 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | A Christmas Carol | Ben Stanton |
| 2023 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Death of a Salesman | Jen Schriever |
| 2023 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | A Doll's House | Jon Clark |
| 2023 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Fat Ham | Bradley King |
| 2023 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Leopoldstadt | Neil Austin |
| 2023 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Prima Facie | Natasha Chivers |
| 2023 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Natasha Katz | Some Like It Hot |
| 2023 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Natasha Katz | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| 2023 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Howard Hudson | & Juliet |
| 2023 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Lap Chi Chu | Lerner & Loewe's Camelot |
| 2023 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Ken Billington | New York, New York |
| 2023 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Heather Gilbert | Parade |
| 2024 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Jane Cox | Appropriate |
| 2024 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Isabella Byrd | An Enemy of the People |
| 2024 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Natasha Katz | Grey House |
| 2024 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Amith Chandrashaker | Prayer for the French Republic |
| 2024 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Jiyoun Chang | Stereophonic |
| 2024 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | - | - |
| 2024 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Hana S. Kim and Brian MacDevitt | The Outsiders |
| 2024 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Isabella Byrd | Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club |
| 2024 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Natasha Katz | Hell's Kitchen |
| 2024 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Brandon Stirling Baker | Illinoise |
| 2024 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | David Bengali and Bradley King | Water for Elephants |
| 2025 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | - | - |
| 2025 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Stranger Things: The First Shadow | Jon Clark |
| 2025 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | Good Night, and Good Luck | Heather Gilbert and David Bengali |
| 2025 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | The Hills of California | Natasha Chivers |
| 2025 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | John Proctor Is the Villain | Natasha Katz and Hannah Wasileski |
| 2025 | Best Lighting Design for a Play | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Nick Schlieper |
| 2025 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | - | - |
| 2025 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Sunset Boulevard | Jack Knowles |
| 2025 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Buena Vista Social Club | Tyler Micoleau |
| 2025 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Death Becomes Her | Justin Townsend |
| 2025 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Floyd Collins | Ruey Horng Sun and Scott Zielinski |
| 2025 | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | Maybe Happy Ending | Ben Stanton |
| - | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | - | - |
| - | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | - | - |
| - | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | - | - |
| - | Best Lighting Design for a Musical | - | - |
Award records
Multiple wins
; 9 Wins;; 8 Wins
;; 5 Wins
; 4 Wins
; 3 Wins
; 2 Wins
- Christopher Akerlind
- Howell Binkley
- Paule Constable
- Donald Holder
- Bradley King
- Jennifer Tipton
- Hugh Vanstone
Multiple nominations
;; 24 Nominations;; 20 Nominations
;; 14 Nominations
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;; 12 Nominations
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;; 11 Nominations
;; 9 Nominations
;; 8 Nominations
;; 7 Nominations
;; 6 Nominations
;; 5 Nominations
- Christopher Akerlind
- Martin Aronstein
- Peter Kaczorowski
- Jennifer Tipton
- Hugh Vanstone
- Ben Stanton
- Bradley King
- Neil Peter Jampolis
- Justin Townsend
- Allen Lee Hughes
- Jane Cox
; 2 Nominations
- John Bury
- Ian Calderon
- Howard Harrison
- Peter Mumford
- Richard Nelson
- Jiyoun Chang
- Jon Clark