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George Clooney and Jonathan Groff among 2025 Tony Award nominees

George Clooney and Jonathan Groff among 2025 Tony Award nominees
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George Clooney and Jonathan Groff are among the 2025 Tony Award nominees.

On Thursday, Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce announced the nominees for this year's Tony Awards, which will take place in New York on 8 June.

Clooney received his first Tony nomination for his first-ever Broadway appearance in the stage adaptation of his 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck.

Meanwhile, Broadway regulars and former Glee stars Groff and Darren Criss were nominated in the same musical category for their roles in Just in Time and Maybe Happy Ending, respectively.

The Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play category is particularly star-studded this year, with nominees including Mia Farrow (The Roommate), Stranger Things star Sadie Sink (John Proctor Is the Villain) and Succession star Sarah Snook (The Picture of Dorian Gray), among others. The latter has already won an Olivier Award for the West End run of the play.

Fellow Olivier Award winner Nicole Scherzinger is also up for a Tony Award for the Broadway transfer for the Sunset Blvd. musical.

There were a number of surprising snubs this year, with Othello stars Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, Redwood's Idina Menzel and Once Upon a Mattress star Sutton Foster all left out.

Oscar winner Kieran Culkin also didn't get a nomination for his role in Glengarry Glen Ross, however, his co-star Bob Odenkirk did.

Three productions - Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy Ending - all scored 10 nominations each.

The top three were followed by Dead Outlaw, John Proctor Is the Villain, Sunset Blvd and The Hills of California with seven nods each.

The 78th Tony Awards will be hosted by Tony winner and Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo.

Here is a list of the main 2025 Tony nominees:

Best Musical

  • Buena Vista Social Club
  • Dead Outlaw
  • Death Becomes Her
  • Maybe Happy Ending
  • Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical

Best Play

  • English
  • The Hills of California
  • John Proctor is the Villain
  • Oh, Mary!
  • Purpose

Best Revival of a Musical

  • Floyd Collins
  • Gypsy
  • Pirates! The Penzance Musical
  • Sunset Blvd.

Best Revival of a Play

  • Eureka Day
  • Romeo + Juliet
  • Thornton Wilder's Our Town
  • Yellow Face

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

  • George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck
  • Cole Escola, Oh, Mary!
  • Jon Michael Hill, Purpose
  • Daniel Dae Kim, Yellow Face
  • Harry Lennix, Purpose
  • Louis McCartney, Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

  • Laura Donnelly, The Hills of California
  • Mia Farrow, The Roommate
  • LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Purpose
  • Sadie Sink, John Proctor is the Villain
  • Sarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical

  • Darren Criss, Maybe Happy Ending
  • Andrew Durand, Dead Outlaw
  • Tom Francis, Sunset Blvd.
  • Jonathan Groff, Just in Time
  • James Monroe Iglehart, A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical
  • Jeremy Jordan, Floyd Collins

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical

  • Megan Hilty, Death Becomes Her
  • Audra McDonald, Gypsy
  • Jasmine Amy Rogers, BOOP! The Musical
  • Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Blvd.
  • Jennifer Simard, Death Becomes Her

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play

  • Glenn Davis, Purpose
  • Gabriel Ebert, John Proctor is the Villain
  • Francis Jue, Yellow Face
  • Bob Odenkirk, Glengarry Glen Ross
  • Conrad Ricamora, Oh, Mary!

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play

  • Tala Ashe, English
  • Jessica Hecht, Eureka Day
  • Marjan Neshat, English
  • Fina Strazza, John Proctor is the Villain
  • Kara Young, Purpose

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical

  • Brooks Ashmanskas, SMASH
  • Jeb Brown, Dead Outlaw
  • Danny Burstein, Gypsy
  • Jak Malone, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
  • Taylor Trensch, Floyd Collins

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

  • Natalie Venetia Belcon, Buena Vista Social Club
  • Julia Knitel, Dead Outlaw
  • Gracie Lawrence, Just in Time
  • Justina Machado, Real Women Have Curves: The Musical
  • Joy Woods, Gypsy

Best Direction of a Play

  • Knud Adams, English
  • Sam Mendes, The Hills of California
  • Sam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary!
  • Danya Taymor, John Proctor is the Villain
  • Kip Williams, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Best Direction of a Musical

  • Saheem Ali, Buena Vista Social Club
  • Michael Arden, Maybe Happy Ending
  • David Cromer, Dead Outlaw
  • Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her
  • Jamie Lloyd, Sunset Blvd.
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