Tony Awards 2025 nominations: George Clooney gets nod while Denzel Washington snubbed
Forty-two productions from the 2024-2025 Broadway season were eligible to receive nominations, which were shared Thursday morning by Tony winners Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce.
Oscar winner George Clooney is among the A-list stars who have been recognized.
Clooney, currently making his Broadway debut as Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck, received a nod in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play category. The role marks his first on stage performance since 1986 when he appeared in Vicious at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.
Stranger Things star Sadie Sink received a nomination in her return to Broadway. She's been nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for her role as Shelby Holcomb in playwright Kimberly Belflower's John Proctor is the Villain. The production also received a nod for Best Play. Sink last appeared on Broadway in 2015's The Audience.
Nominated alongside her is Succession star Sarah Snook, currently starring in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Snook is making her Broadway debut following a successful run in London's West End.
Former Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger received a nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for playing Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. Similar to Snook, Scherzinger is making her Broadway debut with the production following its' London run. The production was also nominated for Best Revival of a Musical.
But not all celebrities who took their work to the Main Stem were recognized by the Tonys.
Oscar winner Denzel Washington was snubbed in the category where Clooney was recognized. Washington marked his return to Broadway as the title role in Othello. He last appeared on the Main Stem in 2018's The Iceman Cometh, and won a Tony for his leading role in Fences in 2010. Washington's co-star, Jake Gyllenhaal was also snubbed. The three-time Tony nominee is playing Iago in the Shakespearean revival.
Oscar and Emmy winner Kieran Culkin was not recognized for his work as Richard Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross. The production marks Culkin's return to Broadway following 2014's This Is Our Youth.
In his Broadway debut, Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. was overlooked in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play category. He starred as the titular character in the limited run of McNeal.
Nick Jonas, in his return to the Main Stem for the first time since 2012's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, was also snubbed. Jonas is starring alongside Tony winner Adrienne Warren in the first-ever Broadway mounting of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years.
Interestingly, two productions — Our Town and Romeo + Juliet — were each nominated for Best Revival of a Play. But the stars at the forefront of those productions — Jim Parsons and Katie Holmes, and Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler — did not receive acting nods.
The 78th annual Tony Awards will take place Sunday, June 8 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Hosted by Tony, Grammy, and Emmy winner Cynthia Erivo, the Tonys will be broadcast live on CBS starting at 8 p.m. ET.
The full list of 2025 Tony nominees can be found here. Nominees in the eight main acting categories plus those for best play and musical are below:
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 Play
English
The Hills of California
John Proctor is the Villain
Oh, Mary!
Purpose
Best Musical
Buena Vista Social Club
Dead Outlaw
Death Becomes Her
Maybe Happy Ending
Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
Best Revival of a Play
Eureka Day
Romeo + Juliet
Thornton Wilder's Our Town
Yellow Face
Best Revival of a Musical
Floyd Collins
Gypsy
Pirates! The Penzance Musical
Sunset Blvd.
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