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Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Scenic Design | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Scenic Design |
Location | New York City |
Presented by | Outer Critics Circle |
Currently held by | Miriam Buether, Jamie Harrison, and Chris Fisher, Stranger Things: The First Shadow (2025) |
Website | OuterCriticsCircle.org |
The Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Scenic Design is an honor presented at the Outer Critics Circle Awards, a ceremony established in 1950 for excellence in Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, to set designers of any production. The category was added to the ceremony in 1979 as the first technical award category as "Best Set Design" before being changed to "Outstanding Scenic Design" in 1999.
Robin Wagner has won the award the most times, with four wins, followed by Bob Crowley, Eugene Lee, David Gallo and Anthony Ward with two wins each. John Lee Beatty, however, holds the record for most nominations, with 12. Maria Bjornson was the first female scenic designer to win the award in 1988 for The Phantom of the Opera .
Year | Name | Work | Ref. |
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1979 | |||
John Wulp | The Crucifer of Blood | ||
Year | Name | Work | Ref. |
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1980 | |||
John Lee Beatty | Hide and Seek and Talley's Folly | ||
1981 | |||
Robert Phillips[ disambiguation needed ] | Journey's End | ||
1982 | No award given. | ||
1983 | |||
Ming Cho Lee | K2 | ||
1984 | No award given. | ||
1985 | |||
Tony Straiges | Diamonds and Sunday in the Park with George | ||
1986 | |||
Bob Shaw | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | ||
1987 | |||
John Napier | Les Misérables | ||
1988 | |||
Maria Bjornson | The Phantom of the Opera | ||
1989 | |||
Tony Walton | Lend Me a Tenor |
Year | Name | Work | Ref. |
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Note: award given as "Best Set, Costume and Lighting Design" | |||
1990 | |||
Robin Wagner | City of Angels | ||
1991 | |||
Heidi Landesman | The Secret Garden | ||
1992 | |||
Robin Wagner | Crazy for You | ||
Joe Vanck | Dancing at Lughnasa | ||
Richard Pilbrow | Four Baboons Adoring the Sun | ||
John Lee Beatty | Song of Singapore | ||
1993 | |||
John Arnone | The Who's Tommy | ||
1994 | |||
Bob Crowley | Carousel | ||
1995 | |||
Eugene Lee | Show Boat | ||
1996 | |||
Brian Thomson | The King and I | ||
1997 (tie) | |||
David Gallo | Bunny Bunny | ||
Stewart Laing | Titanic | ||
Tony Walton | Steel Pier | ||
John Lee Beatty | The Little Foxes | ||
1998 | |||
Richard Hudson | The Lion King | ||
Eugene Lee | Ragtime | ||
Tony Straiges | Golden Child | ||
Heidi Ettinger | The Sound of Music | ||
Note: award given as "Outstanding Scenic Design" | |||
1999 | |||
Richard Hoover | Not About Nightingales | ||
James Noone | Night Must Fall | ||
Bob Crowley | The Iceman Cometh | ||
John Lee Beatty | The Mystery of Irma Vep |
Year | Name | Work | Ref. |
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2020 (Hon.) | Rob Howell | A Christmas Carol | |
Clint Ramos | Grand Horizons | ||
Derek McLane | Moulin Rouge! | ||
Tim Mackabee | Seared | ||
Anthony Ward | The Height of the Storm | ||
2021 | No award given due to COVID-19 pandemic. | ||
2022 | |||
Adam Rigg | The Skin of Our Teeth | ||
Es Devlin | The Lehman Trilogy | ||
Beowulf Boritt | Flying Over Sunset | ||
Scott Pask | American Buffalo | ||
David Zinn | The Minutes | ||
2023 | |||
Beowulf Boritt | New York, New York | [1] | |
Simon Scullion | Peter Pan Goes Wrong | ||
John Lee Beatty | Epiphany | ||
Jason Ardizzone-West and Beowulf Boritt | Wedding Band | ||
Mimi Lien | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | ||
2024 (tie) | |||
Paul Tate dePoo III | The Great Gatsby | [2] | |
David Zinn | Stereophonic | ||
Paul Tate dePoo III | The Cottage | ||
dots (Andrew Moerdyk, Kimie Nishikawa and Santiago Orjuela-Laverde) | Appropriate | ||
David Korins | Here Lies Love | ||
2025 | |||
Miriam Buether, Jamie Harrison and Chris Fisher | The Great Gatsby | [3] [4] | |
Dane Laffrey | Maybe Happy Ending | ||
Rachel Hauck | Swept Away | ||
Rob Howell | The Hills of California | ||
Derek McLane | Death Becomes Her |