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==Awards and nominations==

<nowiki>*</nowiki> Star marks winners of the annual [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]].

===1940s===

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* 1949: '''''[[Death of a Salesman]]''* by [[Arthur Miller]]'''

** ''No nominees''

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* 1953: '''''[[The Crucible]]'' by [[Arthur Miller]]'''

** ''No nominees''

* 1954: '''''[[The Teahouse of the August Moon (play)|The Teahouse of the August Moon]]''* by [[John Patrick (dramatist)|John Patrick]]'''

** ''No nominees''

* 1955: '''''[[The Desperate Hours (play)|The Desperate Hours]]'' by [[Joseph Hayes (author)|Joseph Hayes]]'''

** ''No nominees''

* 1956: '''''[[The Diary of Anne Frank (play)|The Diary of Anne Frank]]''* by [[Frances Goodrich]] and [[Albert Hackett]]'''

** ''[[Bus Stop (play)|Bus Stop]]'' by [[William Inge]]

** ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' by [[Tennessee Williams]]

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* 1957: '''''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]''* by [[Eugene O'Neill]]'''

** ''[[Separate Tables]]'' by [[Terence Rattigan]]

** ''[[The Potting Shed]]'' by [[Graham Greene]]

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** ''[[The Dark at the Top of the Stairs]]'' by [[William Inge]]

** ''[[Look Back in Anger]]'' by [[John Osborne]]

** ''[[Look Homeward, Angel (play)|Look Homeward, Angel]]''* by [[Ketti Frings]]

** ''[[Romanoff and Juliet (play)|Romanoff and Juliet]]'' by [[Peter Ustinov]]

* 1959: '''''[[J.B. (play)|J.B.]]''* by [[Archibald MacLeish]]'''

** ''[[A Touch of the Poet]]'' by [[Eugene O'Neill]]

** ''[[Epitaph for George Dillon]]'' by [[John Osborne]]

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** ''[[Toys in the Attic (play)|Toys in the Attic]]'' by [[Lillian Hellman]]

* 1961: '''''[[Becket]]'' by [[Jean Anouilh]]'''

** ''[[All the Way Home (play)|All the Way Home]]''* by [[Tad Mosel]]

** ''The Devil's Advocate'' by [[Dore Schary]]

** ''[[The Hostage (play)|The Hostage]]'' by [[Brendan Behan]]

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* 1965: '''''[[The Subject Was Roses]]''* by [[Frank D. Gilroy]]'''

** ''[[Luv (play)|Luv]]'' by [[Murray Schisgal]]

** ''[[The Odd Couple]]'' by [[Neil Simon]]

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** ''The Right Honourable Gentleman'' by Michael Dyne

* 1967: '''''[[The Homecoming]]'' by [[Harold Pinter]]'''

** ''[[A Delicate Balance (play)|A Delicate Balance]]''* by [[Edward Albee]]

** ''[[Black Comedy (play)|Black Comedy]]'' by [[Peter Shaffer]]

** ''[[The Killing of Sister George]]'' by [[Frank Marcus]]

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** ''[[Plaza Suite]]'' by [[Neil Simon]]

** ''[[The Price (play)|The Price]]'' by [[Arthur Miller]]

* 1969: '''''[[The Great White Hope]]''* by [[Howard Sackler]]'''

** ''[[Hadrian VII]]'' by [[Peter Luke]]

** ''[[Lovers (play)|Lovers]]'' by [[Brian Friel]]

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** ''[[The Prisoner of Second Avenue]]'' by [[Neil Simon]]

** ''[[Vivat! Vivat Regina!]]'' by [[Robert Bolt]]

* 1973: '''''[[That Championship Season]]''* by [[Jason Miller (playwright)|Jason Miller]]'''

** ''[[Butley (play)|Butley]]'' by [[Simon Gray]]

** ''[[The Changing Room]]'' by [[David Storey]]

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* 1975: '''''[[Equus (play)|Equus]]'' by [[Peter Shaffer]]'''

** ''[[Same Time, Next Year (play)|Same Time, Next Year]]'' by [[Bernard Slade]]

** ''[[Seascape (play)|Seascape]]''* by [[Edward Albee]]

** ''[[Short Eyes (play)|Short Eyes]]'' by [[Miguel Pinero]]

** ''[[Sizwe Banzi Is Dead]]'' / ''[[The Island (play)|The Island]]'' by [[Athol Fugard]], [[John Kani]], and [[Winston Ntshona]]

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** ''Knock Knock'' by [[Jules Feiffer]]

** ''Lamppost Reunion'' by Louis La Russo

* 1977: '''''[[The Shadow Box]]''* by [[Michael Cristofer]]'''

** ''[[For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf]]'' by [[Ntozake Shange]]

** ''[[Otherwise Engaged]]'' by [[Simon Gray]]

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** ''[[Chapter Two (play)|Chapter Two]]'' by [[Neil Simon]]

** ''[[Deathtrap (play)|Deathtrap]]'' by [[Ira Levin]]

** ''[[The Gin Game]]''* by D. L. Coburn

* 1979: '''''[[The Elephant Man (play)|The Elephant Man]]'' by [[Bernard Pomerance]]'''

** ''[[Bedroom Farce (play)|Bedroom Farce]]'' by [[Alan Ayckbourn]]

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** ''[[Bent (play)|Bent]]'' by [[Martin Sherman]]

** ''[[Home (play)|Home]]'' by [[Samm-Art Williams]]

** ''[[Talley's Folly]]''* by [[Lanford Wilson]]

* 1981: '''''[[Amadeus]]'' by [[Peter Shaffer]]'''

** ''A Lesson from Aloes'' by [[Athol Fugard]]

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** ''[[Fifth of July]]'' by [[Lanford Wilson]]

* 1982: '''''[[The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (play)|The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby]]'' by [[David Edgar (playwright)|David Edgar]]'''

** ''[[Crimes of the Heart]]''* by [[Beth Henley]]

** ''[[The Dresser]]'' by [[Ronald Harwood]]

** ''[["Master Harold"...and the Boys]]'' by [[Athol Fugard]]

* 1983: '''''[[Torch Song Trilogy]]'' by [[Harvey Fierstein]]'''

** ''[[Angels Fall]]'' by [[Lanford Wilson]]

** ''[['night, Mother]]''* by [[Marsha Norman]]

** ''[[Plenty (play)|Plenty]]'' by [[David Hare (playwright)|David Hare]]

* 1984: '''''[[The Real Thing (play)|The Real Thing]]'' by [[Tom Stoppard]]'''

** ''[[Glengarry Glen Ross]]''* by [[David Mamet]]

** ''[[Noises Off]]'' by [[Michael Frayn]]

** ''Play Memory'' by [[Joanna Glass]]

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** ''[[Blood Knot]]'' by [[Athol Fugard]]

** ''[[The House of Blue Leaves]]'' by [[John Guare]]

* 1987: '''''[[Fences (play)|Fences]]''* by [[August Wilson]]'''

** ''[[Broadway Bound]]'' by [[Neil Simon]]

** ''[[Coastal Disturbances]]'' by [[Tina Howe]]

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** ''[[Joe Turner's Come and Gone]]'' by [[August Wilson]]

** ''[[Speed-the-Plow]]'' by [[David Mamet]]

* 1989: '''''[[The Heidi Chronicles]]''* by [[Wendy Wasserstein]]'''

** ''Largely New York'' by [[Bill Irwin]]

** ''[[Lend Me a Tenor]]'' by [[Ken Ludwig]]

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** ''[[Lettice and Lovage]]'' by [[Peter Shaffer]]

** ''[[Prelude to a Kiss (play)|Prelude to a Kiss]]'' by [[Craig Lucas]]

** ''[[The Piano Lesson]]''* by [[August Wilson]]

* 1991: '''''[[Lost in Yonkers]]''* by [[Neil Simon]]'''

** ''[[Our Country's Good]]'' by [[Timberlake Wertenbaker]]

** ''[[Shadowlands (1985 film)|Shadowlands]]'' by [[William Nicholson (writer)|William Nicholson]]

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** ''Two Shakespearean Actors'' by [[Richard Nelson (playwright)|Richard Nelson]]

** ''[[Two Trains Running]]'' by [[August Wilson]]

* 1993: '''''[[Angels in America: Millennium Approaches]]''* by [[Tony Kushner]]'''

** ''[[The Sisters Rosensweig]]'' by [[Wendy Wasserstein]]

** ''[[Someone Who'll Watch Over Me]]'' by [[Frank McGuinness]]

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* 1994: '''''[[Angels in America: Perestroika]]'' by [[Tony Kushner]]'''

** ''[[Broken Glass (play)|Broken Glass]]'' by [[Arthur Miller]]

** ''[[The Kentucky Cycle]]''* by [[Robert Schenkkan]]

** ''[[Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992]]'' by [[Anna Deavere Smith]]

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** ''[[The Ride Down Mt. Morgan]]'' by [[Arthur Miller]]

** ''[[True West (play)|True West]]'' by [[Sam Shepard]]

* 2001: '''''[[Proof (play)|Proof]]''* by [[David Auburn]]'''

** ''[[The Invention of Love]]'' by [[Tom Stoppard]]

** ''[[King Hedley II]]'' by [[August Wilson]]

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** ''[[Fortune's Fool]]'' by [[Mike Poulton]]

** ''[[Metamorphoses (play)|Metamorphoses]]'' by [[Mary Zimmerman]]

** ''[[Topdog/Underdog]]''* by [[Suzan-Lori Parks]]

* 2003: '''''[[Take Me Out (play)|Take Me Out]]'' by [[Richard Greenberg]]'''

** ''[[Enchanted April (2003 play)|Enchanted April]]'' by Matthew Barber

** ''[[Say Goodnight, Gracie]]'' by [[Rupert Holmes]]

** ''[[Vincent in Brixton]]'' by [[Nicholas Wright (playwright)|Nicholas Wright]]

* 2004: '''''[[I Am My Own Wife]]''* by [[Doug Wright]]'''

** ''[[Anna in the Tropics]]''* by [[Nilo Cruz]]

** ''[[Frozen (play)|Frozen]]'' by [[Bryony Lavery]]

** ''[[The Retreat from Moscow]]'' by [[William Nicholson (writer)|William Nicholson]]

* 2005: '''''[[Doubt: A Parable|Doubt]]''* by [[John Patrick Shanley]]'''

** ''[[Democracy (play)|Democracy]]'' by [[Michael Frayn]]

** ''[[Gem of the Ocean]]'' by [[August Wilson]]

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* 2006: '''''[[The History Boys]]'' by [[Alan Bennett]]'''

** ''[[The Lieutenant of Inishmore]]'' by [[Martin McDonagh]]

** ''[[Rabbit Hole]]''* by [[David Lindsay-Abaire]]

** ''[[Shining City]]'' by [[Conor McPherson]]

* 2007: '''''[[The Coast of Utopia]]'' by [[Tom Stoppard]]'''

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** ''[[The Little Dog Laughed (play)|The Little Dog Laughed]]'' by [[Douglas Carter Beane]]

** ''[[Radio Golf]]'' by [[August Wilson]]

* 2008: '''''[[August: Osage County]]''* by [[Tracy Letts]]'''

** ''[[Rock 'n' Roll (play)|Rock 'n' Roll]]'' by [[Tom Stoppard]]

** ''[[The Seafarer (play)|The Seafarer]]'' by [[Conor McPherson]]

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** ''[[Jerusalem (play)|Jerusalem]]'' by [[Jez Butterworth]]

** ''[[The Motherfucker with the Hat]]'' by [[Stephen Adly Guirgis]]

* 2012: '''''[[Clybourne Park]]''* by [[Bruce Norris (playwright)|Bruce Norris]]'''

** ''[[Other Desert Cities]]'' by [[Jon Robin Baitz]]

** ''[[Peter and the Starcatcher (play)|Peter and the Starcatcher]]'' by [[Rick Elice]]

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* 2015: '''''[[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play)|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time]]'' by [[Simon Stephens]]'''''

** ''[[Disgraced]]''* by [[Ayad Akhtar]]'''

** ''[[Hand to God (play)|Hand to God]]'' by Robert Askins'''

** ''[[Wolf Hall#Adaptations|Wolf Hall, Parts One & Two]]'' by [[Hilary Mantel]] and [[Mike Poulton]]'''