| A | B |
|---|
| 1917, 1919, 1942, 1944, 1947, 1951, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1986, 1997 | No Award |
| 1918 Why Marry? | Jesse Lynch Williams |
| 1920 Beyond the Horizon | Eugene O'Neill |
| 1921 Miss Lulu Bett | Zona Gale |
| 1922 Anna Christie | Eugene O'Neill |
| 1923 Icebound | Owen Davis |
| 1924 Hell-Bent fer Heaven | Hatcher Hughes |
| 1925 They Knew What They Wanted | Sidney Howard |
| 1926 Craig's Wife | George Kelly |
| 1927 In Abraham's Bosom | Paul Green |
| 1928 Strange Interlude | Eugene O'Neill |
| 1929 Street Scene | Elmer L. Rice |
| 1930 The Green Pastures | Marc Connelly |
| 1931 Alison's House | Susan Glaspell |
| 1932 Of Thee I Sing | George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, & Ira Gershwin (music by George Gershwin) |
| 1933 Both Your Houses | Maxwell Anderson |
| 1934 Men in White | Sidney Kingsley |
| 1935 The Old Maid | Zoe Akins |
| 1936 Idiot's Delight | Robert E. Sherwood |
| 1937 You Can't Take It with You | Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman |
| 1938 Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| 1939 Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Robert E. Sherwood |
| 1940 The Time of Your Life | William Saroyan (declined) |
| 1941 There Shall Be No Night | Robert E. Sherwood |
| 1943 The Skin of Our Teeth | Thornton Wilder |
| 1945 Harvey | Mary Chase |
| 1946 State of the Union | Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay |
| 1948 A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
| 1949 Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| 1950 South Pacific | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan |
| 1952 The Shrike | Joseph Kramm |
| 1953 Picnic | William Inge |
| 1954 The Teahouse of the August Moon | John Patrick |
| 1955 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams |
| 1956 The Diary of Anne Frank | Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich |
| 1957 Long Day's Journey into Night | Eugene O'Neill |
| 1958 Look Homeward, Angel | Ketti Frings |
| 1959 J. B. | Archibald MacLeish |
| 1960 Fiorello! | Jerome Weidman, George Abbott (music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick) |
| 1961 All the Way Home | Tad Mosel |
| 1962 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows |
| 1965 The Subject Was Roses | Frank D. Gilroy |
| 1967 A Delicate Balance | Edward Albee |
| 1969 The Great White Hope | Howard Sackler |
| 1970 No Place To Be Somebody | Charles Gordone |
| 1971 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds | Paul Zindel |
| 1973 The Championship Season | Jason Miller |
| 1975 Seascape | Edward Albee |
| 1976 A Chorus Line | James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante |
| 1977 The Shadow Box | Michael Cristofer |
| 1978 The Gin Game | Donald L. Coburn |
| 1979 Buried Child | Sam Shepard |
| 1980 Talley's Folly | Lanford Wilson |
| 1981 Crimes of the Heart | Beth Henley |
| 1982 A Soldier's Play | Charles Fuller |
| 1983 'Night, Mother | Marsha Norman |
| 1984 Glengarry Glen Ross | David Mamet |
| 1985 Sunday in the Park with George | Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine |
| 1987 Fences | August Wilson |
| 1988 Driving Miss Daisy | Alfred Uhry |
| 1989 The Heidi Chronicles | Wendy Wasserstein |
| 1990 The Piano Lesson | August Wilson |
| 1991 Lost in Yonkers | Neil Simon |
| 1992 The Kentucky Cycle | Robert Schenkkan |
| 1993 Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | Tony Kushner |
| 1994 Three Tall Women | Edward Albee |
| 1995 The Young Man from Atlanta | Horton Foote |
| 1996 Rent | Jonathan Larson |
| 1998 How I Learned to Drive | Paula Vogel |
| 1999 Wit | Margaret Edson |
| 2000 Dinner with Friends | Donald Margulies |
| 2001 Proof | David Auburn |
| 2002 Topdog/Underdog | Suzan-Lori Parks |
| 2003 Anna in the Tropics | Nilo Cruz |
| 2004 I Am My Own Wife | Doug Wright |
| 2005 Doubt: A Parable | John Patrick Shanley |
| 2006 Miss Witherspoon | Christopher Durang |
| 2007 Rabbit Hole | David Lindsay-Abaire |
