19th Tony Awards

Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1964–1965 season before May 20, 1965 are eligible.

;Original plays

• Absence of a Cello
• Alfie
• All in Good Time
• The Amen Corner
• And Things That Go Bump in the Night
• Beekman Place
• Boeing-Boeing
• Catch Me If You Can
• Conversation at Midnight
• Diamond Orchid
• The Family Way
• A Girl Could Get Lucky
• Hughie
• I Was Dancing
• Incident at Vichy
• The Last Analysis
• Luv
• The Odd Couple
• One by One
• The Owl and the Pussycat
• P.S. I Love You
• Peterpat
• The Physicists
• Poor Bitos
• Poor Richard
• A Race of Hairy Men!
• Ready When You Are, C.B.!
• Roar Like a Dove
• A Severed Head
• The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
• Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
• The Subject was Roses
• The Sunday Man
• Tiny Alice
• Traveller Without Luggage
• The White House ;Original musicals
• Bajour
• Baker Street
• Ben Franklin in Paris
• Cambridge Circus
• The Committee.
• Do I Hear a Waltz?
• Fade Out - Fade In
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Flora the Red Menace
• Folies Bergère [1964]
• Golden Boy
• Half a Sixpence
• I Had a Ball
• Kelly
• Oh, What a Lovely War!
• The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd
• Something More!
• This Was Burlesque
• Zizi ;Play revivals
• The Changeling
• The Glass Menagerie
• Tartuffe
• Three Sisters ;Musical revivals
• Guys and Dolls
• Wiener Blut

The ceremony

Presenters: George Abbott, Alan Alda, Robert Alda, Alan Arkin, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Sidney Blackmer, Herschel Bernardi, Victor Borge, Gower Champion, Carol Channing, Barbara Cook, Farley Granger, George Grizzard, Sally Ann Howes, Anne Jeffreys, Bert Lahr, Piper Laurie, Bethel Leslie, Ethel Merman, Barry Nelson, Molly Picon, Maureen Stapleton, Jule Styne, Eli Wallach.

Performer: Lucine Amara

Music was by Meyer Davis and his Orchestra.

Award winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

Special awards

• Gilbert Miller, for having produced 88 plays and musicals and for his perseverance which has helped to keep New York and theatre alive.
• Oliver Smith

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations:

• 10 nominations: Fiddler on the Roof
• 9 nominations: Half a Sixpence
• 6 nominations: The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd and Tiny Alice
• 5 nominations: Luv, The Odd Couple and The Subject Was Roses
• 4 nominations: Baker Street, Golden Boy and Oh, What a Lovely War!
• 3 nominations: Do I Hear a Waltz?, Slow Dance on the Killing Ground and Tartuffe
• 2 nominations: All in Good Time and Bajour

The following productions received multiple awards.

• 9 wins: Fiddler on the Roof
• 4 wins: The Odd Couple
• 3 wins: Luv
• 2 wins: The Subject Was Roses