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Tony Award for Best Director

American theatre award for Broadway directors
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Tony Award for Best Director

Summary

Tony Award for Best Director is a class of award[1]. It draws 34 Wikipedia views per month (class_of_award category, ranking #183 of 1,478).[2]

Key Facts

  • Tony Award for Best Director is in the country of United States[3].
  • Tony Award for Best Director's instance of is recorded as class of award[4].
  • Tony Award for Best Director was followed by Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play[5].
  • Tony Award for Best Director was followed by Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical[6].
  • Tony Award for Best Director is part of Tony Awards[7].
  • 1947 marks the founding of Tony Award for Best Director[8].
  • Tony Award for Best Director's official website is recorded as http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/index.html[9].
  • Tony Award for Best Director's conferred by is recorded as American Theatre Wing[10].
  • Tony Award for Best Director's conferred by is recorded as The Broadway League[11].
  • Tony Award for Best Director's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Tony Award for Best Director'}[12].

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Geography

Tony Award for Best Director is in the country of United States[3]. It is part of Tony Awards[7].

Designation and Status

Tony Award for Best Director's instance of is recorded as class of award[4].

History and Context

1947 marks the founding of Tony Award for Best Director[8].

Why It Matters

Tony Award for Best Director draws 34 Wikipedia views per month (class_of_award category, ranking #183 of 1,478).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13]

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Arthur Penn Elia Kazan George Roy Hill José Ferrer Joshua Logan Peter Brook United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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