Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Leading Actor (General Theatre)

The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role - Play is an annual award celebrating achievements in live Canadian theatre.

The award was discontinued after 2018, and merged with the award for Best Leading Actress (General Theatre) into a single gender-neutral award for Best Leading Performer (General Theatre).[1]

Awards and nominations

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Year Winner Nominated
1981   Brent Carver, Bent
1982   John Evans, True West
1983   R. H. Thomson, Hand to Hand
1984   Douglas Rain, The Dining Room
1985   Heath Lamberts, Cyrano de Bergerac
1986[2]   Stephen Ouimette, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
1987[3]   Stephen Ouimette, B-Movie: The Play
1988[4]   Geordie Johnson, I Am Yours
1989[5]   Graham Greene, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
1990   Stuart Hughes, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
1991   Jim Mezon, Burn This
1992   Rod Beattie, The Wingfield Trilogy
1993[6]   Hardee T. Lineham, Richard III
1994   Tom McCamus, Abundance
1995[7]   Nigel Shawn Williams, Six Degrees of Separation
1996   Heath Lamberts, One for the Pot
1997   John Dolan, Oliver Twist
1998   Eric Peterson, The Designated Mourner
1999   David Fox, The Drawer Boy
2000   Diego Matamoros, Endgame
2001   Conleth Hill, Stones in His Pockets
2002   Tony Nardi, The Lesson
2003   Richard McMillan, Through the Eyes
2004   William Hutt, No Man's Land
2005   Rick Miller, Bigger Than Jesus
2006   Shawn Doyle, A Number
2007   Daniel MacIvor, Here Lies Henry
2008   Joseph Ziegler, The Time of Your Life
2009   Waawaate Fobister, Agokwe
2010   Diego Matamoros, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2011   Joseph Ziegler, Death of a Salesman
2012[8]   Nigel Shawn Williams, Topdog/Underdog
2013   Tom Rooney, Someone Else
2014   Bruce Dow, Pig
2015   Kawa Ada, Accidental Death of an Anarchist
2016   Anand Rajaram, Mustard
2017   André Sills, "Master Harold"...and the Boys
2018   Kim Coates, Jerusalem

References

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  1. ^ "Dora Mavor Moore Awards to adopt gender-neutral performance categories". CBC Arts, April 25, 2018.
  2. ^ "Tarragon sweeps the nominations for Dora Awards". Toronto Star, May 15, 1986.
  3. ^ "Mikado nominated for 7 Dora Awards". Toronto Star, May 27, 1987.
  4. ^ "CentreStage play tops Dora Award nominees". Toronto Star, May 11, 1988. Page C1.
  5. ^ "And the Dora nominees are...". The Globe and Mail, May 13, 1989.
  6. ^ "Dora Award nominations". Toronto Star, May 11, 1993.
  7. ^ "Nominations for '95 Dora Awards". Toronto Star, May 13, 1995.
  8. ^ "Dora Awards: Recipients" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
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