Thập niên 1920

• 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 Rice

Thập niên 1930

• 1930: The Green Pastures – Marc Connelly
• 1931: Alison's House – Susan Glaspell
• 1932: Of Thee I Sing – George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin,
• 1933: Both Your Houses – Maxwell Anderson
• 1934: Men in White – Sidney Kingsley
• 1935: The Old Maid – Zoë 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

Thập niên 1940

• 1940: The Time of Your Life – William Saroyan
• 1941: There Shall Be No Night – Robert E. Sherwood
• 1942: không trao giải
• 1943: The Skin of Our Teeth – Thornton Wilder
• 1944: không trao giải
• 1945: Harvey – Mary Coyle Chase
• 1946: State of the Union – Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay
• 1947: không trao giải
• 1948: A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
• 1949: Death of a Salesman * – Arthur Miller

Thập niên 1950

• 1950: South Pacific * – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan
• 1951: không trao giải
• 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

Thập niên 1960

• 1960: Fiorello! * – Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock &Sheldon Harnick
• 1961: All the Way Home – Tad Mosel
• 1962: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying * – Frank Loesser & Abe Burrows
• 1963: không trao giải[2]
• 1964: không trao giải
• 1965: The Subject Was Roses * – Frank D. Gilroy
• 1966: không trao giải
• 1967: A Delicate Balance – Edward Albee
• 1968: không trao giải
• 1969: The Great White Hope * – Howard Sackler

Thập niên 1970

• 1970: No Place to be Somebody – Charles Gordone
• 1971: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds – Paul Zindel
• 1972: không trao giải
• 1973: That Championship Season * – Jason Miller
• 1974: không trao giải
• 1975: Seascape – Edward Albee
• 1976: A Chorus Line * – Michael Bennett, Nicholas Dante & James Kirkwood, Jr., Marvin Hamlisch & Edward Kleban
• 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
  • True West – Sam Shepard
• 1984: Glengarry Glen Ross – David Mamet
  • Fool for Love – Sam Shepard
  • Painting Churches – Tina Howe
• 1985: Sunday in the Park with George – James Lapine và Stephen Sondheim
  • The Dining Room – A. R. Gurney
  • The Gospel at Colonus – Lee Breuer, Bob Telson

• 1986: không trao giải
• 1987: Fences * – August Wilson
  • Broadway Bound – Neil Simon
  • A Walk in the Woods – Lee Blessing
• 1988: Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhry
  • Boy's Life – Howard Korder
  • Talk Radio – Eric Bogosian
• 1989: The Heidi Chronicles * – Wendy Wasserstein
  • Joe Turner's Come and Gone – August Wilson
  • M. Butterfly – David Henry Hwang

• 1990: The Piano Lesson – August Wilson
  • And What of the Night? – María Irene Fornés
  • Love Letters – A. R. Gurney
• 1991: Lost in Yonkers * – Neil Simon
  • Prelude to a Kiss – Craig Lucas
  • Six Degrees of Separation – John Guare
• 1992: The Kentucky Cycle – Robert Schenkkan
  • Conversations with My Father – Herb Gardner
  • Miss Evers' Boys – David Feldshuh
  • Two Trains Running – August Wilson
  • Sight Unseen – Donald Margulies
• 1993: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches * – Tony Kushner
  • The Destiny of Me – Larry Kramer
  • Fires in the Mirror – Anna Deavere Smith
• 1994: Three Tall Women – Edward Albee
  • Keely and Du – Jane Martin
  • A Perfect Ganesh – Terrence McNally

• 1995: The Young Man From Atlanta – Horton Foote
  • The Cryptogram – David Mamet
  • Seven Guitars – August Wilson
• 1996: Rent * – Jonathan Larson
  • A Fair Country – Jon Robin Baitz
  • Old Wicked Songs – Jon Marans
• 1997: không trao giải
  • Collected Stories – Donald Margulies
  • The Last Night of Ballyhoo – Alfred Uhry
  • Pride's Crossing – Tina Howe
• 1998: How I Learned to Drive – Paula Vogel
  • Freedomland – Amy Freed
  • Three Days of Rain – Richard Greenberg
• 1999: Wit – Margaret Edson
  • Running Man – Cornelius Eady & Diedre Murray
  • Side Man * – Warren Leight

• 2000: Dinner with Friends – Donald Margulies
  • In the Blood – Suzan-Lori Parks
  • King Hedley II – August Wilson
• 2001: Proof * – David Auburn
  • The Play About the Baby – Edward Albee
  • The Waverly Gallery – Kenneth Lonergan
• 2002: Topdog/Underdog – Suzan-Lori Parks
  • The Glory of Living – Rebecca Gilman
  • Yellowman – Dael Orlandersmith
• 2003: Anna in the Tropics – Nilo Cruz
  • The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? * – Edward Albee
  • Take Me Out * – Richard Greenberg
• 2004: I Am My Own Wife * – Doug Wright
  • Man from Nebraska – Tracy Letts
  • Omnium Gatherum – Theresa Rebeck & Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros

• 2005 Doubt: A Parable * – John Patrick Shanley
  • The Clean House – Sarah Ruhl
  • Thom Pain (based on nothing) – Will Eno
• 2006: không trao giải
  • Miss Witherspoon – Christopher Durang
  • The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow – Rolin Jones
  • Red Light Winter – Adam Rapp
• 2007: Rabbit Hole – David Lindsay-Abaire
  • Bulrusher – Eisa Davis
  • Orpheus X – Rinde Eckert
  • Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue – Quiara Alegría Hudes
• 2008 August: Osage County * – Tracy Letts
  • Dying City – Christopher Shinn
  • Yellow Face – David Henry Hwang
• 2009 Ruined – Lynn Nottage
  • Becky Shaw – Gina Gionfriddo
  • In the Heights * – Lin-Manuel Miranda & Quiara Alegría Hudes