1979-1980 26th Drama Desk Awards
| Outstanding Actor - Musical |  |
Jim Dale (Barnum) |
| Christopher Durang (Das Lasitania Songspiel) | ||
| Mandy Patinkin (Evita) | ||
| Mickey Rooney (Sugar Babies) | ||
| Giorgio Tozzi (Most Happy Fella) | ||
| Jerry Zaks (Tintypes) | ||
| Outstanding Actor - Play | F. Murray Abraham (Teibele and Her Demon) | |
| Philip Bosco (Major Barbara) | ||
| Charles Brown (Home) | ||
| Gerald Hiken (Strider) | ||
| Judd Hirsch (Talley's Folly) | ||
|
John Rubinstein (Children of a Lesser God) | |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Sandy Duncan (Peter Pan) | |
|
Patti LuPone (Evita) | |
| Ann Miller (Sugar Babies) | ||
| Sigourney Weaver (Das Lasitania Songspiel) | ||
| Outstanding Actress - Play | |
Pat Carroll (Gertrude Stein) |
| Blythe Danner (Betrayal) | ||
| Phyllis Freilch (Children of a Lesser God) | ||
| Mary Tyler Moore (Whose Life Is It Anyway?) | ||
| Susan Sarandon (A Coupla Chicks) | ||
| Outstanding Choreography | Larry Fuller (Evita) | |
| Mary Kyte (Tintypes) | ||
| Joe Layton (Barum) | ||
|
Tommy Tune (A Day in Hollywood) | |
| Outstanding Costume Design | |
Pierre Balmain (Happy New Year |
| Rostislav Doboujinsky (Heartaches of a Pussycat) | ||
| Tazeena Firth, Timothy O'Brian (Evita) | ||
| Linda Fisher (Morning's at Seven) | ||
| Joe Layton (Barnum) | ||
| William Ivey Long (1940's Radio Hour) | ||
| Outstanding Director - Musical | |
Walton Jones (1940's Radio Hour) |
| Joe Layton (Barum) | ||
| Gary Peale (Tintypes) | ||
| Harold Prince (Evita) | ||
| Outstanding Director - Play | Kevin Conway (Mecca) | |
| Gordon Davidson (Children of a Lesser God) | ||
| Lynne Gannaway, Robert Kalfin (Strider) | ||
| Marshall Mason (Talley's Folly) | ||
|
Vivian Matalon (Morning's at Seven) | |
| Alan Schneider (Loose Ends) | ||
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | |
Bob Gunton (Evita) |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | David Dukes (Bent) | |
|
Michael Gross (Bent) | |
| Doug McClure (The Roast) | ||
| David Rounds (Morning's at Seven) | ||
| Hansford Rowe (Nuts) | ||
| Fritz Weaver (The Price) | ||
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | |
Debbie Allen (West Side Story) |
| Peggy Hewett (A Day in Hollywood) | ||
| Carolyn Mignini (Tintypes) | ||
| Janie Sell (God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater) | ||
| Crissy Wilzak (1940's Radio Hour) | ||
| Debbie Allen (Tintypes) | ||
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Pamela Brook (Goodbye Fidel) | |
| Frances Conroy (Othello) | ||
|
Lois de Banzie (Morning's at Seven) | |
| Mia Dillon (Once a Catholic) | ||
| Dianne Wiest (The Art of Dining) | ||
| Outstanding Lighting Design | David Hersey (Evita) | |
| John McLain (Emigres) | ||
| Tharon Musser (Children of a Lesser God) | ||
| Richard Nelson (Morning's at Seven) | ||
|
Dennis Parichy (Talley's Folly) | |
| Duane Schuler (Teibele and Her Demon) | ||
| Outstanding Lyrics | Steve Brown (Strider) | |
|
Tim Rice (Evita) | |
| Outstanding Music | Cy Coleman (Barnum) | |
|
Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita) | |
| Elizabeth Swados (Runaways) | ||
| Outstanding Musical | Barnum | |
|
Evita | |
| 1940's Radio Hour | ||
| Sidewalkin' | ||
| Tintypes | ||
| Outstanding New Play | |
Children of a Lesser God (Mark Medoff) |
| Home (Samm-Art Williams) | ||
| The Irish Hebrew Lesson (Wolf Manowitz) | ||
| Night and Day (Tom Stoppard) | ||
| Teibele and Her Demon (Eve Le Friedman, Isaac Bashevis Singer) | ||
| Talley's Folly (Lanford Wilson) | ||
| Outstanding Set Design | John Lee Beatty (Talley's Folly) | |
| David Jenkins (I Ought to Be in Pictures / The Art of Dining) | ||
| David Mitchell (Barum) | ||
| William Ritman (Morning's at Seven) | ||
| Douglas Schmidt (Sidewalkin') | ||
| Outstanding Sound Design | |
Norman L. Berman (Strider) |
| Richard Peaslee (Teibele and Her Demon) | ||
| Stanley Silverman (Bent) | ||
| Special Award | La Mama E.T.C. | |
| Maureen O'Sullivan, Teresa Wright, Elizabeth Wilson (Morning's at Seven) |
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