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Updated: 6/8/2009 12:00:04 AM
'God of Carnage' wins Tony for best play

And the Tony goes to...
Unfortunately, it wasn't Chelsea's Jeff Daniels.
Daniels received a 2009 Tony Award Nomination for the "Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play" for his Broadway performance in "God of Carnage." But on Sunday night, the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play went to Geoffrey Rush for "Exit the King."
The 63rd annual Tonys were handed out June 7 in a live CBS broadcast Sunday night from Radio City Music Hall in New York. "God of Carnage" did walk off with "Best Play" honors and Matthew Warchus won Best Direction of a Play.
All four leads of the popular and critically acclaimed "God of Carnage" received Tony nominations. Daniels and Jame Gandolfini (Sopranos) were nominated for the Best Actor in a play award while leading ladies Hope Davis and Marcia Gay Harden were nominated for Best Actress.
Gay Harden grabbed the Tony for Best Actress.
In all, "God of Carnage" was nominated for six Tony Awards.
"I was stunned," Daniels said last month of the nomination. "You have no control over this kind of thing. To be honest, we thought there was no way they would nominate all four of us, so I pretty much reconciled myself to celebrate someone else. Maybe be a presenter. The morning of the announcements, I tuned in. One after another, our names were called. Then for Director. Then for Best Play. Turns out, it's unprecedented in Broadway history. First time ever, four actors for the same play have all been nominated in the Best Actor and Actress categories."
While this was his first Tony nomination, Daniels has received plenty of accolades for his work in New York Theater. On Broadway, he received a Drama Desk Award for "Fifth of July." Off-Broadway honors include an Obie Award for Circle Repertory's "Johnny Got His Gun," a Drama Desk nomination for "Lemon Sky" at Second Stage and a Drama League nomination for "Blackbird" at the Manhattan Theatre Club.