Tony Awards 2024: Sarah Paulson, 49, joins partner Holland Taylor, 81 (2024)

Sarah Paulson and longtime partner Holland Taylor looked smitten as they attended the 2024 Tony Awards in NYC on Sunday.

Paulson, 49, who has been in a relationship with Taylor, 81, since 2015, held her love's hand as they hit the glitzy red carpet, with Paulson nominated in the best lead actress in a play for Appropriate.

The American Horror Story star stunned in a black and white floral print sequined gown with delicate satin bows on the shoulders.

Her blonde bob was styled in soft waves and she sported a pop of red lipstick.

Taylor looked chic in a high necked black dress with a silver handbag.

The 77th Tony Awards take placeat Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater in New York City.

The event will be hosted by Ariana DeBose who had previously been nominated in the Best Featured Actress in a Musical category for Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.

The 32-year-old Wilmington, North Carolina native also also won an Oscar for Steven Spielberg's movie adaptation of the Broadway classic West Side Story.

Angelina Jolie will be hitting the stage as she leads the star-studded presenters list.

The 49-year-old A-lister will be the top name bestowing honors on Broadway's biggest night on Sunday as nominations were announced back in April.

She is not the only big name hitting the stage as other presenters include Taraji P. Henson, Jennifer Hudson, Jeffrey Wright, Patrick Wilson, and Nick Jonas will also have important duties.

In addition Idina Menzel,Utkarsh Ambudkar, Nate Burleson, Cynthia Erivo, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Josh Gad, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Sean Hayes will also be presenting.

Rounding out the list areAshley Park, Jim Parsons, Wendell Pierce, Ben Platt, Anthony Ramos, Andrew Rannells, Solomon Thomas, Taylor Tomlinson, Pete Townshend, Tamara Tunie, and Adrienne Warren.

Jolie definitely has a lot of interest in this year's ceremony as she serves as producer of The Outsiders musical which is up for a whopping 12 awards including the coveted top honor Best Musical.

The Tony Awards 2024 nominations were announced in April with big names includingRachel McAdams, theAlicia Keysmusical, Daniel Radclifferecognized.

The Kristoffer Diaz musical Hell's Kitchen and David Adjmi drama Stereophonic led the way with most nods as they tied for 13 with the aforementioned Jolie's The Outsiders coming in third for nominations with 12.

One of the nominees for best musical is Hell's Kitchen, a jukebox musical featuring songs by Alicia and loosely based on her life.

Hell's Kitchen was the most nominated musical, with 13 nods - a feat equaled this year only by the straight play Stereophonic about a 1970s rock band.

The other best musical nominees include Suffs, a show about the suffragettes that hasHillary Clinton and MalalaYousafzai among its producers.

Illinoise, a jukebox musical of Sufjan Stevens' work, and The Outsider, based on the classic young adult novel of the same name, are also up for the top prize.

The best musical nominations were rounded out by Water For Elephants, an adaptation of the bestselling novel that was previously made into a movie starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon.

Notable snubs for best musical included the Britney Spears show Once Upon A One More Time, the as well as the adaptations of the classic movies Back To The Future, The Notebook and Days Of Wine And Roses.

Rachel McAdams was nominated for best lead actress in a play in honor of her work in Mary Jane, starring her as the mother of a son with cerebral palsy.

She is up against Sarah Paulson for Appropriate, a dark comedy about three siblings feuding over their father's estate after his death.

Jessica Lange is up for Mother Play, playing the mother of teens portrayed by Tony winnerCelia Keenan-Bolger and The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons.

The category includes Betsy Aidem in Prayer For The French Republic, a dark comedy by Joshua Harmon about mounting antisemitism in France.

Rachel's category is rounded out by Amy Ryan for the lead role in John Patrick Shanley's classic drama Doubt: A Parable, which was made into an acclaimed movie starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Viola Davis.

Liev Schreiber is nominated for best lead actor in a play for Doubt: A Parable, playing the role of the priest accused of molesting a young boy.

He is up against a formidable group of thespians including Succession star Jeremy Strong in a revival of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy Of The People.

William Jackson Harper is also nominated in that category for Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, as is Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through The Cotton Patch and Michael Stuhlbarg for Patriots.

Jim Parsons in Mother Play is nominated for best featured actor in a play, against Corey Stoll for Appropriate and Will Brill, Eli Gelb and Tom Pecinka, all three for the play Stereophonic about a rising 1970s rock band.

The best featured actress in a play nods went to Quincy Tyler Bernstine in Doubt, Juliana Canfield and Sarah Pidgeon in Stereophonic, Celia Keenan-Bolger in Mother Play and Kara Young in Purlie Victorious.

Daniel Radcliffe is nominated for best supporting actor in a musical for his role in a revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, a polarizing 1980s piece that unfolds backwards in time.

His competitors are Roger Bart in Back To The Future: The Musical, Joshua Boone and Sky Lakota-Lynch in The Outsiders, Brandon Victor Dixon in Hell's Kitchen and Steven Skybell in the new revival of Cabaret.

Cabaret, with a score by Fred Ebb and John Kander and a book by Joe Masteroff, first opened on Broadway in 1966 and became an instant sensation, later adapted into a movie starring Liza Minnelli and directed by Bob Fosse.

Now rechristened Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club, the revival stars Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne in the role of the master of ceremonies.

Eddie is nominated for best lead actor in a musical, in a category that includes Looking star Jonathan Groff in Merrily We Roll Along.

Dorian Harewood is also up for the musical of The Notebook, the Nicholas Sparks novel made into a beloved movie starring Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling.

Broadway veteran Brian D'Arcy James is nominated for his lead the musical of the 1962 movie Days Of Wine And Roses, in which his role was played by Jack Lemmon, and the category is rounded out by Brody Grant in The Outsiders.

The best lead actress in a musical nominees include Wicked alumna Eden Espinosa for the title role in Lempicka, the story of the controversial interwar Polish painter Tamara Lempicka whose posthumous fanbase includes Madonna.

She is up against Maleah Joi Moon who plays Alicia Keys in Hell's Kitchen, as well as Kelli O'Hara for Days Of Wine And Roses, Maryann Plunkett for the Rachel McAdams role in The Notebook and Gayle Rankin for the Liza Minnelli role in Cabaret.

Broadway titan Bebe Neuwirth has earned a nomination for best featured actress in a musical for her role as landlady Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club.

She is in a category that includes Shoshana Bean and Kecia Lewis for Hell's Kitchen, Amber Iman for Lempicka, Nikki M James for Suffs, Lindsay Mendez for Merrily We Roll Along and Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer for a revival of Monty Python's Spamalot.

In the best original score for a musical category, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim are nominated for their immersive musical Here Lies Love about Imelda Marcos.

So is Adam Guettel, the grandson of The Sound Of Music composer Richard Rodgers, for the score of Days Of Wine And Roses.

The best original score category includes Shaina Taub for Suffs, Will Butler for Stereophonic and Jonathan Clay, Zach Chance and Justin Levine for The Outsiders.

Meanwhile the best book of a musical nominations went to Kristoffer Diaz for Hell's Kitchen, Bekah Brunstetter for The Notebook, Adam Rapp and Justin Levine for The Outsider, Shaina Taub for Suffs and Rick Elice for Water For Elephants.

For best play, Jocelyn Bioh is nominated for Jaja's African Hair Braiding, Amy Herzog for Mary Jane, Paula Vogel for Mother Play, Joshua Harmon for Prayer For The French Republic and David Adjmi for Stereophonic.

The best revival of a musical nominees were Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club, Gutenberg! The Musical!, Merrily We Roll Along and The Who's Tommy.

Appropriate, An Enemy Of The People andPurlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through The Cotton Patch are up for Best Revival Of A Play.