NEW YORK — The Tony Awards are being nicknamed this year the “Hamil-Tonys” in recognition that “Hamilton” is the show to beat. That was proven again Tuesday.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop-flavored biography about the first U.S. treasury secretary earned 16 Tony Award nominations, breaking the 15-nominations record held jointly by “The Producers” and “Billy Elliot the Musical.” “Hamilton” earned nods in all 13 categories it was eligible.

“I feel really grateful that they kind of spread the wealth,” Miranda said. “Theater requires collaboration, and I’m lucky to be working with some of the best people in their respective fields alive right now.”

The awards will be handed out June 12, with James Corden playing host from the Beacon Theatre. “Hamilton” will be hoping to break another record: The musical with the most Tonys is “The Producers” with 12.

At that ceremony, “Hamilton” will compete for Broadway’s biggest crown – best new musical – with “Bright Star,” “School of Rock,” “Shuffle Along” and “Waitress.”

The other top nominees Tuesday were “Shuffle Along,” a show that explores a groundbreaking 95-year-old musical starring, written and directed by African- Americans, which got 10 nominations, and the revival of “She Loves Me,” which earned eight.

“Hamilton” earned seven acting nominations – Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Phillipa Soo, Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Groff, Christopher Jackson and Renee Elise Goldsberry. It also earned nominations for best musical, scenic design, costumes, lighting design, direction, choreography, orchestrations, best book and best original score.

The musical has already won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, a Grammy, the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History and a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant.

The loudest screams in Miranda’s house Tuesday morning were for the announcement of Jackson, who plays George Washington. Jackson was one of the first people to audition for the show in New York in 2002.

“To see him get recognized got a particularly loud scream from my parents and my wife and I,” Miranda said, laughing.

Goldsberry earned her first Tony nomination after appearing in four previous Broadway shows, and said she was going to the theater Tuesday night holding aloft the banner of “Hamilton.”

“The 16 of us represent every single person that worked on this show, and we’re really grateful to get to do that,” she said. But first, the mother of two will celebrate with a nap. “I’m going to nap with the happiest smile on my face.”

There were a few surprises Tuesday, including Jennifer Hudson being overlooked in “The Color Purple” and only a costume design nomination for “Tuck Everlasting,” a well-received musical based on the 1975 book by Natalie Babbitt. Also, the hit show “On Your Feet!”, which follows the lives of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, earned just a choreography nod.

And “American Psycho,” an adaptation of the novel by Bret Easton Ellis about a materialistic serial killer, only captured nominations for scenic design and lighting. Its actors and songs by Duncan Sheik were snubbed.

“Waitress ” a musical with songs by singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles that is adapted from a 2007 film about a waitress trapped in a small-town diner and a loveless marriage, earned four nominations.

“I’m so grateful to have found my way back toward the theater community. I grew up doing theater. It’s how I learned to listen to music,” said Bareilles, who got a nod for music and lyrics. “This experience of working on ‘Waitress’ has so changed my life in personal ways and professional ways.”

“School of Rock,” the adaptation by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Julian Fellowes of the Jack Blackled movie about a wannabe rocker who enlists fifth-graders to form a rock group, earned four nominations, including best musical, book, original score and best leading man in Alex Brightman.

“It’s a funny season this one, isn’t it?” said Lloyd Webber from London. “As you know, it’s the ‘Hamil- Tonys.’ We’ve gotten everything we could have hoped for – and that’s all we’ll get.

“But it’s lovely in this season of all seasons to get score and musical and book. We’re terribly pleased.”