Awards and honors Having acted in over 150 films, Goldberg is one of the 17 people to achieve the EGOT, having won the four major American awards for professional entertainers: an Emmy (Television), a Grammy (Music), an Oscar (Film), and a Tony (Theater). She is the first black woman to have achieved all four awards.
17. Jennifer Hudson. The actress and singer actually made history as the first ever American idol alum to reach EGOT status. Most recently, Jennifer Hudson snagged a Tony Award for serving as a producer on Broadway's A Strange Loop.
You've got to be a gem to achieve EGOT status in Hollywood—and Viola Davis is the newest member of this exclusive club. The often-tossed-around acronym is used to describe entertainment artists who've earned at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award.
She was nominated for a Tony for her first Broadway show, I Can Get It for You Wholesale, but lost to Phyllis Newman in Subways Are for Sleeping. Streisand won the other three EGOT awards with her first major projects.
Others have called for Streep to win an Oscar and an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) for her performance. Though she has been nominated for all four coveted awards, Streep is currently lacking a Grammy and a Tony win.
John Williams. John Williams first won an Emmy (“Heidi,” 1969), Oscar (“Fiddler on the Roof,” 1973) and Grammy (“Jaws,” 1975). He has yet to win a Tony for an EGOT.
Viola Davis became the ninth EGOT winner of color at the 2023 Grammys. Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend, and Jennifer Hudson are also among the coveted list of EGOT recipients. Three other Black entertainers, including Quincy Jones, received EGOT status in non-competitive awards.
Many people who first heard of an EGOT assume it originated on the hit NBC sitcom “30 Rock,” which began airing in 2006. But it turns out the term dates back to 1984, when only three people had achieved EGOT-hood: the composer Richard Rodgers and the actresses Helen Hayes and Rita Moreno.
PEGOT. A PEGOT winner is someone who has won all four EGOT awards as well as a Peabody Award or Pulitzer Prize. EGOT winners who have also won a Peabody Award: Barbra Streisand. Mike Nichols.
What's the most common trajectory for winning an EGOT, you may ask? The hardest award to get seems to be the Emmy, as nine out of the 17 EGOT holders have won it last.
Just so no one ever forgets, the only two-time EGOT winner in the world is a Filipino-American. Songwriter Robert Lopez was only 39 years old when he became an EGOT and broke every record in entertainment.
The EGOT subsequently caught the public's imagination and became a goal for many entertainers. Although Thomas has yet to win an EGOT, 24 people have achieved the feat: 18 have won competitive EGOTs, and 6 people have completed the EGOT with noncompetitive or honorary awards.
The youngest performer to win a Tony Award was Frankie Michaels, who in 1966 at the age of 11 won for his performance in "Mame." However, the youngest nominee is Evanna Lien, who was 8 at the time she received a recognition for her role in "The Sound of Music."
Stephen Sondheim has won both awards for his work on five different shows — "Company," "A Little Night Music," "Sweeney Todd," "Into The Woods," and "Passion." Richard Rodgers, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, and Stephen Oremus have each won both awards for their work on two different shows.
The first black EGOT win was only in 2002. It was achieved by Whoopi Goldberg. It took her 16 years to win all four awards. She first got her Grammy in 1986, her Oscar in 1990, as well as her Emmy in early 2002.
Davis is the 18th person to achieve Egot status, joining the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Mel Brooks, Andrew Lloyd Webber and John Gielgud. Davis won her first Grammy on Sunday for her audiobook recording of her memoir, Finding Me. She is the third Black female Egot winner, after Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Hudson.
Yep, Audrey was an EGOT winner. In 1953, she won the Best Actress Oscar for Roman Holiday, and the next year, she won the Best Actress Tony for Ondine. She then won posthumous Emmy and Grammy Awards in 1993 and 1994, for Gardens of the World With Audrey Hepburn and Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales, respectively.
Who is the only person of hispanic descent to win an egot?
Rita Moreno's storied acting career is filled with accolades. In 1961, she became the first Hispanic woman to win an Oscar for her role in West Side Story. She's also one of only 24 people to win the coveted EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony).
Which famous black actress has won the most Tony Awards on Broadway?
Actress Audra McDonald has won the most Tony awards as a performer (six). The Tonys are named after Antoinette Perry, a Broadway actress and director who died in 1946.
Viola Davis has achieved EGOT status, after picking up her first Grammy. The 57-year-old actor won the award for the best audiobook, narration and storytelling recording for her memoir, Finding Me, at the 2023 Grammy Awards premiere ceremony on Sunday, ahead of the main awards show.
Who is the only person to win a Tony and Emmy and an Oscar in the same year?
Bob Fosse was the only director to win a Tony, an Oscar, and an Emmy in the same year (1973). He won two Tonys (direction and choreography) for Pippin, an Oscar for Cabaret and an Emmy for “Liza with a Z.”
Cher is a Tony Award away from achieving the EGOT status (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) which is considered the "grand slam" of American show business.
Jennifer Hudson. Jennifer Hudson first won an Oscar (“Dreamgirls,” 2007), a Grammy (“Jennifer Hudson,” 2009), Daytime Emmy (“Baba Yaga,” 2021) and Tony (“A Strange Loop,” 2022).
