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.”
Has anyone won an Oscar and Tony for the same role?
1 Viola Davis — 'Fences'
The incomparable Viola Davisplayed Troy's wife, Rose, in an acclaimed 2010 Broadway revival of the play. Her performance earned her the Best Actress in a Play Tony. Returning to the role for Denzel Washington's 2016 film adaptation of Wilson's play, Davis won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
The ultimate achievement in Hollywood is achieving an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony (an EGOT). There are 18 actors, producers, directors, and composers who have been awarded all four. One person, Robert Lopez, is a double EGOT winner.
What is it called when you win an Oscar Emmy and Tony?
[ ee-got ] show ipa. noun. the honor of winning at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony in competitive rather than honorary categories: How many people have earned an EGOT? a person who has achieved such an honor by winning all four awards: He is just an Oscar away from being an EGOT.
Top EGOT Winners In History (Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award Winners) | Entertainment Weekly
Who was the first person to win an Oscar and a Tony for the same role?
José Ferrer has the distinction of being the first actor to ever win an Oscar and Tony Award for the same role. With the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, Ferrer won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1947 and the Oscar in 1950.
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.
Living winners of the Triple Crown of Acting are Rita Moreno, Jeremy Irons, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Al Pacino, Geoffrey Rush, Ellen Burstyn, Helen Mirren, Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange, and Viola Davis.
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 record for the youngest Academy Award winner of all time goes to the brilliantly talented Tatum O'Neal. At a mere ten years and 148 days old, she won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Addie Loggins in 1973's Paper Moon, becoming the youngest Oscar winner of any competitive category.
Audra McDonald has the most performance Tony Awards with six. Terrence McNally and Tom Stoppard are the most awarded writers with four Tonys each; McNally has won Best Play twice and Best Book of a Musical twice, while Stoppard has won Best Play four times.
Walt Disney holds the record for the most Oscars won by an individual with a total of 22 competitive awards and four honorary awards. Disney was nominated 59 times throughout his career, receiving one award posthumously.
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).
Perhaps the most well-known award in American cinema, the Oscars are handed out every year to actors, directors, producers, and film professionals who worked on the previous year's best films. The Academy Awards ceremony was inaugurated in 1929, and the event's broadcast now draws more than a billion viewers worldwide.
EGOT, an acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards, is the designation given to people who have won all four of the major American art awards.
Daniel Day-Lewis became the first and currently only man to win three best actor Oscars, while Frances McDormand became only the second woman and third of her counterparts overall to achieve the same. Finally, Walter Brennan won his three supporting actor Oscars every other year between 1937 and 1941.
Records. Secretariat holds the stakes record for each of the Triple Crown races, the Kentucky Derby (1:59 2/5), the Preakness Stakes (1:53), and the Belmont Stakes (2:24).
Also considered the First Lady of American Theater, Helen Hayes became the first woman to achieve EGOT status and win the Triple Crown of Acting (when an actor wins an Oscar, Emmy 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.
Barbra Streisand has won no less than fifteen Grammys, six Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, and eleven Golden Globes. While her Tony Award was honorary, she is still considered an EGOT winner.
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.
