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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 performing art awards in the United States of America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Respectively, these awards honor outstanding achievements in television , audio recording, film , and Broadway theatre . [ 3 ]
Having acted in over 150 films, Goldberg is one of the few 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). [1] Goldberg has received two Academy Award nominations, for The Color Purple and Ghost, winning for Ghost.
Of only twenty-one people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award, nicknamed by Philip Michael Thomas in 1984 as the "EGOT", he is the youngest (at 39 years and 8 days old) to win all four, and is the only person to have won all four awards more than once—Emmy (4), Grammy (3), Oscar (2) and Tony (3).
Robert Lopez was born in Manhattan, to Katherine (Lowe) and Frank Lopez. [3] [4] He is partly of Filipino descent through his father (who was born on a ship in the middle of the ocean after departing Manila); his paternal grandfather was Filipino, and his paternal grandmother was of half Filipino and half Scottish-American descent (both originally resided in Manila). [5]
Only 21 stars to date have earned the most coveted honor in Hollywood: the EGOT. The awe-inspiring acronym is shorthand for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, the four highest achievements one can ...
EGOT is an acronym for "Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony" in reference to persons who have won all four awards. EGOT may also refer to: EGOT (gene) , the Eosinophil Granule Ontogeny Transcript non-protein coding gene which encodes a long noncoding RNA molecule
Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer.. He is an EGOT winner, having won a Primetime Emmy Award, three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award (Oscar), and six Tony Awards.. Webber is known for his various stage work Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968), Jesus Christ Superstar (1970), Evita (1976), Cats (1981), The Phantom of the Opera (1986), Sunset Boulevard (1993), and School of ...
In 2018 Legend became the first Black man to officially achieve an EGOT with his Emmy win for "Jesus Christ Superstar". Overall, Legend has won 36 awards from 133 nominations. Overall, Legend has won 36 awards from 133 nominations.