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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 ]
While it took some celebrities nearly 40-plus years to score the EGOT, others — like John Legend. Only 21 stars to date have earned the most coveted honor in Hollywood: the EGOT. The awe ...
Only a handful of stars have won the EGOT: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. Here's the complete list of winners. 18 people who have won an EGOT, the most coveted award in Hollywood
The popular use of the term EGOT owes a lot to Goldberg, who inspired the return of the phrase with a role on the TV show 30 Rock where she joked about whether her Daytime Emmy awards from 2002 ...
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.
She is one of few artists to receive nominations for the EGOT. After her theatre debut in the early 2010s, Erivo garnered critical attention with her lead role as Celie, a young woman suffering abuse in the deep south , in the Broadway revival of the musical The Color Purple , being awarded with the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical .
Elton John is now an EGOT winner. Viola Davis made history at the 2023 Grammys when she achieved EGOT status, winning the award for Best Audiobook, Narration and Storytelling.
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). [1]