List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards facts for kids
EGOT, an acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards, is the honor given to people who have won all four awards. These awards honor good performances in television, recording, movie, and theatre.
EGOT is seen as one of the highest achievements any person in the Hollywood industry can get.
As of 2020[update], sixteen people are EGOTS.
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List of EGOTS
Name | Emmy | Grammy | Oscar | Tony | Year span | Age at completion | Category(s) |
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Richard Rodgers | 1962 | 1960 | 1945 | 1950, | 17 | 59 years, 10 months | Composer |
Helen Hayes | 1953 | 1977 | 1932 | 1947, | 45 | 76 years, 4 months | Actress |
Rita Moreno | 1977 | 1972 | 1961 | 1975 | 16 | 45 years, 9 months | Actress/Singer |
John Gielgud | 1991 | 1979 | 1981 | 1961, | 30 | 87 years, 4 months | Actor/Director |
Audrey Hepburn | 1993 | 1994 | 1953 | 1954 | 41 | 63 years, 8 months | Actress |
Marvin Hamlisch | 1995 | 1974 | 1973 | 1976 | 22 | 51 years, 3 months | Composer |
Jonathan Tunick | 1982 | 1988 | 1977 | 1997 | 20 | 59 years, 1 month | Composer/Conductor |
Mel Brooks | 1967 | 1998 | 1968 | 2001 | 34 | 74 years, 11 months | Writer/Composer/Actor |
Mike Nichols | 2001 | 1961 | 1967 | 1964 | 40 | 69 years, 11 months | Director/Comedian |
Whoopi Goldberg | 2002,, | 1986 | 1991 | 2002 | 16 | 46 years, 6 months | Comedian/Actress/Host |
Scott Rudin | 1984 | 2012 | 2008 | 1994 | 28 | 53 years, 6 months | Producer |
Robert Lopez | 2008, | 2012 | 2014 | 2004 | 10 | 39 years | Composer |
Andrew Lloyd Webber | 2018 | 1980, | 1997 | 1980, | 38 | 70 years, 5 months | Composer/Producer |
Tim Rice | 2018 | 1980 | 1993 | 1980 | 38 | 73 years, 9 months | Lyricist/Producer |
John Legend | 2018 | 2006 | 2015 | 2017 | 12 | 39 years, 8 months | Singer/Composer/Producer |
Alan Menken | 2020, | 1992 | 1990 | 2012 | 30 | 70 years, 11 months | Composer/Producer |
Notes:
The artist also subsequently won one or more additional competitive awards.
The artist also received one or more honorary or non-competitive awards.
The artist also earned the Triple Crown of Acting, with singular (non-group/ensemble/company) acting wins in the Emmy, Oscar and Tony awards.
The artist has won a Daytime Emmy Award, not a Primetime Emmy Award.
The artist was awarded posthumously.
The artist has subsequently achieved multiple EGOTs.
Legend, Lloyd Webber, and Rice achieved their EGOTs simultaneously with their shared Emmy Award for producing Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
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:
EGOT winners who have also won a Pulitzer Prize:
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In 1977, Rita Moreno became the third person and first Hispanic American to win all four awards.
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In 1991, John Gielgud became the fourth person to win all four awards, the oldest (at age 87), the first LGBT person, and the first non-American.
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In 1994, Audrey Hepburn became the fifth person to win all four awards, and the first to do so posthumously.
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In 1995, Marvin Hamlisch became the sixth person to win all four awards.
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In 2001, Mel Brooks became the eighth person to win all four awards.
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In 2001, Mike Nichols became the ninth person to win all four awards, and had the longest timespan (50 years) of all the winners when counting all awards.
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In 2002, Whoopi Goldberg became the tenth person to win all four awards, the first African American and the first to win two of their awards in the same year.
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In 2018, Andrew Lloyd Webber won all four awards, the 13th person to do so.
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In 2018, Tim Rice won all four awards and is the 14th person to do so.
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In 2018, John Legend became the first African American man to win all four awards, and first to have won both competitive Primetime and Daytime Emmy Awards.
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In 2020, Alan Menken became the sixteenth person to win all four awards.
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In 2022, Jennifer Hudson became the seventeenth person to win all four awards.
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In 1970, Barbra Streisand became the first woman, youngest winner (at age 28) and the fastest to achieve the feat (6 years) to win all four awards. However her Tony is a non-competitive award.
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Liza Minnelli has each of the four awards, having won her fourth in 1990, but her Grammy is a non-competitive award.
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James Earl Jones has each of the four awards, having won his fourth in 2011, but his Oscar is a non-competitive award.
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Harry Belafonte has each of the four awards, having won his fourth in 2014, but his Oscar is a non-competitive award.
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Quincy Jones has each of the four awards, having won his fourth in 2016, but his Oscar is a non-competitive award.
See also
In Spanish: Anexo:Ganadores de los premios Emmy, Grammy, Óscar y Tony (ganadores EGOT) para niños