EGOT is an acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards, referring to all four of the major performing art awards in the United States. These awards honor outstanding achievements in television, audio recording/music, film, and Broadway theatre respectively.Smith, Liz (June 5, 2009). "Phyllis Newman Honored!" (). wowowow. Achieving the EGOT has been referred to as the "grand slam" of American show business. Including those with honorary or special awards, 28 people have achieved this status. Only one person, Robert Lopez, has won all four awards twice.
Background The EGOT acronym was coined by actor Philip Michael Thomas in late 1984. While starring in Miami Vice, he stated a desire to achieve the EGOT within five years. The acronym gained wider recognition following a 2009 episode of 30 Rock that introduced EGOT status as a recurring plotline. There is some debate over whether only the Primetime Emmy Award should count towards an EGOT, as some (including Thomas himself) distinguish the other types of Emmy competitions as subordinate to the Primetime honor.
Starting in 2016, the Daytime Emmy Awards had a category for Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program, which was removed after the 2019 ceremony because three of the four winners were Broadway ensembles, which between them included five people (Cynthia Erivo, Rachel Bay Jones, Katrina Lenk, Ben Platt, and Ari'el Stachel) who had already won Tony and Grammy awards for the shows they were in, and with their Daytime Emmy wins only needed Oscars to complete their EGOT status.
In 2023, TheaterMania writer Zachary Stewart criticized the practice of "selling" producer credits for shows favored to win a Tony as a "shortcut" to EGOT status. He drew a distinction between the producers who actually do the work of organizing the production of a show and investing producers who merely help finance it, often late in the award season.
Variety noted in 2026 that technology company Apple had achieved a 'studio EGOT', with various Emmy wins, an Oscar for CODA, a Grammy for "Bad as I Used to Be" from F1 (alongside the 2002 Technical Grammy Award), and multiple Tony awards for Schmigadoon! at the 79th Tony Awards.
EGOT winners Competitive EGOT EmmyGrammyOscarTonyEGOT completedYear spanAge at completionCategory(s) 1962 1960 1946 1950 1962 16 Composer and producer 1953 1977 1932 1947 1977 45 Actress 1977 1973 1962 1975 15 Actress and singer 1991 1979 1982 1961 1991 29 Actor and director 1993 1994 1954 1954 1994 40 Actress 1995 1974 1974 1976 1995 21 Composer 1982 1988 1978 1997 1997 19 Orchestrator, music arranger, composer, and conductor 1967 1998 1969 2001 2001 34 Writer, songwriter, and actor 2001 1961 1968 1964 40 Director and comedian 2002 1986 1991 2002 2002 16 Comedian, actress, host, and producer 1984 2012 2008 1994 2012 28 Producer 2008201220142004 2014 10 , 1 week Songwriter and librettist 2018 1980 1997 1980 2018 38 Composer and producer 2018 1980 1993 1980 38 Lyricist, librettist, and producer 2018 2006 2015 2017 12 Singer, composer, and producer 2020 1991 1990 2012 2020 30 Composer and producer 2021 2009 2007 2022 2022 15 Singer, actress, host, and producer 2015 2023 2017 2001 2023 22 Actress and producer 2024 1987 1995 2000 2024 37 Singer, composer, pianist, and producer 2024 2018 2017 2017 7 Composer, lyricist, and producer 2024 2018 2017 2017 7 Composer, lyricist, and producer 1991 2026 1994 2022 2026 35 Director and producer
Non-competitive EGOT NameEmmyGrammyOscarTonyEGOT completedYear SpanHonorary AwardCategory(s) 1965 1964 1969 1970 1970 Special Tony Award Actress and singer 1973 1990 1973 1965 1990 Grammy Legend Award Actress and singer 1991 1977 2011 1969 2011 Academy Honorary Award Actor and voice actor 1960 1961 2014 1954 2014 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Activist, actor, and singer 1977 1964 1994 2016 2016 Composer, musician, and producer 2023 2023 2019 2022 2023 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Director and producer
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Competitive EGOT awardees Richard Rodgers
American composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) received his fourth distinct award in 1962. Between 1946 and 1979, Rodgers received a total of 10 competitive awards. He was the first person to win all four and was primarily a composer.
Academy Awards: 1946: Best Song – "It Might as Well Be Spring"
Primetime Emmy Awards: 1962: Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composed for Television – Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years
Grammy Awards: 1961: Best Show Album (Original Cast) – The Sound of Music 1963: Best Original Cast Show Album – No Strings
Tony Awards: 1950: Best Musical – South Pacific 1950: Producers (Musical) – South Pacific 1950: Best Score – South Pacific 1952: Best Musical – The King and I 1960: Best Musical – The Sound of Music 1962: Best Composer – No Strings
Special Awards: 1962: Special Tony Award "for all he has done for young people in the theatre and for taking the men of the orchestra out of the pit and putting them onstage in No Strings" 1972: Special Tony Award 1979: Special Tony Award – Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre
Helen Hayes
American actress Helen Hayes (1900–1993) received her fourth distinct award in 1977. Between 1932 and 1980, Hayes received a total of six competitive awards. She was the first woman and the first performer to win all four. Hayes was also the first EGOT recipient to win the Triple Crown of Acting (with individual acting wins in each of the Emmy, Oscar, and Tony awards). Counting only the first award of each type, she also has the longest interval (45 years) between her first and fourth award of any EGOT winner.
Academy Awards: 1932: Best Actress in a Leading Role – The Sin of Madelon Claudet 1971: Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Airport
Primetime Emmy Awards: 1953: Best Actress – Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Grammy Awards: 1977: Best Spoken Word Recording – Great American Documents
Tony Awards: 1947: Best Actress in a Play – Happy Birthday 1958: Best Leading Actress in a Play – Time Remembered
Special Awards: 1980: Special Tony Award – Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre
Rita Moreno
Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer Rita Moreno (born 1931) received her fourth distinct award in 1977. Between 1961 and 1978, Moreno received a total of five awards. She is also the first Latina winner and the first winner to win a Grammy as their second award (both previous winners won Tonys as their second award). In addition, she became a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2015 and a Peabody Award winner in 2019. Moreno is also the second EGOT recipient and the first Hispanic actress to win the Triple Crown of Acting.
Academy Awards: 1962: Best Actress in a Supporting Role – West Side Story
Primetime Emmy Awards: 1977: Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Variety or Music – The Muppet Show 1978: Outstanding Lead Actress for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series – The Rockford Files
Grammy Awards: 1973: Best Recording for Children – The Electric Company
Tony Awards: 1975: Best Supporting or Featured Actress in a Play – The Ritz
John Gielgud
English actor and theatre director John Gielgud (1904–2000) received his fourth distinct award in 1991. Between 1948 and 1991, Gielgud received a total of five competitive awards. Gielgud was the first winner to win any award other than the Oscar as their first award (his first award was a Tony). At age 87 when he won his Emmy, he also became the oldest winner, the first male performer, the first LGBTQ winner, and the first non-American.
Academy Awards: 1982: Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Arthur
Primetime Emmy Awards: 1991: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special – Summer's Lease
Grammy Awards: 1980: Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording – Ages of Man
Tony Awards: 1948: Outstanding Foreign Company – The Importance of Being Earnest 1961: Best Director of a Drama – Big Fish, Little Fish
Special Awards: 1959: Special Tony Award "for contribution to theatre for his extraordinary insight into the writings of Shakespeare as demonstrated in his one-man play Ages of Man."
Audrey Hepburn
British actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993) received her fourth distinct award posthumously in 1994. Between 1954 and 1994, Hepburn received a total of four competitive awards. She was the fifth person to complete the feat and the first to do so posthumously. She was also the first winner to win two of their awards in consecutive awards shows (the 1994 Grammys were the first Grammys since her posthumous win at the 1993 Emmys). She is the only EGOT winner to not win multiple awards in any of the four award fields.
Academy Awards: 1954: Best Actress in a Leading Role – Roman Holiday
Primetime Emmy Awards: 1993: Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming – Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn
Grammy Awards: 1994: Best Spoken Word Album for Children – Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales
Tony Awards: 1954: Distinguished Dramatic Actress – Ondine
Special Awards: 1968: Special Tony Award 1993: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Marvin Hamlisch
American composer and conductor Marvin Hamlisch (1944–2012) received his fourth distinct award in 1995. Between 1974 and 2001, Hamlisch received a total of 12 competitive awards. Before Alan Menken joined the group in 2020, Hamlisch had the most Oscars of any EGOT winner (three – all won in the same year). In 1974 he would win "General Field" Grammys, taking Song of the Year and Best New Artist, making him first EGOT to have this distinction. Hamlisch was also the first EGOT winner to have won multiple, qualifying awards for the same work – both an Oscar and a Grammy for the song "The Way We Were".
Academy Awards: 1974: Best Original Dramatic Score – The Way We Were 1974: Best Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation – The Sting 1974: Best Song – "The Way We Were"
Primetime Emmy Awards: 1995: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction – Barbra: The Concert 1995: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics – "Ordinary Miracles" 1999: Outstanding Music and Lyrics – "A Ticket to Dream" 2001: Outstanding Music Direction – Timeless: Live in Concert
Grammy Awards: 1975: Best New Artist 1975: Song of the Year – "The Way We Were" 1975: Best Pop Instrumental Performance – "The Entertainer" 1975: Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special – The Way We Were: Original Soundtrack Recording
Tony Awards: 1976: Best Musical Score – A Chorus Line
Jonathan Tunick
American orchestrator, musical director, and composer Jonathan Tunick (born 1938) received his fourth distinct award in 1997. Between 1977 and 2024, Tunick received a total of five awards. Tunick is the first EGOT winner to have won an Emmy as their second award as well as the first to win the Tony as their fourth award.
Academy Awards: 1978: Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score – A Little Night Music
Primetime Emmy Awards: 1982: Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction – Night of 100 Stars
Grammy Awards: 1989: Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) – "No One is Alone"
Tony Awards: 1997: Best Orchestrations – Titanic 2024: Best Orchestrations – Merrily We Roll Along
Mel Brooks
American actor, comedian, and filmmaker Mel Brooks (born 1926) received his fourth distinct award in June 2001. Between 1968 and 2002, Brooks received a total of 11 awards. Brooks was the first person to win the Emmy as the first award, and the first winner to have won his Oscar for screenwriting. He is the only person to have won the Triple Crown of Writing, having won an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony in writing categories.
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