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List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards

List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards

The EGOT is the designation given for the accomplishment of having won all four major annual American entertainment awards in a competitive, individual (non-group) category of the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT) awards.[11][12] Respectively, these awards honor outstanding achievements in television, recording, film, and theater.[13] Winning all four awards has been referred to as winning the "grand slam" of American show business.[14][15] As of 2019, fifteen people have accomplished this achievement.

The EGOT acronym was coined by actor Philip Michael Thomas in late 1984, when his role on the new hit show Miami Vice brought instant fame, stating a desire to complete his own EGOT-winning collection.[16][17] When coining the acronym, Thomas stated that it also means "energy, growth, opportunity and talent".[18] However, he also intended that the "E" should only stand for the Primetime Emmy Award, and not a Daytime Emmy nor any of the awards presented at the other types of Emmy ceremonies.[19] Nevertheless, two of the 15 people listed as EGOT winners have won only the Daytime Emmy.

None of the 15 EGOT winners have actually won the awards in the acronym's order (first an Emmy, then a Grammy, then an Oscar, and finally a Tony). The closest person has been Robert Lopez, who won the "grand slam" in TEGO order.

A variation of the accomplishment is the PEGOT, indicating someone who has won all four EGOT awards as well as a Peabody Award or Pulitzer Prize.

Winners of all four awards

As of 2019, fifteen individuals have won all four awards in competitive categories.

NameCompleted
(year span)		EmmyGrammyOscarTonyCompletion YearAge at time of completionCategory(s)
Richard Rodgers171962196011945195012196259.9 yearsComposer
Helen Hayes3451953197719321194712197776.4 yearsActress
Rita Moreno31619771197219611975197745.8 yearsActress/Singer
John Gielgud30199119791981196112199187.4 yearsActor/Director
Audrey Hepburn4119935199451953219542199463.7 years5Actress
Marvin Hamlisch231995119741197311976199551.3 yearsComposer
Jonathan Tunick201982198819771997199759.1 yearsComposer/Conductor
Mel Brooks341967119981196820011200174.9 yearsWriter/Composer/Actor
Mike Nichols40200111961196719641200170 yearsDirector/Comedian
Whoopi Goldberg172002124198619912002200246.6 yearsComedian/Actress/Host
Scott Rudin2819842012200819941201253.6 yearsProducer
Robert Lopez610200814201212014120041201439 yearsComposer
John Legend12201820061201520172018739.7 yearsSinger/Composer/Producer
Andrew Lloyd Webber38201819801219971980122018770.5 yearsComposer/Producer
Tim Rice3820181980119931198012018773.8 yearsLyricist/Producer

Notes:

Including non-competitive or special

Six other artists—Liza Minnelli, James Earl Jones, Barbra Streisand, Alan Menken, Harry Belafonte, and Quincy Jones—have also received all four awards, but at least one of the awards was non-competitive, i.e., special or honorary in nature (Streisand's Tony, both Joneses' Oscars, Minnelli's Grammy, Menken's Emmy, and Belafonte's Oscar).[13]

The following are the six artists who also have won the four major awards but not exclusively in the main competitive categories.

ArtistYears to complete1st Award2nd Award3rd Award4th Award
Barbra Streisand
6
1964Grammy1965Emmy1968Oscar1970Special Tony Award
Liza Minnelli
25
1965Tony1972Oscar1973Emmy1990Grammy Legend Award
James Earl Jones
42
1969Tony1977Grammy1991Emmy2011Academy Honorary Award (Oscar)
Alan Menken
23
1989Oscar1990Special Emmy Award1991Grammy2012Tony
Harry Belafonte
60
1954Tony1960Emmy1961Grammy2014Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (Oscar)
Quincy Jones
52
1964Grammy1977Emmy1994Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (Oscar)2016Tony

Qualifying awards summary (competitive only)

Richard Rodgers

Richard Rodgers (1902–1979), a composer, received his fourth distinct award in 1962. Between 1945 and 1979, Rodgers received a total of 13 awards.

  • Academy Awards: 1945: Best Song – "It Might as Well Be Spring" from State Fair

  • Primetime Emmy Awards: 1962: Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composed – Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years

  • Grammy Awards: 1960: Best Show Album (Original Cast) – The Sound of Music 1962: Best Original Cast Show Album – No Strings

  • Tony Awards: 1950: Best Musical – South Pacific 1950: Tony Award for 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

Helen Hayes (1900–1993), an actress, received her fourth distinct award in 1977. Between 1932 and 1980, Hayes received a total of 7 awards. She was the first woman to win all four. Hayes was also the first person to win the Triple Crown of Acting, with singular (non-group/ensemble/company) acting wins in each of the Emmy, Oscar and Tony awards, winning her third in 1953. Counting only the first award of each type, she also has the distinction of the longest timespan (45 years) between her first and fourth award of any showbiz Grand Slam winner.

  • Academy Awards: 1932: Best Actress in a Leading Role – The Sin of Madelon Claudet 1970: Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Airport

  • Primetime Emmy Awards: 1953: Best Actress – Schlitz Playhouse of Stars for the episode "Not a Chance"

  • Grammy Awards: 1977: Best Spoken Word Recording – Great American Documents

  • Tony Awards: 1947: Best Actress, Dramatic – Happy Birthday 1958: Best Actress, Dramatic – Time Remembered

  • Special Awards: 1980: Special Tony Award, Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre

Rita Moreno

Rita Moreno (born 1931), an actress, received her fourth distinct award in 1977. Between 1961 and 1978, Moreno received a total of five awards.[20] She is also the first Hispanic 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 on March 28, 2019 it was announced that she will receive a Peabody Award.

  • 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 for the episode "The Paper Palace"

  • Grammy Awards: 1972: Best Recording for Children – The Electric Company

  • Tony Awards: 1975: Best Featured or Supporting Actress in a Play – The Ritz

John Gielgud

John Gielgud (1904–2000), an actor, received his fourth distinct award in 1991. Between 1948 and 1991, Gielgud received a total of six 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 was also the oldest winner.

  • Academy Awards: 1981: Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Arthur

  • Primetime Emmy Awards: 1991: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Special – Summer's Lease

  • Grammy Awards: 1979: 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

Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993), an actress, received her fourth distinct award posthumously in 1994. Between 1953 and 1994, Hepburn received a total of six 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 one of the only two EGOT winners (the other being Jonathan Tunick) to not win multiple awards in any of the four award fields.

  • Academy Awards: 1953: 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: Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – Ondine

  • Special Awards: 1968: Special Tony Award, Special Achievement Award 1993: Special Academy Award, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Marvin Hamlisch

Marvin Hamlisch (1944–2012), a composer, received his fourth distinct award in 1995. Between 1973 and 2001, Hamlisch received a total of 12 awards. Hamlisch has the most Oscars of any Grand Slam winners (three). In 1974 he became the first winner to have won a "General Field" Grammy – taking Song of the Year and Best New Artist. He was also the first Grand Slam winner to have won multiple legs of the feat for the same work – an Oscar and a Grammy for song "The Way We Were".

  • Academy Awards: 1973: Best Music, Original Dramatic Score – The Way We Were 1973: Best Music, Original Song – "The Way We Were" 1973: Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation – The Sting

  • Primetime Emmy Awards: 1995: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction – Barbra: The Concert 1995: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics – Barbra: The Concert 1999: Outstanding Music and Lyrics – AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies 2001: Outstanding Music Direction – Timeless: Live in Concert

  • Grammy Awards: 1974: Song of the Year – "The Way We Were" 1974: Best New Artist of the Year 1974: Best Pop Instrumental Performance – "The Entertainer" 1974: Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special – The Way We Were

  • Tony Awards: 1976: Best Musical Score – A Chorus Line

Jonathan Tunick

Jonathan Tunick (born 1938), a composer, conductor, and music arranger, received his fourth distinct award in 1997. Between 1977 and 1997, Tunick received a total of four awards. Tunick is the first Grand Slam winner to have won an Emmy as their second award as well as the first to win the Tony as their fourth award. He is also the second person (after Audrey Hepburn) to not win any multiple awards in any of the four award fields.

  • Academy Awards: 1977: Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score – A Little Night Music

  • Primetime Emmy Awards: 1982: Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction – Night of 100 Stars

  • Grammy Awards: 1988: Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals – "No One is Alone," Cleo Laine

  • Tony Awards: 1997: Best Orchestrations – Titanic

Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks (born 1926), a director, writer and actor, received his fourth distinct award in June 2001. Between 1968 and 2002, Brooks received a total of 11 awards.[21] Brooks was the first person to win the Emmy as the first award, and the first winner to have won his Oscar for screenwriting.

  • Academy Awards: 1968: Best Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) – The Producers

  • Primetime Emmy Awards: 1967: Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety – The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special 1997: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series – Mad About You 1998: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series – Mad About You 1999: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series – Mad About You

  • Grammy Awards: 1998: Best Spoken Comedy Album – The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 2002: Best Long Form Music Video – Recording 'The Producers': A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks 2002: Best Musical Show Album – The Producers

  • Tony Awards: 2001: Best Book of a Musical – The Producers 2001: Best Original Score – The Producers 2001: Best Musical – The Producers

When he appeared on the January 30, 2015 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, Brooks called himself an EGOTAK, noting that he had also received awards from the American Film Institute and Kennedy Center.

Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols (1931–2014), a director, actor and comedian, received his fourth distinct award in November 2001. Between 1961 and 2012, Nichols received a total of 15 awards. Nichols was the first slam winner to win the Grammy as their first award, the first winner to have won multiple awards (an Oscar, several Tonys, and two Emmys) for directing. When counting all awards won—not just the first of each type—Nichols has the longest timespan of awards among Grand Slam winners, at 51 years.

  • Academy Awards: 1967: Best Director – The Graduate

  • Primetime Emmy Awards: 2001: Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special – Wit 2001: Outstanding Made for Television Movie – Wit 2004: Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special – Angels in America 2004: Outstanding Miniseries – Angels in America

  • Grammy Awards: 1961: Best Comedy Performance – An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May

  • Tony Awards: 1964: Best Director, Dramatic – Barefoot in the Park 1965: Best Director, Dramatic – Luv and The Odd Couple 1968: Best Director, Dramatic – Plaza Suite 1972: Best Director, Dramatic – The Prisoner of Second Avenue 1977: Best Musical – Annie 1984: Best Director, Play – The Real Thing 1984: Best Play – The Real Thing 2005: Best Director, Musical – Monty Python's Spamalot 2012: Best Director, Play – Death of a Salesman

Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg (born 1955), an actress, comedian and talk-show host, received her fourth distinct award in 2002. Between 1985 and 2009, Goldberg received a total of 6 awards.[22] Goldberg is the first African American winner, the first to win the Oscar as their second award, and the first to win two of their awards in the same year (she won both her first Daytime Emmy and her Tony in 2002).

  • Academy Awards: 1991: Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Ghost

  • Daytime Emmy Awards: 2002: Outstanding Special Class Special – Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel (Host) 2009: Outstanding Talk Show Host – The View

  • Grammy Awards: 1986: Best Comedy Recording – Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway, Original Broadway Show Recording

  • Tony Awards: 2002: Best Musical – Thoroughly Modern Millie

  • Special Awards: 1997: Special Emmy Award, Governors Award, for the seven Comic Relief Benefit Specials

Notes: Although she has not won a competitive Primetime Emmy award, she has been nominated several times. The fact that she does not have a competitive Primetime Emmy Award has led to debate over her inclusion in the "official list." In the 30 Rock episode "Dealbreakers Talk Show*#0001", Goldberg (playing herself) addresses this when questioned by character Tracy Jordan about her Daytime Emmy: "It still counts! Girl's gotta eat!"

Scott Rudin

Scott Rudin (born 1958) received his fourth distinct award in 2012. Between 1984 and 2019, Rudin received a total of 20 awards making him the record holder for most awards won among the people who have won all four awards in competitive categories. Rudin is the first winner who is primarily a producer.

  • Academy Awards: 2008: Best Picture – No Country For Old Men

  • Primetime Emmy Awards: 1984: Outstanding Children's Program – He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'

  • Grammy Awards: 2012: Best Musical Theater Album – The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording

  • Tony Awards: 1994: Best Musical – Passion 2000: Best Play – Copenhagen 2002: Best Play – The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? 2005: Best Play – Doubt 2006: Best Play – The History Boys 2009: Best Play – God of Carnage 2010: Best Revival of a Play – Fences 2011: Best Musical – The Book of Mormon 2012: Best Revival of a Play – Death of a Salesman 2014: Best Revival of a Play – A Raisin in the Sun 2015: Best Play – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2015: Best Revival of a Play – Skylight 2016: Best Play – The Humans 2016: Best Revival of a Play – A View From the Bridge 2017: Best Revival of a Musical – Hello, Dolly! 2019: Best Play – The Ferryman 2019: Best Revival of a Play – The Boys in the Band

Robert Lopez

Robert Lopez (born 1975), a songwriter, received his fourth distinct award in 2014. Between 2004 and 2018, Lopez received a total of 10 awards. Like fellow EGOT winner Whoopi Goldberg, his Emmy awards are Daytime Emmys (although he has been nominated for three competitive Primetime Emmy awards). Lopez is the first Filipino and Asian to achieve this feat. He is also the youngest winner to receive all four awards in competitive categories, as well as the fastest to complete his qualifying run of EGOT award wins (10 years).

He received his Grammy Award for The Book of Mormon in collaboration with fellow EGOT winner Scott Rudin (among others), making them the first pair of Grand Slam winners to have been co-winners of the same award. Lopez is also the first person to have won the Oscar last, which he won with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez.[23] He is also the first winner to win the so-called "Double EGOT", winning each EGOT award twice.[24][25]

  • Academy Awards 2014: Best Original Song – "Let It Go" from Frozen 2018: Best Original Song – "Remember Me" from Coco

  • Daytime Emmy Awards 2008: Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition – Wonder Pets 2010: Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition – Wonder Pets

  • Grammy Awards 2012: Best Musical Theater Album – The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording 2015: Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media – Frozen 2015: Best Song Written for Visual Media – "Let It Go" from Frozen

  • Tony Awards 2004: Best Original Score – Avenue Q 2011: Best Book of a Musical – The Book of Mormon 2011: Best Original Score – The Book of Mormon

John Legend

John Legend (born 1978), a musician and producer, received his fourth distinct award in 2018. Between 2006 and 2018, Legend received a total of 14 awards. Legend has won the most Grammy awards, 10, of any EGOT recipient, and is the second recipient, after Marvin Hamlisch, who is primarily a musician. In addition to being the first black man to achieve EGOT status,[27] Legend is the first person to receive the four awards in four consecutive years.[28] He is also the only EGOT recipient to have won both a Primetime and a Daytime Emmy award. Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Tim Rice all simultaneously became EGOT recipients on September 9, 2018, when they were collectively awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) for Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert.[29]

  • Academy Awards: 2015: Best Original Song – "Glory" from Selma

  • Primetime Emmy Awards: 2018: Outstanding Variety Special (Live) – Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert

  • Daytime Emmy Awards: 2019: Outstanding Interactive Media for a Daytime Program – Crow: The Legend

  • Grammy Awards: 2006: Best New Artist 2006: Best R&B Album – Get Lifted 2006: Best Male R&B Vocal Performance – "Ordinary People" 2007: Best Male R&B Vocal Performance – "Heaven" 2007: Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals – "Family Affair" 2009: Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals – "Stay with Me (By the Sea)" 2011: Best R&B Song – "Shine" 2011: Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance – "Hang on in There" 2011: Best R&B Album – Wake Up! 2016: Best Song Written for Visual Media – "Glory"

  • Tony Awards: 2017: Best Revival of a Play – Jitney

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 1948), a musical theatre composer, songwriter and producer, received his fourth distinct award in 2018. Between 1980 and 2018, Lloyd Webber received a total of 13 awards.

  • Academy Awards: 1997: Best Original Song – "You Must Love Me" from Evita

  • Primetime Emmy Awards: 2018: Outstanding Variety Special (Live) – Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert

  • Grammy Awards: 1980: Best Cast Show Album – Evita 1983: Best Cast Show Album – Cats 1986: Best Contemporary Composition – Requiem

  • Tony Awards: 1980: Best Original Score – Evita 1983: Best Musical – Cats 1983: Best Original Score – Cats 1988: Best Musical – The Phantom of the Opera 1995: Best Musical – Sunset Boulevard 1995: Best Original Score – Sunset Boulevard

  • Special Awards: 1990: Grammy Legend Award 2018: Special Tony Award

Tim Rice

Tim Rice (born 1944), a lyricist and producer, received his fourth distinct award in 2018. Between 1980 and 2018, Rice received a total of 12 awards, and shares some of his awards with his regular collaborator Andrew Lloyd Webber.

  • Academy Awards: 1993: Best Original Song – "A Whole New World" from Aladdin 1995: Best Original Song – "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from The Lion King 1997: Best Original Song – "You Must Love Me" from Evita

  • Primetime Emmy Awards: 2018: Outstanding Variety Special (Live) – Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert

  • Grammy Awards: 1980: Best Cast Show Album – Evita 1993: Song of the Year – "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)" 1993: Best Musical Album for Children – Aladdin - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 1993: Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television – "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)" 2000: Best Musical Show Album – Aida

  • Tony Awards: 1980: Best Original Score – Evita 1980: Best Book of a Musical – Evita 2000: Best Original Score – Aida

Winners including non-competitive awards

The following artists have also received all of the four major awards. However, in each case, one of these awards has been received only in an honorary or other non-competitive category. (Streisand has not received a competitive Tony, Minnelli has not received a competitive Grammy, Menken has not received a competitive Emmy and Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Quincy Jones have not received a competitive Oscar.)

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand (born 1942), a singer and actress, received her fourth distinct award in 1970. Between 1963 and 2001, Streisand received a total of 18 awards. Having completed the showbiz Grand Slam at age 28, she is the youngest winner, and with just six years elapsing between her first award (a 1964 Grammy) and her final award (a 1970 Special Tony), Streisand also completed the Grand Slam in the shortest amount of time. She is also the only winner to have won an Oscar in both a music and an acting category. She is also the only winner to have won all of her competitive awards for her debut performances (her first musical album, feature film and television special, respectively). In addition, she also received the Peabody Award, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Kennedy Center Honor, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the National Medal of Arts, the American Society of Cinematographers Board of Governors Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

  • Academy Awards:

  1. 1968: Best Actress in a Leading Role – Funny Girl

  2. 1976: Best Music, Song – "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"

  • Primetime Emmy Awards:

  1. 1965: Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment – Actors and Performers – My Name is Barbra

  2. 1995: Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program – Barbra Streisand: The Concert

  3. 1995: Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special – Barbra Streisand: The Concert

  4. 2001: Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program – Timeless: Live in Concert

  • Daytime Emmy Awards:

  1. 2001: Outstanding Special Class Special – Reel Models: The First Women of Film

  • Grammy Awards:

  1. 1964: Best Vocal Performance, Female – The Barbra Streisand Album

  2. 1964: Album Of The Year (Other Than Classical) – The Barbra Streisand Album

  3. 1965: Best Vocal Performance, Female – "People" (from the musical Funny Girl)

  4. 1966: Best Vocal Performance, Female – My Name Is Barbra

  5. 1977: Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female – "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"

  6. 1977: Song Of The Year – "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"

  7. 1980: Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal – "Guilty" (with Barry Gibb)

  8. 1986: Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female – The Broadway Album

  9. 1992: Special Grammy Award: Grammy Legend Award (non-competitive)

  10. 1995: Special Grammy Award: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (non-competitive)

  • Tony Awards:

  1. 1970: Special Tony Award: Star of the Decade (non-competitive)

Liza Minnelli

Liza Minnelli (born 1946), an actress and singer, received her fourth distinct award in 1990. Between 1965 and 2009, Minnelli received a total of 7 awards.

  • Academy Awards:

  1. 1972: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Cabaret)

  • Primetime Emmy Awards:

  1. 1973: Outstanding Single Program − Variety and Popular Music (Liza with a 'Z'. A Concert for Television)

  • Grammy Awards:

  1. 1990: Special Grammy Award: Grammy Legend Award (non-competitive)

  • Tony Awards:

  1. 1965: Best Leading Actress in a Musical (Flora the Red Menace)

  2. 1974: Special Tony Award for "adding lustre to the Broadway season" (non-competitive)

  3. 1978: Best Leading Actress in a Musical (The Act)

  4. 2009: Best Special Theatrical Event (Liza's at The Palace...!)

James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones (born 1931), an actor, received his fourth distinct award in 2011. Between 1969 and 2011, Jones received a total of 7 awards.

  • Academy Awards:

  1. 2011: Academy Honorary Award (non-competitive)

  • Primetime Emmy Awards:

  1. 1991: Outstanding Lead Actor − Drama Series (Gabriel's Fire)

  2. 1991: Outstanding Supporting Actor − Miniseries or a Movie (Heat Wave)

  • Daytime Emmy Awards:

  1. 2000: Outstanding Performer − Children's Special (Summer's End)

  • Grammy Awards:

  1. 1977: Best Spoken Word Recording (Great American Documents)

  • Tony Awards:

  1. 1969: Best Leading Actor in a Play (The Great White Hope)

  2. 1987: Best Leading Actor in a Play (Fences)

  3. 2017: Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre (non-competitive)

Alan Menken

Alan Menken (born 1949), composer and songwriter, received his fourth distinct award in 2012. Between 1989 and 2012, Menken received a total of 21 awards. He has the most Oscar wins (8) by a grand slam winner and is the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories after Alfred Newman. He is also notable for frequently having multiple songs from the same film nominated for major awards.

  • Academy Awards:

  1. 1989: Best Original Score – The Little Mermaid

  2. 1989: Best Original Song – "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid

  3. 1991: Best Original Score – Beauty and the Beast

  4. 1991: Best Original Song – "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast

  5. 1992: Best Original Score – Aladdin

  6. 1992: Best Original Song – "A Whole New World" from Aladdin

  7. 1995: Best Original Musical or Comedy Score – Pocahontas

  8. 1995: Best Original Song – "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas

  • Primetime Emmy Awards:

  1. 1990: Outstanding contribution to the success of the Academy's anti-drug special for children – "Wonderful Ways to Say No" from the TV special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (non-competitive)

  • Grammy Awards:

  1. 1991: Best Recording for Children – The Little Mermaid: Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack

  2. 1991: Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television – "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid

  3. 1993: Best Album for Children – Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

  4. 1993: Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television – Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

  5. 1993: Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television – "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast

  6. 1994: Song of the Year – "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)" from Aladdin

  7. 1994: Best Musical Album for Children – Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

  8. 1994: Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television – Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

  9. 1994: Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television – "A Whole New World" from Aladdin

  10. 1996: Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television – "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas

  11. 2012: Best Song Written for Visual Media – "I See the Light" from Tangled

  • Tony Awards:

  1. 2012: Best Original Score – Newsies

Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte (born 1927), an actor, received his fourth distinct award in 2014. Between 1954 and 2014, Belafonte received a total of 6 awards.

  • Academy Awards:

  1. 2014: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (non-competitive)

  • Primetime Emmy Awards:

  1. 1960: Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program (Tonight with Belafonte - The Revlon Revue)

  • Grammy Awards:

  1. 1961: Best Performance Folk – Swing Dat Hammer

  2. 1966: Best Folk Performance – An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba

  3. 2000: Grammy Hall of Fame Award

  • Tony Awards:

  1. 1954: Best Featured Actor in a Musical – John Murray Anderson's Almanac

Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones (born 1933), an American record producer, actor and composer, received his fourth distinct award in 2016. Between 1964 and 2016, Jones received a total of 31 awards — the highest number of awards of any grand slam winner. He has 27 Grammy Awards and a Grammy Legend Award received in 1992.

  • Academy Awards:

  1. 1994: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (non-competitive)

  • Primetime Emmy Awards:

  1. 1977: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (for Roots)

  • Grammy Awards:

  1. 1964: Best Instrumental Arrangement – "I Can't Stop Loving You"

  2. 1970: Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group Or Soloist With Large Group – Walking in Space

  3. 1972: Best Pop Instrumental Performance – Smackwater Jack

  4. 1974: Best Instrumental Arrangement – "Summer in the City"

  5. 1979: Best Instrumental Arrangement – "The Wiz Main Title (Overture, Part One)"

  6. 1981: Best Instrumental Arrangement – "Dinorah, Dinorah"

  7. 1982: Producer Of The Year

  8. 1982: Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) – "Ai No Corrida"

  9. 1982: Best Arrangement On An Instrumental Recording – "Velas"

  10. 1982: Best Cast Show Album – Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music

  11. 1982: Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal – The Dude

  12. 1984: Producer Of The Year (Non-Classical)

  13. 1984: Best Recording For Children – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

  14. 1984: Album Of The Year – Thriller

  15. 1984: Record Of The Year – "Beat It"

  16. 1985: Best Arrangements On An Instrumental – "Grace (Gymnastics Theme)"

  17. 1986: Best Music Video, Short Form – "We Are the World – The Video Event"

  18. 1986: Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal – "We Are the World"

  19. 1986: Record Of The Year – "We Are the World"

  20. 1991: Producer Of The Year (Non-Classical)

  21. 1991: Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) – "The Places You Find Love"

  22. 1991: Best Arrangement On An Instrumental – "Birdland"

  23. 1991: Best Jazz Fusion Performance – "Birdland"

  24. 1991: Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group – "Back on the Block"

  25. 1991: Album Of The Year – Back on the Block

  26. 1994: Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance – Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux

  27. 2002: Best Spoken Word Album – Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones

  28. 2019: Best Music Film – Quincy

  • Tony Awards:

  1. 2016: Best Revival of a Musical (The Color Purple)

Three competitive awards

The following people have each won three out of the four major entertainment awards in competitive categories.[30]

Notes

† – Person is deceased.◊ – Person has been nominated at least once for a competitive category of the missing award, but has failed to win.TC – Person joins EGOT winners Hayes and Moreno as winners of theTriple Crown of Acting, with singular (non-group/ensemble/company) acting wins in each of the Emmy, Oscar and Tony awards.NCA – Person won a Non-Competitive Award in this category (see section above).P – Person has won the Pulitzer Prize

Three awards (non-competitive)

In addition to the above winners, the following people have each won three out of the four major entertainment awards in either competitive categories or non-competitive special and honorary categories.

  1. Howard Ashman†, ◊ won two competitive Oscars, five competitive Grammy Awards, and a Special Emmy Award.

  2. Fred Astaire† won three competitive Emmy Awards, a Special Academy Award, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

  3. Robert Russell Bennett† won a competitive Emmy Award, a competitive Oscar, and two Special Tony Awards.

  4. Irving Berlin† won an Academy Award, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and a competitive Tony award.

  5. Carol Burnett won six competitive Emmy Awards, one competitive Grammy award, and a Special Tony award.

  6. Walt Disney† won 26 competitive Academy Awards, seven competitive Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Trustees Award.

  7. Ray Dolby† won an Academy Scientific and Technical Award, two Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards, and a Special Merit/Technical Grammy Award.

  8. Judy Garland†, ◊ won an Academy Juvenile Award, two competitive Grammy Awards, and a Special Tony Award.

  9. Eileen Heckart† won a competitive Academy Award, a competitive Emmy Award, and a Special Tony Award.

  10. Barry Manilow won two competitive Emmy Awards, a competitive Grammy Award, and a Special Tony Award.

  11. Steve Martin◊ won the Honorary Academy Award, a competitive Emmy Award, and five competitive Grammy Awards.

  12. Stephen Schwartz won three competitive Oscars, three competitive Grammys and the Isabelle Stevenson Award, a non-competitive Tony Award.

  13. Bruce Springsteen◊ won 20 competitive Grammys, a competitive Academy Award, and a Special Tony Award.

  14. Thomas Stockham† won an Academy Scientific and Technical Award, a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award, and a Technical Grammy Award.

  15. Cicely Tyson won three competitive Emmy Awards, a competitive Tony Award, and an Academy Honorary Award.

  16. Eli Wallach† won a competitive Tony Award, a competitive Emmy Award, and an Academy Honorary Award.

  17. Oprah Winfrey won competitive Emmy Awards, a competitive Tony Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, a non-competitive Academy Award.

Notes

† – Person is deceased.◊ – Person has been nominated at least once for a competitive category of the missing award, but has failed to win.

Four nominations

The following people have not won all four awards in competitive categories, but have received at least one nomination for each of them:

  1. Lynn Ahrens

  2. Alan Alda

  3. Woody Allen

  4. Judith Anderson†

  5. Kristen Anderson-Lopez

  6. Julie Andrews

  7. Alan Arkin

  8. Howard Ashman[5]†

  9. Burt Bacharach

  10. Lauren Bacall†

  11. Elmer Bernstein†

  12. Leonard Bernstein†

  13. Ralph Burns†

  14. Ellen Burstyn

  15. Richard Burton†

  16. Sammy Cahn†

  17. Keith Carradine

  18. Diahann Carroll

  19. Stockard Channing

  20. Glenn Close

  21. Cy Coleman†

  22. Fred Ebb†

  23. José Ferrer†

  24. Henry Fonda†

  25. Jane Fonda

  26. Judy Garland[6]†

  27. Brian Grazer

  28. Joel Grey

  29. Julie Harris†

  30. Katharine Hepburn†

  31. Jeremy Irons

  32. Hugh Jackman

  33. James Earl Jones

  34. Quincy Jones

  35. John Kander

  36. Angela Lansbury

  37. Michel Legrand†

  38. Jack Lemmon†

  39. John Lithgow

  40. Kenny Loggins

  41. Steve Martin[7]

  42. Alan Menken

  43. Bette Midler

  44. Liza Minnelli

  45. Lin-Manuel Miranda

  46. Paul Newman†

  47. Laurence Olivier†

  48. Al Pacino

  49. Trey Parker

  50. Dolly Parton

  51. Benj Pasek

  52. Justin Paul

  53. Christopher Plummer

  54. Sidney Poitier

  55. André Previn†

  56. Lynn Redgrave[8]†

  57. Vanessa Redgrave

  58. Mark Ruffalo

  59. Adam Schlesinger

  60. Paul Scofield†

  61. Marc Shaiman

  62. David Shire

  63. Paul Simon

  64. Glenn Slater

  65. Tom Snow

  66. Kevin Spacey

  67. Bruce Springsteen[9]

  68. Sting

  69. Barbra Streisand

  70. Meryl Streep

  71. Lily Tomlin

  72. Stanley Tucci

  73. Peter Ustinov†

  74. Jimmy Van Heusen†

  75. Denzel Washington

  76. James Whitmore†

  77. Scott Wittman

  78. Hans Zimmer

Notes

† – Person is deceased.

PEGOT

A PEGOT winner is someone who has won all four EGOT awards as well as a Peabody Award[33] or Pulitzer Prize.[34]

EGOT winners who have also won a Peabody Award:

EGOT winners who have also won a Pulitzer Prize:

  1. Richard Rodgers[34]

  2. Marvin Hamlisch[34]

People who have won a Pulitzer, and are only missing one EGOT award:

  1. Jerry Bock (missing an Oscar)

  2. Oscar Hammerstein II (missing an Emmy)

  3. Frank Loesser (missing an Emmy)

  4. Lin-Manuel Miranda (missing an Oscar)

  5. Stephen Sondheim (missing an Emmy)

Of these five, only Miranda and Sondheim are still alive as of 2019. Miranda was nominated for a 2017 Oscar for Best Original Song but did not win.[34]

Notes

See also

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