Liza Minelli on the 1973 Oscars, along with her father Vincente Minnelli.Getty Photographs.
Liza Minnelli (noncompetitive) – February 21, 1990
Liza Minnelli was the primary individual to start their EGOT journey with a Tony Award (finest lead actress in a musical, Flora the Pink Menace). In 1973, she received back-to-back on the Oscars and Emmys for Cabaret and Liza with a Z, respectively. Her Grammy got here in 1990, with a Grammy Legend tribute award. She accepted the consideration by performing a disco model of Stephen Sondheim’s “Shedding My Thoughts” and stated in her acceptance speech, “Principally, I’d wish to thank the individuals who purchase the data as a result of they made all of it attainable.”
John Gielgud – August 25, 1991
Sir John Gielgud was the primary British EGOT winner, the primary queer EGOT winner, and the one male EGOT to win an Academy Award for appearing (best-supporting actor, Arthur). His 1980 spoken-word Grammy for Ages of Man—a group of Shakespeare speeches—additionally earned him a particular Tony when he carried out it on the stage over twenty years prior. Gielgud earned two aggressive appearing Tonys as nicely: a overseas firm award for The Significance of Being Earnest in 1948, and finest director of a drama for Huge Fish, Little Fish in 1961. Gielgud grew to become the oldest individual to cross the EGOT end line when he received his Emmy for miniseries Summer season’s Lease on the age of 87.
Audrey Hepburn – March 1, 1994
“It’s an excessive amount of,” Audrey Hepburn sheepishly stated upon receiving her Oscar for Roman Vacation in 1954. However the awards wouldn’t cease no matter her modesty: She received a Tony for Ondine three days later. Hepburn remained beloved via her closing days, turning into the primary and solely posthumous EGOT winner. Each her Emmy (informational programming, Gardens of the World With Audrey Hepburn) and Grammy (spoken-word album for youngsters, Audrey Hepburn’s Enchanted Tales) have been awarded following her demise.
Marvin Hamlisch – September 9, 1995
Have been it not for these pesky Emmys, Marvin Hamlisch would have had a meteoric rise to EGOT standing. On the Academy Awards in 1974, he took dwelling three Oscars—one among solely 14 folks to earn so many in a single ceremony—for music from The Method We Have been and The Sting. On the subsequent Grammys, he earned 4 awards, together with finest new artist (one among solely two folks on this checklist to win that award). In 1976, he received the Tony for his unique rating to Broadway juggernaut A Refrain Line. However his EGOT wasn’t earned till 1995, when Hamlish acquired two Emmys for his work on Barbra: The Live performance, the HBO broadcast of Barbra Streisand’s first live shows in a long time.
Jonathan Tunick – June 1, 1997
If you happen to assume you need to be a family title to dominate essentially the most coveted awards, assume once more! Jonathan Tunick earned his EGOT for a decades-spanning profession as an orchestrator, music director, and composer, crossing the EGOT end line in 1997 by successful a best-orchestrations Tony for the musical Titanic. Beforehand, he earned a 1978 Oscar for rating adaptation (a now defunct class) for A Little Night time Music. His Emmy arrived in 1982, for music directing Night time of 100 Stars, and his Grammy in 1989, for his instrumental association of Cleo Laine’s model of “No One is Alone.” He just lately received his second orchestrations Tony for the revival of Merrily We Roll Alongside.
Mel Brooks – June 3, 2001
Mel Brooks is likely one of the few to start their EGOT with an Emmy, incomes a writing win for a range present in 1967. His Oscar got here for the unique screenplay of The Producers, making Brooks the one individual on this checklist to win an Oscar for screenwriting. A guest-starring run on Mad About You kicked off a late-career awards run, beginning in 1997. Brooks received three consecutive Emmys for the sequence, a comedy album Grammy in 1999, and a trio of 2001 Tonys for the stage adaptation of The Producers. Together with his 2023 honorary Oscar, Brooks grew to become solely the second individual to win a double EGOT, with not less than two wins for every of the awards.
Mike Nichols – November 4, 2001
Although Mike Nichols received his Grammy for comedy efficiency alongside Elaine Could in 1962, he’s the one individual among the many EGOT winners to have been awarded for steering—he acquired an Oscar for The Graduate, and his first of 9 Tonys for steering Barefoot within the Park. In 2001, he earned his EGOT standing with a number of Emmys for HBO’s Wit. At Nichols’s AFI Lifetime Achievement in 2010, presenter Julia Roberts remarked on his EGOT standing—at a time when there have been lower than half of the EGOT winners there are immediately.
Whoopi Goldberg – June 2, 2002
Like Nichols and Brooks, Whoopi Goldberg earned the “G” in her EGOT for a comedy recording, and hers was for the recording of her one-person Broadway present in 1986. After successful the best-supporting-actress Academy Award for her efficiency in Ghost and a particular Emmy in 1997 for the Comedian Aid profit specials, her EGOT story was introduced full circle with a Tony—not for reviving her solo act, however for producing the musical Totally Fashionable Millie. Goldberg is the primary Black EGOT winner.
James Earl Jones (noncompetitive) – November 12, 2011
James Earl Jones started his EGOT trajectory with a Tony for lead actor in The Nice White Hope; he was nominated for an Oscar for recreating the function onscreen however didn’t win. Like Hayes, his Grammy got here within the spoken-word class: Jones received for Nice American Paperwork. (Absolutely there has by no means been one other voice in human existence we’d somewhat hear studying the Structure than his.) In 1991, he received a lead-actor-in-a-drama Emmy for one-season-wonder Gabriel’s Fireplace, making him the one male performer on this checklist with an appearing Emmy that wasn’t for a visitor or miniseries function. Jones’s honorary Oscar in 2011 made him the primary individual to full their EGOT with an Oscar.
Scott Rudin – February 12, 2012
Even the business’s most infamous figures can obtain a spot within the Corridor of Fame of leisure, like producer Scott Rudin—who first earned an Emmy for the youngsters’s program He Makes Me Really feel Like Dancin’. He grew to become an EGOT because of the Grammy received by the forged recording for the Broadway musical The Ebook of Mormon, after a finest image Oscar win for No Nation for Outdated Males and quite a few Tony wins that started with a best-musical victory in 1994 for Ardour. After Rudin’s historical past of alleged bodily and verbal abuse was uncovered in 2021, and the Broadway neighborhood referred to as for Rudin to exit his producing duties for ongoing and incoming productions, he launched a press release saying, “After a interval of reflection, I’ve made the choice to step again from lively participation on our Broadway productions, efficient instantly.”
Robert Lopez – March 2, 2014
Whereas virtually all EGOT winners have extra prize wins to their credit score, composer Robert Lopez is the one double EGOT winner ever for solely aggressive classes—that means he has received every of the EGOT prizes (not less than) twice. He’s additionally the one Asian and Filipino EGOT winner. His awards run started in 2004, when he received a Tony for his unique rating for Avenue Q. In 2008, he received a daytime Emmy for music composition for Marvel Pets, and in 2012, received a Grammy for best-musical-theater album for The Ebook of Mormon. With additional songwriting accolades together with Frozen, Coco, and “Agatha All Alongside,” Lopez earned his first EGOT when he acquired the best-original-song Oscar for “Let It Go” per week after his thirty ninth birthday, which made him the youngest EGOT award winner ever.
Harry Belafonte (noncompetitive) – November 8, 2014
The legend and activist earned three-quarters of his EGOT within the span of a decade, beginning with a Tony for distinguished efficiency in John Murray Anderson’s Almanac in 1954 (the identical ceremony Audrey Hepburn was awarded), a variety-performance Emmy for The Revlon Revue in 1960, and a best-folk-performance Grammy in 1961 for his album Swing Dat Hammer. Like James Earl Jones, Belafonte joined the EGOT membership with a tribute Oscar. Within the shifting acceptance speech for his Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Belafonte mused in regards to the potential for Hollywood to create societal change, saying, “Maybe we as artists and as visionaries, for what’s higher within the human coronary heart and the human soul, might affect residents all over the place on the planet to see the higher aspect of who and what we’re as a species.”
