Celebrities Who Earned The EGOT Title
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 American performing arts awards.
Achieving the EGOT has been referred to as the "grand slam" of American show business—in fact, it’s so rare that less than 20 people in history have ever been given this designation.
How Rare Is An EGOT?
Going as far back as the 1930s, there are only 19 people who have achieved competitive EGOT status.
And believe it or not, there is one celebrity who became the first—and only—double EGOT winner. And only two people who have won the PEGOT: the four EGOT awards plus a Pulitzer Prize.
Let's find out who these incredibly talented people are, and how they earned such an impressive title.
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Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers was an American composer who worked primarily in musical theater. With 43 Broadway musicals and over 900 songs to his credit, Rodgers was one of the most well-known American composers of the 20th century.
He was first person to win all four distinctive awards. Actually, he won 10 competitive awards in total, plus a few special ones.
Best of all, Rdogers was the first person to be award a Pulitzer Prize, turning his EGOT title into a PEGOT. Let's take a look at his EGOT awards.
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Richard Rodgers: EGOT Awards
Emmy Award
1962: Outstanding Achievement—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
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Richard Rodgers: EGOT Awards
Academy Award (Oscar)
1946: Best Song—“It Might as Well Be Spring”
Tony Awards
Rodgers received six Tony Awards for South Pacific, The King and I, The Sound of Music, and No Strings. He also won three Special Tony Awards.
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Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes was an American actress whose career spanned a whopping 82 years. She earned the nickname “First Lady of American Theatre” and was the second person—and first woman—to earn an EGOT title.
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Helen Hayes: EGOT Awards
Emmy Award
1953: Best Actress—Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (Episode: "Not a Chance")
Grammy Award
1977: Best Spoken Word Recording—Great American Documents
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Helen Hayes: EGOT Awards
Academy Awards (Oscars)
1932: Best Actress in a Leading Role—The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1971: Best Actress in a Supporting Role—Airport
Tony Awards
1947: Best Actress in a Play—Happy Birthday
1958: Best Leading Actress in a Play—Time Remembered
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Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno is an American actress, dancer, and singer whose career has also spanned over 80 years. She is one of the last remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Moreno has numerous awards and accolades under her belt, and is one of the few actors to have so many. However, for this article we are only listing her EGOT awards.
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Rita Moreno: EGOT Awards
Emmy Awards
1977: Outstanding Performance—The Muppet Show (Episode: "Rita Moreno")
1978: Outstanding Lead Actress—The Rockford Files (Episode: "The Paper Palace")
Grammy Award
1973: Best Recording for Children—The Electric Company
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Rita Moreno: EGOT Awards
Academy Award (Oscar)
1962: Best Actress in a Supporting Role—West Side Story
Tony Award
1975: Best Featured Actress in a Play—The Ritz
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John Gielgud
Sir Arthur John Gielgud was an English actor and theatre director who also had a career spanning eight decades. In fact, along with Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century.
At age 87, when he won his Emmy, he also became the oldest winner, the first male performer, the first LGBT winner, and the first non-American to achieve EGOT status.
John Gielgud: EGOT Awards
Emmy Award
1991: Outstanding Lead Actor—Summer's Lease
Grammy Award
1980: Best Spoken Word—Ages of Man
John Gielgud: EGOT Awards
Academy Award (Oscar)
1982: Best Actor in a Supporting Role—Arthur
Tony Awards
1948: Outstanding Foreign Company—The Importance of Being Earnest
1961: Best Director of a Drama—Big Fish, Little Fish
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Audrey Hepburn
Film and fashion icon, Audrey Hepburn was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List.
Hepburn was the fifth person to achieve the EGOT title, but sadly she was the first person to do so posthumously, earning her Grammy after her passing in 1994.
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Audrey Hepburn: EGOT Awards
Emmy Award
1993: Outstanding Individual Achievement—Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn
Grammy Award
1994: Best Spoken Word Album for Children—Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales
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Audrey Hepburn: EGOT Awards
Academy Award (Oscar)
1954: Best Actress in a Leading Role—Roman Holiday
Tony Award
1954: Distinguished Dramatic Actress—Ondine
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Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Hamlisch was an American composer and conductor. He received a total of 12 competitive awards, and prior to Alan Menken, Hamlisch had the most Oscars of any EGOT winner—with three of them all won in the same year.
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".
Best of all, Hamlisch is the second of the only two people to have been awarded an EGOT and a Pulitzer Prize (PEGOT).
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Marvin Hamlisch: EGOT Awards
Emmy Awards
In 1995, Hamlisch won Outstanding Individual Achievement for both Barbra: The Concert and "Ordinary Miracles.” He also won an Emmy in 1999 for “A Ticket to Dream,” and one in 2001 for Timeless: Live in Concert.
Grammy Awards
In 1975, Hamlisch won four Grammys which include: Best New Artist, Song of the Year for “The Way We Were,” Best Pop Instrumental Performance for "The Entertainer,” and Album of Best Original Score for The Way We Were: Original Soundtrack Recording.
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Marvin Hamlisch: EGOT Awards
Academy Awards (Oscars)
In 1974 alone, Hamlisch took home three Oscars, for The Way We Were, The Sting, and "The Way We Were" (from The Way We Were).
Tony Award
1976: Best Musical Score—A Chorus Line
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Jonathan Tunick
Jonathan Tunick is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer. He is best known for orchestrating the works of Stephen Sondheim, their collaboration starting in 1970 with Company and continuing until Sondheim's passing in 2021.
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.
Jonathan Tunick: EGOT Awards
Emmy Award
1982: Outstanding Achievement—Night of 100 Stars
Grammy Award
1989: Best Instrumental Arrangement—"No One is Alone" (vocals by Cleo Laine)
Jonathan Tunick: EGOT Awards
Academy Awards (Oscars)
1978: Best Original Song Adaptation Score—A Little Night Music
Tony Awards
1997: Best Orchestrations—Titanic
2024: Best Orchestrations—Merrily We Roll Along
Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks is a Jewish American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright. His career spans over seven decades and he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful farces and parodies.
Brooks has received numerous accolades, and is one of only two people to have two awards of each type.
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Mel Brooks: EGOT Awards
Emmy Awards
Between 1967 and 1999, Brooks received four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing in The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special and Outstanding Guest Actor for Mad About You (three different episodes).
Grammy Awards
Between 1999 and 2002, he won three Grammys for The 2000-Year-Old Man in the Year 2000, Recording 'The Producers': A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks, and The Producers.
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Mel Brooks: EGOT Awards
Academy Award (Oscar)
1969: Best Story and Screenplay—The Producers
Tony Awards
In 2001 alone, he won three Tony Awards for The Producers.
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Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols was an American film and theatre director. He worked across a range of genres and had an incredible talent for getting the best out of actors regardless of their experience.
Along with being one of the 19 people to receive the EGOT designation, Nichols has numerous other honors and was the first EGOT 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 time span of awards among EGOT winners, at 51 years.
Mike Nichols: EGOT Awards
Emmy Awards
2001: Outstanding Made for TV Movie & Outstanding Directing—Wit
2004: Outstanding Miniseries & Outstanding Directing—Angels in America
Grammy Award
1962: Best Comedy Performance—An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May
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Mike Nichols: EGOT Awards
Academy Award (Oscar)
1968: Best Director—The Graduate
Tony Awards
From 1964 to 2012, Mike Nichols won a total of eight Tony Awards for Barefoot in the park, Luv and The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Annie, The Real Thing, Monty Python’s Spamalot, and Death of a Salesman.
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg is an American actress, comedian, author, and television personality. She is the first African American EGOT winner, and the third person to win two of their qualifying awards in the same year.
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Whoopi Goldberg: EGOT Awards
Emmy Awards
2002: Outstanding Special Class Special—Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
2009: Outstanding Talk Show Host—The View
Grammy Award
1986: Best Comedy Recording—Whoopi Goldberg (Original Broadway Show Recording)
Whoopi Goldberg: EGOT Awards
Academy Award (Oscar)
1991: Best Actress in a Supporting Role—Ghost
Tony Award
2002: Best Musical—Thoroughly Modern Millie
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Scott Rudin
Scott Rudin is an American film, television and theatre producer. His films including No Country for Old Men, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network, South Park, Zoolander, The Addams Family, and more.
Although he experienced some controversy in 2021, Rudin has an extensive list of wins, including 17 Tony Awards, and of course his EGOT designation.
Scott Rudin: EGOT Awards
Emmy Award
1984: Outstanding Children's Program—He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'
Grammy Award
2012: Best Musical Theater Album—The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording
Scott Rudin: EGOT Awards
Academy Award (Oscar)
2008: Best Picture—No Country for Old Men
Tony Awards
Scott Rudin earned a total of 17 Tony Awards from 1994 to 2021, mostly for Best Play and Best Revival of a Play, and two awards for Best Musicals. All for a variety of different productions.
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Robert Lopez
Robert Lopez is an American playwright and songwriter for musicals, best known for co-creating The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and for co-writing the songs featured in the Disney animated films Frozen and Coco.
He is the only Filipino and Asian to achieve an EGOT, the youngest person to win an EGOT at age 39, as well as the fastest to complete his qualifying run of EGOT wins.
Best of all, Lopez is the first and only double EGOT winner, as he has won each award twice.
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Robert Lopez: EGOT Awards
Emmy Awards
In 2008 and again in 2010, Lopez won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for Wonder Pets! He also won Emmys for “Agatha All Along” and We the People.
Grammy Awards
In 2012, he got a Grammy for The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording. And in 2015 he won two Grammys for Frozen and the song “Let It Go,” also from Frozen.
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Robert Lopez: EGOT Awards
Academy Awards (Oscars)
2014: Best Original Song—"Let It Go" (from Frozen)
2018: Best Original Song—"Remember Me" (from Coco)
Tony Awards
2004: Best Original Score—Avenue Q
2011: Best Book of a Musical & Best Original Score—The Book of Mormon
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. He has composed 21 musicals, and many of his songs have been widely successful outside of their parent musicals.
In 2001, The New York Times referred to him as "the most commercially successful composer in history".
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Andrew Lloyd Webber: EGOT Awards
Emmy Award
2018: Outstanding Variety Special (Live)—Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
Grammy Awards
1981: Best Cast Show Album—Evita
1984: Best Cast Show Album—Cats
1986: Best Contemporary Composition—Requiem
Andrew Lloyd Webber: EGOT Awards
Academy Award (Oscar)
1997: Best Original Song—"You Must Love Me" (from Evita)
Tony Awards
Between 1980 and 1995, Webber received six Tony Awards for Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Sunset Boulevard.
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Tim Rice
Tim Rice is an English lyricist and author known for his work with popular Disney films Aladdin, The Lion King, and Beauty and the Beast.
Between 1980 and 2018, Rice received a total of 12 awards and shares all of his awards with fellow EGOTs Andrew Lloyd Webber, Alan Menken, John Legend, and Elton John.
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Tim Rice: EGOT Awards
Emmy Award
2018: Outstanding Variety Special (Live)—Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
Grammy Awards
Between 1981 and 2001, Rice earned a total of five Grammys—three of which he received in 1994 for Aladdin.
Tim Rice: EGOT Awards
Academy Awards (Oscars)
From 1993 to 1997, Rice took home three Oscars for songs from Aladdin, The Lion King, and Evita.
Tony Awards
1980: Best Book of a Musical & Best Original Score—Evita
2000: Best Original Score—Aida
John Legend
John Legend is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and record producer. He has won the most Grammy Awards (12) of any competitive EGOT recipient.
He was also the first African American man to achieve EGOT status, and was the first person to receive four awards in four consecutive years.
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John Legend: EGOT Awards
Emmy Awards
In 2018 and 2019, Legend was awarded two Emmys for Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, Crow: The Legend, and another two Emmy Awards in 2022 for Shelter Me: Soul Awakened, and Cornerstones: Founding Voices of the Black Church.
Grammy Awards
From 2006 to 2011, Legend won 12 Grammy Awards for Best New Artist, Best R&B Album, Best R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Song, and more.
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John Legend: EGOT Awards
Academy Award (Oscar)
2015: Best Original Song—"Glory" (from Selma)
Tony Award
2017: Best Revival of a Play—Jitney
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Alan Menken
Alan Menken is an American composer and conductor, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Skydance Animation, which include music for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, and many more.
He has received a total of 21 competitive awards, tying with Scott Rudin for the most awards to individuals whose EGOT status was achieved solely by competitive wins.
He also has the most Oscar wins (8) by an EGOT.
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Alan Menken: EGOT Awards
Emmy Award
2020: Outstanding Original Song – "Waiting in the Wings" (from Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure)
Grammy Awards
Alan Menken won 11 Grammy Awards between 1991 and 2012, which included two awards for The Little Mermaid, three for Beauty and the Beast, four for Aladdin, and two others for Best Songs from Pocahontas and Tangled.
Alan Menken: EGOT Awards
Academy Awards (Oscars)
Alen Menken won eight Academy Awards, which included Best Original Score and Best Original Song for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas.
Tony Award
2012: Best Original Score—Newsies
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson is an American singer, actress, talk show host, and producer. She earned her EGOT designation in 2022 and has received a total of five competitive awards between 2001 and 2022, making her the youngest competitive female EGOT to date.
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Jennifer Hudson: EGOT Awards
Emmy Awards
2021: Outstanding Interactive Media—Baba Yaga
Grammy Awards
2009: Best R&B Album—Jennifer Hudson
2017: Best Musical Theater Album—The Color Purple
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Jennifer Hudson: EGOT Awards
Academy Award (Oscar)
2007: Best Supporting Actress—Dreamgirls
Tony Award
2022: Best Musical—A Strange Loop
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Viola Davis
Viola Davis is an American actress and producer who earned her EGOT title in 2023. She also became the third person and the first African American actress to win the Triple Crown of Acting.
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Viola Davis: EGOT Awards
Emmy Award
2015: Outstanding Lead Actress—How to Get Away with Murder
Grammy Award
2023: Best Audio Book—Finding Me
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Viola Davis: EGOT Awards
Academy Award (Oscar)
2017: Best Supporting Actress—Fences
Tony Awards
2001: Best Featured Actress in a Play—King Hedley II
2010: Best Leading Actress in a Play—Fences
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Elton John
Elton John is an English singer, composer, pianist, and producer. He just recently earned his EGOT status in 2024, but has a total of nine competitive awards, which includes five Grammys.
John has sold over 300 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He is the most successful solo artist in the history of the US Billboard charts.
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Elton John: EGOT Awards
Emmy Award
2024: Outstanding Variety Special (Live)—Elton John: Farewell from Dodger Stadium
Grammy Awards
Between 1987 and 2001, Elton John has won a total of five Grammy Awards for "That's What Friends Are For,” “Basque,” “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” “Candle in the Wind 1997,” and Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida.
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Elton John: EGOT Awards
Academy Awards (Oscars)
1995: Best Original Song —"Can You Feel the Love Tonight" (from The Lion King)
2020: Best Original Song —"(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" (from Rocketman)
Tony Award
2000: Best Original Score—Aida
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