After scooping awards at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony on September 3, musicians Eminem, Adele, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney are just one letter away from achieving the coveted EGOT status.
EGOT status is reserved for entertainment heavyweights who have won all four major entertainment awards — Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. Here are the details on the four singers mentioned above and other celebrities who are close to achieving EGOT status.
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These 22 Stars Still Haven’t Achieved EGOT Status Like 17 Of Their Peers Who Have
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While Adele won her first Emmy Award in the Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) category for the CBS special, “Adele: One Night Only,” Eminem won Best Variety Special (Live) for his performance at the Super Bowl halftime show. in February.
McCartney, 80, and Starr, 82, received Emmys in the documentary/nonfiction category for their roles as producers of “The Beatles: Get Back.”
All four musicians, who already had several Oscars and Grammys under their belt before Saturday, are now just one award shy of earning coveted EGOT status. The four stars had to be involved in a Broadway production to get the Tony.
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According to a breakdown by PEOPLE, each award represents four sectors — Emmy (television), Grammy (music), Oscar (film) and Tony (theater). It’s worth noting that the term EGOT was coined by “Miami Vice” actor Philip Michael Thomas following an Associated Press interview in 1984 at the height of the NBC action show’s success. The now-retired actor and musician told the publication at the time:
“That’s short for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. Hopefully, in the next five years, I’ll win all those awards.”
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Unfortunately, he never joined the 17 celebrities who have swept all four awards. The 17 recipients of the EGOT status award – and the year they received it – include Richard Rodgers (1962), Helen Hayes (1977), Rita Moreno (1977), John Gielgud (1991), Audrey Hepburn (1994), Marvin Hamlisch (1995). ), Jonathan Tunick (1997), Mel Brooks (2001), Mike Nichols (2001), Whoopi Goldberg (2002), Scott Rudin (2012), Robert Lopez (2014), Andrew Lloyd Webber (2018), Tim Rice (2018) , John Legend (2018), Alan Menken (2020), and Jennifer Hudson (2022).
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Those who, like Eminem, Adele, Starr, and McCartney, have yet to achieve that status include actress Julie Andrews, composer Michael Giacchino, composer Ludwig Goransson, composer Kristen Anderson-Lopez, producer Brian Grazer, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, producer/director Ron Howard , and director James Moll.
Others are director and producer Morgan Neville, composer Randy Newman, director and producer Alex Gibney, sound editor Alex Gibson, composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, composer Burt Bacharach, composer Alan Bergman, actress Cher, composer, and producer Common, director and producer Martin Scorsese, composer John Williams, actress Kate Winslet and actress and musician Barbra Streisand.
While the aforementioned stars have a chance to score the Tony, six won’t because they’ve already passed. They include composer John Addison, actor George Burns, composer Sid Ramin, composer Marilyn Bergman, actor Peter Ustinov, and actor Robin Williams.
It’s also worth noting that although Streisand received an honorary “Star of the Decade” Tony Award in 1970, it wasn’t recognized enough to make her an EGOT winner.
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Barack Obama Is Two Awards Away From EGOT Status
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If you thought earning Emmys, Grammys, Oscars and Tonys were reserved for performers only, you’ve got something else coming. As The Guardian reported over the weekend, former President of the United States, Barack Obama, won an Emmy award following his two Grammy wins.
The former President won an Emmy for best narrator for his work on the Netflix documentary series, “Our Great National Park.” The five-part show features national parks around the world and is produced by Barack and his wife Michelle’s production company, Higher Ground.
The category includes notable nominees such as Lupita Nyong’o, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and David Attenborough. Obama will become the second president to hold the prestigious trophy after Dwight D Eisenhower’s special Emmy in 1956.
The father of two previously won Grammy awards for reading audiobook versions of two of his memoirs — “A Promised Land” and “The Audacity of Hope.” His wife also earned her own Grammy award in the Spoken Word Album category for the audio recording and reading of her memoir “Becoming” in 2020.
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