Who has the best EGOT?

Tell John Gielgud to dance until his shoes fill with blood, then have a conversation with me about who has the best EGOT.

IMO, the only true EGOTs are...

- Emmy (for acting)

- Grammy (for singing)

- Oscar (for acting)

- Tony (for acting in play or musical)

Has any one actor won an Emmy/Oscar/Tony for acting and Grammy for singing?

[quote] Has any one actor won an Emmy/Oscar/Tony for acting and Grammy for singing?

Streisand, I would assume, R2. Her Tony was honorary, though.

Mike Nichols. All for directing or performing. No cheap producing or narrating on a record.

John Gielgud would have been a lot of fun on "Electric Company."

Me.

Liza won EGOT except her Grammy was honorary also.

So she’s not EGOT. Got it.

Hey, what about me? I got it first!

R2 I think Jennifer Hudson qualifies. Her first Grammy was for singing (Best R&B Album).

Mike Nichols does, easily. As either a director or writer for the works that earned him the awards, he had an authorial control over the works for which he won that no other person can claim. Those works have largely stood the test of time, whether it's been almost sixty years (The Odd Couple) or a mere twenty (Angels in America). They are almost all works of consequence, like The Graduate, Wit, or Death of a Salesman, for which he won his final Tony. None of them feel like technicalities or oddities, except maybe his producing Tony for Annie, but that was only one of his eight awards.

The winner who comes closest to Nichols is probably Mel Brooks, but his works aren't nearly as varied (his Oscar and Tony are both for The Producers, which he repurposed for the stage), he didn't have as much authorial control as Nichols did (his writing Emmy was as part of a team), and some of his awards don't feel as essential as what Nichols did (three Emmys for guest spots on Mad About You?).

Sorry Rita (R1), you’re stealing Debbie’s story and she probably stole it from Eleanor Powell (to whom it actually happened).

Back to the topic, I think Gielgud and Hayes are the gold standard, but hey, if you won them, you won them.

R10 Hudson won two of hers for producing, so no. John fuckface Legend too. Hell no.

Nichols, Gielgud, Hayes and Brooks are tops. I would even include Viola Davis in this group. She gets a lot of hate on DL, but she performed for all her awards, and earned them in competitive categories.

Viola does have a respectable EGOT, even if How to Get Away With Murder was more trashy fun than actually good. And even though earning an EGOT through an audiobook feels a bit like cheating, at least it was for her own autobiography.

LIZA!

In another world Dame Angela, had she won for The Manchurian Candidate. The Grammys seesawed between awarding the principal soloists on a Musical Theatre album the award vs the producer, hence why Ethel Merman/Gwen Verdon won in the early 60s and the likes of Ben Platt & Jennifer Hudson more recently.

Mame & Sweeney Todd won, but for the Composers. Angie deserved some credit for being a great singer as well as an actress.

Remind me what snot-excreting Viola won her Grammy for?

Viola won Best Audio Book for her autobiography, Finding Me. And when she did win, she referred to the EGOT, which has to make her the only winner to do so.

Did Viola find herself by book's end? And where was she?

[quote]Has any one actor won an Emmy/Oscar/Tony for acting and Grammy for singing?

Joaquin Phoenix won a competitive Grammy for the WALK THE LINE soundtrack, which was basically his covers of Johnny Cash songs.

(However, Reese didn't share in that win. I guess 'cause she's only featured in like two or three songs.)

And now he has an Oscar for JOKER.

I'm sure if he did a TV movie and Broadway play, Joaquin would easily win the Emmy and Tony.

[quote] I'm sure if he did a TV movie and Broadway play, Joaquin would easily win the Emmy and Tony.

Maybe an Emmy, R21, but he'd have a way to go to win a Tony.

Jennifer Huston paid 2 million dollars to "Invest in the musical Strange Loop" as an Executive Producer.

That's her Tony story (she broke a nail writing the check).

Joaquin will win for his Willy Loman in Ivo van Hove's daring 2031 revival staged in the rat-infested basement of the Hayes!

Miss Joaquin on stage? Oh, my sides!

Like Barbra and Liza, Frank Marshall doesn't count because of non-competitive wins, but among the recipients of all four awards, he might have the most eclectic winners. His Oscar is the Irving Thalberg award, his Grammy is for producing a music film, he's one of five hundred producers of A Strange Loop, and his Emmy isn't for Primetime or Daytime programming, it's for Sports.

So basically he fails on all four tests…

wow, his award has no integrity really then

[quote] I would even include Viola Davis in this group.

I wouldn’t.

She read the book she “wrote.” How the fuck does that demonstrate talent?

Plus, she’s the most award-thirsty bitch in Hollywood.

It’s a legit Grammy. Spoken word recordings are a matter of history, both in the industry and at the awards.

Viola being an openly award-thirsty bitch is probably the most likable thing about her.

She gets truly insufferable when she goes into full "woe is me" mode, or gets too pretentious, like her eulogy of Leslie Jordan (which we've had a grand time ridiculing here on DL).

Oops I just remembered those Emmy fuckers snubbed Angela 18 times so she was actually nowhere near EGOT. She totally deserved to win for the TV version of Sweeney Todd in the 80s

If Winslet ever does theatre I could see her EGOT as respectable, she won a Grammy for singing

Wikipedia says Winslet's Grammy was "for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for narrating the children's audiobook Listen to the Storyteller."

[quote] It’s a legit Grammy.

No, bitch, it’s not.

[quote] And even though earning an EGOT through an audiobook feels a bit like cheating.

Because it is.

Sing, bitch!

Didn't know Gielgud was an EGOT till this thread, but I'm glad. Amusing in the brilliant 'Motive And The Cue' play when JG mentions en passant to Burton that all such awards are 'vulgar.' Nonetheless it's really touching at the end of the play when credits note how successful his direction of Burton in 'Hamlet' on Broadway was, then finally cite JG's late-in-life Oscar. A phenomenal career.