Viola Davis cemented herself as a multihyphenate with her EGOT at the 2023 Grammy Awards.
What is an EGOT winner, you ask?
The prestigious title is bestowed upon performers who have won specific awards for dipping their toes into the four realms of Hollywood.
These awards include the Emmys (television), Grammys (music), Oscars (film) and Tonys (Broadway).
Only a handful of icons have scored all four trophies, including starlets like Rita Moreno, Audrey Hepburn, John Legend and more.
Davis is the latest winner when she won the Grammy award on Feb. 5 for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording for narrating her memoir, “Finding Me.”
Here’s a complete list of the only 18 EGOT winners throughout the decades.
Viola Davis
Emmy Awards
Grammy Awards
Academy Awards
Tony Awards
Alan Menken
Emmy Awards
Grammy Awards
- Best Recording for Children, “The Little Mermaid: Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack” (1990)
- Best Album for Children, “Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (1992)
- Best Instrumental Composition for a Motion Picture or for Television, “Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (1992)
- Song of the Year, “A Whole New World (Aladdin’s Theme)” (1993)
- Best Musical Album for Children, “Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (1993)
- Best Instrumental Composition for a Motion Picture or for Television, “Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (1993)
- Best Song for a Motion Picture or Television, “Under the Sea” (1990), “Beauty and the Beast” (1992), “A Whole New World” (1993), “Colors of the Wind” (1995)
- Best Song Written for Visual Media, “I See the Light” (2011)
Academy Awards
- Best Original Score, “The Little Mermaid” (1989), “Under the Sea” (1989), “Beauty and the Beast” (1991)
- Best Original Song, “Beauty and the Beast” (1991), “Aladdin” (1992), “A Whole New World” (1992), “Colors of the Wind” (1995)
- Best Original Musical or Comedy Score, “Pocahontas” (1995)
Tony Award
Audrey Hepburn
Emmy Award
Grammy Award
Academy Awards
Tony Award
Whoopi Goldberg
Emmy Awards
Grammy Award
Academy Award
Tony Award
John Legend
Emmy Award
Grammy Awards
- Best New Artist (2005)
- Best R&B Album, “Get Lifted” (2005)
- Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, “Ordinary People” (2005), “Heaven” (2006)
- Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals, “Family Affair” (2006), “Stay With Me (By the Sea)” (2008)
- Best R&B Song, “Shine” (2010)
- Best traditional R&B vocal performance, “Hang on in There” (2011)
- Best R&B album, “Wake Up!” (2010)
- Best Song Written for Visual Media, “Glory” (2015)
Academy Award
Tony Awards
Rita Moreno
Emmy Awards
Grammy Award
Academy Award
Tony Award
Mel Brooks
Emmy Awards
Grammy Awards
- Best Spoken Comedy Album, “The 2000 Year Old Man In The Year 2000” (1998)
- Best Long Form Music Video, “Recording The Producers – A Musical Romp With Mel Brooks” (2001)
- Best Musical Show Album, “The Producers” (2001)
Academy Award
Tony Awards
- Best Book of a Musical, “The Producers” (2001)
- Best Musical, “The Producers” (2001)
- Best Original Score, “The Producers” (2001)
Tim Rice
Emmy Awards
Grammy Awards
- Best Cast Show Album, “Evita” (1980)
- Best Musical Show Album “Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida” (2000)
- Best Musical Album for Children, “Aladdin” (1993)
- Best Song for a Motion Picture or Television, “A Whole New World” (1993)
- Song of the Year, “A Whole New World” (1994)
Academy Award
Tony Awards
- Best Book of a Musical, “Evita” (1980)
- Best Original Score, “Evita” (1980)
- Best Original Score, “Aida” (2000)
Mike Nichols
Emmy Awards
- Outstanding Director, “Wit” (2001)
- Outstanding Made for Television Movie, “Wit” (2001)
- Outstanding Director, “Angels in America” (2004)
- Outstanding Miniseries, “Angels in America” (2004)
Grammy Award
Academy Award
Tony Awards
- Best Director of a Play “Barefoot in the Park” (1964), “Luv” and “The Odd Couple” (1965), “Plaza Suite” (1968), “The Prisoner of Second Avenue” (1972), “The Real Thing” (1984), “Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman” (2012)
- Best Musical, “Annie” (1977)
- Best Director of a Musical, “Monty Python’s Spamalot” (2005)
Richard Rodgers
Emmy Award
Grammy Awards
Academy Award
Tony Awards
- Best Producers, “South Pacific” (1950)
- Best Original Score, “South Pacific” (1950), “No Strings” (1962)
- Best Musical, “South Pacific” (1950), “The King and I” (1952)
- Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre (1979)
Jonathan Tunick
Emmy Award
Grammy Award
Academy Award
Tony Award
Marvin Hamlisch
Emmy Awards
- Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction, “Barbra: The Concert” (1995)
- Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics, “Barbra: The Concert” (1995)
- Outstanding Music and Lyrics, “AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movies: America’s Greatest Movies” (1999)
- Outstanding Music Direction, “Timeless: Live in Concert” (2001)
Grammy Awards
- Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special, “The Way We Were” (1974)
- Best Pop Instrumental Performance, “The Entertainer” (1974)
- Best New Artist (1974)
- Song of the Year, “The Way We Were” (1974)
Academy Awards
Tony Award
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Emmy Award
Grammy Awards
- Best Cast Show Album, “Evita” (1980), “Cats” (1983)
- Best Contemporary Composition “Lloyd Webber: Requiem” (1985)
- Grammy Legend Award (1990)
Academy Award
Tony Awards
- Best Original Score, “Evita” (1980), “Cats” (1983), “Sunset Boulevard” (1995)
- Best Musical, “Evita” (1980), “Cats” (1983), “The Phantom of the Opera” (1988), “Sunset Boulevard” (1995)
- Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre (2018)
Robert Lopez
Emmy Awards
Grammy Awards
- Best Musical Theater Album, “The Book of Mormon” (2012)
- Best Song Written for Visual Media, “Let It Go” (2014)
- Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, “Frozen” (2014)
Academy Award
Tony Awards
John Gielgud
Emmy Award
Grammy Award
Academy Award
Tony Awards
- Outstanding Foreign Company, “The Importance of Being Earnest” (1948)
- Special Award (1959)
- Best Direction of a Play, “Big Fish, Little Fish” (1961)
Jennifer Hudson
Emmy Award
Grammy Award
Academy Award
Tony Awards
Helen Hayes
Emmy Award
Grammy Award
Academy Awards
Tony Awards
Scott Rudin
Emmy Awards
Grammy Award
Academy Award
Tony Awards
- Best Musical, “Passion” (1994)
- Best Play for “Copenhagen” (2000), “Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?” (2002), “Doubt” (2005), “The History Boys” (2006), “God of Carnage” (2009), “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” (2015), “The Humans” (2016)
- Best Revival of a Play, “Fences” (2010), “Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman” (2012), “A Raisin in the Sun” (2014), “Skylight” (2015), “Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge” (2016)
- Best Musical, “The Book of Mormon” (2011)
