Elton John Achieves EGOT - And All the Stars Who Have an EGOT - Plus Who Is Close To An EGOT

The term was first coined in late 1984 by actor Philip Michael Thomas, who expressed his desire to achieve the accolade after rising to fame from his role on "Miami Vice," though he has yet to bag the title.

I can't stand Elton John for so many reasons.

Someone has to do a TV special that will get Sondheim his missing Emmy. He's got an Oscar and multiple Grammys and Tonys.

First, Lizza Minnelli made me giggle.

And Springsteen is close. For a honorary, at least. Needs the Emmy. I thought the Howard Stern interview, broadcast on HBO would get him one, but it did not.

Sondheim is missing an Emmy. You'd think "Six By Sondheim" on HBO was total awards-bait but nope. It was nominated for "best direction" for Lapine and lost that.

Is it just me, or does Robert Lopez give off Big George Santos energy?

A more elite group - PEGOT - add the Pulitzer. Only two members. Richard Rodgers and Marvin Hamlisch. Sondheim would be the third if it weren't for that damned Emmy.

I'd be more impressed if he (or any so-called "EGOT" winner) won for doing different things.

It would be one thing to get an Oscar for directing, an Emmy for acting, a tony for a musical (or writing the book or songs), and grammy for album.

It's another to do the same thing and get awards because you filmed your concert for while singing songs from albums from which you already won a grammy.

Glenn has the Tonies and the Emmies but doesn’t have the Grammies or the Oscars

[quote]Glenn has the Tonies and the Emmies but doesn’t have the Grammies or the Oscars

Bless her heart! All I need is a brief Broadway run and a song for EGOT status. That'd take, what, 3-4 days, if I even bothered?

An also-ran yet again. Story of her life!

I know this whole thing is made-up to begin with but Jennifer Hudson's should not count! She got her Tony simply for adding her name to the producing team of "A Strange Loop" after it was already up and running for god's sake!

I do get your point R8, but a performance is a performance. I saw Springsteen’s Broadway show (the “second” one, after he’d won the special Tony) and his stories between songs are scripted for dramatic effect (by Bruce, it’s been his thing for decades) and weave a narrative around the musical performances. Admittedly, I didn’t see Elton John’s program, but I’m just describing how it could be a performance that’s created specifically for, and worthy of award consideration in, the medium it takes place in.

I was surprised that the Tony is the award Julie Andrews is missing of these.

She would have won for Victor/Victoria but refused the nomination as it was the only one for the show.

[quote]I do get your point [R8], but a performance is a performance.

My point is that winning the various different awards is supposed to suggest excellence in different media - the implication being that the it takes different skills to be recognized in those different media.

By doing the same thing over and over and simply repackaging it to be awards eligible is not the same as demonstrating the true excellence across media that winning would imply. Tell me you wouldn't smirk if Taylor Swift had won an oscar for her concert film.

R15, you couldn’t possibly be thinking of Ben Platt, who won three of the four awards for Dear Evan Hansen (and definitely expected the Oscar, but settled for a Razzie nomination for the movie instead).

That’s why the most impressive EGOT winners are Mel Brooks and Mike Nichols, and no one else comes close. There’s a repeated mastery of different media for both, and they were largely the creative forces behind their wins as director or writer.

Bob Fosse almost EGOT-ed in one calendar year, winning everything but the Grammy in 1973, for three separate projects: three Emmys for Liza with a Z, an Oscar for Cabaret, two Tonys for Pippin. (He already had a few Tonys though.) Something like that seems impossible today.

Elton may have EGOT status but he's still ugly as fuck and always has been.

Versace clothes and whatever his hair situation is do not help make him less ugly. Nor does his EGOT status.

I think performers who win multiple award types for the same property should be excluded. I am thinking about Ben Platt for ‘Dear Evan Hansen”. He won the Tony for it and then an Emmy for singing one of the songs from the show and a Grammy for the cast album. Doesn’t seem fair.

Plus, his Emmy is a Daytime Emmy.

Only because nobody today has Fosse's talent, R17.

Also, this year's Emmys persuaded me that there is now so much on TV that the voters only watch three shows. There were several one-off nominations that should have got up, but everything was The Bear or Succession. How can The White Lotus have won everything last time and virtually nothing this time? (I also wondered whether the voters had seen The Bear at all, because I'm damned if I can find anything funny about it. I thought it was a great show, but it would be easier to argue that Succession was a comedy than The Bear.)

Episode length seems to be the main distinction between comedy and drama categorizations. If the episodes are an hour, it's a drama; if the episodes are half an hour, it's a comedy.

Miss Viola Davis is an EGOT. Didn't know that.

In other words the voters, or the academy itself, are total morons, R22.

The aren't such a big deal if you win in categories such as "Best Spoken Word" or "Best TV Special". To my mind it's about someone like Cher, Babs, Liza, M/G, Angela Lansbury etc who can act and sing, have success in multiple mediums.

Interesting that Liza never won a competition Grammy. She has a well-deserved Grammy legend award.

Elton will still be as miserable as ever.

Cynthia Erivo won Tony, Emmy, and Grammy awards for The Color Purple.