EGOT is an acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards, referring to people who have won all four of the major performing art awards in the United States. Respectively, these awards honor outstanding achievements in television, audio recording/music, film, and Broadway theatre. Achieving the EGOT has been referred to as the "grand slam" of American show business. Including those with honorary or special awards, 28 people have achieved this status. Only one person, Robert Lopez, has won all four awards twice.
Background
The EGOT acronym was coined by actor Philip Michael Thomas in late 1984. While starring in Miami Vice, he stated a desire to achieve the EGOT within five years. The acronym gained wider recognition following a 2009 episode of 30 Rock that introduced EGOT status as a recurring plotline. There is some debate over whether only the Primetime Emmy Award should count towards an EGOT, as some (including Thomas himself) distinguish the other types of Emmy competitions as subordinate to the Primetime honor.
Starting in 2016, the Daytime Emmy Awards had a category for Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program, which was removed after the 2019 ceremony because three of the four winners were Broadway ensembles, which between them included five people (Cynthia Erivo, Rachel Bay Jones, Katrina Lenk, Ben Platt, and Ari'el Stachel) who had already won Tony and Grammy awards for the shows they were in, and with their Daytime Emmy wins only needed Oscars to complete their EGOT status.
In 2023, TheaterMania writer Zachary Stewart criticized the practice of "selling" producer credits for shows favored to win a Tony as a "shortcut" to EGOT status. He drew a distinction between the producers who actually do the work of organizing the production of a show and investing producers who merely help finance it, often late in the award season.
EGOT winners as of 2026
Competitive EGOT
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Emmy
! scope="col"|Grammy
! scope="col"|Oscar
! scope="col"|Tony
! scope="col"|EGOT completed
! scope="col"|Year span
! scope="col"|Age at completion
! scope="col"|Category(s)
|-
! scope="row"|
| 1962
| data-sort-value="1960"| 1960
| 1946
| data-sort-value="1950"| 1950
| 1962
| 16
|
| style="text-align:left;"| Composer and producer
|-
! scope="row"|
| 1953
| 1977
| data-sort-value="1932"| 1932
| data-sort-value="1947"| 1947
| rowspan="2" | 1977
| 45
|
| style="text-align:left;"| Actress
|-
! scope="row"|
| data-sort-value="1977"| 1977
| 1973
| 1962
| 1975
| 15
|
| style="text-align:left;"| Actress and singer
|-
! scope="row"|
| 1991
| 1979
| 1982
| data-sort-value="1961"| 1961
| 1991
| 29
|
| style="text-align:left;"| Actor and director
|-
! scope="row"|
| data-sort-value="1993"| 1993
| data-sort-value="1994"| 1994
| data-sort-value="1954"| 1954
| data-sort-value="1954"| 1954
| 1994
| 40
|
| style="text-align:left;"| Actress
|-
! scope="row"|
| data-sort-value="1995"| 1995
| data-sort-value="1974"| 1974
| data-sort-value="1976"| 1974
| 1976
| 1995
| 21
|
| style="text-align:left;"| Composer
|-
! scope="row"|
| 1982
| 1988
| 1978
| 1997 | 1997
| 1997
| 19
|
| style="text-align:left;"| Orchestrator, music arranger, composer, and conductor
|-
! scope="row"|
| data-sort-value="1967"| 1967
| data-sort-value="1998"| 1998
| 1969
| data-sort-value="2001"| 2001
| rowspan="2" | 2001
| 34
|
| style="text-align:left;"| Writer, songwriter, and actor
|-
! scope="row"|
| data-sort-value="2001"| 2001
| 1961
| 1968
| data-sort-value="1964"| 1964
| 40
|
| style="text-align:left;"| Director and comedian
|-
! scope="row"|
| data-sort-value="2002" |2002