EGOT Winners by Gypsy

This composer completed his EGOT in 1962 with an Emmy for “The Valiant Years.” Collaborating with Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, Stephen Sondheim, Martin Charnin, and Sheldon Harnick, he composed over 900 songs and 43 Broadway musicals.

This actress was a septuagenarian when she completed her EGOT in 1977 with a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Recording for “Great American Documents.” Nicknamed “First Lady of American Theatre,” her career spanned 80 years, including the movies “Arrowsmith,” “The Sin of Madelon Claudet,” “A Farewell to Arms (1932),” and “Airport,” and the play “Victoria Regina," which ran for three years beginning in 1935.

This Puerto Rican actress and singer got her EGOT in only 16 years, beginning with an Oscar in 1961 for “West Side Story.” She is one of 23 people to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, with individual competitive Academy, Emmy, and Tony awards for acting, though most people under 50 may remember her more from her 1971-1977 stint on “The Electric Company.”

This British actor and director started his EGOT with his third Tony in 1961 for “Big Fist, Little Fish” and finished it with an Emmy in 1991 for “Summer’s Lease.” He was a member of the Terry family theatrical dynasty, and with Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of a trio of actors that dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century.

This actress took 41 years to complete her EGOT, starting with an Oscar in 1953, and ending with an Emmy she was won while alive, but was awarded posthumously in 1993. Born in Belgium, raised in Belgium, England, and the Netherlands, and ranked as the third-greatest female screen legend in Golden Age Hollywood, she was known for “Sabrina,” “The Nun’s Story,” “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” and, of course, “My Fair Lady.”

This composer won an Oscar in 1973, a Grammy in 1974, a Tony in 1976, and a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his contributions to “A Chorus Line.” When he was six years old, he was accepted into what is now the Juilliard School Pre-College Division, he had his first hit at 21 with “Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows,” and wrote music for several early Woody Allen movies, but among his better-known works are adaptations of Scott Joplin’s ragtime music for “The Sting,” including its theme song, “The Entertainer” which sold nearly 2 million copies in the US alone.

This composer and conductor won an Oscar in 1977 for “A Little Night Music,” and finished his EGOT with a Tony in 1997 for “Titanic.” Especially associated with the musicals of Stephen Sondheim, he also has a band called the “Broadway Moonlighters” and won the first Tony Award for Best Orchestrations.

This writer, composer, and actor won his Emmy in 1967 for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety, and his Tony in 2001. Born Melvin Kaminsky, he is known for broad film farces and comic parodies. May the Schwartz be with you.

This director and actor earned his Grammy in 1961 for Best Comedy Album, his Tony in 1964 as Best Director of a Play for “Barefoot in the Park,” his Oscar in 1967, and his Emmy in 2001. Born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin in 1931, this American director, producer, actor, and comedian began his career with the comedy improv group “The Compass Players” (predecessors of “The Second City” in Chicago), before teaming up with Elaine May to form a comedy duo and later directing his first film, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

She won her Grammy for Best Comedy Recording in 1985 and both an Emmy for “Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel” and a Tony for “Thoroughly Modern Millie” to complete her EGOT in 2002. Having been in over 150 films, during a period in the 1990s she was the highest-paid actress of all time and she is the first African-American to have received Academy Award nominations for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.

This man, the only producer to win an EGOT, won his Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Program for “He Makes Me Feel Like Dancing” in 1984 and his Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album for “The Book of Mormon” in 2012. In January of 2008, two of his productions were nominated for eight Oscars apiece, including a Best Picture nod for each of them, with “No Country for Old Men” ultimately winning.

This composer, the youngest to obtain an EGOT (and now only 43 years old), is also the quickest at 10 years and the only person to have won all four awards more than once. His Emmys are both for “The Wonder Pets,” his Grammys are for “The Book of Mormon,” “Frozen,” and “Let it Go,” his Oscars are for “Let It Go” and “Remember Me,” and his Tony Awards are for “Avenue Q” and “The Book of Mormon.”