The Not-Quite-EGOT Challenge
2828 people are EGOTs.They won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.
But this game is about
the 109 people who are
one award shy of EGOT.
1902–1979
composer, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
American composer for stage, film and television. Wrote with Lorenz Hart and later Oscar Hammerstein II. Completed the four awards in 1962, 22 years before the term EGOT existed.
1900–1993
performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
American stage and screen actress, known as the First Lady of American Theater. Career spanned from the 1900s to the 1980s.
b. 1931
performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
Puerto Rican-born actress, dancer and singer. Screen and stage career from the 1950s onward. Kennedy Center Honoree in 2015 and a Peabody Award winner in 2019.
1904–2000
performer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
English actor and theatre director, known primarily for Shakespearean stage work. Completed the four awards at 87, the oldest person to do so.
1929–1993
performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
Belgian-born actress. Screen career from 1951 to 1989, later a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Both her Emmy and her Grammy were awarded after her death in 1993.
1944–2012
composer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
American composer and conductor for film, theatre and television. Frequent collaborator with Barbra Streisand. Won a Pulitzer Prize for A Chorus Line.
b. 1938
composer, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
American orchestrator, music arranger, composer and conductor. Longtime collaborator of Stephen Sondheim. Won all four awards across 47 years.
b. 1926
writer, songwriter, performer, director, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
American writer, director, comedian and composer. Career from 1950s television through Broadway. Won an Academy Honorary Award in 2023.
1931–2014
director, producer, performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
American film and theatre director, producer, actor and comedian. Began as half of the comedy duo Nichols and May before directing on Broadway and in film.
b. 1955
performer, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
American actress, comedian and television host. Co-host of The View since 2007. Both of her competitive Emmys are Daytime Emmys.
b. 1958
producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
American film, television and theatre producer. Holds 18 Tony Awards, the most of any EGOT winner, and won all four awards as a producer rather than a performer or writer.
b. 1975
songwriter, composer, writer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
American songwriter and librettist for stage and film. Frequent collaborator with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez. The only person to win all four awards twice.
b. 1948
composer, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
English composer and theatre producer. Wrote Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera and Sunset Boulevard. Completed the four awards simultaneously with Tim Rice and John Legend.
b. 1944
songwriter, writer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
English lyricist and librettist. Wrote with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Alan Menken and Elton John. Every one of his awards is shared with at least one other EGOT winner.
b. 1978
performer, songwriter, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
American singer, songwriter, pianist and producer. Holds more Grammys than any other competitive EGOT winner and has won Emmys in three separate Emmy competitions.
b. 1949
composer, songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
American composer, primarily for Walt Disney Animation Studios. Holds eight Academy Awards, more than any other EGOT winner, all won between 1990 and 1996.
b. 1981
performer, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
American singer, actress and talk show host. Reached the four awards at 40, the youngest woman to do so. Her only Emmy is a Daytime Emmy.
b. 1965
performer, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
American actress and producer. Won her Oscar and one of her Tonys for the same role in Fences, competing in different categories. Acknowledged her EGOT status while accepting the Grammy.
b. 1947
performer, composer, songwriter, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
English singer, composer and pianist. Completed the four awards in 2024 at 76, on the first Emmy nomination of his career.
b. 1985
composer, songwriter, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
American composer, lyricist and producer. Works exclusively with Justin Paul. Together they completed the four awards in seven years and seven months, the fastest run on record.
b. 1985
composer, songwriter, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
American composer, lyricist and producer. Works exclusively with Benj Pasek. Together they completed the four awards in seven years and seven months, the fastest run on record.
b. 1946
director, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
American director and producer. Completed the four awards in February 2026 with a Grammy for a documentary about John Williams, his collaborator of more than 50 years.
b. 1942
performer, songwriter, producer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American singer, actress and director. Holds competitive Emmys, Grammys and Oscars. Her only Tony is a non-competitive Special Tony awarded in 1970.
b. 1946
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
American actress, singer and dancer. Holds competitive Emmys, Oscars and Tonys. Her only Grammy is the non-competitive Grammy Legend Award from 1990.
1931–2024
performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American actor of stage, screen and voice. Holds competitive Emmys, a Grammy and Tonys. His Oscar is the non-competitive Academy Honorary Award from 2011.
1927–2023
performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American singer, actor and civil rights activist. Popularized calypso music internationally in the 1950s. His Oscar is the non-competitive Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
1933–2024
producer, composer, songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American record producer, composer and arranger. Holds 28 competitive Grammys, more than anyone else in either tier. His two Oscars are both non-competitive.
b. 1946
producer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American film producer and director. Co-founded Amblin Entertainment and The Kennedy/Marshall Company. His Emmy is a Sports Emmy and his Oscar is the non-competitive Thalberg award.
1905–1982
performer, producer
Holds: Grammy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Emmy
American actor of stage and screen across five decades. Won his only competitive Oscar for On Golden Pond months before his death, having received an Honorary Award the year before.
1895–1960
songwriter, writer, producer
Holds: Grammy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Emmy
American lyricist, librettist and producer. Wrote with Jerome Kern and then Richard Rodgers. Two Pulitzer Prizes. Died in 1960, three months after his final Tony.
1918–1986
songwriter, writer
Holds: Grammy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Emmy
American lyricist and librettist. Wrote Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Gigi and Camelot with Frederick Loewe. Also worked with Kurt Weill, Burton Lane, Andre Previn and Leonard Bernstein.
1910–1969
composer, songwriter
Holds: Grammy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Emmy
American composer and lyricist. Wrote Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, sharing the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the latter. Five Oscar nominations for Best Song.
1930–2021
composer, songwriter, writer
Holds: Grammy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Emmy
American composer and lyricist for musical theatre. Eight Tony Awards, more than any other composer. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1985 for Sunday in the Park with George.
1905–1994
composer, songwriter
Holds: Grammy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Emmy
British-born American composer. Wrote Gypsy, Funny Girl, Bells Are Ringing and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Estimated he published 1,500 songs across a seven-decade career.
1907–1981
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
American actor. Won a Tony and an Oscar for the same role, John Cleary in The Subject Was Roses. One of his Emmys came from the Sonny and Cher-era variety show Cher; he also played Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
1931–2005
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
American actress. Won both a Tony and an Oscar playing Anne Sullivan in The Miracle Worker, on stage and then on screen. Married to Mel Brooks, a competitive EGOT winner, for 41 years.
1915–1982
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
Swedish actress. Her final Emmy was awarded posthumously, months after her death on her 67th birthday. Three Oscars, more than anyone else missing only a Grammy. Won her Tony for playing Joan of Arc, a role she also played on film.
1898–1992
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
American actress. Won both a Tony and an Oscar playing Lola Delaney in Come Back, Little Sheba, on stage and then on screen. Three competitive Tonys, more than anyone else missing only a Grammy except Jessica Tandy; both her Emmys came from the same sitcom, Hazel, in consecutive years.
1922–2001
composer, writer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
American jazz pianist, arranger and orchestrator. Longtime collaborator of Bob Fosse and of the Woody Herman band. Won both his Oscars for Fosse films.
b. 1932
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
American actress. Won her Oscar and her Tony in the same year, 1975, then waited 34 years for her first Emmy, a guest turn on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Completed the Triple Crown of Acting at 76.
1901–1981
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
American actor. Won both his competitive Oscars in the supporting category, sixteen years apart. Completed the Triple Crown of Acting in 1968, the second man to do so after Thomas Mitchell, and won his final Oscar at 79, the year before he died.
1927–1987
director, producer, performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
American dancer, choreographer and director for stage and screen. The most awarded choreographer in Tony history. The only person to win an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy in the same year.
b. 1948
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
English actor. One of his two competitive Emmys is for voice-over work rather than on-camera acting. Won his Tony in a Mike Nichols-directed production of The Real Thing, and later shared the miniseries Elizabeth I with fellow Triple Crown holder Helen Mirren.
1936–2023
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
English actress and politician. Won two Emmys the same night in 1972, both for Elizabeth R. Left acting for 23 years to serve as a Labour Member of Parliament, then returned to the stage and won a Tony at 82.
b. 1949
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
American actress. Completed the Triple Crown of Acting in 2016, 33 years after her first Oscar, winning a Tony for the same production of Long Day's Journey Into Night that gave Vanessa Redgrave hers in 2003. Two of her three competitive Emmys came from American Horror Story.
b. 1957
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
American actress. Three Best Actress Oscars, matched only by Katharine Hepburn, plus a producing Oscar for Nomadland's Best Picture win. Married to director Joel Coen.
b. 1945
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
English actress. Won an Oscar and a Tony playing Queen Elizabeth II in two different works, The Queen and The Audience — the only Triple Crown holder to win the Oscar before the Tony for the same role. Four competitive Emmys, two of them for Prime Suspect eleven years apart.
1892–1962
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
American character actor, the first person to complete the Triple Crown of Acting, in March 1953. Best known as Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life and Scarlett O'Hara's father in Gone with the Wind. His Tony, unusually for a dramatic actor, was for a musical, Hazel Flagg.
b. 1940
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
American actor of stage and screen. His 2004 Emmy for Angels in America came from the same production that gave director Mike Nichols two Emmys the same night. Won his only Oscar on his eighth nomination.
1929–2021
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
Canadian actor, the only Canadian to hold the Triple Crown of Acting. Won his Oscar at 82, then the oldest acting winner in Academy history. One of his two competitive Emmys is for voice work on the children's series Madeline.
b. 1937
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
English actress. Her 1978 Oscar acceptance speech is among the most controversial in Academy history. Ran twice for UK Parliament as a Workers Revolutionary Party candidate, finishing last both times, and completed the Triple Crown of Acting 25 years after that Oscar, with a Tony in 2003.
1922–2000
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
American actor. Won back-to-back Supporting Actor Oscars in 1977 and 1978, for All the President's Men and Julia. Julia also gave co-star Vanessa Redgrave her own Oscar the same night.
b. 1951
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
Australian actor, the only Australian to hold the Triple Crown of Acting. Won his Emmy playing Peter Sellers, an actor who himself never won an Oscar. All three of his wins came in different categories, with no repeats.
1922–2008
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
English actor. Completed the Triple Crown of Acting in seven years, the fastest of anyone who has done it, winning his Tony and his Oscar for the same role, Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons. Only three competitive acting wins in total, the fewest of any Triple Crown holder.
1934–2024
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
English actress. Four competitive Emmys, three of them for Downton Abbey, though she never once attended the ceremony to collect any of them. Won an Oscar for playing an actress who loses one, in California Suite.
1925–2006
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
American actress. Took 31 years to complete the Triple Crown of Acting, from her first Tony in 1951 to her Oscar for playing Emma Goldman in Reds. Her first Tony was for a Tennessee Williams play written partly with her in mind.
1909–1994
performer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
English-born American actress. The only Triple Crown holder with both a Tony and an Emmy for the same role, Annie Nations in Foxfire. Won her first Tony as the original Blanche DuBois in 1947, and her Oscar four decades later at 80, then the oldest Best Actress winner in Academy history.
b. 1964
designer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
American costume designer for Broadway, film, television and opera. First Black man to win the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. Won an Oscar and a Tony in the same year, 2025.
1934–2022
designer
Holds: Emmy, Oscar, Tony
Missing: Grammy
British scenic and costume designer for Broadway, film, television and opera. Sixteen Tony nominations across a fifty-year career. Married to Julie Andrews from 1959 to 1968.
1918–1990
composer, songwriter, performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American composer, conductor and music educator. Music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1958 to 1969. Wrote West Side Story, Candide and Wonderful Town.
1928–2010
composer, songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American composer, half of Bock and Harnick with lyricist Sheldon Harnick. Wrote Fiddler on the Roof and Fiorello!, sharing the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the latter — a "PEGOT" by the Pulitzer definition if the missing Oscar ever arrives. His Emmy, decades after his Broadway peak, came in 2010 for a song on the animated series Wonder Pets!.
1934–2019
songwriter, writer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American lyricist and director. Created, wrote and directed Annie, winning its Tony. Earlier television specials, including Annie, the Woman in the Life of a Man, brought three Emmys and a Peabody Award.
1929–2004
composer, songwriter, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American composer and jazz pianist. Wrote Sweet Charity, On the Twentieth Century, Barnum, City of Angels and The Will Rogers Follies. Songwriters Hall of Fame, 1981.
b. 1946
performer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American actor and director. Originated the title role in the 1975 Broadway production of The Wiz, then won his Tony four decades later playing Hermes in Hadestown. His Emmy is for a televised version of Ain't Misbehavin'.
b. 1982
performer, songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American actor and rapper. Won his Tony and Grammy the same year, 2016, playing two roles in Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson. His Emmy came for narrating the audiobook of The Crossover.
1928–2004
songwriter, writer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American lyricist. Half of Kander and Ebb, who wrote Cabaret, Chicago, Woman of the Year and Kiss of the Spider Woman, plus the song New York, New York.
b. 1987
performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
English actress and singer. Won her Tony and the following year's Grammy for the cast recording of The Color Purple, both for playing Celie. Nominated for the Best Actress Oscar twice, for Harriet and Wicked, without yet winning.
b. 1959
producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American producer. Longtime co-executive producer of South Park, then Tony and Grammy winner for The Book of Mormon alongside the show's creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. A Peabody Award winner as well.
1928–2007
performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American actor, closely associated with Edward Albee's plays. Won his Tony for A Delicate Balance in 1996, decades into a career built mostly on Broadway; his Emmy came for a 1980 TV movie co-starring Henry Fonda, and his Grammy for a spoken-word recording of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
1925–2013
performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American stage and screen actress. Held the record for the most competitive Tony wins for Best Actress in a Play, five, for more than three decades.
b. 1968
performer, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
Australian actor. Won his Tony for The Boy From Oz, then an Emmy the following year for hosting that same Tony Awards ceremony. His Grammy came a decade later, for the soundtrack of The Greatest Showman.
b. 1949
performer, songwriter, composer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American singer-songwriter and pianist. His Tony came from Movin' Out, a Twyla Tharp musical built from his catalogue. His only Emmys are New York Emmys, a regional competition.
performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American actress. Won her Tony playing Heidi, the mother role, in Dear Evan Hansen, then the Grammy and Emmy that followed from the same production.
b. 1927
composer, songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American composer, half of Kander and Ebb with lyricist Fred Ebb. Won his first Tony and Grammy for Cabaret in 1967; further Tonys later followed for Woman of the Year and the Kiss of the Spider Woman/Chicago era, spanning three decades of Broadway work.
b. 1974
composer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American composer, a Pulitzer Prize winner. Won his Tony for Next to Normal, sharing the 2010 Pulitzer for Drama with lyricist Brian Yorkey; a Grammy for Jagged Little Pill's cast album followed more than a decade later. His Emmy came from music-directing a Tony Awards broadcast.
b. 1975
performer, composer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American music orchestrator and arranger. Longtime collaborator of Lin-Manuel Miranda, from In the Heights through Hamilton, where his orchestrations won the Tony. His Emmy came for musical direction on FX's Fosse/Verdon.
b. 1945
performer, producer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American director and producer, a Peabody Award winner. Co-created Def Comedy Jam and Def Poetry with Russell Simmons; his Tony is for producing the Broadway transfer, Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. His Emmy and Grammy both came from Dave Chappelle specials in the same year, 2018.
b. 1953
performer, songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American singer-songwriter. Won her first Grammy for Best New Artist in 1985, then a Tony three decades later for composing the score to Kinky Boots — the first woman to win that award as a solo composer.
b. 1974
performer, songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American actress and singer. Won her Tony and the following year's Grammy playing Dina in The Band's Visit, alongside co-star Ari'el Stachel.
b. 1945
performer, composer, writer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American conductor, long affiliated with Broadway revivals and film-score restoration. His Tony is a special award for the 1973 revival of Candide, with a competitive Tony following a decade later for On Your Toes. Three Emmys and a Grammy round out a career spent as much in the concert hall as the pit.
b. 1970
performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American actress and singer. Holds the record for competitive acting Tonys, six, more than anyone else. Her Grammy came from an opera recording, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, unusual territory for a Broadway performer.
b. 1945
performer, writer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American singer, actress and comedian. Won her first Grammy for Best New Artist in 1974, an Emmy three years later for the TV special Ol' Red Hair Is Back, then a Tony four decades on for Hello, Dolly!.
b. 1980
performer, songwriter, producer, writer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American composer, lyricist and actor. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Hamilton in 2016 — a "PEGOT" by the Pulitzer definition, once the missing Oscar arrives. Won his first Tony and Grammy nearly a decade earlier, for In the Heights.
performer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American actress. Won her Emmy for Sex and the City, her Tony for Rabbit Hole, and a Grammy as part of the production behind An Inconvenient Truth. Ran for New York governor in 2018, losing the Democratic primary.
b. 1969
performer, songwriter, producer, writer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American writer, animator and performer, a Peabody Award winner. Co-created South Park with Matt Stone, then won the Tony and Grammy together for The Book of Mormon. All three of his competitive wins are shared with Stone.
b. 1993
performer, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American actor and singer. Originated the title role in Dear Evan Hansen, winning the Tony, the following year's cast-album Grammy, and an Emmy for the same production.
b. 1969
performer, writer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American actor and singer. Won his Tony playing Lola in Kinky Boots and the following year's cast-album Grammy, then an Emmy for Pose — the first openly gay Black man to win the lead-actor Emmy in a drama.
b. 1957
producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American producer. Won his Tony and Emmy for the same one-woman show, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, two years apart; his Grammy came later, for the 2015 revival cast album of The Color Purple.
b. 1959
performer, composer, songwriter, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American composer and songwriter, frequent collaborator of lyricist Scott Wittman. Won his Emmy for musical direction on the 1992 Academy Awards broadcast, then the Tony and Grammy a decade later for Hairspray, with Wittman.
composer, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American composer and record producer. Won his Tony and Grammy for orchestrating and co-producing In the Heights, then an Emmy years later for his music work on Sesame Street.
b. 1991
performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American actor. Won his Tony and the following year's Grammy playing Haled in The Band's Visit, alongside co-star Katrina Lenk. Later wrote and performed Out of Character, a solo show about growing up the son of a Yemeni Jewish father and an Ashkenazi Jewish mother.
b. 1971
writer, performer, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American writer, producer and performer, a Peabody Award winner. Co-created South Park with Trey Parker, then won the Tony and Grammy together for The Book of Mormon a decade later. All three of his competitive wins are shared with Parker.
1928–2025
composer, songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American composer. Wrote Bye Bye Birdie, Applause and Annie, plus the All in the Family theme. Studied under Aaron Copland and Nadia Boulanger. Died in May 2025 at 96.
b. 1939
performer, producer, writer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American actress and comedian, a Peabody Award winner. Won her first Grammy for the 1971 comedy album This Is a Recording, built around her switchboard-operator character Ernestine. Her Tony came 15 years later, for The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.
b. 1925
performer, writer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American actor. Won his Tony originating Albert Peterson in Bye Bye Birdie, a Grammy for the Mary Poppins soundtrack, and an Emmy the same year for his own sitcom, The Dick Van Dyke Show.
1921–2009
performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American character actor. His Grammy, for Best Spoken Word Recording, came for narrating Give 'Em Hell, Harry!, his solo show as Harry Truman that also brought a Best Actor Oscar nomination. Holds a competitive Tony and Emmy as well, across a stage and screen career spanning six decades.
b. 1954
composer, songwriter, writer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American lyricist and director, longtime writing partner of composer Marc Shaiman. Won the Tony and Grammy together for Hairspray in 2003; his Emmy came two decades later, for Only Murders in the Building.
b. 1960
performer, composer, songwriter, writer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Tony
Missing: Oscar
American composer and lyricist. Wrote the Tony-winning score for The Band's Visit, sharing that year's cast-album Grammy with its cast. His Emmy predates his Broadway career, for writing on Late Night with David Letterman in 1984.
1920–1998
composer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
British film composer. Oscar and Grammy for the same score, Tom Jones, in the early 1960s; his Emmy two decades later was for the Murder, She Wrote theme.
b. 1988
performer, songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
English singer-songwriter. Her Oscar is for the James Bond theme "Skyfall"; "Rolling in the Deep" alone won her two Grammys the same year. Her Emmy came for a televised concert special, Adele One Night Only.
b. 1972
songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American songwriter, half of a husband-and-wife songwriting team with Robert Lopez. Two Oscars, for Frozen's "Let It Go" and Coco's "Remember Me"; her Emmy came later, for the Disney+ series We the People.
b. 1935
performer, writer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
English actress and singer. Won her Oscar and a Grammy for Best Children's Album in the same year, 1965, both for Mary Poppins. Her three Emmys span five decades: her own variety show, narrating a Broadway history documentary, and voicing Queen Charlotte's narrator role in Bridgerton.
1928–2023
composer, songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American composer. Three Academy Awards for film songs and scores, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and two solo Best Original Song wins. Longtime songwriting partner of lyricist Hal David.
b. 1986
performer, songwriter, producer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American musician and bandleader, formerly of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. His Oscar is for the score of Pixar's Soul, shared with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. His 8 Grammys include Album of the Year for We Are.
1925–2025
songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American lyricist, half of a songwriting partnership with his wife Marilyn Bergman that lasted more than six decades. Three Oscars together, including "The Way We Were" and the score for Yentl; the same song's recording also won two Grammys. Their four Emmys include one for the 1995 HBO special Barbra Streisand: The Concert, with EGOT winner Barbra Streisand.
1928–2022
songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American lyricist, half of a songwriting partnership with her husband Alan Bergman that lasted more than six decades. Three Oscars together, including "The Way We Were" and the score for Yentl; the same song's recording also won two Grammys. Their four Emmys include one for the 1995 HBO special Barbra Streisand: The Concert, with EGOT winner Barbra Streisand.
b. 1950
producer, writer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
British documentary filmmaker, a political exile from apartheid-era South Africa. Directed and produced Anne Frank Remembered, sharing the Best Documentary Feature Oscar podium with Miep Gies, the woman who hid the Frank family, and won an International Emmy for the same film. His Grammy, from earlier in his career, is for the Genesis music video "Land of Confusion."
1896–1996
performer, writer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American comedian, half of the radio, film and television duo Burns and Allen with his wife Gracie Allen. His Oscar, for The Sunshine Boys, arrived at 79 as a late-career comeback; his Grammy for Best Spoken Word Recording, Gracie: A Love Story, followed in 1990.
b. 1946
performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American singer and actress. Her Oscar is for Moonstruck, her Grammy for the single "Believe," and her Emmy for a televised farewell-tour special.
b. 1972
performer, songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American rapper and actor. His Oscar and Grammy are both for "Glory," from Selma, co-written and performed with John Legend. His Emmy came for "Letter to the Free," from Ava DuVernay's documentary 13th.
b. 1972
performer, songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American rapper. His Oscar is for "Lose Yourself," from 8 Mile; his 15 Grammys include three straight Best Rap Album wins for his first three studio LPs. His Emmy is for the Super Bowl LVI halftime show.
b. 1955
producer, writer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American documentary director. Won Academy Awards for both The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, among the earliest films to address the AIDS crisis. His Grammy came decades later, in 2021, for Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice.
producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
British documentary producer. Shares the Oscar and Grammy for Amy, the Amy Winehouse documentary, with director Asif Kapadia; their earlier film together, Senna, won a BAFTA. His Emmy came from Netflix's Formula One series, Drive to Survive.
b. 1967
composer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American composer, primarily for Pixar and J.J. Abrams projects — Up, Ratatouille, Lost, Star Trek. His Oscar is for Up; his Emmy and Grammy followed from his television scoring work.
b. 1953
producer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American documentary director and producer. Oscar for Taxi to the Dark Side; a 2004 Grammy for the historical album accompanying Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues. Multiple Emmys and three Peabody Awards followed, many for HBO documentaries like Going Clear.
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
Sound editor. Built the three awards in order over exactly a decade — an Emmy for the miniseries John Adams, a Grammy for The Dark Knight, and an Oscar for Dunkirk's sound editing.
b. 1984
performer, composer, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
Swedish composer and record producer. Won the Oscar and Grammy the same year for Black Panther, then two more Oscars, for Oppenheimer and Sinners. His two Emmys are both for The Mandalorian, the first live-action Star Wars series.
b. 1951
producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American film and TV producer, co-founder of Imagine Entertainment with Ron Howard. Shares the Best Picture Oscar for A Beautiful Mind with Howard, and two Grammys for Best Music Film -- the 2017 Beatles documentary and the 2026 John Williams one -- both also shared with Howard. Holds 5 competitive Emmys from his decades of television production, including Arrested Development and 24.
b. 1982
performer, composer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
Icelandic composer and cellist. Her Emmy for Chernobyl and Oscar for Joker came within a year of each other; Chernobyl's score also won the Grammy. The first woman to win the Oscar for Best Original Score solo in more than two decades.
b. 1997
performer, songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American singer-songwriter. Her Oscar and one of her five Grammys are both for "Fight for You," from Judas and the Black Messiah. Her Emmy came from a Children's and Family special; she's said an EGOT, through acting, is a future goal.
b. 1954
performer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American director and actor, formerly a child star on The Andy Griffith Show. Shares the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars for A Beautiful Mind with producing partner Brian Grazer. His 7 Emmys span three decades of producing, from the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon through Arrested Development to the children's series The Tiny Chef Show.
b. 1986
performer, songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American singer-songwriter and actress. Her Oscar is for "Shallow," from A Star Is Born; her earliest Grammys came a decade earlier, from The Fame and its singles. Also holds a Razzie, for Joker: Folie à Deux, which she's joked publicly about turning her EGOT bid into an "EGORT."
b. 1942
performer, songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
English musician and songwriter, formerly of the Beatles. His Oscar, shared with his bandmates, is for the Let It Be documentary score; his Grammys span the archival box set Band on the Run and a Lifetime Achievement Award. His Emmy is for Get Back, Peter Jackson's Beatles documentary series.
producer, director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American documentary director. Won his Oscar for The Last Days, executive produced by Steven Spielberg for the USC Shoah Foundation, which Moll helped found. Later Emmy and Grammy wins came from a Holocaust-testimony special and a Foo Fighters concert film, respectively.
b. 1948
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American sound engineer, credited on more than 350 films since the 1980s. Won his Oscar for Jurassic Park's sound; his Emmy came from the 2002 Winter Olympics opening-ceremony broadcast, and his Grammys decades later for classical orchestral recordings.
b. 1967
director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American documentary director. Won his Oscar and a Grammy for Best Music Film the same year for 20 Feet from Stardom; a later Emmy came for Best of Enemies, about the Gore Vidal-William F. Buckley debates. Also directed Won't You Be My Neighbor?, the highest-grossing biographical documentary ever made.
b. 1943
performer, composer, songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American composer and singer-songwriter. Two Best Original Song Oscars a decade apart, for Monsters, Inc.'s "If I Didn't Have You" and Toy Story 3's "We Belong Together." His 7 competitive Grammys and 3 Emmys are almost entirely film and TV scoring work, most of it for Pixar.
1919–2019
composer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American composer and arranger, a longtime associate of Leonard Bernstein. Won his Oscar and Grammy the same year for adapting the West Side Story score he'd originally orchestrated for Broadway; his Emmy, more than two decades later, was a Daytime award for the soap opera All My Children.
b. 1965
performer, composer, songwriter
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American musician and composer, of Nine Inch Nails. Scores film and TV with longtime collaborator Atticus Ross — their Oscar for The Social Network, Grammy for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Emmy for Watchmen were all won together.
producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American documentary producer. Shares the Oscar and Grammy for 20 Feet from Stardom with director Morgan Neville. Also holds a competitive Emmy from her later non-fiction television work as an executive producer at Tremolo Productions.
b. 1968
performer, composer, producer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
English composer. Scores film and television with longtime creative partner Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails — their Oscar for The Social Network, Grammy for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Emmy for Watchmen were all won together.
b. 1942
director
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American film director. His Oscar, for The Departed, came after five previous nominations; his Emmy is for directing the pilot of Boardwalk Empire, and his Grammy for the Bob Dylan documentary No Direction Home.
b. 1940
performer, songwriter, writer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
English musician, formerly of the Beatles. Shares the same Get Back Emmy and Let It Be Oscar as his bandmates; his Grammy is for the long-form music video The Beatles Anthology.
1921–2004
performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
English actor, writer and director. Won two Supporting Actor Oscars, for Spartacus and Topkapi, plus a Grammy for narrating Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Two of his three Emmys, three years apart, were for Hallmark Hall of Fame productions.
b. 1932
performer, composer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American composer, the most Oscar-nominated living person. Three of his early wins — Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws and Star Wars — came within the same decade, the 1970s; two more, for E.T. and Schindler's List, followed in the '80s and '90s.
1951–2014
performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
American actor and comedian. His Oscar is for Good Will Hunting; his five Grammys are all comedy or children's albums, not film work. One of his two Emmys came from Carol, Carl, Whoopi and Robin, a TV special co-starring fellow EGOT winner Whoopi Goldberg.
b. 1975
performer
Holds: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar
Missing: Tony
English actress. Her Oscar is for The Reader; her Grammy, unusually, is for a children's spoken-word album rather than a film soundtrack. Her two Emmys, a decade apart, are both for lead miniseries roles -- Mildred Pierce and Mare of Easttown.
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