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After victories at the Creative ArtsEmmy Awardsceremony this weekend, musiciansAdele,Eminem,Paul McCartneyandRingo Starrare one step closer to reaching EGOT status.
On Saturday, Adele, 34, scored her first Emmy Award in the variety special (pre-recorded) category forAdele: One Night Only.
Eminem, 49, won the best variety special (live) award for hisappearance at the Super Bowl halftime showthis year, while McCartney, 80, and Starr, 82, both received an Emmy in the documentary/nonfiction category for their roles as producers ofThe Beatles: Get Back.
All four musicians, who were already winners of Oscars and Grammys before Saturday, are now just one award shy of earning the coveted EGOT status, should they be able to earn themselves a Tony Award in the future.
Representing the top awards in television (Emmy), music (Grammy), film (Oscar) and theater (Tony), the EGOT is considered the grand slam of show business — a four-of-a-kind sweep that only the rarest of stars have been able to achieve.
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To date,17 people have picked up the honor: Richard Rodgers (1962), Helen Hayes (1977),Rita Moreno(1977), John Gielgud (1991),Audrey Hepburn(1994), Marvin Hamlisch (1995), Jonathan Tunick (1997),Mel Brooks(2001),Mike Nichols(2001),Whoopi Goldberg(2002), Scott Rudin (2012), Robert Lopez (2014), Andrew Lloyd Webber (2018), Tim Rice (2018),John Legend(2018), Alan Menken (2020), andJennifer Hudson(2022).
In addition to Adele, Eminem, Starr, and McCartney, there are 28 other talents who are on the same boat, just one Tony Award away from achieving the Hollywood honor.
Twenty-two of those individuals are still alive, including composer Kristen Anderson-Lopez, actressJulie Andrews, composer Burt Bacharach, composer Alan Bergman, actressCher, composer and producerCommon, composer Michael Giacchino, director and producer Alex Gibney, sound editor Alex Gibson, composer Ludwig Goransson, producer Brian Grazer, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, producer/directorRon Howard, director James Moll, director and producer Morgan Neville, composer Randy Newman, composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, director/producerMartin Scorsese, composer John Williams, actressKate Winsletand actress/musicianBarbra Streisand.
The other six have died. They include composer John Addison, composer Marilyn Bergman, actor George Burns, composer Sid Ramin, actorPeter Ustinovand actorRobin Williams.
source: people.com
