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Encyclopedia > List of people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award

List of people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award: these artists achieved the rare feat in winning all four of the major awards of American show business: An Emmy Award. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Show business is a vernacular term for the business of entertainment. ...


There are currently nine people who have won all four awards in standard competitive categories: 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

  • Mel Brooks
    • Emmy: 3:
      • 1997 : Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series - Mad About You
      • 1998 : Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series - Mad About You
      • 1999 : Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series - Mad About You
    • Grammy: 3:
      • 1998 : Best Spoken Comedy Album - The 2000 Year Old Man In The Year 2000
      • 2002 : Best Long Form Music Video - Recording 'The Producers': A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
      • 2002 : Best Musical Show Album - The Producers
    • Oscar: 1968 : Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen - The Producers
    • Tony: 3:
  • John Gielgud (1904-2000)
    • Emmy: 1991 : Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Special - Summer's Lease
    • Grammy: 1979 : Best Spoken Word Documentary or Drama - Ages of Man (album)
    • Oscar: 1981 : Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Arthur
    • Tony: 1961 : Best Director of a Drama - Big Fish, Little Fish
  • Marvin Hamlisch
    • Emmy: 4:
      • 1995 : Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction - Barbra Streisand: The Concert
      • 1995 : Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics - Barbra Streisand: The Concert
      • 1999 : Outstanding Music and Lyrics - AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
      • 2001 : Outstanding Music Direction - Timeless: Live in Concert
    • Grammy: 4:
      • 1974: Song Of The Year - The Way We Were
      • 1974: Best New Artist Of The Year
      • 1974: Best Pop Instrumental Performance - The Entertainer
      • 1974: Album Of Best Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or A Television Special - The Way We Were
    • Oscar: 3:
    • Tony: 1976 : Best Musical Score - A Chorus Line
  • Helen Hayes (1900-1993)
    • Emmy: 1953 : Best Actress
    • Grammy: 1976 : Best Spoken Word Recording - Great American Documents
    • Oscar: 2:
    • Tony: 2 (plus a Special Award):
      • 1947 : Best Actress, Dramatic - Happy Birthday
      • 1958 : Best Actress, Dramatic - Time Remembered
      • 1980 : Special Tony Award, Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre
  • Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)
    • Emmy: 1993 : Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn
    • Grammy: 1993 : Best Spoken Word Album For Children - Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales
    • Oscar: 1 (plus a special award):
      • 1953 : Best Actress in a Leading Role - Roman Holiday
      • 1993 : Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
    • Tony: 2:
      • 1954 : Best Actress in a Drama - Ondine
      • 1968 : Special Achievement Award
  • Rita Moreno
    • Emmy: 2:
      • 1977 : Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Variety or Music - The Muppet Show
      • 1978 : Outstanding Lead Actress for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series - The Rockford Files
    • Grammy: 1972 : Best Recording For Children - The Electric Company
    • Oscar: 1961 : Best Actress in a Supporting Role - West Side Story
    • Tony: 1975 : Best Featured of Supporting Actress - The Ritz
  • Mike Nichols
    • Emmy: 4:
      • 2001 : Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special - Wit
      • 2001 : Outstanding Made for Television Movie - Wit
      • 2004 : Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special - Angels in America
      • 2004 : Outstanding Miniseries - Angels in America
    • Grammy: 1961 : Best Comedy Performance - An Evening With Mike Nichols And Elaine May
    • Oscar: 1967 : Best Director - The Graduate
    • Tony: 7:
      • 1964 : Best Director, Dramatic - Barefoot in the Park
      • 1965 : Best Director, Dramatic - Luv and The Odd Couple
      • 1968 : Best Director, Dramatic - Plaza Suite
      • 1972 : Best Director, Dramatic - The Prisoner of Second Avenue
      • 1977 : Best Musical - Annie
      • 1984 : Best Director, Play - The Real Thing
      • 2005 : Best Director, Musical - Monty Python's Spamalot
  • Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)
    • Emmy: 1962 : Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composed - Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years
    • Grammy: 2:
      • 1960 : Best Show Album (Original Cast) - The Sound of Music
      • 1962 : Best Original Cast Show Album - No Strings
    • Oscar: 1945 : Best Song - "It Might As Well Be Spring" from State Fair
    • Tony: 6 (plus three special awards):
      • 1950 : Best Musical - South Pacific
      • 1950 : Best Producers, Musical - South Pacific
      • 1950 : Best Score - South Pacific
      • 1952 : Best Musical - The King and I
      • 1960 : Best Musical - The Sound of Music
      • 1962 : Best Composer - No Strings
  • Jonathan Tunick
    • Emmy: 1982 : Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction - Night of 100 Stars
    • Grammy: 1988 : Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals - "No One Is Alone"
    • Oscar: 1977 : Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score - A Little Night Music
    • Tony: 1997 : Best Orchestrations - Titanic

Two people have failed to win one of these regular competitive awards, but have been given special honorary awards that some might consider would qualify them to be placed on the list. They are: Mel Brooks on the talk show Parkinson. ... Mad About You is a United States sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 23, 1992, to May 24, 1999. ... Mad About You is a United States sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 23, 1992, to May 24, 1999. ... Mad About You is a United States sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 23, 1992, to May 24, 1999. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... The Producers is a 1968 feature length comedy film set in New York City in which two con-men attempt to cheat theatre angels (investors) out of their investment money. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... John Gielgud as photographed in 1936 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur John Gielgud OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000), known as Sir John Gielgud, was an English theatre and film actor, regarded by many as one of the greatest British actors in history. ... Arthur is a 1981 film which tells the story of a drunken playboy millionaire called Arthur Bach who can only inherit if he marries. ... Marvin Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is a successful composer of film scores. ... Part of the AFI 100 Years. ... The Way We Were is a 1973 film which tells the story of a Jewish woman who marries a WASP following World War II, at the height of McCarthyism; their political differences eventually drive them apart. ... The Way We Were is a 1973 film which tells the story of a Jewish woman who marries a WASP following World War II, at the height of McCarthyism; their political differences eventually drive them apart. ... The Way We Were is a 1973 film which tells the story of a Jewish woman who marries a WASP following World War II, at the height of McCarthyism; their political differences eventually drive them apart. ... The Way We Were is a 1973 film which tells the story of a Jewish woman who marries a WASP following World War II, at the height of McCarthyism; their political differences eventually drive them apart. ... The Sting was an Oscar winning caper film from 1973 based in the 1930s and centered around a convoluted plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). ... A Chorus Line is a Broadway musical that opened at the Shubert Theatre July 25, 1975 and closed there April 28, 1990 after 6,137 performances. ... Helen Hayes (October 10, 1900 - March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose successful and award-winning career spanned almost 70 years. ... The Sin of Madelon Claudet is a 1931 film which tells the story of a wrongly-imprisoned woman who turns to theft and prostitution in order to support her son. ... Lawrence Langner (b. ... Hepburn in her breakthrough film, Roman Holiday (1953). ... Roman Holiday is a 1953 romantic comedy film which tells the story of a young royal princess who runs away during a state visit to Rome and is befriended by a cynical expatriate American reporter who first just wants an exclusive story, but finds himself falling in love with her. ... Ondine ( June 16, 1937 - January 1, 1989) met Andy Warhol in 1961 at an orgy, and died of liver disease in Queens, New York, New York, USA in 1989. ... Rita Moreno (born December 11, 1931 in Humacao, Puerto Rico) is an Academy Award-winning and the first and only Hispanic actress in history to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award. ... The Muppet Show is a television program featuring a cast of Muppets (diverse hand-operated puppets, typically with oversized eyes and large moving mouths) produced by Jim Henson and his team from 1976 to 1981. ... The Rockford Files was an American detective (private investigator) television drama that had its first run on the NBC television network between 1974 and 1980 and has been in constant syndication to the present day. ... Opening title The Electric Company was an educational American childrens television series produced by the Childrens Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop) for PBS in the United States. ... The original poster for the motion picture. ... The neoclassical Ritz Hotel London is one of Londons most famous landmarks. ... Mike Nichols (born Michael Igor Peschkowsky) is an Academy Award winning movie director of films such as The Graduate and Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was born on November 6, 1931 in Berlin, to a Jewish Russian family. ... Look up Wit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. ... Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. ... The Graduate is a novel by Charles Webb, made into a 1967 film of the same name directed by Mike Nichols from a screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry. ... The Real Thing is: A music album by Faith No More -- see The Real Thing (album); A play by Tom Stoppard. ... An autographed photo of Richard Rodgers Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was one of the great composers of musical theater, best known for his song writing partnerships with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. He wrote more than 900 published songs, and forty Broadway musicals. ... Jonathan Tunick (born 19 April 1938) is an orchestrator, musical director and composer, who is a member of that small group of artists who have won all four major American performing awards: the Tony, Oscar, Emmy and Grammy. ... A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. ... Titanic: The Musical was a musical that opened on Broadway in 1997. ...

  • Barbra Streisand
    • Emmy: 4:
      • 1965 : Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment - Actors and Performers - My Name is Barbra
      • 1995 : Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program - Barbra Streisand: The Concert
      • 1995 : Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special - Barbra Streisand: The Concert
      • 2001 : Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program - Timeless: Live in Concert
    • Grammy: 9 (plus one Special Merit Award):
      • 1963 : Best Vocal Performance, Female - The Barbra Streisand Album
      • 1963 : Album Of The Year (Other Than Classical) - The Barbra Streisand Album
      • 1964 : Best Score From An Original Cast Show Album - Funny Girl
      • 1964 : Best Vocal Performance, Female - People (From the musical Funny Girl)
      • 1965 : Best Vocal Performance, Female - My Name Is Barbra
      • 1977 : Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female - Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen)
      • 1977 : Song Of The Year, Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen)
      • 1980 : Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal - Guilty (with Barry Gibb)
      • 1986 : Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female - The Broadway Album
      • 1995 : Lifetime Achievement Award
    • Oscar: 2:
    • Tony: Star of the Decade in 1970
  • Liza Minnelli
    • Emmy: 1973 : Outstanding Single Program - Variety and Popular Music - Singer Presents Liza with a 'Z'
    • Grammy: Recipient in 1990 of a "Special Merit Award", called the Grammy Legend Award, from the Recording Academy Association, which also grants Grammy Awards.
    • Oscar: 1972 : Best Actress in a Leading Role - Cabaret
    • Tony: 2 (plus one Special Award):
      • 1965 : Best Actress (Musical) - Flora, the Red Menace
      • 1974 : Special Award
      • 1978 : Best Actress (Musical) - The Act

If the Daytime Emmy Awards are included, comedian Whoopi Goldberg also qualifies. Barbra Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an iconic two-time Academy Award-winning American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, film producer and director. ... Funny Girl is a 1964 semi-biographical musical that tells the story of Broadway star Fanny Brice. ... Funny Girl is a 1964 semi-biographical musical that tells the story of Broadway star Fanny Brice. ... Guilty is a Anarcho-punk album, by the band Oi Polloi. ... An award is something given to a person or group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field. ... Funny Girl is a 1964 semi-biographical musical that tells the story of Broadway star Fanny Brice. ... Video cover showing Kris Kristofferson and Barbra Streisand The 1976 version, helmed by Frank Pierson and starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, updated the story by bringing it into the rock era. ... Liza Minnelli. ... Cabaret is a 1972 film. ... The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming. ...

  • Whoopi Goldberg
    • Emmy: 2002 : Outstanding Special Class Special, Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel (Host)
    • Grammy: 1985 : Best Comedy Recording, Whoopi Goldberg--Original Broadway Show Recording
    • Oscar: 1990 : Best Supporting Actress, Ghost
    • Tony: 2002 : Best Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Co-Producer)

If International Emmy Awards are included, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber would also qualify. He has received seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, one Academy Award, and one International Emmy. Disclaimer: The 2000 version of the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Jesus Christ Superstar received an International Emmy Award in the Performing Arts category. Technically, the award was presented to the production company (Universal Pictures Visual Programming Presents A Really Useful Films Production) not specifically to Webber and Rice. In addition, Webber is founder of the Really Useful Group. Sarafina movie poster featuring Whoopi Goldberg Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson, November 13, 1955), is an Academy Award, Daytime Emmy Award, Golden Globe, Tony and Grammy Award-winning American comedian and film actress. ... Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze, in one of the most famous scenes from the movie Ghost is a 1990 romantic comedy-fantasy-thriller film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn and Rick Aviles, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Jerry Zucker. ... Thoroughly Modern Millie is a musical comedy. ... An Emmy Award. ... Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful British composer of musical theatre. ... Eric Kunze as Jesus in the recent U.S. touring version of Jesus Christ Superstar Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. ...


Winners of 3 Major Entertainment Awards

The following people have won 3 of the 4 major entertainment awards:


Oscar, Emmy and Tony Winners:

Oscar, Tony and Grammy Winners: Jonathan Jack Albertson (June 16, 1907 - November 25, 1981) was considered a complete entertainer from the old school. ... Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate Anne Bancroft (September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an iconic Academy Award-winning American actress, born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano in The Bronx, New York to Michael and Mildred Italiano, both children of Italian immigrants. ... Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca (pronounced in Swedish, but usually in English, IPA notation) (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a three-time Academy Award-winning Swedish actress. ... Shirley Booth (August 30, 1898 – October 16, 1992) was an acclaimed American actress. ... Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg (April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981), better known as Melvyn Douglas, was a United States actor who won all three of the entertainment industries highest awards, two Oscars, one Tony and a televison Emmy. ... Bob Fosse, early promotional image. ... Jeremy Irons Jeremy John Irons (born September 19, 1948) is an Oscar-winning English actor. ... Liza Minnelli. ... Major Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell (June 16, 1792-1855), surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia, was born at Grangemouth in Stirlingshire, Scotland. ... Al Pacino (right) with Robert Duvall in The Godfather. ... Vanessa Redgrave during the 2004 season of Nip/Tuck. ... Robards in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Jason Nelson Robards Jr. ... David Paul Scofield, CH, CBE (born 21 January 1922) is a British actor who was born in Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, England. ... Maggie Smith in the film Murder by Death Dame Margaret Natalie Smith DBE (born 28 December 1934), better known as Dame Maggie Smith, is a two-time Academy Award-winning English film, stage, and television actress. ... Lois Maureen Stapleton (June 21, 1925 – March 13, 2006) was an Academy Award-winning American actress in film, theater and television who also won an Emmy Award, two Tony Awards and was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame. ... Jessica Tandy, christened Jessie Alice Tandy (June 7, 1909 – September 11, 1994) was a noted Academy Award-winning British-American theatre, film and TV actress. ...

Oscar, Emmy and Grammy Winners: Fonda in the 1957 classic, 12 Angry Men. ... Sarafina movie poster featuring Whoopi Goldberg Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson, November 13, 1955), is an Academy Award, Daytime Emmy Award, Golden Globe, Tony and Grammy Award-winning American comedian and film actress. ... For work done with Richard Rodgers, see Rodgers and Hammerstein Oscar Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was a New-York born writer, producer, and (usually uncredited) director of musicals for almost forty years. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Alan Jay Lerner was a Jewish-American Broadway lyricist and librettist. ... Frank Loesser (June 29, 1910, New York City - July 26, 1969, New York City) was a composer and lyricist. ... Sir Tim Rice Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice, Kt (born 10 November 1944) is an English lyricist for musical theater, a radio presenter, television gameshow panelist and an author. ... Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. ... Jule Styne (December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British born United States songwriter. ... Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful British composer of musical theatre. ...

Emmy, Tony and Grammy Winners: John Addison (1920-1998) was a British composer. ... Julie Andrews as Maria, with the Von Trapp children in The Sound Of Music. ... Burt Bacharach (born May 12, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a Jewish-American pianist and composer. ... Alan Bergman (born 11 September 1925) is a prolific lyricist and songwriter, particularly of music for stage and film. ... Marilyn Bergman (née Keith, born 1929) is a composer, songwriter and author. ... Cherilyn Sarkisian (born May 20, 1946), better known simply by her stage name Cher, is an Academy Award-winning actress, singer, songwriter, director, author and and all-around entertainer. ... Randy Newman Randall Stuart Newman (born 28 November 1943) is an American songwriter, arranger, singer and pianist who is notable for his mordant, immaculately written pop songs and for his many film scores. ... Barbra Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an iconic two-time Academy Award-winning American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, film producer and director. ... Ustinov as Hercule Poirot Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov (born Peter Alexander von Ustinov) on April 16, 1921 - died March 28, 2004) was a British actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur. ... John Williams John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is one of the most widely recognized composers of film scores. ... Robin Williams performing in Iraq. ...


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