--- title: Emmy Nominations: Beyoncé Is Closer to EGOT description: With her Emmy nominations for 'Lemonade,' Queen Bey is on the path to the awards show grand slam of prizes: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. canonical: https://time.com/4406714/beyonce-emmy-nominations-egot/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-14T19:40:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:25.744Z og:title: Beyoncé Is One Step Closer to the Elusive EGOT og:description: With her Emmy nomination, Bey is on the path to the awards show grand slam og:url: https://time.com/4406714/beyonce-emmy-nominations-egot/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25087b5dfe39f168/69889bfd0a4a2224479ca775/beyonce-queen-bet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 2016 BET Awards - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Beyoncé Is One Step Closer to the Elusive EGOT twitter:description: With her Emmy nomination, Bey is on the path to the awards show grand slam twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25087b5dfe39f168/69889bfd0a4a2224479ca775/beyonce-queen-bet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Beyoncé Is One Step Closer to the Elusive EGOT > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Kevin Winter/BET/Getty Images for BET) Kevin Winter—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 14, 2016 7:40 PM UTC After receiving [four Emmy nominations](http://time.com/4406360/emmy-nominations-2016-surprises-snubs/) today for [_Lemonade_,](http://time.com/4305810/beyonce-lemonade-hbo/?iid=sr-link4) Queen Bey is inching closer to achieving the awards grand slam of American showbiz: snagging an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony, or [“EGOT.”](http://time.com/3724601/oxford-dictionary-janky-egot-ridesharing/?iid=sr-link4) Beyoncé already has an abundant collection of Grammys from her musical work over the years — in fact, she’s been [nominated more times](http://time.com/3620506/beyonce-grammy-nominations/?iid=sr-link4) than any other musician— so that’s one category down. In 2006, a few _Dreamgirls_ song were nominated for Oscars, but Bey didn’t snag that prize, and she has yet to appear on Broadway to qualify for a Tony. Given her extensive experience as a showman, it’s hard to imagine anything she acted in would do anything less than bring the house down, though. [At this year’s Emmys](http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners), _Lemonade_ has been nominated for Outstanding Variety Special, Outstanding Production Design For A Variety, Nonfiction, Event Or Award Special, Outstanding Picture Editing For Variety Programming and Outstanding Directing For A Variety Special. For the first award, she’s up against big names like Adele and Amy Schumer, and events like _The Kennedy Center Honors_ and _The Late Late Show Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special_. _Lemonade_ is a whole other cup of the tea from those fellow nominees, though. Beyoncé is early on in her career for this kind of potential accolade. Only [12 showbiz legends](http://mentalfloss.com/article/55376/12-members-egot-winners-circle) have ever completed the EGOT challenge, including Audrey Hepburn, Rita Moreno and Whoopi Goldberg (a few more, like Barbra Streisand, have won it thanks to honorary awards given for their body of work). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4406714/beyonce-emmy-nominations-egot/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4406714/beyonce-emmy-nominations-egot/"},"headline":"Beyoncé Is One Step Closer to the Elusive EGOT","datePublished":"2016-07-14T19:40:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:25.744Z","description":"Gotta catch 'em all","url":"https://time.com/4406714/beyonce-emmy-nominations-egot/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25087b5dfe39f168/69889bfd0a4a2224479ca775/beyonce-queen-bet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25087b5dfe39f168/69889bfd0a4a2224479ca775/beyonce-queen-bet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2016 BET Awards - Show","caption":"2016 BET Awards - Show","creditText":"Kevin Winter—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4406714/beyonce-emmy-nominations-egot/","name":"Beyoncé Is One Step Closer to the Elusive EGOT"}}]}] ```