30 Artists You Didn’t Know Are Super Close to an EGOT

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The elusive, prestigious EGOT—ascribed to any person who has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony—has only been achieved by 15 people who are EGOT winners (not counting recipients of honorary awards, or Tracy Morgan on 30 Rock). John Legend just got the statue he needed to become an EGOT winner. He won Outstanding Variety Special (Live) for Creative Arts Emmy Awards a the 2018 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, and became the first black man to achieve this status. Though Legend, at 39, is among the youngest EGOT winners, he is not actually the youngest. That distinction goes to songwriter Robert Lopez, who achieved EGOT status at age 38. He achieved EGOT status alongside Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

He joined the esteemed company of artists like composer Richard Rogers (the first person to complete an EGOT, in 1962), Rita Moreno, Mel Brooks and Whoopi Goldberg. Below are some of the artists are “almost egot winners” also known as, just one award away from becoming an EGOT winner.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Won: One Emmy, two Grammys, three Tonys

Needs: Oscar

James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones
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Won: Three Emmys, one Grammy, two Tonys

Needs: A competitive Oscar (he won an Honorary Oscar in 2011)

Elton John

Elton John
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Won: Five Grammys, one Oscar, one Tony

Needs: Emmy

Cher

Cher
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Won: One Emmy, one Grammy, one Oscar

Needs: Tony

Al Pacino

Al Pacino
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Won: Two Emmys, one Oscar, two Tonys

Needs: Grammy

Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Nixon
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Won: Two Emmys, one Grammy, one Tony

Needs: Oscar

Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese
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Won: Three Emmys, one Grammy, one Oscar

Needs: Tony

Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith
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Won: Three Emmys, two Oscars, one Tony

Needs: Grammy

Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren
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Won: Four Emmys, one Oscar, one Tony

Needs: Grammy

Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews
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Won: Two Emmys, one competitive Grammy (and one Lifetime Achievement Grammy), one Oscar

Needs: Tony

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Trey Parker and Matt Stone
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Won: Five Emmys, one Grammy, four Tonys

Needs: Oscar

Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet
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Won: One Emmy, one Grammy, one Oscar

Needs: Tony

Jessica Lange

Jessica Lange
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Won: Three Emmys, two Oscars, one Tony

Needs: Grammy

Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim
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Won: Eight Grammys, 12 competitive Tonys (and a Lifetime Achievement Tony), one Oscar

Needs: Emmy

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Won: Four Grammys, one Oscar, seven Tonys

Needs: Emmy

Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn
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Won: Two Emmys, one Oscar, one Tony

Needs: Grammy

Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave
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Won: Two Emmys, one Oscar, one Tony

Needs: Grammy

Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer
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Won: Two Emmys, one Oscar, one Tony

Needs: Grammy

Lily Tomlin

Lily Tomlin
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Won: Six Emmys, one Grammy, one competitive Tony (and one Lifetime Achievement Tony)

Needs: Oscar

Dick Van Dyke

Dick van Dyke
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Won: Four Emmys, one Grammy, one Tony

Needs: Oscar

Cyndi Lauper

Cyndi Lauper
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Won: One Emmy, two Grammys, one Tony

Needs: Oscar

Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach
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Won: One Emmy, seven competitive Grammys (and a Lifetime Achivement Grammy), three Oscars

Needs: Tony

Randy Newman

Randy Newman
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Won: Three Emmys, five Grammys, two Oscars

Needs: Tony

Frances McDormand

Frances McDormand
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Won: One Emmy, one Oscar, one Tony

Needs: Grammy

Audra McDonald

Audra McDonald
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Won: One Emmy, two Grammys, six Tonys

Needs: Oscar

Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte
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Won: One Emmy, three Grammys, one Tony

Needs: competitive Oscar (won the James Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2014)

Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons
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Won: Three Emmys, one Oscar, one Tony

Needs: Grammy

Geoffrey Rush

Geoffrey Rush
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Won: One Emmy, one Oscar, one Tony

Needs: Grammy

Barbara Streisand

Barbra Streisand
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Won: Five Emmys, eight competitve Grammys (and a Grammy Legend Award and Lifetime Achievement Grammy), two Oscars

Needs: Tony

Liza Minelli

Liza Minelli
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Won: One Emmy, one Oscar, four Tonys

Needs: competitive Grammy (received a Grammy Living Legend Award in 1990)

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