Music superstars Adele, Eminem, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are nearing EGOT, now just a notch away. All four of them won Emmy Awards on Saturday at the Creative Arts Emmys ceremony in downtown Los Angeles.
Adele won for producing the Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) category for "Adele: One Night Only." Eminem was one of the stars of the Super Bowl halftime show, which prevailed for Best Variety Special (Live). McCartney and Starr were producers on the documentary/nonfiction winner "The Beatles: Get Back." Each of them has triumphed previously at the Oscars and Grammys, so they only need a Tony Award to reach EGOT.
Only 17 people have won the awards grand slam known as the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony). They are (in chronological order of achievement) composer Richard Rodgers, actress Helen Hayes, actress Rita Moreno, actor John Gielgud, actress Audrey Hepburn, composer Marvin Hamlisch, orchestrator Jonathan Tunick, writer/director/composer Mel Brooks, director Mike Nichols, actress Whoopi Goldberg, producer Scott Rudin, composer Robert Lopez, singer and actor John Legend, composer Tim Rice, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer Alan Menken and actress/producer Jennifer Hudson.
Along with the four Emmy winners from this weekend, there are a total of 28 other people who have won a combination of the Emmy, Oscar and Grammy without a Tony Award. The 22 living people are: composer Kristen Anderson-Lopez, actress Julie Andrews, composer Burt Bacharach, composer Alan Bergman, actress Cher, composer and producer Common, composer Michael Giacchino, director and producer Alex Gibney, sound editor Alex Gibson, composer Ludwig Goransson, producer Brian Grazer, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, producer/director Ron Howard, director James Moll, director and producer Morgan Neville, composer Randy Newman, composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, director/producer Martin Scorsese, actress Barbra Streisand, composer John Williams and actress Kate Winslet. Please note that Streisand received an honorary Tony but has never won in competition, a requirement to be considered an EGOT champion.
The six deceased people are composer John Addison, composer Marilyn Bergman, actor George Burns, composer Sid Ramin, actor Peter Ustinov and actor Robin Williams.
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