This is a
list of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. These are considered the four major entertainment awards in American
show business.
[More Awards Programs, More Winners, More Money - The New York Times - May 22, 1995] Presented annually, the awards honor outstanding achievements, respectively, in film, television, music, and theater.
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Four awards
To date, only ten artists have won an
Academy Award, an
Emmy Award, a
Grammy Award, and a
Tony Award in competitive categories. They are: actors
John Gielgud,
Whoopi Goldberg,
Helen Hayes,
Audrey Hepburn,
Rita Moreno; composers
Marvin Hamlisch,
Richard Rodgers, and
Jonathan Tunick; and directors
Mel Brooks and
Mike Nichols.
(Two of these artists, Rodgers and Hamlisch, have each won the
Pulitzer Prize as well.) Two more artists,
Liza Minnelli and
Barbra Streisand, have also won all of the four major entertainment awards, although their awards were not exclusively competitive.
Below, the ten artists who have won competitive Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards are listed first in
chronological order by the date on which they achieved this milestone. They are followed, also chronologically, by the two additional artists whose awards were not exclusively competitive, but also included special or honorary awards.
