EGOT WATCH: Now that Scarlett Johansson, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Denzel Washington have their Tony Awards (and the latter two with Oscars as well), New York magazine wonders whether any is likely to complete the set.
(Actually, in looking at this helfpul chart of those-missing-just-one, I'll take five-time Oscar nominee Marc Shaiman as most likely to be next.)
Michael Giacchino and Randy Newman also seem possibilities on the composer side--they each are missing only a Tony, and if they reinstate Special Theatrical Event, I would think Robin Williams has a good shot. And if Striesand ever deigned to return to Broadway, she'd be a lock to wrap up her EGOT.
ReplyDeleteI've got Michael Giacchino at the top of my list. I also think that Catherine Zeta-Jones has a good shot---if she were to decide to take on a lead role in a cable TV show, she'd definitely be looked at for an Emmy.
ReplyDeleteI think that Wiki page is wrong on CZ-J -- I don't think she has a Grammy either, and is just OT.
ReplyDeleteAlso not-unlikely? Lily Tomlin does something Oscar-worthy to complete her set. I also can't believe Glenn Close is Oscar-less, but she also needs a Grammy -- and her singing in the tv adaptation of South Pacific wasn't quite *that* good.
Julie Andrews could get a Tony on demand. Agree that Randy Newman and Lily Tomlin both have a good shot. John Williams fits the mold of a composer, but I'd really, really hate to think of what he would do to the genre of musical comedy. (Though the Star Wars Cantina scene shows promise.)
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn't Streisand's "special Tony" count in 1970?
ReplyDeleteBenner - John Williams and Steven Spielberg actually contemplated a Peter Pan Musical before doing Hook. The song the little girl sings on the boat (When You're Alone" stems from that aborted musical version. Based on the evidence of that one song, I'd actually be intrigued at hearing a Williams musical.
ReplyDeleteFor reals? Julie Andrews doesn't have a tony? And now that just make me sad thinking about her vocal health troubles.
ReplyDeleteShe hadn't been on Broadway for five years -- it was more of a lifetime achievement award, from what I can tell.
ReplyDeleteGlenn Close doesn't have an Oscar?
ReplyDeleteThe one thing that would hold Giacchino back is that I'm hard pressed to see him writing for a musical. Incidental music for a play? Absolutely. But that's hard to get nominated for, much less win for. He could wind up with an orchestrations Tony, though.
ReplyDeleteShe's 0-for-5. Three straight supporting noms 82-83-84, two lead noms 87-88. It's hard to pick which should-have-won -- her Fatal Attraction work lost for Cher for Moonstruck, but so too did Holly Hunter for Broadcast News. The next year, she had Dangerous Liaiasons, but Jodie Foster had The Accused.
ReplyDeleteWasn't nominated for playing Sunny von Bulow, and could have deserved Supporting that year over winner Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost) or Lorraine Bracco (Goodfellas) ... but, even there, Annete Bening was nominated for The Grifters that year, and she was fantastic.
I checked it out---I think that wiki page is giving CZJ credit for the Chicago film soundtrack getting a Grammy. Which seems iffy to me. If that counts toward EGOT, then I think that she gets it. If that does not count toward EGOT, I have my serious doubts.
ReplyDeleteSome of Giacchino's work with Pixar gives me the strong impression that, with the right lyricist, sure, he could score a musical. And he's young. [Damn, is he young, to be 3/4 of the way to an EGOT.] He's got time.
Yeah, I'm not sure what was more surprising -- Andrews missing a Tony for the set or Cynthia Nixon missing only an Oscar (and having won any of the others).
ReplyDeleteWhen Disney eventually gets around to staging Toy Story or Monsters as a stage musical, Newman will get his EGOT.
ReplyDeleteWell, Nixon's Grammy is for Spoken Word on An Inconvenient Truth. The others aren't as surprising.
ReplyDeleteNixon's Tony (for Rabbit Hole) was well-deserved, and as for SATC, she was clearly the strongest dramatic actress of the three supporting women and won for the final season. Her competition that year was less than inspiring--her two castmates, Megan Mullaly, and Doris Walker.
ReplyDeleteErrr, Doris Roberts, though I would have voted for Arrested Development people over any of them.
ReplyDeleteLifetime achievement award being somewhat ironic in context, therefore.
ReplyDeleteI didn't listen to An Inconvenient Truth and I didn't see Rabbit Hole. The bar is lower, or at least the criteria are different, for Emmy voters (who frequently reward utter crap), and my SATC rant is for another time. But if you had asked me to list 75% EGOTers, I might have run out of names before getting to Nixon.
ReplyDeleteIf you had asked me which SATC star was closest, I might have guessed an E-T for SJP first.
ReplyDeleteMy first reaction when I saw her at EGT was that she must have won an Emmy for Tanner '88.
ReplyDeleteseems like CZJ just needs to find a juicy guest acting spot (perhaps on modern family?) to make EGOT a reality, assuming you recognize the chicago soundtrack grammy.
ReplyDeleteActually, she should get herself over to Law & Order: SVU. It seems to dominate the guest actress-drama awards.
ReplyDeleteNixon also won an Emmy for guest actress on Law & Order: SVU. My guess was actually that she'd won one of those for her stint on ER as a stroke victim, but I guessed wrong.
ReplyDeleteI just want to say that I direct-messaged ALOTT5MA about this Sunday, two days before New York magazine thought of it.
ReplyDeleteWhat's surprising to me is how many people have achieved EGOT, because when I was a kid memorizing trivia, it was just four.
ReplyDeleteYou did.
ReplyDeleteJulie Andrews turned down her Tony nomination for Victor/Victoria -- she said she couldn't accept the honor when the rest of the cast/creative team had been so egregiously overlooked.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see her on B'way now and for her to get a Tony, but it would have to be a non-singing role.
Someone get James Earl Jones an Oscar-worthy role, stat.
ReplyDeleteI'd suggest a modified version of the EGOT for writers--the EPOT--Emmy, Pulitzer, Oscar, Tony--got a few people who are one away there--John Patrick Shanley needs an Emmy, and Neil Simon is missing an Oscar, Surprise person who's only got one of those 4? David Mamet, who has only a Pulitzer (for Glengarry Glen Ross)--no Emmy or Tony.
ReplyDeleteFWIW, Sondheim can get an EPGOT with an Emmy, and it would not seem terribly hard for him to get there.
I'd totally go visit the Sondheim pavillion at EPGOT.
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