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theindependentonline OP t1_j7d3508 wrote

Viola Davis has officially achieved EGOT status, becoming only the third Black woman in history to earn the honor.
On Sunday, the 57-year-old actor accepted her very first Grammy Award for her performance of the audiobook for her memoir Finding Me at the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony.
“It has just been such a journey,” Ms Davis said in her acceptance speech. “I just EGOT!”

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andamancrake t1_j7dxzsw wrote

only the third Black woman? Only 18 people have an EGOT

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WorldsWeakestMan t1_j7e1p7y wrote

This is why we need a Book of Mormon movie, Trey Parker and Matt Stone need to complete their EG_T.

20 is a much better number than 18.

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coasterreal t1_j7fvt5c wrote

Mmm yes, awards for the rich and famous, awarded by the rich and famous.

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Yatattar t1_j7ghk37 wrote

In Tagalog….

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TheMagicMST t1_j7gortb wrote

3rd?? talk to me when the 8th black woman gets it, that'll be something real special.

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newpotatocab0ose t1_j7egrki wrote

Good for her, but that seems kind of like a cheap EGOT. Right? That’s supposed to represent your extreme talent in these various fields, with a Grammy obviously representing music. What she did is obviously no small accomplishment, but reading your book aloud is an entirely different ballpark then, say, creating a Grammy-award-winning album or piece of music.

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skychasing t1_j7ekunl wrote

Grammys recognize recordings, not just music. Hence they’re called the recording academy.

I haven’t heard hers but a good audiobook is nothing to scoff at.

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newpotatocab0ose t1_j7emfmp wrote

Of course it’s nothing to scoff at! That’s not my point at all. It takes skill to properly pace and enunciate, and to add necessary drama, if applicable. She’s incredibly skilled. But it’s something that was written for consumption at home in a book. It’s bviously just my opinion, but it doesn’t really feel like a standard audiobook should be up for a Grammy award. It’s completely different.

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Legitimate-Professor t1_j7fjsbt wrote

But all audiobooks are up for Grammys so I don’t get your point. The Grammys are recording awards, it’s just that music is what most people consider when they think of recordings. That’s why they also give awards for remixes, producers, and songwriters. You wouldn’t say that if she won a producer award, would you?

All EGOTs operate this way because it’s close to impossible for someone to be at the top of the game as a screen actor (movie AND TV), musician, and theatre actor. Jennifer Hudson is exceptionally special for this, because she’s the closest of these 3 women in to having all 4 be full primary wins - but people said the same thing when she won a Daytime Emmy in 2021 for Baba Yaga. The fact that 3/4 awards that Viola won are prestigious performance awards (her Emmy, Tony, and Oscar) is incredible to me.

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theLoneliestAardvark t1_j7fd8uu wrote

Pretty much every egot winner has something cheap. A Grammy for spoken word, comedy, or the cast recording for a musical that they also won Tony’s for or an Oscar or Emmy for a movie or tv production of the musical. The Tony’s is probably the only one without “cheap” awards but it also has more major awards and less competition than the others.

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sayleekelf t1_j7fcsx9 wrote

Aren’t all EGOTs this way? I’m no expert on them, but I feel like they usually are mainstream awards earned in the winner’s primary field, then less notable or prestigious awards for the others. Of course still very impressive and worthy of celebration. I don’t think we’d have any EGOT winners if we expected them all to be from “main” awards

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hatramroany t1_j7fqbm6 wrote

Pretty much EGOTs are either performers with a spoken word album or songwriters. Producing has also become a more popular way to achieve it recently

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Glasenator t1_j7eitd7 wrote

Well I mean in that case you also would think Whoopi Goldberg is a cheap EGOT as well. Do comedy albums also not count?

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Glasenator t1_j7el4rd wrote

Another counterpoint, John Legend’s Oscar is for best original song for Selma. So not really acting related in any way.

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bustedbuddha t1_j7eq6jx wrote

This is a things now, isn't this a 30 rock bit?

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TheLadyEve t1_j7eecox wrote

So you're making an assertion and then agreeing with yourself? That's odd.

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Charade_y0u_are t1_j7fwz57 wrote

That's quite the strawman but to take your bait:

All of these awards shows are glorified rich people parties but it is still impressive to recognize those who have gained EGOT status since there are only 18 in all of history.

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