Jennifer Hudson attains EGOT status
Hudson is the youngest woman in history to earn the title
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Singer and Cats apologist Jennifer Hudson is officially the 17th person in history to win a Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. Last night, Hudson won her Tony for the hit Broadway musical A Strange Loop, entering the exclusive EGOT club.
This year’s critical darling A Strange Loop was up for 11 awards last night, taking home the award for Best Musical and Best Book for a Musical. With Hudson on as a producer of A Strange Loop, the win for Best Musical took her across the EGOT finish line. Other producers on the project include RuPaul Charles, Don Cheadle, Mindy Kaling, Billy Porter, and Alan Cumming.
“This brilliant, funny masterpiece exposes the heart and soul of a young artist struggling with his desires, identity and instincts he both loves and hates,” Hudson said during the Tony Awards on Sunday while introducing the musical.
In the words of show creator Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop is “a musical about a young Black gay man named Usher who works as an usher at a Broadway show who is writing a musical about a young Black gay man named Usher who works as an usher at a Broadway show… who is caught in a self-referential loop of his own self hatred.” How meta.
When it comes to the other awards, Hudson won her Oscar in 2006 for Best Supporting Actress for Dreamgirls. She’s received two Grammys, one for Best R&B album in 2009 and the other Best Musical Theater Album for The Color Purple in 2017. For her Emmy, she snagged a daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Media for the animated short Baba Yaga.
Hudson’s not only the youngest woman to ever earn the achievement, but she’s also the second Black woman, following Whoopi Goldberg. She now joins a limited roster alongside names such as Rita Moreno, Alan Menken, Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Legend, and Mike Nichols.
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Needs a Razzie so she can go ERGOT.
If she gets a Bammie she’ll be a BERGOT.
GOTE seems like a better acronym than EGOT. Getting all of the awards makes a case for being one of the greatest of all time.
Wasn’t he a Ghostbuster?
No, he’s just somebody that I used to know.
You win for the day.
I like EGOT as an acronym, but the T needs to be silent, so it rhymes with “ego.” Sounds classier that way, too.
“The T is silent… as in Harlow” remains history’s sickest burn.
Do daytime Emmy’s really count? Technically I guess….
She has lived through such tragedy, I’m always really happy when I read good things like this for her.
Lamest ways to finish EGOTing, in no particular order:1) One of many producers for a Tony winning play. 2) Audio Book Grammy.3) Daytime Emmy.
An EGOT is an EGOT.
All EGOTs are impressive, but some are more impressive than others.
Marvin Hamlish got his E and O for the same goddamn song!(The Way We Were)
They’re both missing the O, but Cynthia Erivo and Ben Platt got their EGT for the same roles!
The fact that she has won for multiple areas is very impressive. She’s won for singing, acting AND producing.
You just sound bitter and like you are taking away from the success of Ms. Hudson. Sit down.
Yes, I’m sure Ms. Hudson will feel I’m taking away from her success.
Here is the full list of producers for “A Strange Loop.”
Barbara Whitman, Pasek, Paul & Stafford, Hunter Arnold, Marcia Goldberg, Alex Levy & James Achilles, Osh Ashruf, A Choir Full Productions, Don Cheadle & Bridgid Coulter Cheadle, Paul Oakley Stovall, Jimmy Wilson, Annapurna Theatre, Robyn Coles, Creative Partners Productions, Robyn Gottesdiener, Kayla Greenspan, Grove Entertainment, Kuhn, Lewis & Scott, Frank Marshall, Maximum Effort Productions Inc., Joey Monda, Richard Mumby, Phenomenal Media & Meena Harris, Marc Platt & Debra Martin Chase, Laurie Tisch, Yonge Street Theatricals, Dodge Hall Productions/JJ Maley, Cody Renard Richard, John Gore Organization, James L. Nederlander, The Shubert Organization (Robert E. Wankel: Chairman and CEO; Elliot Greene: Chief Operating Officer; Charles Flateman: Executive Vice President), RuPaul Charles, Alan Cumming, Ilana Glazer, Jennifer Hudson, Mindy Kaling and Billy Porter I think it’s wonderful that they all support this show. And I have no idea who did what, or who is actually deserving of a Tony for this. Do you?
4) Never achieving one or ever coming close to achieving one, yet still feeling justified in criticizing someone else who actually did.
Welcome to the internet!
I didn’t even know they gave Daytime Emmys for interactive VR shorts.
She’s got awards for acting, singing, and now producing. I think she’s got a pretty strong case for varied excellence.
A fun game…what would be the most impressive EGOT?I’d go with:Oscar: Best CinematographerEmmy: Best ActorTony: Best Music and LyricsGrammy: Outstanding Rock Performance
That would be a pretty well rounded person.
I think most impressive EGOT goes to Robert Lopez as he’s the only person to have a double EGOT winning each individual award at least twice. He also completed his first EGOT in only ten years. If Lin Manuel Miranda ever gets his Oscar (which is probably inevitable) he’ll be only the third person ever to PEGOT – winning a Pulitzer – after Richard Rodgers and Marvin Hamlisch.
Further proof that it’s better to lose American Idol than to win it.
Unless your name is Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood.
And yet, neither of them has an EGOT.
And it’s best to just never go on The Voice.
I was actually expecting the Emmy to be from The Voice, so better than it could have been.
And Julie Andrews still doesn’t have a Tony. Can we get her a lifetime achievement award or something?
How the actual fuck has that happened?
Most of her lifetime achievement didn’t take place on Broadway, though. She’s really been more of a film and TV star, and has been honored there in major ways.
Two things – ‘My Fair Lady’ and ‘Victor/Victoria’.
And she declined her nomination for Victor/Victoria!
And Julie Andrews still doesn’t have a Tony. Can we get her a lifetime achievement award or something?
Reminder: Simon Cowell — FUCKHEAD that he is — said this woman didn’t have what it takes to make it in entertainment.