Why isn’t potential EGOT winner Lin-Manuel Miranda at the Oscars tonight?
Miranda's wife tested positive for COVID earlier this week , meaning his Encanto song will have to compete tonight without him
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Tonight’s Oscars ceremony will be the second time—after the 2016 show, where his “How Far I’ll Go,” from Moana, got beat out for Best Original Song by La La Land’s “City Of Stars”—that Lin-Manuel Miranda has been up for an Oscar. (Specifically, his Encanto song “Dos Oruguitas” is up for the same award.) (And, yes, if it was us, we would have picked “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” or “Surface Pressure” instead, but ballads gonna ballad at The Oscars.)
All of which means that this is also the second time that Hamilton creator Miranda will be up for the unofficial, but much-coveted, EGOT, having already secured the E, G, and T in 2014, 2009, and 2008, respectively. (He’s won one or more of each award since, too.) Unfortunately, Miranda won’t be there to accept the award (or flash podcast-specific secret signals in the process) tonight, announcing last night that he’ll be skipping the event because his wife, Vanessa Nadal, has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
On the positive side, Miranda announced that neither he, nor his kids, have been diagnosed with the disease, and that his wife is feeling fine. Even so, caution has to win out: Miranda made it clear that he won’t be attending the Big Show, wishing love and luck to both his Encanto and Tick, Tick…Boom collaborators.
If he wins, Miranda will (in absentia) become the 17th person to accomplish the EGOT hat-trick-plus-one. Not that there’s shame in merely being an EGT winner, either; Miranda currently shares the distinction with the likes of James Earl Jones, Lily Tomlin, Dick Van Dyke, and the South Park guys, among others.
The Oscars are running right now; check out the list of winners here. The Academy announced new COVID protocols earlier this week, after a spike of cases was seen in the aftermath of the U.K.’s BAFTA awards.
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Great news!
They can stay home & exchange flannels…eh, fuck it, I’m sick of this joke.
OF COCK
I remember reading that Disney had to submit the nominee before the movie was released, so they guessed “Dos Oruguitas” would be the breakout hit.“Bruno”, however, will actually be performed at the Oscars, which is just amazing.
“Dos Oruguitas” is also, in context to the film, the more Oscar-y choice. It’s not a bop, but it underscores a sequence with way more gravitas, about displacement, violence, loss, and grief.It’s also a Spanish-language ballad performed in a traditional folk style by a Colombian singer, in a movie centering Colombian cultural identity. It makes absolute sense that would be the song they feature in this way.
Fucking gorgeous song.
I’m kinda salty that the year the Muppets finally won an Oscar for their song, they didn’t get to perform it, but Encanto gets to do a song they’re not even nominated for.
Well, hopefully he wins his “sorry we didn’t give you an award for that other thing” award that the Oscars/Grammys have become so expert at delivering.
He’d also be only the third ever PEGOT, with a Pulitzer added to the other four, after Richard Rogers and Marvin Hamlisch.
Wife?
Exactly my thought too…
Well, she’s not his sister.
You do know how weddings work, right?
Of twelve years.
Same, and not because he’s a man involved in musical theatre, but because I couldn’t imagine someone finding him bearable enough to opt to spend the rest of their life with.
Remember: no matter how annoying someone is, someone else will be just as annoying. You think she’s too good for him, but you’ve gone ahead and assumed too much of her.Personally, I”m not sure whether to consider it inspiring that these people can get together, or even more painful that I’m still single despite it.
There are far too many EGOT winners to consider it an impressive achievement. An even greater achievement would be having exactly two People’s Choice Awards, two Oscars, and two Emmys. We can call them POOPEE winners.
God dammit, take your well deserved star and fuck right off
I get that you’re just making a silly joke, but in all honesty I actually agree with the sentiment. There are 17 EGOT’ers – 18 if you count Tracy Jordan – but if Lin-Manuel gets it then he’ll be a PEGOT, which includes the Pulitzer. And if I remember correctly there are only two or three of those.
I feel like Lin-Manuel, once he gets an EGOT, will start rooting for more awards to add tothe acronym.Become an ERGOT with a Razzie, then a PERGOT with a Peabody, somehow swing in a Bafta to make a PERBGOT…
If only there was a Razzies for the other 3 awards so we could have an anti-EGOT.
He’s won a Pulitzer already so he’s got the P in the bag. So to speak.
Fuck it, shove Kid’s Choice in there somewhere.
Blame Canada absolutely should have won over Phil Collins’ Tarzan song
I’ve always wondered if Collins’s win for the Tarzan song was an apology by the Academy for when they completely butchered his previous song nomination with an awful Ann Reinking interpretive dance and “singing” performance.
I couldn’t stand La La Land, but I do have to admit that “City of Stars” was stuck in my head for quite some time afterwards. Whether that means it’s a good song or just a really catchy earworm I couldn’t say. A lot of time I just sang some mundane nonsense to the song’s tune.
Personally I would not have picked any other song for the nomination. While “Bruno” and “Surface Pressure” are very good and very catchy songs, “Dos Oruguitas” was the emotional core of the movie. Also the technical achievement of writing and performing a song such that it actually sounds like a folk song that has been around for a long time.Having “Bruno” being performed at the Oscars is a good choice, as it is such a catchy and popular song. But artistically, “Dos Oruguitas” is more powerful and more important to the movie – and I think that is likely to resonate with the Oscar voters.
“Bruno” best captured the spirit and conflict of the movie. “Dos Oruguitas” was the most likely to make the audience cry. Arguably, either counts as the emotional core of the movie depending on how you define “emotional”.
I won’t be impressed until someone achieves the EGOTE4BS4. That would be an EGOT along with an Erdos number AND a Black Sabbath number, both 4 or less.
Just a reminder that the term EGOT was coined by Philip Michael Thomas when he was on Miami Vice. He was convinced he’d have his own EGOT within five years. He’s never been nominated for any of the awards.
Just a reminder that Kinja remains utterly broken and will fuck up your text when you try to insert a hyperlink.
Just a reminder that Kinja’s been broken like this for a couple years already?I think if there’s any sign (besides telling the Chicago-based AV Club staff “Move to Los Angeles or You’re Fired!”) that the G/o Media doesn’t give a crap about their sites and are looking to offload them onto a bigger sucker than they were, it’s that.
Yeah, I was waiting for Terrence Trent Darby’s win as well.
Not y’all bumping this like it’s a new story.
And while we’re at it, fuck this Herby, SEO-dripping headline.
I guess it’s just as well he didn’t show up.
How about he’s still ashamed of his uber-lame Cockney accent from Mary Poppins Returns? Just incredibly awful.