Who Will Win an EGOT Next? Movieline Ranks the Top 5 Candidates
3. Robin Williams
E: Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, ABC Presents: A Royal Gala (and one other)
G: Best Comedy Performance Single or Album, Spoken or Musical, A Night at the Met (and four others)
O: Best Supporting Actor for Good Will Hunting
T: N/A
Nope, Dame Doubtfire hasn't picked up a Tony, even after two generation's worth of legendary stage shows. Robin Williams represents the EGOT prototype: a star who's been beloved for long enough that we tend to forget the dubious patches in his career, and that he plays the same role all the time. (Ahem, Audrey Hepburn.) If his role this spring in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo doesn't clinch the Tony, he should take a cue from his EGOT-earning friend Whoopi Goldberg and produce a musical -- perhaps one based on South Park where he can chime in with a rousing rendition of "Blame Canada."
Suggested Role: Or Sky Masterson in the next revival of Guys and Dolls.
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Bat Masterson? That should be Sky.
Oh, you are so right. Thank you.
I have to beg to differ about Robin Williams playing the same characters all the time. He most certainly does not. Watch Awakenings, Good Will Hunting and Mrs. Doubtfire, and then try to make that argument again. Is he a manic goofball? Yes. Does he do it in every single performance? No.
Rita Moreno
My money is on Kate Winslet. Already has a Grammy (Best spoken word album. Was this catagory made just so actors could win Grammys?) and an Oscar. Will surely get the Emmy this year for Mildred Pierce. That just leaves a Tony which I'm sure is in her sights.
I actually think Marcia Gay Harden is close ... if Cynthia Nixon can get a Grammy, so can she, and really, an Emmy is within anyone's reach ... she's won the ones that are hard to get
why stop at four? who is the next PEGOT? Or PENGOT? (Pulitzer and Nobel).
Should be TEGOR (Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Razzie)...Go Sandy!
CATEGOE- Cable Ace, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Eurovision songwriting contest. Go... Bill Maher?
RANDY NEWMAN - for "Pixar on Stage" in 2014
You know who's tantalizingly close to an EGOT? Documentarian Alex Gibney. I think he has an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and just lacks a Tony... shame nothing happened with Enron the Musical!