Elton John Completes the EGOT with Emmy Win — Page 2

kdogg36 said: "Also, just to acknowledge the original post: I can think of very few people who are as worthy of an EGOT as Elton John. Every award was well-earned. What took him so long? :)"

Hear, hear! At least John and the recently crowned (sorry for bringing a monarchy back into this) Viola Davis earned their EGOTs for actual creative work rather than relying on a producer-only award to complete their haul.

Both. His official credit on the award is "Executive Producer/Performer." (He still wouldn't qualify for your question since the Oscars and Tony were for music writing.)

https://www.emmys.com/75th-emmy-winners

Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, Sir John Gielgud and Viola Davis all won the four awards for performances. (Gielgud's first Tony was for Outstanding Foreign Company as part of the cast of The Importance of Being Earnest; his second was for directing.)

Updated On: 1/19/24 at 06:22 AM

Pretty sure the protocol doesn’t call for “Sir” to be all capital letters. They seem to be strict about these things.

Anyway, yeah, Rocketman is great. I also really enjoyed Elton’s memoir from around that time. Taron Edgerton is the narrator on the audiobook, worth checking out.