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- Steven Spielberg’s production company Amblin posted a photo of the legendary director celebrating his newly-achieved EGOT status with balloons on Instagram
- The filmmaker became an EGOT recipient on Feb. 1 when he won a Tony Award for Best Music Film for producing the documentary Music by John Williams
- Spielberg won two Oscars in the 1990s and has received multiple Emmy Awards over the years; he won a Tony Award in 2022
Steven Spielberg is celebrating his EGOT status!
The Jurassic Park filmmaker, 79, achieved the milestone when he won a Grammy Award on Sunday, Feb. 1 for Best Music Film for the 2024 documentary Music by John Williams, which he produced. The legendary director had already received two Academy Awards for his movies Schindler’s List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998); multiple Emmy Awards for producing series like Band of Brothers, The Pacific, Taken, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Pinky and the Brain and Freakazoid!; and a Tony Award for producing 2022’s Best Musical winner, A Strange Loop.
On Monday, Feb. 2, Spielberg’s production company Amblin Entertainment shared a photo of the filmmaker celebrating his EGOT status to Instagram. The photo shows Spielberg posing with four golden balloons that spell out “EGOT,” as he hid his smile behind another translucent balloon. “EGOT status ✅,” read a caption that the production company shared.
Spielberg received some love from friends and family in the comments of Amblin’s post, with West Side Story star Rachel Zegler writing, “DIVA!” in response to his celebratory photo. Julianne Moore, who starred in Spielberg’s 1997 Jurassic World sequel, The Lost World, left three “🔥🔥🔥” emojis in response to the post as well. “Woohoooo big bro! So proud of you!!” One of Spielberg’s three sisters, Sue, wrote in a comment as well. “What’s next? Love you!”
Spielberg did not attend the Grammy Awards in person to accept his latest award. “This acknowledgment is obviously deeply meaningful to me because it validates what I have known for over 50 years: John Williams’ influence on culture and music is immeasurable and his artistry and legacy is unrivaled,” he said in a statement on Feb. 1. “I am proud to be associated with Laurent’s beautiful film.”
The Jaws filmmaker is now one of fewer than 30 people who have ever won all four of the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards. Others who can claim the title include Richard Rodgers (1962), Helen Hayes (1977), Rita Moreno (1977), John Gielgud (1991), Audrey Hepburn (1994), Marvin Hamlisch (1995), Jonathan Tunick (1997), Mel Brooks (2001), Mike Nichols (2001), Whoopi Goldberg (2002), Scott Rudin (2012), Robert Lopez (2014), Andrew Lloyd Webber (2018), Tim Rice (2018), John Legend (2018), Alan Menken (2020), Jennifer Hudson (2022), Viola Davis (2023), Elton John (2024), and Benji Pasek and Justin Paul (2024).
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Spielberg’s new EGOT status comes at the start of a major year for him. In December, Spielberg debuted the first trailer for his new science fiction movie Disclosure Day, which stars Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo and appears to fall in line with his past movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and War of the Worlds. Spielberg last released a movie with 2022’s semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans.
Disclosure Day is in theaters June 12.
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