Monday, January 30, 2017

Will Lin-Manuel Miranda Join the Group of Artists Who Have Accomplished the EGOT?

Actor-composer-rapper-writer Lin-Manuel Miranda is nominated for the Academy Award (also commonly known as the Oscar) for Best Original Song for his composition "How Far I'll Go" from the film Moana. Should he win, he would be the 13th person and second Puerto Rican/Latino (after Rita Moreno) to achieve the competitive EGOT (winning the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards, all in a non-honorary capacity). Also should he win, he would be the youngest person (at age 37) to achieve it and the person who has accomplished it in the least amount of time between first and fourth awards (nine years) Also, because he has also won the Pulitzer Prize, he would be the third person (after composers Marvin Hamlisch and Richard Rodgers) and first Latino to achieve the PEGOT.

Below is a list of some of the awards that Lin-Manuel Miranda has won.

• 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Hamilton)

• 2016 Tony Award for Best Original Score of a Musical (Hamilton)
• 2016 Tony Award for Book of a Musical (Hamilton)
• 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album (Hamilton)
• 2016 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music (Hamilton)
• 2016 Frederick Loewe Award for Dramatic Composition from the Dramatists Guild of America (Hamilton)
• 2016 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History (Hamilton)
• 2016 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical (Hamilton)
• 2015 MacArthur Fellowship for "reimagining American musical theater in works that fuse traditional storytelling with contemporary musical styles and voices"
• 2015 Obie Award for Best New American Theatre Work (Hamilton)
• 2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical (Hamilton)
• 2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics (Hamilton)
• 2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music (Hamilton)
• 2015 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical  (Hamilton)
• 2015 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical (Hamilton)
• 2015 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Score (Hamilton)
• 2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical (Hamilton)
• 2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical (Hamilton)
• 2014 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics ("Bigger!" from the 67th Annual Tony Awards; shared with Tom Kitt)
• 2009 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album (In The Heights)
• 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score of a Musical (In The Heights)
• 2008 Frederick Loewe Award for Dramatic Composition from the Dramatists Guild of America (In The Heights)
• 2007 HOLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting (In The Heights; shared with Quiara Alegría Hudes)
• 2007 HOLA Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor
• 2007 Obie Award for Music and Lyrics (In The Heights)
• 2007 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical (In The Heights)

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