Audra McDonald has received six Tony Awards, greater than every other performer, and he or she has a great likelihood to increase her document on the 2025 Tonys on Sunday (June 8). The Broadway legend is nominated for greatest efficiency by an actress in a number one position in a musical for her portrayal of Mama Rose within the newest revival of Gypsy.
Angela Lansbury (1975), Tyne Daly (1990) and Patti LuPone (2008) all received on this class for his or her portrayals of Rose. (LuPone spoke unkindly about McDonald in a current interview, however has since apologized. The grace McDonald exhibited within the episode might increase her probabilities of successful.)
McDonald’s six Tonys are cut up evenly between musicals and performs. She received for the musicals Carousel, Ragtime and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, and for the performs Grasp Class, A Raisin within the Solar and Girl Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, the latter a “play with music” that includes a number of of Billie Vacation’s most well-known songs.
McDonald’s strongest competitors this 12 months seems to be Nicole Scherzinger for taking part in Norma Desmond in a revival of Sundown Blvd. Glenn Shut received on this class for the unique manufacturing of Sundown Blvd. in 1995. The opposite nominees are Jasmine Amy Rogers for BOOP! The Musical, and two actresses (Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard) from Dying Turns into Her.
Whereas McDonald has received extra Tonys than every other performer, she nonetheless has a methods to go to develop into the person with essentially the most Tony Awards. The late producer/director Harold Prince received 19 aggressive Tonys, plus two extra particular awards.
McDonald’s success prompted us to try the highest winners of different EGOT-level awards reveals. In all 4 reveals, we determine the highest total winner and likewise the one who received essentially the most awards strictly in efficiency classes. (We rely solely awards received in competitors, but in addition point out non-competitive awards.)
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Primetime Emmys
Picture Credit score: Monica Schipper/WireImage Most Wins: Sheila Nevins, 31
Most Wins in Efficiency Classes: Cloris Leachman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, RuPaul Charles, 8 every
Notes: Nevins received all of her awards as a producer for HBO in such different classes as excellent informational particular and excellent kids’s program. Certainly one of her highest-profile wins was for excellent selection, music or comedy particular as an government producer of Elaine Sew at Liberty (2004). As well as, she received a non-competitive Governor’s Award in 2009.
Leachman received two Emmys every for The Mary Tyler Moore Present (1974 and 1975) and Malcolm within the Center (2002 and 2006) and one every for a movie-of-the-week, A Model New Life (1973); a visitor shot on an episode of Cher (1975); Display Actors Guild fiftieth Anniversary Celebration (1984); and Promised Land (1998). As well as, she was inducted into the Tv Corridor of Fame in 1996. Leachman died in 2021 at age 94.
Louis-Dreyfus received one Emmy every for Seinfeld (1996)and The New Adventures of Previous Christine (2006) and 6 because the lead actress on Veep (2012-17). As well as, she received three Emmys as an government producer of Veep (2015-17), and he or she was inducted into the Tv Corridor of Fame in 2014.
RuPaul received eight Emmys for excellent host for a actuality or competitors program for RuPaul’s Drag Race (2016-23). As well as, he received six Emmys as an government producer of that present (2018-23).
Jon Stewart has received 24 Primetime Emmys, however solely six of them specified his position as host of The Day by day Present (previously The Day by day Present With Jon Stewart).
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Grammys
Picture Credit score: Sonja Flemming/CBS Most Wins: Beyoncé, 35
Most Wins in Efficiency Classes: Georg Solti, 31
Notes: Solti received all 31 of his Grammys in efficiency classes. Beyoncé’s 35 Grammys embody seven in songwriting classes (together with track of the 12 months for “Single Women (Put a Ring on It)” and one as a encompass producer for greatest encompass sound album for Beyoncé. So, whereas Bey has received extra Grammys total than anybody else (35), she has received simply 27 awards in efficiency classes.
Solti acquired a trustees award from the Recording Academy in 1967. He died in 1997 at age 84.
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Oscars
Most Wins: Walt Disney, 22
Most Wins in Efficiency Classes: Katharine Hepburn, 4
Notes: Disney received 22 aggressive Oscars, 20 of them for brief topics and two for documentary (function). He additionally acquired three particular awards – for creating Mickey Mouse (1932) and for his work on the classics Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1939) and Fantasia (1942) in addition to an Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1942) Disney died in 1966 on the too-early age (particularly given what he might need gone on to perform) age of 65.
All 4 of Hepburn’s awards have been for greatest actress, for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1968), The Lion in Winter (1969)and On Golden Pond (1982). Her win for The Lion in Winter was the results of a history-making tie with Barbra Streisand for Humorous Lady – nonetheless the one tie within the historical past of that class. Hepburn died in 2003 at age 96.
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Tonys
Most Wins: Harold Prince, 19
Most Wins in Efficiency Classes: Audra McDonald, 6
Notes: The Broadway producer and director received 19 aggressive Tony Awards from 1955 and 1995, plus two particular Tonys – one for Candide (1974) and one for lifetime achievement within the theater (2006). He received three aggressive Tonys for his work on Stephen Sondheim’s Firm (1971) and two every for A Humorous Factor Occurred on the Technique to the Discussion board (1963), Fiddler on the Roof (1965) and Cabaret (1967). Prince died in 2019 at age 91.
McDonald’s six awards as a performer are for the musicals Carousel, Ragtime and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, and the performs Grasp Class, A Raisin within the Solar and Girl Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill.
