{"id":61662,"date":"2023-02-06T00:15:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T00:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/viola-davis-joins-the-egot-club-after-grammy-win\/"},"modified":"2023-02-06T00:15:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T00:15:28","slug":"viola-davis-joins-the-egot-club-after-grammy-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/viola-davis-joins-the-egot-club-after-grammy-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Viola Davis Joins The EGOT Club After Grammy Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"\/>\n<p>She could have been unfairly snubbed for an Academy Award nomination for her efficiency in <strong>\u201cThe Woman King,\u201d <\/strong>however <strong>Viola Davis <\/strong>has one thing greater to rejoice this month. During a pre-broadcast ceremony this afternoon, Davis gained a Grammy Award within the Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording class for her personal memoir, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Finding-Me-Memoir-Viola-Davis\/dp\/0063037327\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u201cFinding Me.\u201d<\/strong> <\/a>She now has gained all 4 main leisure awards touchdown her within the coveted EGOT membership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/2023-oscars-snubs-and-surprises-viola-davis-taylor-swift-brian-tyree-henry-20230124\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE: Oscar 2023 Snubs and Surprises: Viola Davis, Taylor Swift, Brian Tyree Henry and extra<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How did she do it? Davis first gained a Tony Award in 2001 for Best Featured Actress in a Play for<strong> \u201cKing Hedley II\u201d <\/strong>(she subsequently gained a second Tony in 2010 for <strong>\u201cFences\u201d<\/strong>). She gained an Emmy Award in 2015 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for <strong>\u201cHow To Get Away With Murder.\u201d <\/strong>Two years later she gained an Oscar within the Best Supporting Actress class for the display screen model of<strong> \u201cFences.\u201d <\/strong>Today, her Grammy award accomplished a 22-year journey to achieve EGOT standing.<\/p>\n<p>It was Davis\u2019 first Grammy Award nomination. Previous winners in her class embrace <strong>Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Martin Luther King, Jr., Maya Angelou, Ben Kingsley, Earvin \u201cMagic\u201d Johnson, Sidney Poitier, Betty White, Michael J. Fox, Jimmy Carter, Michelle Obama,<\/strong> and <strong>Don Cheadle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The South Carolina native turns into simply the third African-American girl to win EGOT after <strong>Whoopi Goldberg<\/strong> in 2022 and <strong>Jennifer Hudson<\/strong>, who pulled off the quadrupole crown final 12 months. <strong>Helen Hayes<\/strong> and <strong>Rita Moreno<\/strong> are the one different ladies to have gained within the \u201ctraditional\u201d method. <strong>Barbra Streisand<\/strong> certified by receiving a Special Tony Award in 1970 whereas <strong>Liza Minnelli <\/strong>gained in the event you depend her 1990 Grammy Legend Award (barely doubtful).<\/p>\n<p>There at the moment are 18 \u201ctraditional\u201d EGOT winners and 4 further which can be up for debate.<\/p>\n<p>Over her profession, Davis has additionally gained a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, and, remarkably, six SAG Awards. Her upcoming characteristic movie credit embrace <strong>Ben Affleck\u2019s \u201cAir\u201d<\/strong> and <strong>Francis Lawrence\u2019s \u201cThe Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes\u201d <\/strong>which is able to hit theaters later this 12 months. She\u2019s additionally anticipated to star within the new DC Studios and HBO Max sequence \u201c<strong>Waller.\u201d<\/strong> When that lately introduced challenge goes earlier than cameras is unclear right now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id){var js, fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if(d.getElementById(id)) return; js=d.createElement(s); js.id=id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.0\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] She could have been unfairly snubbed for an Academy Award nomination for her efficiency in \u201cThe Woman King,\u201d however Viola Davis has one thing greater to rejoice this month. During a pre-broadcast ceremony this afternoon, Davis gained a Grammy Award within the Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording class for her personal memoir, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}