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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Did you know that only 2 men in history have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, Tony Awards and Pulitzer Prize ?

Did you know these 2 men are the only one's in history to ever win these 5 major awards?



Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), a composer, received his fourth distinct award in 1962. Between 1945 and 1979, Rodgers received a total of 13 awards.
  • Academy Awards:
  1. 1945 : Best Song - "It Might As Well Be Spring" from State Fair
  • Emmy Awards:
  1. 1962 : Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composed - Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years
  • Grammy Awards:
  1. 1960 : Best Show Album (Original Cast) - The Sound of Music
  2. 1962 : Best Original Cast Show Album - No Strings
  • Tony Awards:
  1. 1950 : Best Musical - South Pacific
  2. 1950 : Best Producers, Musical - South Pacific
  3. 1950 : Best Score - South Pacific
  4. 1952 : Best Musical - The King and I
  5. 1960 : Best Musical - The Sound of Music
  6. 1962 : Best Composer - No Strings
  • Special Awards:
  1. 1962 : Special Tony Award "for all he has done for young people in the theatre and for taking the men of the orchestra out of the pit and putting them onstage in No Strings"
  2. 1972 : Special Tony Award
  3. 1979 : Special Tony Award, Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre



Marvin Hamlisch (born 1944), a composer, received his fourth distinct award in 1995. Between 1973 and 2001, Hamlisch received a total of 12 awards.

  • Academy Awards:
  1. 1973: Best Music, Original Dramatic Score - The Way We Were
  2. 1973: Best Music, Original Song - The Way We Were
  3. 1973: Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation - The Sting
  • Emmy Awards:
  1. 1995 : Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction - Barbra Streisand: The Concert
  2. 1995 : Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics - Barbra Streisand: The Concert
  3. 1999 : Outstanding Music and Lyrics - AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
  4. 2001 : Outstanding Music Direction - Timeless: Live in Concert
  • Grammy Awards:
  1. 1974: Song Of The Year - The Way We Were
  2. 1974: Best New Artist Of The Year
  3. 1974: Best Pop Instrumental Performance - The Entertainer
  4. 1974: Album Of Best Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or A Television Special - The Way We Were
  • Tony Awards:
  1. 1976 : Best Musical Score - A Chorus Line

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