# Artists who won a unique set of awards **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448 "2017-03-31T20:50:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/1 "2017-03-31T20:50:09Z")
It just came to my mind that Bob Dylan is the only person to have been awarded a Grammy, an Oscar and a Nobel prize. Can you think of other people in the artistic field with a similar unique record? (if someone, say, won a Grammy and a Nobel in chemistry, that would also count, although one award wasn’t for an artistic category) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/2 "2017-03-31T20:52:57Z")
[George Bernard Shaw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw) won an Academy Award (for best adapted screenplay) and a Nobel Prize in Literature. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/3 "2017-03-31T20:54:13Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > [George Bernard Shaw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw) won an Academy Award (for best adapted screenplay) and a Nobel Prize in Literature. But Dylan beat him with his Grammies ;). But good one. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/4 "2017-03-31T20:56:50Z")
GBS was first, though. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/5 "2017-03-31T20:58:27Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > GBS was first, though. Accepted :). ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/6 "2017-03-31T21:18:56Z")
Grammy + Nobel Prize = Barack Obama Grammy + Nobel Prize + Emmy = Al Gore (he didn’t actually win the Oscar for _An Inconvenient Truth_) There was a fun article in the Wall Street Journal discussing some options. They highlighted Lin-Manuel Miranda as a contender for the MacPEGOT (MacArthur Foundation grant, Pulitzer, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony). He currently has everything but the Oscar. Richard Rodgers and Marvin Hamlisch have the PEGOT. [Laura Poitras](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Poitras) has the MacPO. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/7 "2017-03-31T21:22:04Z")
Hedy Lamarr has a star on the Hollywood Walk of fame for her work as an actress, and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her work in “frequency-hopping, spread-spectrum technology,” which was developed to keep radio-controlled torpedoes from being jammed in WWII, and which, much later, became a cornerstone of tech such as cell phones, WiFi, and Bluetooth. She allegedly became an inventor because she was bored as an actress (she was frequently cast primarily for her looks). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/8 "2017-03-31T22:36:11Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > There was a fun article in the Wall Street Journal discussing some options. They highlighted Lin-Manuel Miranda as a contender for the MacPEGOT (MacArthur Foundation grant, Pulitzer, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony). He currently has everything but the Oscar. But at 37, his chances at a Super Bowl ring are fading. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/9 "2017-04-01T14:08:28Z")
Linus Pauling received a lot of [awards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling#Honors_and_awards). Most in Chemistry, including a Nobel. A lot in Peace, including another Nobel, a Gandhi and a Lenin\*. One that’s interesting: he won the Linus Pauling award. Not too many folk outside of dictators and such win an award named after them. - An odd combination of names right there. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/10 "2017-04-01T17:54:20Z")
According to Entertainment Weekly, 17 people have won both an Oscar _and_ a Razzie, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/11 "2017-04-01T18:12:04Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > According to Entertainment Weekly, 17 people have won both an Oscar _and_ a Razzie, apparently. James Coco in _Only When I Laugh_ and Amy Irving in \*Yentl \*were [nominated for both for the same role.](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/awards/2011/01/quiz-which-role-was-nominated-for-a-razzie-and-oscar.html) ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/12 "2017-04-01T21:10:21Z")
Ingmar Bergman won 4 Oscars, a Gish Prize (Bob Dylan also won one), several other awards and a Goethe Prize. The Goethe Prize is especially impressive: only 45 have been awarded since 1927. People who have won a Goethe Prize and a Nobel Prize include Hermann Hesse, Max Planck, Albert Schweitzer. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/13 "2017-04-01T21:27:51Z")
Philip Noel-Baker – who authored various books, including a pictorial record – is, apparently, the only person ever to earn both an Olympic medal and a Nobel Prize. ---
**Author:** ![williambaskerville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@williambaskerville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williambaskerville)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/14 "2017-04-01T22:39:42Z")
Audrey Hepburn won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/15 "2017-04-01T23:38:34Z")
> [@williambaskerville](#): > > Audrey Hepburn won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony. IIRC, so did Mel Brooks, who also won a Hugo. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/16 "2017-04-01T23:40:57Z")
That’s called an [EGOT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_won_Academy,_Emmy,_Grammy,_and_Tony_Awards) and a dozen people have done that. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/17 "2017-04-02T02:40:29Z")
So far, only one writer has won Pulitzer Prizes in both Fiction and Drama. Thornton Wilder ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/18 "2017-04-02T12:17:16Z")
One that came up recently in another thread, was that Neil Gaiman’s _The Graveyard Book_ won both the Newberry (for children’s books) and the Hugo (for science fiction or fantasy). And the topic calls to mind the Erdös-Bacon Number, the sum of a person’s Erdös number and Bacon number (if a person has both, which relatively few do). The record appears to be Canadian actor Albert M. Chan, with an Erdös number of 3 and a Bacon number of 1. A handful of scientists, including Sagan, Feynman, and Hawking, have a combined number of 6. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/19 "2017-04-02T13:28:17Z")
It’s very rare to win both a genre award AND a general literary award for the same work. Last year, “The Sympathizer” by Viet Tranh Nguyen won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and an Edgar Award for mysteries. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448/20 "2017-04-02T17:01:35Z")
Queen guitarist (and astrophysicist) Brian May won a number of awards as a member of Queen, including Ivor Novello and Juno Awards, as well as being in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. In 2012, he was awarded the Saxby Medal by the Royal Photographic Society, for achievements in “three-dimensional imaging” (he collects and documents Victorian-era stereoscopic images). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-won-a-unique-set-of-awards/783448.md?page=2)