# How many performers have managed to win the Quadruple Crown? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 31, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-performers-have-managed-to-win-the-quadruple-crown/358898 "2006-05-31T16:47:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-performers-have-managed-to-win-the-quadruple-crown/358898/1 "2006-05-31T16:47:14Z")
Meaning, all four of the major entertainment awards: Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy. I know Liza Minnelli has done it (for _Cabaret_, _Liza With A Z_, _Flora the Red Menace_, and a special Legendary Performer award, respectively). Who else? (Bit of trivia: Liza is also the only person to have won an Oscar both of whose parents have also won Oscars (Judy Garland won an honorary Academy Award for _Wizard_ and Vincente Minnelli for directing _Gigi_) ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-performers-have-managed-to-win-the-quadruple-crown/358898/2 "2006-05-31T16:53:15Z")
Rita Moreno. I know her Oscar was for _West Side Story_ but I’m not sure what she won the other awards for. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-performers-have-managed-to-win-the-quadruple-crown/358898/3 "2006-05-31T17:11:11Z")
As mentioned in the [Comic Genius](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=373806) thread, Mel Brooks has won all four. The success of the stage version of The Producers put him over the top, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-performers-have-managed-to-win-the-quadruple-crown/358898/4 "2006-05-31T17:21:05Z")
[Wikipedia, to the rescue!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_won_an_Emmy,_a_Grammy,_an_Oscar_and_a_Tony_Award) Mel Brooks John Gielgud Marvin Hamlisch Helen Hayes Audrey Hepburn Rita Moreno Mike Nichols Richard Rodgers Johnathan Tunick If you’re counting special awards, Liza and Barbara Streisand both qualify. If you count daytime Emmys, Whoopi Goldberg is in too. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-performers-have-managed-to-win-the-quadruple-crown/358898/5 "2006-05-31T17:23:06Z")
[QUOTE=Only Mostly Dead] As mentioned in the [Comic Genius](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=373806) thread, Mel Brooks has won all four. The success of the stage version of The Producers put him over the top, I believe. [/QUOTE] According to [IBDB.com](http://ibdb.com/awardperson.asp?id=7689) and [IMDB.com](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000316/awards), a total of 3 Tonys (all for The Producers), 1 Oscar (the original The Producers movie in 1969), 3 Emmys (all for guest spots on Mad About You), and 1 Grammy\* (again, for the stage version of The Producers). (Since IMDB is notoriously incomplete, it should be mentioned that he won a second Grammy in 1998 or 1999 (depending on the website) for some recording or another of The 2000 Year Old Man) (But if we want to include Golden Globes to make it a round Five Awards, Mel has been nominated four times but never won)