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For the 3 time winners?

Jonathan (who?) Tunick

Streisand is "on the list" only with an asterisk: She got an honorary Tony Award in 1970, but doesn't have any "real" Tonys. Jonathan Tunick belongs on the list; he has all four awards. -- Nunh-huh 01:11, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Who is Jonathan Tunick? RickK 01:16, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

He's an orchestrator and composer, mostly associated with Stephen Sondheim, so he picks up the awards for musical orchestration on Bway and movies. Well-known, as orchestrators go <G> ... which is to say, obscure, but an award-winner. He's the one that folk miss out on in trivia if they try to name Emmy/Grammy/Oscar/Tony winners. Nunh-huh 01:23, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Cool. We need an article on him. RickK 01:24, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

  • I'll look to see if I can at least find his birthdate<G>. - Nunh-huh 01:25, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Note for those tempted to add Liza Minnelli: she won Tonys in 1965, 1974, 1978, and an Oscar in 1972. She apparently also won an Emmy (when?), but so far no sign of a Grammy. -- Nunh-huh 03:15, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Liza won an Emmy in 1973 for "Liza With a Z". RickK 03:26, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

In 1990, Liza received a "Living Legend" Grammy Award. (unsigned)

  • Yes, their website [1] confirms that she won a "Legend Award" from the Recording Academy Association in 1990, but they characterize this as a "Special Merit Award" and distinguish it from the "Grammy", saying "In addition to the GRAMMY, the Recording Academy also presents special merit awards, including the Lifetime Achievement, Trustees, Legend and Technical awards, as well as the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame honoring historical recordings. More recently, The Latin Recording Academy introduced the Latin GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY Hall of Fame." So it's not quite a Grammy, but it is probably worth a mention in the article. I'll try and make the "with an asterisk" entries clear. -- Nunh-huh 00:21, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)


Chronologically, when have they won all four awards?

For many years, it has been erroneously reported that Rita Moreno was the first entertainer to win all four major entertainemt awards. Moreno was actually the third person. The first was composer Richard Rodgers (who won his final major award, an Emmy, in 1962). Helen Hayes was the second person winning a Grammy on February 19, 1977 (Note: the 19th Annual Grammy Awards was for the calendar year of 1976). Seven months later, Rita Moreno won an Emmy to complete winning all four major awards on September 11, 1977. Sources: Grammy.org, Emmys.org gmjambear 07:46, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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