Steven Spielberg Lands EGOT Standing With New Grammy Win

Say hey to Grammy-winning, newly inducted EGOT man Steven Spielberg.

Throughout Sunday’s Grammy awards, the filmmaker took residence an award for the 2024 documentary movie, Music by John Williams. It gained for “Greatest Music Movie” on the non-televised ceremony, and marks his first win and nomination on the music-focused occasion. Spielberg, together with others like George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy, each produced the doc and have in it, speaking about their about their relationship with Williams.

In an announcement, Spielberg thanked Grammy voters, calling it a “clearly deeply significant as a result of it validates what I’ve recognized for over 50 years: John Williams’ affect on tradition and music is immeasurable and his artistry and legacy is unequalled.” For these maintaining observe at residence, Spielberg is the twenty first EGOT recipient, joined by the likes of Viola Davis and Elton John. He’s additionally the oldest EGOT winner at 79 years previous, and the third director after John Gielgud in 1991 and Mike Nichols in 1991.

The primary collaboration with Steven Spielberg and John Williams was 1974’s Sugarland Categorical after he particularly requested Williams to work on the movie. A 12 months later, they reunited for the primary Jaws, adopted by Shut Encounters of the Third Type, Jurassic Park, and the Indiana Jones sequence. A number of movies they’ve labored on collectively, comparable to ET and Schindler’s Listing, had been nominated and later gained Greatest Unique Rating on the Oscars. Their partnership is so robust that Williams introduced he’d likely retire from scoring movies after Indiana Jones 5, solely to come back to attain Spielberg’s ci-fi flick Disclosure Day, which hits theaters in June.

[via The Hollywood Reporter]

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