Steven Spielberg achieves EGOT with first Grammy win for John...

Steven Spielberg, welcome to the halls of history. The visionary director of timeless classics like Saving Private Ryan and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial officially achieved EGOT status on Sunday, after winning his first Grammy Award for producing Music by John Williams, which won Best Music Film. Spielberg now joins the ranks of Mel Brooks, Rita Moreno, Mike Nichols, and Whoopi Goldberg in the exclusive club of artists who have been recognized as the top minds in their respective fields with trophies from the Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and Tonys. Spielberg's first major awards win came three decades into his career. Schindler's List, his historical drama following Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who rescued over 1,000 Jewish refugees from extermination during the Holocaust by putting them to work in his factories, swept the Oscars in 1994, winning Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, among others. The '90s would become a hotbed of awards activity for the 79-year-old Ohio native. Spielberg won Best Director again in 1999 for Saving Private Ryan and his first Emmy in 1996 for executive producing A Pinky & the Brain Christmas, though he'd already taken home a Daytime Emmy Award for producing Tiny Toon Adventures in 1991. Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our EW Dispatch newsletter. Spielberg has so far won a total of four Primetime Emmys, seven Daytime Emmys, and a special Sports Emmy in 2025 for directing and narrating "Land of Stories," a short film that aired on NBC during the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. He achieved the hardest of all awards to net for folks with a film directing persuasion - a Tony - in 2022. Spielberg joined fellow A-listers Mindy Kaling, RuPaul, Jennifer Hudson, and others in producing the Broadway musical A Strange Loop, which won Best Musical at that year's ceremony celebrating excellence in theater arts. That win also secured Hudson her EGOT. Music by John Williams is a conventional biopic of the legendary composer who has worked many times with Spielberg, scoring some of his most iconic films, from Jaws to Close Encounters of the Third Kind to Schindler's List.The film was up against documentaries about the new wave band Devo and songwriter Diane Warren, as well as the Lego-animated Pharrell Williams' doc Piece by Piece, and a concert film featuring English crooner Raye at Royal Albert Hall.