Is Viola Davis About To Complete Her EGOT With Her First Grammy Nom?
metroweekly.comIt looks like in just a few months, there may be a new entrant into the prestigious and highly exclusive EGOT club.Earlier this week, actress Viola Davis was nominated for her first-ever Grammy Award.
The G just happens to be the only letter she’s missing in her EGOT, and while it’s too early to tell who will take home the trophy, it seems like there’s a very good chance that she will end up the winner, therefore filling in the G in one of the most important acronyms in all of entertainment.Davis is nominated in the Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording category, which went by a much shorter and easier-to-remember name until the Recording Academy split it into two different verticals.Now, there is one category dedicated to audiobooks and similar projects, and another that focuses solely on poetry.
Davis is up for the honor for the audio recording of her own book Finding Me, her recently-released memoir.One of the most successful and beloved actors in Hollywood, Davis has the trophies on her shelf to prove her talent — and soon she may have one more.She began down this EGOT road in 2001 when she won her first Tony award for her role in the play King Hedley II.
Less than a decade later, she would double her total with a second Best Leading Actress in a Play trophy, that time for Fences.
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