Steven Spielberg Achieves EGOT Status With Grammy Win for ‘Music by John Williams’

Steven Spielberg Achieves EGOT Status With Grammy Win for ‘Music by John Williams’


The filmmaker achieved EGOT status, winning a Grammy Award in the best music film category for the documentary “Music by John Williams,” a tribute to his longtime collaborator and the composer behind some of cinema’s most enduring scores. On television, Spielberg won the Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding animated program for “A Pinky and the Brain Christmas” (1995) and three Primetime Emmys for outstanding limited or anthology series for the HBO war drama “Band of Brothers” (2001), the science-fiction miniseries “Taken” (2003) and the HBO World War II companion series “The Pacific” (2010). “Thank you to all the Grammy voters, whose recognition of ‘Music by John Williams’ means the world to me and our Amblin team, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, and congratulations to our partners at Imagine and the Walt Disney Company,” Spielberg wrote in a statement.

Author: Clayton Davis


Published at: 2026-02-01 23:52:38

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