Timothée Chalamet has already picked up a Golden Globe earlier this month for his performance in Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, and he’s the odds-on favorite to collect a Best Actor statuette for his work in that film at the Academy Awards in March.
But if things break Chalamet’s way at the 2026 Grammy Awards this Sunday, he could also move one step closer to another, even-more-elusive show-business honor—the unofficial-yet-coveted elite-status grand slam known informally as the EGOT.
That acronym, of course, is short for “Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony.” Depending on whether you count non-competitive awards (e.g., honorary Oscars and the like), there are either 21 or 27 people in the history of the entertainment business who’ve reached EGOT status; the list of living EGOT-holders includes Mel Brooks, Elton John, Whoopi Goldberg, Viola Davis. and John Legend.
This Hollywood Reporter story identifies 60 other performers who as of last fall only needed one more show-business Infinity Gem to complete the quadfecta, including Common, Adele, and Cher, all of whom are a mere one Tony Award short of the goal. (As it turns out, so is Eminem, which means the 8 Mile musical is an idea whose time has come—somebody call 8 Mile producer Brian Grazer, another Emmy/Grammy/Oscar winner who’s in need of a Tony.)
Timothée Chalamet, of course, has a longer road ahead of him before he can join Rita Moreno, Jennifer Hudson, and the ghost of John Gielgud in the performing arts’ most exclusive completely-made-up club. Although he’s the youngest-ever three-time Academy Award nominee for Best Actor—for Marty plus 2018’s Call Me By Your Name and last year’s A Complete Unknown—he’s 2 and 0 so far on actual Oscars, and he’s yet to be nominated for an Emmy or a Tony.
What Chalamet does have, as of right now, is a shot at the one award that would otherwise be kind of a reach for someone who’s an actor by trade: a Grammy. Chalamet is up for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media this year for his recordings of 17 Bob Dylan songs for the soundtrack to James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown; if he wins, he’ll share the honor with Mangold and soundtrack producers Nick Baxter and Steven Gizicki.
As it happens, one of the last winners of this award was also an actor; Bradley Cooper shared it with Gizicki, Yannick Nézet-Séguin & Jason Ruder for Maestro in 2025. Cooper has two of these things; he and Lady Gaga won for A Star is Born in 2020, and past co-winners include Don Cheadle, Hugh Jackman, and Joaquin Phoenix (who got his for his work on the soundtrack to another James Mangold music-legend biopic, 2007’s Walk the Line.)
Which is not to say that Timmy necessarily has this one in the bag just by virtue of being a big movie star. His competition in this category includes Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Göransson’s estimable Sinners soundtrack, the first Wicked soundtrack, the star-heavy F1 the Album, and the juggernaut that is KPop Demon Hunters, presumably the heavy favorite among 4-year-olds to whom even Timothée Chalamet is “some old guy.”
(Yes, he’s up for an award at the 2026 Grammys for his 2024 film A Complete Unknown, ten months after going to the Oscars as a nominee for that same movie, and competing against the soundtracks from several Oscar-nominated 2025 movies; yes, the Grammys—whose eligibility window this year runs from August 2024 to August 2025—are weird.)