{"id":71219,"date":"2023-02-05T23:29:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T23:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=71219"},"modified":"2023-02-05T23:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T23:30:53","slug":"viola-davis-egot-winner-2023-grammy-awards","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/viola-davis-egot-winner-2023-grammy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Viola Davis Becomes an EGOT Winner at the 2023 Grammy Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71223\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-71223 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/viola-davis-2023-grammy-awards.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA &#8211; FEBRUARY 05: Viola Davis celebrates the Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling award for &#8220;Finding Me&#8221; during the 65th GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony at Microsoft Theater on February 05, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Leon Bennett\/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>History has been made at the 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/grammys-most-memorable-fashion-red-carpet\/\">Grammy Awards<\/a> because <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/the-first-lady-fashion-history\/\">Viola Davis<\/a> has officially achieved EGOT status. The acclaimed actress took home a Grammy Award for Best Audiobook, Narration, and Storytelling Recording for her 2022 memoir, <em>Finding Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Davis is the 18<sup>th<\/sup> EGOT winner and the third Black woman to achieve this prestigious honor, after <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennifer-hudson-is-an-egot-winner\/\">Jennifer Hudson<\/a> in 2022 and Whoopi Goldberg in 2002. Other legends who earned the status includes <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/west-side-story-and-being-the-ricardos-fashion-transports-us-back-to-the-1950s\/\">Rita Moreno,<\/a> Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-pregnant\/\">John Legend<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/audrey-hepburn-favorite-beauty-products\/\">Audrey Hepburn<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/viola-davis-oscars-alexander-mcqueen-dress\/\"><em>Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom<\/em><\/a> actress stated her EGOT journey when she received her first <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/best-dressed-stars-2022-tony-awards\/\">Tony Award<\/a> for best featured actress in a play in <em>King Hedley II<\/em> in 2001. She snagged her second Tony for best lead actress in a play in the stage production of<em> Fences<\/em> in 2010.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_71220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71220\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-71220 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1463220250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1921\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viola Davis accepts the Audio Book, Narration and Storytelling Recording award for Finding Me during the 65th GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony at Microsoft Theater on February 05, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian\/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Davis won her first <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/best-oscars-dress-of-all-time\/\">Academy Award<\/a> in 2017 for Best Supporting Actress in the film adaptation of <em>Fences <\/em>in 2014. In her acceptance speech, the four-time Oscar nominee said, \u201cI became an artist, and thank god I did because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Help<\/em> actress has also scooped up four <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/2022-emmy-awards-best-dressed\/\">Emmy Award<\/a> nominations for her portrayal of defense attorney Annalise Keating in the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/anna-delvey-case-drew-shonda-rhimes-back-to-tv-writing\/\">Shonda Rhimes<\/a>\u2019 primetime drama <em>How to Get Away with Murder<\/em> and came home triumphant in 2015 for outstanding lead actress in a drama series. She was also nominated for outstanding guest actress in a drama series in 2018 for a crossover episode between <em>HTGAWM<\/em> and <em>Scandal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_71222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71222\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-71222 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-645690848.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"2068\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actress Viola Davis poses with the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in the press room, during the 89th Oscars on February 26, 2017, in Hollywood, California. \/ AFP \/ FREDERIC J. BROWN (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Davis released her memoir <em>Finding Me<\/em> in April of 2022. While sitting down with Oprah Winfrey for the <em>Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event<\/em>, Davis said a \u201cbad existential crisis\u201d which was \u201cexacerbated\u201d by the COVID-19 pandemic prompted her to write the book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think before that time [COVID], what\u2019s happened with me over the last 12, 13 years is the ascension to a level of fame, I think it\u2019s safe to say,\u201d she told Winfrey. \u201cAnd the feeling that once I hit it, and once I got on top, that somehow my life was going to open up. All of a sudden, it would be some sort of feeling that I have arrived\u2014that I know the meaning of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cThe only thing I could think to do was to go back to the beginning of my story because I think that once you tell your story over and over again, you start to hear it, and you start to think, \u2018Okay, how did I get here?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Davis and her epic accomplishment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31863,"featured_media":71223,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,38,3324,3292,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Viola Davis Becomes an EGOT Winner at the Grammy Awards<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Acclaimed actress Viola Davis became an EGOT winner at the 2023 Grammy Awards for the audiobook of her memoir, &quot;Finding Me&quot;\" \/>\n<meta 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