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We all know it’s an honor just to be nominated for an award, but it’s even sweeter honor when you win. And while most artists will tell you that awards are great, they will also claim that it is not their sole motivation.

Regardless, the four major entertainment awards in the United States are: an Emmy Award (TV), a Grammy (music), an Academy Award/Oscar (film) and a Tony (theater). Many amazing artists have been rewarded with these awards, but only a select few can claim to have won them all, and completed an EGOT (the amalgamation of the first letter of each award). Luckily for us, we have one of the few living EGOT winners on our cover this month in Whoopi Goldberg.

To date only 12 individuals have accomplished this amazing feat, not counting Tracy Morgan’s hysterical Tracy Jordan character accomplishing the feat on 30 Rock. Of those, half are still alive, and Goldberg is the lone African American recipient.

She has won two Daytime Emmy Awards and been nominated for nine Primetime Emmy Awards. Her first Emmy was in 2002 for Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel, which netted her an Emmy for Outstanding Special Class Special. Her second award came in 2009 for Outstanding Talk Show Host on The View.

She began her journey to EGOT with her Grammy win in 1985 for Best Comedy Recording for Whoopi Goldberg: Original Broadway Show Recording. That year she beat out fellow CULTURE cover celebrities Cheech and Chong.

Her Oscar came in 1990 for her portrayal of Oda Mae Brown in Ghost. Goldberg played a psychic who became the conduit for re-connecting lovers played by Patrick Swayze and Demi More, who had been separated by his tragic death,  to both touching and hilarious effects.

She received a Tony in 2002 for producing Thoroughly Modern Millie which won the award for Best Musical.

Goldberg has also racked up a number of other awards in her 35 year career as an actor and comedian.  She has won 2 Golden Globes for Ghost and The Color Purple, a BATFTA (British Oscar) for Ghost, 2  American Comedy Awards for Ghost and Sister Act, the GLAAD Vanguard Award, 8 NAACP Image Awards, 5 Kids’ Choice Awards, 4 People’s Choice Awards, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2001.

It’s safe to say, that she is the most decorated celebrity we’ve ever had on our cover.

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