In pictures: the only 12 EGOT winners

Film and theatre producer Scott Rudin. Kevin Winter / Getty Images

TV personality / actress Whoopi Goldberg. AFP

Mike Nichols is an American television, stage and film director, writer, producer and comedian. AFP

Mel Brooks is an American comic, actor and director. AFP

Jonathan Tunick is best known for his work with Stephen Sondheim which continues until today. AFP

Marvin Hamlisch. conductor and award-winning composer is best known for the title song and the score for The Way We Were and the adaptation score for The Sting. AP

Audrey Hepburn, the English actress and humanitarian was immortalised in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. AP

Sir John Gielgud, an English actor and theatre director had a career that lasted eight decades.

Rita Moreno, seen here as Anita in West Side Story, is the only Hispanic actress to have won an Egot. AP

Helen Hayes is an American actress whose career spanned almost 80 years.

Richard Rodgers, composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. Courtesy The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization

Winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song, for Let it Go (from the animated family film Frozen) makes Robert Lopez one of only 12 people to score an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award — termed the EGOT and immortalised in a 2009 episode of 30 Rock. Here is a picture gallery of the other winners.