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Actress Viola Davis has achieved the rare and sought-after Egot status at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, making her the third black woman in history to have done so.
Reaching this status means that a performer has won all four major American entertainment awards: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony.
Davis won the Grammy for her performance of the audiobook for her memoir, Finding Me.
“I wrote this book to honour the six-year-old Viola, to honour her life, her joy, her everything and it’s been such a journey, I just Egot!” an emotional Davis said in her acceptance speech.
The actress also thanked “everybody who has been part of my story” and called her husband, actor Julius Tennon, and their daughter Genesis Tennon “the best chapter yet”.
Previously, Davis had won an Emmy for her performance in the Shonda Rhimes TV series How To Get Away with Murder in 2015 and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Fences in 2017, in which she starred alongside Denzel Washington. She won two Tony awards for her performances on the stage in King Hedley II in 2001, then again for the stage version of Fences in 2010.
In Finding Me, the actress details her life growing up in Rhode Island — where she experienced racism and bullying — and her move to New York, where she pursued her dream of performing and how she found success and fame.
In the Grammys 2023 audiobook category, Davis was nominated alongside musician Questlove for his book with Ben Greenman, Music is History; composer and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda for his recording of the New York Times bestselling young adult novel Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Saenz; actor Jamie Foxx’s performance for his book Act Like You Got Some Sense; and actor Mel Brooks, also an Egot winner, for his audiobook of All About Me!.
Only 17 other performers have reached the status of Egot, and Davis is the fourth black person to do so alongside Whoopi Goldberg, Jennifer Hudson and John Legend.
Other recipients include Audrey Hepburn and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Results
- Brock Lesnar retained the WWE Universal title against Roman Reigns
- Braun Strowman and Nicolas won the Raw Tag Team titles against Sheamus and Cesaro
- AJ Styles retained the WWE World Heavyweight title against Shinsuke Nakamura
- Nia Jax won the Raw Women’s title against Alexa Bliss
- Daniel Bryan and Shane McMahon beat Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn
- The Undertaker beat John Cena
- The Bludgeon Brothers won the SmackDown Tag Team titles against the Usos and New Day
- Ronda Rousey and Kurt Angle beat Triple H and Stephanie McMahon
- Jinder Mahal won the United States title against Randy Orton, Rusev and Bobby Roode
- Charlotte retained the SmackDown Women’s title against Asuka
- Seth Rollins won the Intercontinental title against The Miz and Finn Balor
- Naomi won the first WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal
- Cedric Alexander won the vacant Cruiserweight title against Mustafa Ali
- Matt Hardy won the Andre the Giant Battle Royal
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Dubai works towards better air quality by 2021
Dubai is on a mission to record good air quality for 90 per cent of the year – up from 86 per cent annually today – by 2021.
The municipality plans to have seven mobile air-monitoring stations by 2020 to capture more accurate data in hourly and daily trends of pollution.
These will be on the Palm Jumeirah, Al Qusais, Muhaisnah, Rashidiyah, Al Wasl, Al Quoz and Dubai Investment Park.
“It will allow real-time responding for emergency cases,” said Khaldoon Al Daraji, first environment safety officer at the municipality.
“We’re in a good position except for the cases that are out of our hands, such as sandstorms.
“Sandstorms are our main concern because the UAE is just a receiver.
“The hotspots are Iran, Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq, but we’re working hard with the region to reduce the cycle of sandstorm generation.”
Mr Al Daraji said monitoring as it stood covered 47 per cent of Dubai.
There are 12 fixed stations in the emirate, but Dubai also receives information from monitors belonging to other entities.
“There are 25 stations in total,” Mr Al Daraji said.
“We added new technology and equipment used for the first time for the detection of heavy metals.
“A hundred parameters can be detected but we want to expand it to make sure that the data captured can allow a baseline study in some areas to ensure they are well positioned.”
