Viola Davis, without an Oscar nomination this year, joins the group of EGOT artists

Viola Davis has achieved EGOT status after winning a Grammy Award for her memoir audiobook ‘Finding Me’.‘.

In this way, the renowned Hollywood actress has become the eighteenth person to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tonyjoining actors and filmmakers such as Rita Moreno, Alan Menken, Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Legend, Mike Nichols, Mel Brooks, Jennifer Hudson, and Whoopi Goldberg.

Davis’ memoir takes readers through her illustrious career, compared to defining moments, like when she was first cast on ABC’s ‘How to Get Away With Murder,’ the television series that catapulted her to another level of fame. Davis also details the racism and incidents she experienced growing up in Rhode Island and in Hollywood.

Davis has two Tony Awards for ‘King Hedley II’ and the Broadway revival of ‘Fences’, an Emmy Award precisely for ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ and an Oscar for the 2016 film ‘Fences’, which he starred with Denzel. Washington. Her win in ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ made her the first actress of color to win an Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama. She also made history by becoming the first black artist to win the “triple crown” by winning Oscars, Emmys and Tony Awards for acting in competition.

Davis has been nominated for the Oscars four times. There have been five Golden Globes, and he has also won it for ‘Fences’. He also has a BAFTA and four Screen Actors Guild awards. In addition, the actress was one of the clear favorites for the 2023 Oscar nominations for her role in the film ‘The King Woman’. She is finally not among the five candidates this year (Cate Blanchett, Ana de Armas, Andrea Riseborough, Michelle Yeoh and Michelle Williams are the five finalists who aspire to the statuette.

As announced earlier this week, Davis will star in the HBO Max series ‘Waller’ as the amoral and self-imposed superintendent of the DC universe, Amanda Waller. She originated the role in David Ayer’s film ‘Suicide Squad’, released in 2016.

His production company, JuVee Productions, recently signed a first-look deal with Entertainment One. The company develops and produces independent film, television, theatre, virtual reality and digital content across all narrative entertainment spaces.