Schmigadoon! officially made Apple TV an EGOT at Sunday’s Tony Awards, crowning the achievement by winning Best Musical.
The show led the field with 12 nominations and came away with four wins, including Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations along with the night’s big prize.
“I think I should start by thanking Apple TV for canceling the third season of Schmigadoon the TV show because without them we couldn’t have picked it up and ran with it,” producer Christine Schwarzman said in accepting the Best Musical statuette.
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Lorne Michaels, also a producer, said backstage that the show had “gone through many iterations, but I think this is the best version of it ever.”
While its run as a streaming series, as Schwarzman noted, was cut short, Schmigadoon won one Emmy and was nominated seven times. Its lone win came in 2022 for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for the song “Corn Puddin’.”
Apple TV’s first step toward the EGOT milestone began in 2020 with Billy Crudup’s Emmy win for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for The Morning Show. A little less than two years later, CODA won three Oscars, including Best Picture. The Grammy fell into place in February of this year, with Chris Stapleton’s song “Bad As I Used to Be,” from the film F1, capturing Best Country Solo Performance.
Ted Lasso and The Studio have also burnished the tech giant’s Emmy trophy shelf, taking home Best Comedy Series trophies.
The feat for Apple TV required about half the time that it took Netflix to reach the milestone. Netflix completed the circuit in 2025 with a Tony win for Stranger Things: The First Shadow. Apple TV launched in November 2019, meaning it accomplished the EGOT feat in about six-and-a-half years, while Netflix took about 12 years from the time its original series became eligible for Emmys.
The streamer-vs.-streamer EGOT battle is one unofficial category being tracked by awardsmeisters, but media heavyweights like Disney and Time Warner have racked up wins across the four major awards over the decades. The technicality comes in with the timing of the wins. Music labels, for example, have been separate from the rest of media companies’ portfolios in recent years.
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