EGOT Watch: Angelina Jolie, Jeremy Strong, and Sarah Paulson ...

The 2024 Tony Awards have been dispensed, and a bevy of actors are now one step closer to achieving coveted EGOT status—that is, winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and a Tony in competition. After taking home Tonys last night, Angelina Jolie, Jeremy Strong, and Sarah Paulson are all one step closer to joining club EGOT, which currently counts 19 members, including Rita Moreno, Whoopi Goldberg, and John Legend.

Kendall Roy may not have won control of Waystar Royco, but he’s now a Tony winner. Strong took home the Tony for leading actor in a play for his performance as Dr. Thomas Stockmann in An Enemy of the People. After winning the lead actor in a drama series Emmy for playing the eldest boy on HBO’s Succession, Strong is now halfway to EGOT status.

So is Paulson, who took home the Tony for leading actress in a play for her blistering performance as Toni in Branden Jacobs Jenkins’s Appropriate. Like Strong, Paulson also has an Emmy under her belt, taking home lead actress in a limited miniseries or movie for playing Marcia Clark in The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. Both Paulson and Strong have Golden Globes under their belt as well, for the same projects that won them Emmys—but the G in EGOT famously stands not for “Globe” but for “Grammy,” so they still have a ways to go.

Of all those who gained traction after the Tonys, Jolie might be in the best position to join the club. Last night, she won a Tony as one of the lead producers of The Outsiders, the musical adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s beloved young adult novel—which also took home best musical in a nail-biter of a race. Jolie is, of course, an Oscar winner, having won best supporting actress in 2000 for playing sociopath Lisa Rowe in Girl, Interrupted. While she’s spent some time off-screen and behind the camera in recent years, Jolie will soon return to the forefront, starring as world-renowned opera singer Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain’s Maria, a film due to be released sometime in 2024. Get her an audiobook to narrate and a role in a Ryan Murphy–produced limited series, and she may be next to join recent EGOTers Viola Davis and Jennifer Hudson.

Not every actor got closer to EGOT-ing last night. Also-rans include Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne, whose alienating Emcee in Cabaret lost out to Daniel Radcliffe’s bitter Charley Kringas in Merrily We Roll Along. (Radcliffe himself needs three more awards to EGOT.) Alicia Keys, the fourth-most awarded woman at the Grammys ever, was nominated for best musical for Hell’s Kitchen, a show that’s loosely based on her life and that features many of her hit songs. Many believed Hell’s Kitchen, which had a record-breaking 13 Tony nominations, was the favorite to win best musical, and Keys even performed “Empire State of Mind” at the ceremony with Jay-Z in tow.

But Keys and Hell’s Kitchen wound up being no match for Jolie and The Outsiders, which also won best director for Danya Taymor. (Yes, that is Tony-winning director Julie Taymor’s niece.) Perhaps Keys will win an Oscar if Hell’s Kitchen is adapted into a movie, but until then, she’ll have to make do with her 16 Grammy awards.