Pasek & Paul would break those records if they were EGOT winners at next month's Emmys

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Music and Lyrics for a Song They Co-wrote Only murders in the building. If they win on Sept. 8, the second night of the Creative Arts Emmys, they will become the 20th and 21st people in EGOT — to win at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony in competition.

Additionally, Pasek and Paul would be the second couple to win the EGOT as a team. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice each won four awards as a team – a Tony for Best Original Score for Evitaa Grammy for Best Cast album EvitaOscar for Best Original Song for 'You Must Love Me' by Evita and an Emmy for Outstanding Variety (live) for Jesus Christ Superstar live in concert.

Additionally, Pasek, who will be 39 years and three months old on Emmy night, would become the second-youngest EGOT winner ever, trailing only Robert Lopez, who was 39 and one week old when he accomplished the feat in March 2014. who will be 39 years, eight months and five days old that night, would become the third youngest EGOT ever. John Legend, who was 39 years, eight months and 12 days old when he accomplished the feat in September 2018, would drop from his current position of second to fourth.

Pasek would be the fourth publicly LGBTQ person to achieve the EGOT, following actor Sir John Gielgud (1991), producer Scott Rudin (2012) and Sir Elton John (2024).

Pasek and Paul won their first EGOT qualifying award, an Academy Award for Best Original Song, in February 2017 for co-writing “City of Stars” from La La Land with composer Justin Hurwitz. They won a Tony for Best Original Score in June Dear Evan Hansen and won a second Tony in June 2022 for being among its platoon of producers A strange loop, which was voted best musical. They won their first Grammy, Best Musical Theater album, in January 2018 for Dear Evan Hansen and second, Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, in February 2019 for The Greatest Showman.

They are nominated for a Primetime Emmy for co-writing the song “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” For Only murders in the building with another composition team, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. Series star Steve Martin, who is nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, performed the tongue-in-cheek song.

But Pasek and Paul have yet to win the prize. Competition is strong. Eli Brueggemann, who won in this category six years ago for co-writing “Come Back Barack” for Saturday night liveis this year a candidate for another one SNL song, “Maya Rudolph's Mother's Day Monologue,” which he co-wrote with Rudolph, Mike DiCenzo, Jake Nordwind and Auguste White.

Other nominees in the category are Sara Bareilles for Screenplay “The Middle Ages” from Girls5eva; John Hawkes, for writing “No usage” from True Detective: Night Country; and Walter Afanasieff, Kara Talve, Hans Zimmer, and Charlie Midnight for writing.”Love will survive” from The Auschwitz Tattoo. Barbra Streisand recorded the last song. He also recorded “Ordinary Miracles” from Barbra Streisand: The Concerta Marvin Hamlisch/Alan & Marilyn Bergman song that won the category 29 years ago.

This is the second Primetime Emmy for Pasek and Paul. They were nominated in the same category six years ago for writing a song by A Christmas Story Live!

Sir Elton John was the most recent person to complete the EGOT. He did it when he won a Primetime Emmy for Elton John Live: Farewell to Dodger Stadium at the ceremony in January (which was delayed by four months due to union strikes).

If Pasek and Paul accomplish the feat, it would be the fourth time two or more people have become EGOTs in the same calendar year. Helen Hayes and Rita Moreno both became EGOTs in 1977. Mel Brooks and Mike Nichols both scored in 2001. Webber, Rice and Legend all completed their EGOT trips in 2018.

Here's a look at this year's Primetime Emmy nominations in all seven music categories.