Schmigadoon? No — if you mean the headline, a Google News-friendly rewrite would be: Schmigadoon Crowns EGOT Feat With Best Musical Tony Award Win
Apple TV has officially joined the EGOT club after winning at Sunday’s Tony Awards, where Schmigadoon took home Best Musical and helped complete the company’s sweep of the four major entertainment honors. The show entered the night with 12 nominations and earned four wins total, including Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, and Best Orchestrations, in addition to the top prize.
The milestone marks a major achievement for Apple TV’s awards history. Its path began at the Emmys in 2020, when Billy Crudup won Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for The Morning Show. Nearly two years later, CODA added three Oscars to the company’s record, including Best Picture. Apple then secured the Grammy portion of the set in February, when Chris Stapleton’s “Bad As I Used to Be,” from F1, won Best Country Solo Performance.
Apple TV has also seen continued Emmy success with Ted Lasso and The Studio, both of which won Best Comedy Series and further strengthened the streamer’s prestige portfolio. The Tony win gives Apple the final piece needed to be recognized as an EGOT winner in the broadest industry sense, joining a select group of entertainment companies that have collected wins across the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards.
What makes the accomplishment notable is how quickly Apple TV reached the milestone. Launched in November 2019, the service completed the EGOT circuit in about six and a half years. By comparison, Netflix, which became the first streamer to complete the unofficial streamer-vs.-streamer race, reached the same landmark in 2025 with a Tony Award for Stranger Things: The First Shadow. Netflix’s journey took roughly 12 years from the time its original series first became eligible for Emmy consideration.
The EGOT race among streaming platforms has become an informal marker of prestige in the entertainment business, with awards watchers tracking which media companies can claim the full set first. Traditional entertainment giants such as Disney and Time Warner have also accumulated major wins across the four award categories over many years. However, differences in timing and corporate structure can affect how such achievements are counted, especially when music labels and other divisions are considered separately from broader media operations.
Apple TV’s EGOT status underscores how quickly the streamer has established itself as a major awards contender. In a short span, it has moved from a new entrant in the streaming market to a company with top honors from Broadway, Hollywood, television, and the music industry. The Tony victory for Schmigadoon not only capped a strong awards season but also completed a rare and widely recognized benchmark of entertainment prestige.
