Grammy Awards 2023: Viola Davis becomes an EGOT

Viola Davis has go the 18th idiosyncratic to execute the EGOT - winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award - arsenic the Grammy Awards footwear disconnected successful Los Angeles.

Davis completed her postulation by winning champion audio publication for her autobiography Finding Me.

"I wrote this publication to honour the six-year-old Viola," said the star. "To honour her life, her joy, her trauma, everything... I conscionable EGOT!"

The prima won the champion supporting histrion Oscar successful 2016 for Fences.

Her Emmy Award recognised the TV play How To Get Away With Murder, and she has 2 Tony Awards for her theatre enactment - featured histrion successful a play for King Hedley II (2001) and pb histrion successful a play for Fences (2010).

The 17 different EGOT winners see Sir John Gielgud, Rita Moreno, Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Legend and Jennifer Hudson.

Davis picked up her prize astatine the Grammys "premiere ceremony", which mostly recognises method and genre categories.

Beyoncé has already won 2 prizes: Best creation signaling for the opus Break My Soul, and accepted R&B show for Plastic Off The Sofa.

The awards bring her 1 measurement person to becoming the most-awarded creator successful Grammy history,

The prima present has 30 trophies, conscionable 1 abbreviated of equalling the existent grounds holder, Hungarian-British conductor Georg Solti.

Harry Styles besides picked up champion engineered medium for Harry's House, which is besides up for the night's biggest prize - medium of the year.

But the British prima faces pugnacious contention for that award, with Adele, Beyoncé and Latin prima Bad Bunny among the different favourites.

Album of the twelvemonth nominees

His latest record, Patient Number Nine, was named champion stone album, portion the opus Degradation Rules won champion metallic performance.

And British indie duo Wet Leg received 2 awards - including champion alternate medium and champion alternate opus for their breakout single, Chaise Longue.

"This is truthful funny," said singer-guitarist Rhian Teasdale. "What are we adjacent doing here?"

Meanwhile composer and violinist Stephanie Economou received the archetypal ever Grammy for champion video crippled soundtrack, recognising her enactment connected Assassin's Creed: Dawn Of Ragnarok.

The premiere ceremonial is being hosted by YouTube prima Randy Rainbow, who went viral during the Trump medication for videos that mixed governmental commentary with philharmonic theatre numbers.

Taking to the signifier astatine Los Angeles' Crypto,com Arena, helium promised not to marque inexpensive jokes astir US Republican George Santos, who has admitted to making respective mendacious statements successful his resume and biography.

"I volition not adjacent accidental his name," said Rainbow. "Even though helium is nominated for champion popular vocal album."

The main Grammys ceremonial kicks disconnected astatine Los Angeles' Crypto.com Arena connected Sunday astatine 17:00 (local time) / Monday astatine 01:00 (GMT)

Comedian Trevor Noah is hosting for the 3rd time, with performances owed from Styles, Lizzo, Bad Bunny and Sam Smith.

But Noah has hinted that 2 popular megastars volition besides beryllium gracing the stage.

"One of your favourite performers is simply a woman, and that pistillate is going to beryllium performing astatine the Grammys," helium said connected the People's Every Day podcast this weekend.

"Then 1 of your different favourite performers is simply a man, and that antheral is going to beryllium performing astatine the Grammys.

"And you're going, 'Oh, but that could beryllium anyone.' But you know, it's not anyone, though, due to the fact that you've been listening to their medium the full twelvemonth and it's been huge."