Ben Platt could become youngest, fastest person to win EGOT with an Oscar for the ‘Theater Camp’ song ‘Camp Isn’t Home’
Theater has been good to Ben Platt. From his Tony Award-winning breakout performance in “Dear Evan Hansen” to the Grammy he netted for the musical’s Original Broadway Cast Recording and the Daytime Emmy he picked up for performing the Act I finale “You Will Be Found” on “The Today Show,” musical theater has helped the star earn three-quarters of the EGOT.
Now, the film “Theater Camp” could make Platt pull off that coveted quadruple award if he lands an Oscar nomination and wins for the original song “Camp Isn’t Home.” The performer co-wrote the tune with Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman and Mark Sonnenblick. It strikes a tricky balance of sweet sentiment — the kids who attended the camp and sing the song express that the camp of the film is a “place we all belong” — with humorous barbs that prevent it from being too saccharine.
All of Platt’s collaborators on the song have budding awards backgrounds of their own. Galvin, Gordon and Lieberman, along with Platt, all just received Independent Spirit Awards nominations for First Screenplay for “Theater Camp,” and Galvin earned a second bid for Best Supporting Performance. Sonnenblick is also a previous Emmy nominee for Original Music and Lyrics for “Beautiful Things Can Grow” from the HBO documentary film “Song of Parkland.”
According to our current combined odds, “Camp Isn’t Home” is the film’s best chance at an Oscar nomination, cracking our top 20 contenders for Best Song. If the five songwriters do land the nomination and eventually go on to win, Platt would not only achieve EGOT, but he would be the youngest ever to do so. On the night of the ceremony on March 10, 2024, Platt will be 30 years old. The current youngest person to ever win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony is Robert Lopez, who achieved EGOT at age 39.
Platt would also become the fastest individual to EGOT, meaning he had the shortest amount of time between winning the first prize and the last. Lopez currently holds that distinction as well, taking 10 years between winning the Tony in 2004 and his Oscar in 2014. Platt could pull it off in only seven years. He won his Tony in 2017, both his Grammy and Emmy in 2018, and could claim the last trophy in 2024 with the Oscar for “Camp Isn’t Home.”
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