Each year, awards season begins with the Emmy Awards in November and culminates with the Academy Awards in February. (The Tonys are a summertime outlier.)
每年，颁奖典礼从11月的艾美奖开始，到2月的奥斯卡奖。(托尼奖是夏季的异常值。)
Rare talents can sometimes win all four of the major performing arts awards–an almost mythicachievement known colloquially as an EGOT: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony.
罕见的天才有时能赢得四个主要表演艺术奖，这几乎是神话般的成就，它被称为EGOT：艾美奖、格莱美奖、奥斯卡奖和托尼奖。
There are relatively few EGOT recipients, but they include Mel Brooks, Audrey Hepburn, Whoopi Goldberg, and John Legend.
获得EGOT的人相对较少，但其中包括了梅尔·布鲁克斯、奥黛丽·赫本、胡比·戈德堡和约翰·莱昂。
EGOTS aside, each award ceremony appeals to its own audience of devotees. Are you familiar with how your favorite award show got its name?
除了EGOTS，每个颁奖典礼都吸引自己的奉献者观众。您是否熟悉自己喜欢的颁奖晚会的名字?
The Oscars
奥斯卡奖
The Oscars are awarded each year by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), an invitation-only professional organization of film industry heavyweights. The Oscar is its casual nickname; the official name of the golden statuette is the Academy Award of Merit.
奥斯卡奖每年由电影艺术与重量级电影专业邀请美国电影艺术与科学学院(AMPAS)颁发。奥斯卡是它的休闲绰号;金色小雕像的正式名称是奥斯卡功绩奖。
They were first awarded in 1929, first broadcast on radio the following year in 1930, and first televised in 1953.
它们于1929年首次获得颁奖，于1930年在广播中首次播出，并于1953年首次进行电视转播。
The first award show ran a total of 15 minutes, which is a far cry from the hours-long endurance marathons they’ve become.
第一场颁奖晚会总共进行了15分钟，这与他们已经经历了长达数小时的耐力马拉松比赛相去甚远。
The statue that everyone hopes to take home was modeled after Mexican actor, film director, and screenwriter, Emilio “El Indio” Fernández, best known for directing Maria Candelaria.
每个人都希望带回家的雕像是模仿墨西哥演员，电影导演和编剧埃米利奥·“埃尔·印第奥·费尔南德斯”(Emilio“ El Indio”Fernández)制作的，该电影因导演玛丽亚·坎德拉里亚而闻名。
The statue’s nickname, Oscar, has conflicting origin stories, but the most popular narrative credits Margaret Herrick, Academy Award librarian and eventual Director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
雕像的昵称奥斯卡(Oscar)的起源故事相互矛盾，但最受欢迎的叙述是玛格丽特·赫里克(Margaret Herrick)，奥斯卡金像奖得主，也是电影艺术与科学学院的最终导演。
Allegedly, Herrick claimed in 1931 that the statuette looked “like her Uncle Oscar.”
据称，赫里克(Herrick)在1931年声称小雕像“看起来像她的奥斯卡叔叔”。The Tonys
托尼奖
The Tony Awards are presented by the American Theater Wing, a performing arts advocacy group, and The Broadway League, a trade association for the theater industry, to celebrate exceptional talents in the world of theater.
托尼奖由表演艺术倡导组织美国剧院区和剧院行业贸易协会百老汇联盟颁发，以表彰剧院界的杰出人才。
Started in 1947, the award’s official name is the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre.
该奖项始于1947年，正式名称是百老汇剧院卓越安托瓦内特·佩里奖。
The award itself is a medallion, embossed on one side with the traditional comedy/tragedy masks, and marked on the opposing side with the recipient’s name, award category, production, and award year.
该奖项本身就是一枚纪念章，在其一侧刻有传统的喜剧/悲剧面具，并在反面标有获奖者的姓名，奖项类别，制作和获奖年份。
Originally, the reverse side depicted the image of the award’s namesake, Antoinette Perry, co-founder of the American Theater Wing, whose nickname was Tony.
最初，背面描绘了该奖项的同名人物，美国剧院翼楼的联合创始人安托瓦内特·佩里，绰号是托尼。The Emmy Awards
艾美奖
The Primetime Emmy Awards, for those who have trouble keeping track, are the ones for television. The annual award is administered by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), and the statuette depicts a winged woman holding what appears to be a gyroscope but is, in fact, an atom.
黄金时段艾美奖颁给了电视上的那些人，这些人很难掌握。年度奖项由电视艺术与科学研究院(ATAS)负责管理，小雕像描绘了一个拿着翅膀的女人，手持的东西似乎是陀螺仪，但实际上是原子。
The trophy was designed by TV engineer Louis McManus in 1948, who famously modeled the trophy after his wife.
奖杯是由电视工程师路易斯·麦克马纳斯(Louis McManus)于1948年设计的，他以妻子为原型设计了奖杯。
It’s rumored that ATAS founder Syd Cassyd first thought about calling the award the Ike, a nickname for the television iconoscope tube.
有传言说，ATAS的创始人赛德·卡西德(Syd Cassyd)首先考虑将这一奖项称为电视影像管的昵称“ 艾克”。
However, Ike was also the commonly used nickname for war hero and future president Dwight D. Eisenhower.
但是，艾克还是战争英雄和未来总统艾森豪威尔(Dwight D. Eisenhower)的常用昵称。
So an alternate name, the Immy, after the image orthicon tube, was suggested by former Academy Director, Henry Lubcke. The name was later feminized to Emmy to match the statuette’s female image.
因此，原正像管导演亨利·卢布克(Henry Lubcke)提出了一个名字，即图像正析象管之后的艾美(Immy)。这个名字后来被女性化为艾美奖，以匹配小雕像的女性形象。
Grammy Awards
格莱美奖
The youngest of the bunch, the Grammy Awards are presented each year by the Recording Academy, formerly the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS).
格莱美奖是最年轻的奖项，每年由唱片学院(以前是国家唱片艺术与科学学院(NARAS))颁发。
Founded as a byproduct of a 1950s project to award Hollywood Walk of Fame stars to deserving members of the recording industry, the Grammys were created to be the music’s answer to the Oscars and the Emmys, and they honor musical achievements from the preceding year.
格莱美奖杯是1950年代项目的副产品，旨在将好莱坞星光大道的明星授予应得的唱片业成员。格莱美奖杯是音乐对奥斯卡和艾美奖的回应，他们表彰了前一年的音乐成就。
NARAS first considered calling the award The Eddie, after phonograph inventor Thomas Edison.
留声机的发明者托马斯·爱迪生(Thomas Edison)之后，NARAS首先考虑称其为The Eddie。
But they opted instead to name the award after the gramophone, invented by Emile Berliner, shortening it to the familiar Grammy. The award itself is a gold-plated statuette of Berliner’s iconic record player.
但是他们却选择了以埃米尔·柏林纳(Emile Berliner)发明的留声机命名该奖项，将其缩写为熟悉的格莱美奖。该奖项本身就是柏林人的标志性电唱机的镀金小雕像。
Fun fact: Since the personalized trophies don’t get doled out until after the award ceremony, the trophies we see during the Grammys are dummies they reuse each year. At least they’ve maintained their luster.
有趣的是由于个性化奖杯要到颁奖典礼结束后才会发放出去，因此我们在格莱美颁奖典礼上看到的奖杯是每年都要重复使用的假人。至少他们保持了自己的光彩。
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