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，頒獎典禮從11月的艾美獎開始，到2月的奧斯卡獎。(託尼獎是夏季的異常值。)
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.
罕見的天才有時能贏得四個主要表演藝術獎，這幾乎是神話般的成就，它被稱為EGOT：艾美獎、格萊美獎、奧斯卡獎和託尼獎。
There are relatively few EGOT recipients, but they include Mel Brooks, Audrey Hepburn, Whoopi Goldberg, and John Legend.
獲得EGOT的人相對較少，但其中包括了梅爾·布魯克斯、奧黛麗·赫本、胡比·戈德堡和約翰·萊昂。
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，每個頒獎典禮都吸引自己的奉獻者觀眾。您是否熟悉自己喜歡的頒獎晚會的名字?
The Oscars
奧斯卡獎
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.
奧斯卡獎每年由電影藝術與重量級電影專業邀請美國電影藝術與科學學院(AMPAS)頒發。奧斯卡是它的休閒綽號;金色小雕像的正式名稱是奧斯卡功績獎。
They were first awarded in 1929, first broadcast on radio the following year in 1930, and first televised in 1953.
它們於1929年首次獲得頒獎，於1930年在廣播中首次播出，並於1953年首次進行電視轉播。
The first award show ran a total of 15 minutes, which is a far cry from the hours-long endurance marathons they’ve become.
第一場頒獎晚會總共進行了15分鐘，這與他們已經經歷了長達數小時的耐力馬拉松比賽相去甚遠。
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.
每個人都希望帶回家的雕像是模仿墨西哥演員，電影導演和編劇埃米利奧·“埃爾·印第奧·費爾南德斯”(Emilio“ El Indio”Fernández)製作的，該電影因導演瑪麗亞·坎德拉里亞而聞名。
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.
雕像的暱稱奧斯卡(Oscar)的起源故事相互矛盾，但最受歡迎的敘述是瑪格麗特·赫裡克(Margaret Herrick)，奧斯卡金像獎得主，也是電影藝術與科學學院的最終導演。
Allegedly, Herrick claimed in 1931 that the statuette looked “like her Uncle Oscar.”
據稱，赫裡克(Herrick)在1931年聲稱小雕像“看起來像她的奧斯卡叔叔”。The Tonys
託尼獎
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.
託尼獎由表演藝術倡導組織美國劇院區和劇院行業貿易協會百老匯聯盟頒發，以表彰劇院界的傑出人才。
Started in 1947, the award’s official name is the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre.
該獎項始於1947年，正式名稱是百老匯劇院卓越安託瓦內特·佩裡獎。
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.
該獎項本身就是一枚紀念章，在其一側刻有傳統的喜劇/悲劇面具，並在反面標有獲獎者的姓名，獎項類別，製作和獲獎年份。
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，背面描繪了該獎項的同名人物，美國劇院翼樓的聯合創始人安託瓦內特·佩裡，綽號是託尼。The Emmy Awards
艾美獎
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.
黃金時段艾美獎頒給了電視上的那些人，這些人很難掌握。年度獎項由電視藝術與科學研究院(ATAS)負責管理，小雕像描繪了一個拿著翅膀的女人，手持的東西似乎是陀螺儀，但實際上是原子。
The trophy was designed by TV engineer Louis McManus in 1948, who famously modeled the trophy after his wife.
獎盃是由電視工程師路易斯·麥克馬納斯(Louis McManus)於1948年設計的，他以妻子為原型設計了獎盃。
It’s rumored that ATAS founder Syd Cassyd first thought about calling the award the Ike, a nickname for the television iconoscope tube.
有傳言說，ATAS的創始人賽德·卡西德(Syd Cassyd)首先考慮將這一獎項稱為電視影像管的暱稱“ 艾克”。
However, Ike was also the commonly used nickname for war hero and future president Dwight D. Eisenhower.
但是，艾克還是戰爭英雄和未來總統艾森豪威爾(Dwight D. Eisenhower)的常用暱稱。
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，原正像管導演亨利·盧布克(Henry Lubcke)提出了一個名字，即圖像正析象管之後的艾美(Immy)。這個名字後來被女性化為艾美獎，以匹配小雕像的女性形象。
Grammy Awards
格萊美獎
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).
格萊美獎是最年輕的獎項，每年由唱片學院(以前是國家唱片藝術與科學學院(NARAS))頒發。
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.
格萊美獎盃是1950年代項目的副產品，旨在將好萊塢星光大道的明星授予應得的唱片業成員。格萊美獎盃是音樂對奧斯卡和艾美獎的回應，他們表彰了前一年的音樂成就。
NARAS first considered calling the award The Eddie, after phonograph inventor Thomas Edison.
留聲機的發明者托馬斯·愛迪生(Thomas Edison)之後，NARAS首先考慮稱其為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.
但是他們卻選擇了以埃米爾·柏林納(Emile Berliner)發明的留聲機命名該獎項，將其縮寫為熟悉的格萊美獎。該獎項本身就是柏林人的標誌性電唱機的鍍金小雕像。
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.
有趣的是由於個性化獎盃要到頒獎典禮結束後才會發放出去，因此我們在格萊美頒獎典禮上看到的獎盃是每年都要重複使用的假人。至少他們保持了自己的光彩。
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