Steven Spielberg , Grammy Winner, Just Racked Up an EGOT. Here’s How He Got There

It may be hard to believe now, but Steven Spielberg, arguably the most commercially successful Hollywood filmmaker of all time and one of the most celebrated, was once an awards underdog. Though his second feature Jaws was nominated for Best Picture (in one of the most stacked lineups ever), Spielberg himself was overlooked for Best Director. He did manage to snag subsequent nominations for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and E.T., but then his first big grown-up…