Los Angeles, Feb 8 (TIWN): Lin-Manuel Miranda, best known for his Broadway musicals ‘In the Heights’ and ‘Hamilton’, is one step closer to the entertainment world’s Grand Slam – EGOT – after earning an Oscar nomination in the best original song category for ‘Dos Oruguitas’ in Disney’s ‘Encanto’.

Miranda also has the rare distinction of winning a Pulitzer Prize for ‘Hamilton’. At present, according to ‘Variety’, only two other people in the world who hold that honour Hamlisch (‘The Way We Were’ and ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’) and Richard Rodgers (of Rodgers and Hammerstein fame).  Hamlisch is the only music composer to belong to the P(Pulitzer)EGOT super-elite. The number will go up to two if Miranda gets the golden statuette — the ultimate possession of any performer.