Mel Brooks is one of 21 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. He began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows from 1950 to 1954. Brooks won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers (1967) He then rose to prominence becoming one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s with The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974) and High Anxiety (1977) Three of his films are included on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of the past 100 years.