Mel Brooks is one of 21 entertainers to win the EGOT (which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony) He is a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. 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 (1900–2000), all of which were ranked in the top 15.