Barack Obama has received an Emmy Award in the category of outstanding narrator for his work on the Netflix documentary series Our Great National Parks.
The five-part series, which highlights national parks from across the globe, is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production business, Higher Ground.
The pair founded the firm after Barack left office in 2017, in a contract worth tens of millions of dollars with Netflix.
Obama defeated Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War, Sir David Attenborough for The Mating Game, W. Kamau Bell for We Need to Talk About Cosby, and Lupita Nyong’o for Serengeti II in the category.
The former US president has previously received two Grammy nominations for his audiobook readings of his autobiographies, The Audacity of Hope and A Promised Land.
He is now halfway to becoming an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) winner. However, he is not the first president to get an Emmy, with Dwight Eisenhower receiving one in 1956 for his “appreciation of television.”
Obama did not attend the ceremony.
Adele won an Emmy for best variety special (pre-recorded) for her show One Night Only, while the late Chadwick Boseman won an Emmy for his voicing of Black Panther character T’Challa on the Disney+ series, What If…?
The Creative Arts Emmys will be held prior to the Primetime Emmys, which will be held on Monday, September 12 in Los Angeles and broadcast on NBC.
