Barack Obama won an Emmy for narration in the Netflix documentary series ‘Our Great National Parks’ on Saturday.
Obama won the ‘best narrator’ Emmy for his work.
The former US president, who served two terms in office, has already won two Grammy Awards, which means that he needs only to win an Oscar and a Tony to join the exclusive EGOT club.
Our Great National Parks, the five-part show features national parks from around the globe. It is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company ‘Higher Ground’.
Obama previously received Grammy Awards for the audiobooks of his memoirs “The Audacity of Hope” and “Dreams from My Father.”
After leaving office in 2017, Obama wrote best-selling memoirs along with his wife, and in addition to their non-profit foundation, they also established a production company that bagged a major deal with Netflix, reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars.
Their production house’s debut documentary for the massive streaming service, “American Factory,” won the Oscar for best documentary feature and an Emmy for directing. Although the honors were given to the filmmakers and not to the Obamas themselves.
prentice, Donald Trump’s reality competition show, was also nominated for an Emmy, although it didn’t end up winning.
Former NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (“Black Patriots: Heroes Of The Civil War”), Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o (“Serengeti II”), and other actors were also nominated in Obama’s narrator category.
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