Barack Obama Wins Emmy for Netflix Documentary
Former US President Barack Obama won an Emmy Award at the 2022 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
He was awarded the best narrator Emmy on September 3 for his work on the Netflix documentary show Our Great National Parks.
The five-part show, which includes national parks from around the world, is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground.
Other nominees for the best narrator Emmy included Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, David Attenborough and Lupita Nyong'o.
Obama is the second US president in history to have won an Emmy. The first was awarded to Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956, while he was still president, for his work in television news.
Obama previously won Grammy Awards for his audiobook reading of two of his books, The Audacity of Hope and Dreams From My Father.
This means the former president is now halfway to being an EGOT winner — a person who has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony.
So far, there have been only 17 EGOT winners, including Mel Brooks, Audrey Hepburn and John Legend.
The late Chadwick Boseman was also awarded an Emmy for his voice work.
The Black Panther actor won the award for outstanding character voiceover for the Disney+ and Marvel Studios show What If...?
It was one of the last projects for Boseman, who died in 2020 at the age of 43.
