Barack Obama, the former president of the United States, received his first Emmy award for narrating the five-part Netflix documentary series Our Great National Parks.
Grammy-winner Obama is the first President to win a competitive prize for a specific television show, and the second President to receive an Emmy, following Dwight Eisenhower, who received one while still in office in 1956.
At tonight’s Creative Arts Emmy ceremony, Obama won the Outstanding Narrator prize, besting a star-studded field that included Lupita Nyong’o (Serengeti II), W. Kamau Bell (We Need to Talk About Cosby), David Attenborough (The Mating Game), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War).
Barack Obama wins an Emmy for “Our Great National Parks,” making him the second American president to do so.
Barack Obama, the former president of the United States, received his first Emmy award for narrating the five-part Netflix documentary series Our Great National Parks.
Grammy-winner Obama becomes the first President to win a competitive award for a specific television production and the second President to receive an Emmy after Dwight Eisenhower, who received one in 1956 while still in office.
At tonight’s Creative Arts Emmy ceremony, Obama won the Outstanding Narrator prize, besting a star-studded field that included Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War), W. Kamau Bell (We Need to Talk About Cosby), David Attenborough (The Mating Game), and Lupita Nyong’o (Serengeti II).
The five-part series is likewise produced by Freeborne Media and Wild Space Productions, and highlights sites as diverse as the Monterey Bay National Marine Aquarium in California, Tsavo in Kenya, and Gunung Leuser National Park in Indonesia.
The series’ April debut is a part of the Obamas’ multi-year film and television deal with Netflix, which the President and his wife agreed to in 2018.
