Barack Obama Wins an Emmy for Our Great National Parks
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Barack Obama is not a man who lacks in accolades, and now he's got a brand new one to add to the list. The former president/bestselling author/Grammy winner took home an Emmy award over the weekend for his narration on the Netflix documentary series Our Great National Parks.
The Emmy award makes him only the second US president in history to garner one; Dwight Eisenhower, was the first with a 1956 honorary award for becoming the first president to conduct a televised news conference.
Our Great National Parks, which was produced by Higher Ground Productions, the Netflix-based production company Obama and his wife Michelle set up in 2018 after their White House exit, focuses on spectacular national parks from around the globe—including the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Kenya's Tsavo National Park, and the Chilean Patagonia. Its five episodes are all narrated by Obama, who can now add it to his roster of award-winning voice work.
In 2006 and 2008, Obama snapped up Grammy wins in the Spoken Word Album category for his readings of his memoirs, Dreams From My Father and The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream. He was also nominated a third time in 2022 for his reading of A Promised Land.
The Emmy—for which he beat out fellow nominees David Attenborough, W. Kamau Bell, Lupita Nyong'o and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar—puts the former president one step closer to a spot among the ultra-coveted EGOTs; people who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award.
The full 2022 Emmys air on Monday, September 12, 2022.
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