Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating nationwide parks collection

The former president received an Emmy Award on Saturday to go along with his two Grammys. Obama received the very best narrator Emmy for his work on the Netflix documentary collection, Our Great National Parks.

The five-part present, which options nationwide parks from across the globe, is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s manufacturing firm, “Higher Ground.” He was the most important identify in a class filled with well-known nominees for the award handed out at Saturday evening’s Creative Arts Emmys, together with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, David Attenborough and Lupita Nyong’o.

Barack Obama is the second president to have an Emmy. Dwight D. Eisenhower was given a particular Emmy Award in 1956.

Barack Obama beforehand received Grammy Awards for his audiobook studying of two of his memoirs, The Audacity of Hope and “A Promised Land. Michelle Obama received her personal Grammy for studying her audiobook in 2020. EGOT refers to a particular class of entertainers who’ve received an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. To date, 17 folks have performed it.

The late Chadwick Boseman additionally received an Emmy for his voice work on Saturday. The Black Panther actor received for excellent character voiceover for the Disney+ and Marvel Studios animated present “What If…?”

On the present, Boseman voiced his “Black Panther” character T’Challa in an alternate universe the place he turns into Star-Lord from Guardians of the Galaxy. It was one of many final initiatives for Boseman, who died in 2020 of colon most cancers at age 43.