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Barack Obama wins the 2022 Emmy for Outstanding Narrator

The former president of the United States received an Emmy for the narration of his Netflix documentary series Our main national parks.

Former US President Barack Obama received an Emmy for the narration of his Netflix documentary series Our main national parksthe American Television Academy announced Saturday.

The award ceremony will take place on September 13, but minor prizes are announced earlier. Another president had already received an Emmy – Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956 – but in his case it was an honorary award.

An Oscar for a documentary produced by Obama

After leaving office in 2017, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle wrote their best-selling memoirs and started a production company that struck a deal with Netflix worth an estimated tens of millions of dollars.

The first documentary of his company, AmericanFactoryit won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and an Emmy for Directing, but the awards went to the filmmakers, not the Obamas themselves.

Barack Obama’s successor in the presidency, Donald Trump, did not win an Emmy for his reality show The newbieeven though he was nominated twice.

Two Grammy Awards and a Nobel Peace Prize

Other nominees in the narrator category include former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Black Patriots: Civil War Heroes), Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o (Serengeti II) and veteran naturalist David Attenborough (the mating game).

The former US president (2009-2017) has also already won two Grammy Awards, for the audio versions of his memoirs, the audacity of hope Y dreams of my father.

Among his distinctions, Barack Obama had also received the Nobel Peace Prize after his victory in the 2008 presidential elections, for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation among peoples.”

Author: JL with AFP
Source: BFM TV

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