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The 44th US President Barack Obama bags a statuette for “outstanding” narration of a Netflix documentary series ‘Our Great National Parks’ on Saturday. Former US President has added an Emmy Award to his growing bag of prizes and honours, becoming the second American leader to ever get the prestigious statuette for “excellence” in the television industry. He already has a pair of Grammy Awards, which means that he is just an Oscar and a Tony away to enter the prestigious EGOT club.
About the show
The five-part show features national parks from around the globe. It is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company ‘Higher Ground’. The 44th US President won the “outstanding narrator” Emmy for “Our Great National Parks.“ It is a five-episode Netflix documentary series, produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s own production company, “Higher Ground.”
Obama was not present at the Creative Arts Emmy ceremony at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday night to receive the statuette personally. Moreover, he is the second US leader to be honoured with the top TV award after Dwight D. Eisenhower received a special Emmy Award in 1956 for becoming the first president to give a televised news conference.
Obama previously won Grammys for audio versions of his memoirs
Barack Obama received numerous honours and awards before, during and after his two terms in the White House between 2009 and 2017. Among his other awards in the entertainment industry are two Grammy Awards that he got for audiobook reading of two of his memoirs, “Dreams from My Father” in 2006 and “The Audacity of Hope” in 2008.
Moreover, their production house’s first documentary for the giant streaming platform, ‘American Factory’, won the Oscar for best documentary feature. It also won an Emmy for directing. Though the awards went to the filmmakers and not to the Obamas themselves.
His most prominent award is the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize he received just nine months into his presidency, for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” largely on speculation that he would deliver on his promises.