Former US President Barack Obama has won an Emmy for his narration of his Netflix documentary series “Our Great National Parks,” the American Television Academy announced on Saturday.
The award ceremony will take place on September 13, but smaller prizes will be announced earlier.
Another president had received an Emmy before, Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956, but in his case it was an honorary award.
After leaving office in 2017, Obama and first lady Michelle Obama each wrote a bestseller and, in addition to their nonprofit foundation, created a production company that signed a deal with Netflix, estimated to be worth in the dozens. of millions of dollars. .
His company’s first documentary, “American Factory,” won an Oscar for best documentary film and an Emmy for directing, but the awards went to the filmmakers.
Barack Obama’s successor as president, Donald Trump, did not win an Emmy for the reality show “The Apprentice,” although he was nominated twice.
Other nominees in the narrator category include former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (“Black Patriots: Heroes Of The Civil War”), Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o (“Serengeti II”) and veteran David Attenborough (“The Mating Game”).
The former US President (2009-2017) has also won two previous Grammy Awards for the audio versions of his memoirs, “The Audacity of Hope” and “The Origin of My Dreams” . Dad”).
Among other distinctions awarded to Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize stands out after his victory in the 2008 presidential elections for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
Source: Observadora
