WASHINGTON, DC — Hollywood newcomer
Barack Obama was awarded an Emmy for narrating his Netflix documentary series “Our
Great National Parks,” the Television Academy announced Saturday.
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The former two-term US president had already won a
pair of Grammy Awards — for audio versions of his memoirs “The Audacity of
Hope” and “Dreams from My Father” — so he now only needs an Oscar and a Tony to
complete the estimable EGOT.
According to an Entertainment Weekly tracker, only
17 people have achieved an EGOT, including Mel Brooks, Whoopie Goldberg, Audrey
Hepburn, and — most recently — Jennifer Hudson.
One other president had already been awarded an Emmy
— Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956 — although his was an honorary award.
After leaving
office in 2017, both Obama and his wife Michelle have each written best-selling
memoirs, and in addition to their non-profit foundation, have established a
production company which has inked a major deal with Netflix, reportedly worth
tens of millions of dollars.
Their company’s first documentary for the streaming
service, “American Factory,” won the
Oscar for best documentary feature and an
Emmy for directing, though the awards went to the filmmakers and not to the
Obamas themselves.
Obama’s successor to the presidency, Donald Trump,
did not win an Emmy for his reality competition show “The Apprentice,” although
he was nominated twice.
Other nominees in Obama’s narrator category included
former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (“Black Patriots: Heroes Of The Civil
War”), Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o (“Serengeti II”), and veteran
naturalist David Attenborough (“The Mating Game”).
Obama also received the
Nobel Peace Prize after his 2008
presidential election win, for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen
international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
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