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Former President Barack Obama Wins Emmy Award As The Best Narrator

Barrack Obama, on Saturday won an Emmy Award for best narrator for his Netflix documentary series, Our Great National Parks.

The five-part show documentary is a Netflix series which features national parks from around the world, in their natural beauty across five continents. The locations includes Chilean Patagonia and Indonesia. 

The documentary was produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground.

Obama had previously won two Grammy awards for his audiobook and reading of his memoirs, The Audacity of Hope and A Promised Land. 

His wife, Michelle Obama won her own Grammy for reading her audiobook in 2020.

Mr Obama with two Grammy awards and an Emmy ward puts him halfway to becoming an Egot - someone with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.

Obama becomes the second United States president in history to win an Emmy.

Other contenders in the category for best narrator included David Attenborough, Lupita Nyong'o and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

After leaving office in 2017, the former president and his wife Michelle set up Higher Ground, striking a deal with Netflix said to be worth tens of millions of dollars.


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