The 61-year-old was awarded in the category “Best Narrator” for his role as a speaker in the Netflix documentary series “Our Great National Parks”, as the US television academy announced on Saturday evening (local time). In the five-part series, which Obama also co-produced, he presents national parks from all over the world.
The ex-president has already won two Grammy Awards for the audio versions of his memoir, The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance” (“An American Dream: The Story of My Family”).
Main award ceremony on September 12th
The other Emmy nominees in the category were Lupita Nyong’o, David Attenborough, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and W. Kamau Bell. The Emmys are the most important television awards in the USA. The winners in the main categories will be announced at a gala in Los Angeles on September 12th. The first awards in various technical and creative categories will be presented beforehand.
This year series like “Succession”, “Ted Lasso” and “The White Lotus” are among the favorites. Productions such as “Euphoria”, “Squid Game”, “Severance”, “Abbott Elementary” and “Hacks” also have multiple chances of winning.
Source: Nachrichten
