{"id":21033,"date":"2022-10-05T16:38:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T16:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/barack-obama-emmy-win-for-narrating-netflix-documentary"},"modified":"2022-10-05T16:53:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T16:53:35","slug":"barack-obama-emmy-win-for-narrating-netflix-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/barack-obama-emmy-win-for-narrating-netflix-documentary","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama: Emmy win for narrating Netflix documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Former president Barack Obama won the best narrator Emmy Award on Saturday for his Netflix documentary series, Our Great National Parks. The Obamas\u2019 production company, Higher Ground, is behind the five-part series on national parks around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Emmy joins Mr Obama\u2019s two Grammy awards putting him halfway to becoming an Egot \u2013 someone with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award. He becomes only the second US president in history to win an Emmy.<\/p>\n<p>The Netflix series showcases natural beauty spanning five continents, and features locations including Chilean Patagonia and Indonesia. Other contenders in the category for best narrator included David Attenborough, Lupita Nyong\u2019o and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Obama won Grammy Awards for audio versions of his memoirs \u201cThe Audacity of Hope\u201d and \u201cDreams from My Father\u201d. The only other president to win an Emmy was Dwight Eisenhower, who won an honorary award in 1956 for becoming the first president to conduct a televised news conference. Only 17 people have gained Egot status to date, including Mel Brooks, Whoopie Goldberg, Audrey Hepburn and Jenifer Hudson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\">Mauritius<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. Former president Barack Obama won the best narrator Emmy Award on Saturday for his Netflix documentary series, Our Great National Parks. The Obamas\u2019 production company, Higher Ground, is behind the five-part series on national parks around the world. 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