Barack Obama Wins an Emmy for Narrating Netflix Documentary

Former President of the USA & Emmy Award-Winner Barack Obama

Former president Barack Obama won the best narrator Emmy Award on Saturday for his Netflix documentary series, Our Great National Parks.

The Obamas' production company, Higher Ground, is behind the five-part series on national parks around the world.

The Emmy joins Mr Obama's two Grammy awards putting him halfway to becoming an EGOT - someone with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.

He becomes only the second US president in history to win an Emmy.

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'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.

Mr Obama won Grammy Awards for audio versions of his memoirs "The Audacity of Hope" and "Dreams from My Father".

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.

Source: BBC News