Barack Obama is now an Emmy nominee
The former president is up for outstanding narrator alongside the likes of David Attenborough and Lupita Nyong’o.
The Netflix documentary series “Our Great National Parks” that the 44th president narrated received a nomination for the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards on Tuesday.
The other four nominees in the outstanding narrator category are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War, David Attenborough for The Mating Game: In Plain Sight, W. Kamau Bell for We Need to Talk About Cosby and Lupita Nyong’o for Serengeti II. These four will compete against Obama, 60.
This is his first Primetime Emmy nomination despite having won two Grammys for best-spoken word albums, for Dreams from My Father (2006) and The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2008).
A five-part documentary series called Our Great National Parks examines some of the most stunning protected areas in the world as well as the amazing animals that live there.
The series includes a variety of national parks, such as Monterey Bay in California, Kenya’s Tsavo National Park, Indonesia’s Gunung Leuser National Park, and Chile’s Patagonia in the country’s far south.
The Oscar-winning documentary American Factory was created by Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama’s production business Higher Ground, which also created the show. However, the Obamas were not listed as producers on the project, and as a result, they were not nominated for any individual Academy Awards.
Nominees were announced Tuesday morning for the Emmys, which honor the best television of the year. Former winners “Succession” and “Ted Lasso” predictably swept the nominations, but there were also plenty of newcomers among them.
Some of these first-time nominees may turn into first-time winners on September 12, when the Emmys will be broadcast live on NBC.