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Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating Netflix documentary series

Former U.S. president Barack Obama now has an Emmy Award to go with his two Grammys. He won the best narrator award on Saturday for his work on the Netflix documentary series Our Great National Parks.

He is the 2nd U.S. president to be awarded an Emmy, following Eisenhower in 1956

Former President Barack Obama speaks during the Copenhagen Democracy Summit at Skuespilhuset in Copenhagen
Barack Obama speaks during the Copenhagen Democracy Summit at the Royal Danish Playhouse in June. The former U.S. president has won the best narrator Emmy for his work on the Netflix documentary series Our Great National Parks. (Philip Davali/Ritzau Scanpix/The Associated Press)

Barack Obama is halfway to an EGOT.

The former U.S. president won an Emmy Award on Saturday to go with his two Grammys.

Obama won the best narrator Emmy for his work on the Netflix documentary seriesOur Great National Parks.

The five-part show, which features national parks from around the globe, is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground.

He was the biggest name in a category full of famous nominees for the award handed out in Los Angeles at Saturday night's Creative Arts Emmys, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, David Attenborough and Lupita Nyong'o.

Barack Obama is the second U.S. president to have an Emmy. Dwight D. Eisenhower was given a special Emmy Award in 1956.

Obama previously won Grammy Awards for his audiobook reading of two of his memoirs, The Audacity of Hopeand A Promised Land.Michelle Obama won her own Grammy for reading her audiobook in 2020.

EGOT refers to a special category of entertainers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. To date, 17 people have done it.

The late Chadwick Boseman also won an Emmy for his voice work on Saturday. The Black Pantheractor won for outstanding character voiceover for the Disney+ and Marvel Studios animated show What If...?

On the show, Boseman voiced his Black Panthercharacter T'Challa in an alternate universe where he becomes Star-Lord from Guardians of the Galaxy.

It was one of the last projects for Boseman, who died in 2020 of colon cancer at age 43.