From Potus to half an Egot as Barack

Obama wins Emmy

Ex-president’s latest award, for narrating national parks series,
takes him closer to joining rare group who have won Emmy,
Grammy, Oscar and Tony

Barack Obama is halfway to becoming an Egot after winning an Emmy award to go with
his two Grammys.

The former president won the best narrator Emmy on Saturday for his work on the
Netflix documentary series Our Great National Parks.

The five-part show, which features national parks from around the world, 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 at Saturday night’s creative arts Emmys, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, David
Attenborough and Lupita Nyong’o.

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

Obama previously won Grammy awards for his audiobook reading of two of his
memoirs, The Audacity of Hope and 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 on Saturday for his voice work. The
Black Panther actor won for outstanding character voiceover for the Disney+ and
Marvel Studios animated show “What If...?”

On the show, Boseman voiced his Black Panther character, 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 of colon cancer in 2020 aged 43.