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- Barack Obama won an Emmy on Saturday for his narration on Netflix's "Our Great National Parks."
- The award makes Obama the second US president in history to win an Emmy.
- It also inches Obama closer to prestigious EGOT status. To date, only 17 people have achieved this.
Former President Barack Obama won the "Outstanding Narrator" Emmy on Saturday for his narration on the Netflix documentary series "Our Great National Parks."
The award makes Obama the second US president in history to win an Emmy, and the first to win in a competitive category. (Former President Dwight Eisenhower was awarded the honorary "Governors Award" in 1956.)
It also inches Obama closer to prestigious EGOT status — an acronym used to describe the achievement of having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. To date, only 17 people have achieved this.
Obama has previously won two Grammy Awards in the "Best Spoken Word Album" category for the audiobook readings of his memoirs, "The Audacity of Hope" and "A Promised Land."
He would still need to win an Oscar and a Tony to achieve EGOT status.
The former president beat out David Attenborough, Lupita Nyong'o, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and W. Kamau Bell to win the Emmy for "Our Great National Parks."
The series was produced by Higher Ground, the production company founded by Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama. It "shines the spotlight on some of the planet's most spectacular national parks," per Netflix's description of the series.
Obama was not in attendance to accept the award. Presenter RuPaul Charles accepted it on his behalf, per The Hollywood Reporter.
The series is also nominated for an Emmy in the "Outstanding Cinematography For A Nonfiction Program" category..
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