{"id":6446,"date":"2022-09-05T02:21:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T20:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=6446"},"modified":"2022-09-05T02:21:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T20:21:41","slug":"barack-obama-wins-emmy-for-narrating-national-parks-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/life\/2022\/09\/05\/news\/6446\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating national parks series"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6447\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/obama-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Barack Obama won an Emmy Award on Sept. 3, 2022 for his work on the Netflix documentary series, &#8220;Our Great National Parks.&#8221; (AP File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES, Broadcasting News Corporation : Barack Obama is halfway to an EGOT. The former 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 series, \u201cOur Great National Parks.\u201d The five-part show, which features national parks from around the globe, is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama\u2019s production company, \u201cHigher Ground.\u201d He was the biggest name in a category full of famous nominees for the award handed out at Saturday night\u2019s Creative Arts Emmys, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, David Attenborough and Lupita Nyong\u2019o.<br \/>\nBarack Obama is the second president to have an Emmy. Dwight D. Eisenhower was given a special Emmy Award in 1956. Barack Obama previously won Grammy Awards for his audiobook reading of two of his memoirs, \u201cThe Audacity of Hope\u201d and \u201cA Promised Land.\u201d 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 \u201cBlack Panther\u201d actor won for outstanding character voiceover for the Disney+ and Marvel Studios animated show \u201cWhat If&#8230;?\u201c On the show, Boseman voiced his \u201cBlack Panther\u201d character T\u2019Challa in an alternate universe where he becomes Star-Lord from \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy.\u201d It was one of the last projects for Boseman, who died in 2020 of colon cancer at age 43. NEWS COLLECTED FROM ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, Broadcasting News Corporation : Barack Obama is halfway to an EGOT. The former 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 series, \u201cOur Great National Parks.\u201d The five-part show, which features national parks from around &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6448,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions\/6448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}