Barack Obama has won an Emmy Award in the outstanding narrator category for his work on Netflix documentary series, Our Great National Parks.

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

The couple set up the company after Barack left office in 2017, in a deal with Netflix said to be worth tens of millions of dollars.

Obama had strong competition in the category, beating Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War, Sir David Attenborough for The Mating Game, W. Kamau Bell for We Need to Talk About Cosby and Lupita Nyong’o for Serengeti II.

The former US president already has two Grammy awards for his audiobook reading of his memoirs, The Audacity of Hope and A Promised Land.

He is now halfway to becoming an EGOT – someone with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.

But he’s not the first president to bag an Emmy – with Dwight Eisenhower awarded an Emmy in 1956 for his “appreciation of television”.

Barack Obama is a Wet Leg fan – and other surprises from his annual summer playlist

COP26: Barack Obama might have injected star power, but climate summit still a long way from delivering success

COP26: Barack Obama says world ‘still falling short’ on fighting climate change

Obama did not attend the awards in person.

Other stars to win an Emmy at the awards included Adele who took the outstanding variety special (pre-recorded) category for her show One Night Only and the late Chadwick Boseman for his voicing of Black Panther character T’Challa on the Disney+ series, What If…?

The Creative Arts Emmys precede the Primetime Emmys, which will take place on Monday 12 September in Los Angeles, and air on NBC.

Related posts:

‘Clever girls do Countdown!’ Anne Robinson revealed as first ever female host Jason Donovan says actors and freelance theatre staff ‘have suffered’ Amber Heard lied about donating $7m divorce money to charity, Johnny Depp’s lawyers say Travis Scott sued after crowd surge tragedy – with lawsuit for $1m filed ‘It’s not explicit’: Sarah Jayne Dunn on OnlyFans and being dropped from Hollyoaks Jeff Bezos makes cliff joke in response to viral video of girlfriend meeting Leonard DiCaprio NFT of sheet music for Beatles’ Hey Jude sells for nearly £60,000 Ed Sheeran ‘targeted with concerted plan by promoters of artist he is accused of copying’ Goodfellas actor Paul Sorvino dies aged 83 Jason Momoa doing ‘okay’ after head-on motorbike collision Britney Spears’ lawyers urge judge to dismiss father’s request for star to be questioned Veteran actor Bernard Cribbins has died aged 93