Emmy Award for Documentary Maker Former US President Barack Obama

Hollywood newcomer Barack Obama has been awarded an Emmy, the American Television Academy announced Saturday. He received the award for his own voice documentary series ‘Our Great National Parks’ which aired on Netflix.

According to the AFP news agency, Barack Obama, the two-time president of the United States, has already won the Grammy Award twice. He received the award for his memoirs ‘The Audacity of Hope’ and ‘Dreams from My Father’, which he narrated in his own voice.

Thus, only the Oscar and Tony awards of the entertainment world remain, after which Barack Obama can become a person who has received four prestigious awards, Igot (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award).

According to the Entertainment Weekly tracker, only 17 people have won all four awards, including Mel Brooks, Whoopi Goldberg, Audrey Hepburn and most recently recipient Jennifer Hudson.

Another US president has already been honored with an Emmy Award. Dwight D. Eisenhower was awarded the award in 1956, but it was an honorary award.

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Since leaving the presidency in 2017, Obama and his wife, Michelle, have both written best-selling memoirs and founded a production company in addition to their nonprofit foundation, which has landed a multimillion-dollar deal with Netflix. What did

His company’s first documentary for the streaming service, American Factory, won an Oscar for best documentary feature and an Emmy for directing, but the awards went to the filmmakers rather than Obama and his wife.

Despite being nominated twice, Donald Trump, who became the US President after Barack Obama, did not win an Emmy Award for his reality competition show ‘The Apprentice’.

Other nominees for Obama’s documentary category include former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (“Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War”), Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o (“Serengeti Two”) and veteran naturalist David Attenborough (‘The Meeting Game’) included.

Obama also received the Nobel Peace Prize after winning the 2008 presidential election. He was given the award in recognition of his ‘extraordinary efforts in international diplomacy and strengthening people-to-people cooperation’.


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2024-10-06 22:06:24

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