Barack Obama. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
РБК: Former US President Barack Obama won the second Emmy television award of his career. The award was given to the politician for the documentary program Working: What We Do All Day on Netflix, noting him as an “outstanding storyteller.”
The 75th Creative Arts Emmy Awards took place in Los Angeles. This awards ceremony for cultural figures involved in the creation of reality shows or documentaries precedes the main Emmy Awards ceremony, which is scheduled for January 15.
Barack Obama received a statuette for his Netflix show Working: What We Do All Day, about the work of different people living in America. In his project, Obama talks with different people and narrates the film. He is also a producer on the project along with wife Michelle Obama.
This is the second Emmy award for the former US President. He received his first in 2022 for a film about US national parks. Then he was also the winner in the category “Best Narrator” for his voice-over in the project “The Best National Parks in the World.”
Barack Obama became the second president to win an Emmy. Dwight Eisenhower previously received a Special Emmy Award in 1956. Obama already has two Grammy awards for narrating the audiobooks of his two memoirs, “The Audacity of Hope” and “A Promised Land.” His wife Michelle Obama also won a Grammy in 2020 for her audiobook.
Barack Obama was elected President of the United States twice, in 2009 and 2013. He received the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts in strengthening international diplomacy and cooperation among people." Before being elected president, he was a senator from Illinois.
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