Former President Barack Obama has an even more impressive title now: Emmy nominee.
The former president scored a nod for outstanding narrator for his work on Netflix’s “Our Great National Parks,” a five-part docuseries that spans five continents and the natural phenomenons that make them beautiful.
The first season of the show travels to Monterey Bay, California, Kenya’s Tsavo National Park, the rainforests of Indonesia’s Gunung Leuser National Park and the Chilean Patagonia.
Obama will compete in the category against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for “Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War,” David Attenborough for “The Mating Game: In Plain Sight,” W. Kamau Bell for “We Need to Talk About Cosby” and Lupita Nyong’o for “Serengeti II.”
The former president won a Grammy in 2008 for spoken word album for narrating his book, ”The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream,” and has been nominated for two others. He and wife Michelle also served as executive producers on the Oscar-winning “American Factory.”
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