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Former president - and Emmy's son-in-law: Obama won the prestigious award Israel today

9/4/2022, 7:23:04 PM


The certificate series in which he participated earned him the coveted statuette • In the past he won the Grammy twice

Former US President Barack Obama won the prestigious Emmy Award for his work as the superhero in the documentary series he created for Netflix "Our Great National Parks".

"Higher Ground", the production company founded by Obama and his wife Michelle after the end of his two terms, The five-part documentary series was created for the streaming giant, and it focuses on national parks and the lives of wild animals around the world.

In the past, Obama won two equally prestigious Grammy Award statuettes, for the audio versions of his memoirs "The Audacity of Hope" and "Dreams from My Father".

In doing so, he joins the list of only 16 other people, who are halfway to winning all the most important awards for Americans, with all he has left is to win the Oscar and Tony awards.

Among the names with which the former leader shares half of the so-called EGOT are Mel Brooks, Whoopi Goldberg, Audrey Hepburn and Jennifer Hudson.

David Attinborough, Kareem Abdul Jabbar and others competed against him in the category.

Obama is the second American president to win an Emmy Award.

In 1956 it was President Dwight Eisenhower who won an honorary award from the Television Academy - while serving as President.

He won an award for being the first US president to hold a televised press conference.

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