Former US President Barack Obama has secured his third Emmy, winning Outstanding Narrator at the Creative Arts Emmys for his narration of Our Oceans, a natural history series on Netflix. Obama previously won for Working: What We Do All Day in 2023 and for Our Great National Parks in 2022, also for Netflix productions.
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This year, Obama beat stiff competition from renowned figures including David Attenborough (Planet Earth: Asia), Idris Elba (Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Colour), Tom Hanks (The Americas), and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Octopus!). With this latest award, the Higher Ground co-founder now holds three Emmys in addition to his Grammy. While Dwight Eisenhower was the first US president to receive an Emmy in 1956, Obama is the first to win a competitive award for a specific television project.
Our Oceans is a five-part series that premiered in November 2024, examining how humans share commonalities with marine life and how our actions on land affect their lives. Each episode focuses on one of the world’s five oceans — Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, Arctic, and Southern — taking viewers on a 75,000-mile journey across and beneath the water’s surface.
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The series is executive produced by James Honeyborne of Blue Planet II, with production handled by Freeborne Media and Wild Space Productions. As in previous years, President Obama did not attend the award ceremony in person.
