Barack Obama Wins His Third Emmy for Our Oceans
Written by b87fm on 09/08/2025
Former President Barack Obama just went three-for-three at the Emmys. The 44th president picked up another trophy Sunday (Sept. 7) at the 67th Creative Arts Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Narrator for Netflix’s natural history series Our Oceans.
The series, which premiered in November 2024, takes viewers deep into Earth’s five oceans, calling them “gateways to the unknown.” Obama narrated the episode dedicated to the Indian Ocean.
Obama beat out some heavy hitters in the category, including Tom Hanks (The Americas), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Octopus!), Idris Elba (Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color), and the legendary David Attenborough (Planet Earth: Asia). With this win, he ties Attenborough, who has collected three Emmys over his career.
Our Oceans was produced by Freeborne Media and Wild Space Productions, the same team behind Our Great National Parks, another Netflix docuseries produced by the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions. Obama previously won Emmys for Our Great National Parks (2022) and Working: What We Do All Day (2023).
This latest win is historic too — making Obama the first U.S. president to ever win a competitive Emmy category. The only other president to hold an Emmy is Dwight Eisenhower, who received an honorary award in 1956.
Obama wasn’t at the Los Angeles ceremony, but fans can catch the show when it airs Sept. 13 on FXX.
