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Barack Obama scored an Emmy win – his fifth – on Sunday through the Artistic Arts Emmy Awards, taking house a statuette for excellent narration for his Netflix documentary sequence “Working: What We Do All Day.”
The previous US President can be a producer on the mission alongside spouse and former First Girl Michelle Obama.
Obama beforehand gained an Emmy for excellent narration in 2022 for his work on “Our Nice Nationwide Parks,” a documentary sequence that additionally streamed on Netflix.
“Working: What We Do All Day” is a four-part sequence that debuted in Might on Netflix.
The four-part sequence “explores the methods through which we discover which means in our work and the way our experiences and struggles join us on a human degree,” based on a Netflix description of the mission.
“Once we ensure that everybody feels their work is revered, that everybody’s contribution is honored, and that everybody is getting paid sufficient to actually take an element within the lifetime of our communities, we reinforce the belief between us that makes every part in our lives potential,” Obama mentioned in a press release in April.
Impressed by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel’s 1974 guide “Working” – an oral historical past that explores jobs and the individuals who do them – the sequence goals to foster understanding and appreciation for the work individuals do.
The sequence is a joint manufacturing between Concordia Studio and Higher Ground, which was based by the Obamas in 2018. Their firm has launched greater than 10 movie and tv titles, together with the 2020 Oscar-winning documentary function “American Manufacturing facility” in addition to final month’s “Leave the World Behind.”