オバマ元米大統領、ナレーション部門でエミー賞受賞

【ワシントンＡＦＰ＝時事】米テレビジョン・アカデミーは３日、番組の制作・技術に携わった人を表彰する「クリエイティブ・アーツ・エミー賞」の受賞者を発表し、バラク・オバマ元大統領が最優秀ナレーター賞を受賞した。（バラク・オバマ元大統領。資料写真）
　オバマ氏は、ネットフリックスのドキュメンタリー番組「グレイト・ナショナルパーク： 驚きに満ちた世界」でナレーションを務め、高く評価された。
　同氏はすでに、自身の著作「マイ・ドリーム―バラク・オバマ自伝」と「合衆国再生―大いなる希望を抱いて」の朗読版で、グラミー賞を２度受賞している。
　今回の受賞により、エミー賞、グラミー賞、オスカー（アカデミー賞受賞者に贈られる像）、トニー賞の頭文字をとった「ＥＧＯＴ」の制覇まで、残すは２賞となった。
　オバマ氏の後任のドナルド・トランプ前大統領は、リアリティー番組「アプレンティス」の司会でエミー賞に２度ノミネートされたが、受賞は逃している。
　 ２０１７年の大統領退任後、オバマ氏と妻のミシェル夫人はそれぞれ回顧録を執筆しベストセラーとなった。夫妻は非営利財団のほか映像制作会社も設立し、ネットフリックスと数千万ドルともいわれる大型契約を結んだ。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/09/06-13:35）

Hollywood newcomer Barack Obama was awarded an Emmy for narrating his Netflix documentary series Our Great National Parks, the Television Academy announced Saturday.
The former two-term US president had already won a pair of Grammy Awards -- for audio versions of his memoirs The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father -- so he now only needs an Oscar and a Tony to complete the estimable EGOT.
According to an Entertainment Weekly tracker, only 17 people have achieved an EGOT, including Mel Brooks, Whoopie Goldberg, Audrey Hepburn and -- most recently -- Jennifer Hudson.
One other president had already been awarded an Emmy -- Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956 -- although his was an honorary award.
After leaving office in 2017, both Obama and his wife Michelle have each written best-selling memoirs, and in addition to their non-profit foundation, have established a production company which has inked a major deal with Netflix, reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars.
Their company's first documentary for the streaming service, American Factory, won the Oscar for best documentary feature and an Emmy for directing, though the awards went to the filmmakers and not to the Obamas themselves.
Obama's successor to the presidency, Donald Trump, did not win an Emmy for his reality competition show The Apprentice, although he was nominated twice.
Other nominees in Obama's narrator category included former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Black Patriots: Heroes Of The Civil War), Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o (Serengeti II) and veteran naturalist David Attenborough (The Mating Game).
Obama also received the Nobel Peace Prize after his 2008 presidential election win, for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.